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Perhaps of greater interest to Millie in the article was the notice that a new library building was to be built on campus. Millie would simply have to walk across campus to have access to as many books as her heart desired. No more borrowing books from neighbors!
Stores in Iowa City welcomed students back through their advertisements in the paper. The Lorenz Brothers Boot Shop promoted new strap-style shoes for college girls. Millie could hop on a streetcar that ran along Washington Street to visit the new Ritestyle Shop, which featured the frock, a long dress that covered young ladies from neck to ankle.6
Millie likely attended the Women’s Athletic Association meeting for freshmen women announced in the paper. Membership in the organization resulted from participating in, or making, various sports teams. Points were given based on activity level. Only twelve women had ever earned an “I” sweater based on the accumulation of a thousand points. Millie, being competitive in nature, probably had her eyes set on one of those sweaters.
Millie was an active participant in women’s sports. She was one of twelve members of the freshman soccer team and a right guard on the freshman basketball team. She was a substitute on the women’s swim team, known as the Seals Club.
As the Seals Club was a highly competitive team, young women interested in being a Seal had to meet a number of requirements. These included being able to swim the length of the pool in eighteen seconds, plunge twenty-five feet, and have good form for three swim strokes and three dives. Millie became a full-fledged member of the team her sophomore year. Both a strong swimmer and a high diver, Millie swam nearly every day for most of her life.
An exhibition at the “Big Dipper,” the Iowa City municipal pool, pitted members of the Eels Club, the university men’s swim team, against female swimmers. Millie’s personal scrapbook included a newspaper clipping about one such event, a mixed relay event. Millie beat the captain of the men’s 1923–24 swim team in the contest!7
The headline of the October 15, 1922, edition of the Daily Iowan read, “Parkin Stars as Hawkeyes Beat Yale 6–0.” Yale had never before lost to a western team in the Yale Bowl.8
What Millie might have found just as exciting was a sidebar in much smaller print. It stated that the Iowan had created a new speed record in getting the news of the victory from Yale to the paper’s readers. The announcement came “from the press two minutes after the final flash from the United Press was received at the Iowan office.”
Extracurricular activities were also covered in the paper. One of Millie’s favorites during her time at the university (she completed her undergraduate degree in just three years!) was the Cosmopolitan Club. The club sought to encourage friendship and respect among men and women of all nationalities. During Millie’s freshman year, eleven nations were represented in the university’s chapter, including Hawaii. In 1922, Hawaii was still an independent country; it became a state in 1959.
MILDRED AUGUSTINE IN THE SEALS CLUB (upper photo: second row, far right; lower photo: first row, far left)
From the University of Iowa Hawkeye, 1925. University Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries. Copyright 2013 the University of Iowa. All rights reserved..
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