Forty Years: The History of Women at Bowdoin

A Class Project of GWS 280 - Fall 2011

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Athletics Focus Group

For this discussion, three women who were among the first female athletes at Bowdoin came together to share their stories. Click the audio links below to listen to Karen Brodie Doyle, ’79 (field hockey, diving, lacrosse), Sally Clayton Caras, ’78 (field hockey and lacrosse), and Ruth Spire Small, ’77 (lacrosse and swimming), discuss their experiences as female student-athletes during the initial years of coeducation at the College.

 

Audio: click title(s) below to begin listening

https://learn.bowdoin.edu/gender-women/audio/athletics-focus-group-jill-henrikson-and-sam-copland-part-1.mp3 https://learn.bowdoin.edu/gender-women/audio/athletics-focus-group-jill-henrikson-and-sam-copland-part-2.mp3
Athletics Focus Group
Athletics Focus Group

Filed Under: Athletics, Focus Group Tagged With: Athletics, Coeducation, diving, Field Hockey, Focus Group, Focus Group Interview, Interview, Karen Brodie Doyle, lacrosse, Ruth Spire Small, Sally Clayton Caras, swimming

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