Forty Years: The History of Women at Bowdoin
A Class Project of GWS 280 - Fall 2011
A Female Athlete in a Men’s Athletic World: A Discussion with Beth Richardson, ‘79 In this interview, Beth Richardson, a member of the basketball and outdoor track teams at Bowdoin from 1975-1979, discusses her time on campus as a female student-athlete during the first years of coeducation at the College. To hear Beth’s take on [...]
What About the Female Athletes? A discussion with Richard (Dick) Mersereau, ‘69 In this interview, Richard (Dick) Mersereau, widely known as Mers, discusses his time as a volunteer women’s basketball coach from 1975 until 1981. To hear about Dick’s ability to help improve the circumstances of female athletes on the basketball team during [...]
