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Joanne Washburn 4/13/05 Cleveland Hall Interviewed by Molly Bull, Matt Tait, Amanda Hamilton, and Colleen Becker Side I. 0-40 40-86 86-100 100-121 121-153 153-174 174-233 233-330 330-418 418-484 484-566 Introduction: Early involvement in sports throughout school. Role in organizing athletic teams at Washington State University. Became the athletic director eventually. Tells about the start of the Sports Management program at WSU. Explanation of what brought her to WSU. She always considered herself an organizer, and this was useful in Sports Management. She enjoyed sharing her love of sports with others. List of the challenges she faced, including a small budget for women's athletics. Story about taking the ski team, consisting of Home Economics majors, to a meet in Vancouver, B.C. They always traveled by car, safely. Mergers of the Department ofPhysical Education, and the Athletic Department. She opposed the merger, but was unable to stop it from occurring. She was let go after the merge. Her role in the formulation of the WSU Sports Management program. Women mainly had a role in the start of the program. Her opinion on inequality in the program, and troubles recruiting women to take on Sports Management as a major. Female role models were her advisors when she was young. Professional women's basketball has succeeded in providing role models as well. Discussion about women and football. There's been a positive change in women participating in athletics, they are more accepted and admired now. When she was in school, women's sports received no exposure. People didn't know when the women's games were being held. Story about a conference in Seattle, where she and others performed a skit illustrating the troubles they'd experienced with women's athletics. One problem was with the ski team caravan getting separated on a trip. 566-592 Side II 596-627 Another story was about the track team often enduring citizen's arrests en route to meets. Women and men from the WSU faculty used to have swim times in separate gyms, but the women once walked by during the men's pool time and caused a disruption. Discussion about being an incidental inspiration. She does not regret questioning the merger.
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Title | Washburn, Joanne Oral History Interview, 2005 |
Interviewer | Tait, Matt & Bull, Molly |
Date | 2005-04-30 |
Description | 50 minute oral history with Joanne Washburn, conducted for a Women in the West (HIST 398 course at Washington State University). She talks about growing up in rural Vermont and participating in sports throughout childhood and early adult life. She received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Physical Education and was hired by Washington State University in 1965. She became the Director of Womens Athletics prior to merger in 1982 and was involved with the Title IX lawsuit in 1980s. She also talks about creating the Washington State University Sports Management Program. |
Subject | Economic & social conditions; Education; Teachers |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Vermont; North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Pullman |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua262b10f108 |
Source | Is found in Archives 262, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua262.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
Digitization | Original audio cassettes were converted to wav files using Audacity and a USBPre interface. Mp3 files were then created from the wav files for online access. Film clips were created as mpeg-4 files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to add selected images to the wav audio files. Print documents were scanned to pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Title | ua262b10f108_Abstract |
Full Text | Joanne Washburn 4/13/05 Cleveland Hall Interviewed by Molly Bull, Matt Tait, Amanda Hamilton, and Colleen Becker Side I. 0-40 40-86 86-100 100-121 121-153 153-174 174-233 233-330 330-418 418-484 484-566 Introduction: Early involvement in sports throughout school. Role in organizing athletic teams at Washington State University. Became the athletic director eventually. Tells about the start of the Sports Management program at WSU. Explanation of what brought her to WSU. She always considered herself an organizer, and this was useful in Sports Management. She enjoyed sharing her love of sports with others. List of the challenges she faced, including a small budget for women's athletics. Story about taking the ski team, consisting of Home Economics majors, to a meet in Vancouver, B.C. They always traveled by car, safely. Mergers of the Department ofPhysical Education, and the Athletic Department. She opposed the merger, but was unable to stop it from occurring. She was let go after the merge. Her role in the formulation of the WSU Sports Management program. Women mainly had a role in the start of the program. Her opinion on inequality in the program, and troubles recruiting women to take on Sports Management as a major. Female role models were her advisors when she was young. Professional women's basketball has succeeded in providing role models as well. Discussion about women and football. There's been a positive change in women participating in athletics, they are more accepted and admired now. When she was in school, women's sports received no exposure. People didn't know when the women's games were being held. Story about a conference in Seattle, where she and others performed a skit illustrating the troubles they'd experienced with women's athletics. One problem was with the ski team caravan getting separated on a trip. 566-592 Side II 596-627 Another story was about the track team often enduring citizen's arrests en route to meets. Women and men from the WSU faculty used to have swim times in separate gyms, but the women once walked by during the men's pool time and caused a disruption. Discussion about being an incidental inspiration. She does not regret questioning the merger. |
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