HE Women's Athletic Association has been bettered by the assistance given by the Department of Physical Education. It was with the co-operation of this department that W. A. A. was able to install winter sports, and purchase the new Orthophonic Victrola used in creative dancing. All the members of the faculty of the Women's Physical Education Department are honorary members of the association.

     Miss Mary R. Wheeler is the official director and advisor of the Women's Athletic Association. She has charge of all sports, and directs all her energies and interests toward making the association a bigger and better organization. She is chairman of a state committee on Physical Education and is an instructor in the Department of Physical Education. She is present at all board meetings, and advises the organization on all matters that may arise.

     Miss Dorothy Simpson, a new instructor in the Physical Education Department, just completed a four-year course, and one year of post-graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. She has charge of the creative dancing classes, and sponsors the W. A. A. dancing.

     Miss Miriam Wagner, an instructor in the Department of Physical Education, has been assisting with the women's sports this year. She is a, new member of the department, having just completed a two-year post-graduate course at Wellsley. She conducts classes in gymnastics and athletics.

     Miss Mabel Lee, the Director of the Department of Physical Education, is president of the Mid-Western Physical Education Association, and her interests are directed toward bettering women's sports. She has helped build up the standards of sports for women at Nebraska.

     Miss Della M. Clark is an instructor in the Department of Physical Education. She assists in teaching the different types of gymnastic classes. She graduated from the University of Nebraska, and spent a summer at Columbia University.

MABEL E. LEE, Director

MIRIAM WAGNER

DOROTHY SIMPSON

DELLA M. CLARK

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N March, 1917, with the co-operation of the Department of Physical Education, the women interested in athletics organized W. A. A. The purpose of the organization, as now stated, "is to promote athletic activities to the end of a higher physical efficiency, greater class consciousness, and to create a spirit of good sportsmanship."

     Nebraska W. A. A. is a member of A. C. A. C. W., which is a national organization interested in women's athletics and which has established athletic standards for women. A. C. A. C. W. holds sectional conferences and a national conference every three years, when standards are discussed, and local problems are often solved. Nebraska delegates have contributed some and gained much at these conferences.

     Membership in the organization is open to all University women for three and one half years. They must have a prescribed scholarship average, show an interest in women's sports, and earn one hundred twenty-five points. There are fifteen sports included in the activities of the organization. A woman may be awarded an "N" by earning twelve hundred points, and proving herself deserving of this honor.

     This year the association sponsored the erecting of a skating rink and toboggan slide which all University students were given the privilege of enjoying, The organization gave a party and picnic for all new women this fall, and sponsored a tea. W. A. A. was hostess for the All-University ice carnival in January, which was the first of its kind at Nebraska.

 

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