MOC Day 26 - The First Lady Indians

Super simple...

Papers and staples - February 2018 Storyteller by Just Jaimee
Fonts - Bariol and Bebas Neue

Journaling:
I’m not sure if you can read the writing at the bottom of the photo, but it says, in my grandmother’s handwriting, “Boliver, March 3, 1929”. On the back is four names... Roxie, Pearl, Cecil and Flora. My grandmother is Pearl and she’s the one second from the top. These girls were part of my grandmother’s high school basketball team and this was their senior year. I didn’t ask my grandmother about her days as a basketball player nearly enough when she was alive. But a month before her death in 2006, her high school honored her at a girls basketball game and I was able to read more about her experience in the articles she was interviewed for. She attended Strafford High School. and in 1925, she and five other freshmen made up the school’s very first girls basketball team. All six of those girls would play together all four years of high school. Basketball looked very different at that time. In 1925, the court was divided into three sections. Players were designated their areas and that was where they played (grandma played the guard position). Grandma was quoted as saying, “If the ball was not in your area, then you just stood there and waited till it reached your area again. Today you get to run all over the court and I like it much better”. Not only was the game play different, but so was the court. They played their games on concrete. “We thought it was great”, she said. When asked about her time as a player, she had this to say, “I think playing has made me a better person because I learned to compete and deal with all the possible outcomes”. I wish I would have talked to her more about this time in her life, but I am so thankful for the stories that were preserved through these articles.