Course Correction (37 page)

Thanks to my always upbeat editor, Joanna Green, who sold my story to her compatriots at Beacon Press and helped me wend my way through the publication process with a minimum of angst. I appreciate the efforts of the entire Beacon Press team, including Susan Lumenello, managing editor, and Beth Collins, production coordinator, whose expertise improved my manuscript at every step. Pam MacColl, Beacon's director of communications, led the way on the marketing front, aided by Lucinda Blumenfeld of Lucinda Literary, who coaxed me out of the shadows into social media's sunshine. Together, Pam and Lucinda worked assiduously to get the word out about my story, with great spirit and keen eyes for opportunity. My executive assistant, Jennifer Harshbarger, handled logistics of every stripe with aplomb, allowing me to spread myself thin enough to get everything that needed doing accomplished.

Last, and of course not least, there's my family. I owe deep thanks to my siblings: Britt-Louise, who read the completed manuscript to discern the depths of upset to which the rest of my family might descend and, encouraged that this was no
Mommy Dearest
, gave me the emotional approval to proceed; my prickly brother and Latin scholar extraordinaire, Dr. Richard Gilder III, who debated declensions and precise meanings to arrive at the perfect phrasing of my dedication; and last but so not least, Peggy, who has protected me as often as she teased me, keeping me safe and toughening me up for well over five decades now.

To my three children, Gilder, Max, and Sierra, whom I did not ask permission to mention, much less, in Sierra's case, to share part of her story, I love you forever, no matter what. And, finally, to the person who read every word of every draft in between her full-time job and her graduate studies, who heard (and may be excused for not listening intently to) every passing concern and complaint about the writing and publishing process and managed to convey sincere interest and patient support every time, my wife, Lynn, thank you. Without you, I would not have the amazing life I have.

Bibliographic Essay

In writing this book, I relied on a number of secondary sources to paint the picture and progress of both the women's and the gay liberation movements from the 1950s to the present. In addition, I occasionally relied on the memories of my Yale Women's Crew teammates to bolster my own.

CHAPTER 4

I had several wide-ranging conversations with Chris Ernst on several dates, including June 9, 2009, October 1, 2009, October 18, 2009, and March 20, 2014, during which we discussed which Yale programs rowed at the lagoon, for how long, and the events that led to her decision to arrange a team protest in Joni Barnett's office.

I engaged in an e-mail exchange with Jennie Kiesling on March 14, 2014, regarding Nat Case's immediate reaction to the strip-in and surrounding events.

Joe Ristuccia, in an e-mail dated May 12, 2014, confirmed Tony Johnson's financial support of the nascent Yale Women's Crew program. Conversations with Joyce Majure and Janet Klauber on April 26, 2014, and follow-up e-mails on May 8 and 9, 2014, provided details on the history of the Yale Women's Crew and the beginnings of the EAWRC.

See also:

Steve Wulf, “Title IX: 37 Words That Changed Everything,”
ESPN Magazine
online, April 12, 2012,
http://espn.go.com/espnw/title-ix/article/7722632/37-words-changed-everything
.

In addition, the official US Olympics Committee books proved valuable in detailing various Olympics-related statistics; see
United States Olympic Book 1980
(Colorado Springs: US Olympic Committee, 1980); and Dick Schapp,
The 1984 Olympic Games
(New York: Random House, 1984).

For details on the beginnings of the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges and the first women's rowing regattas in the early 1970s, see Paula D. Welch,
Silver Era Golden Moments: A Celebration of Ivy League Women's Athletics
(Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1999).

See also:

Kathrine Switzer, “The Real Story of Kathrine Switzer's 1967 Boston Marathon,”
Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007),
http://kathrineswitzer.com/about-kathrine/1967-boston-marathon-the-real-story/
.

Women in Higher Education, “The Real Story of the Passage of Title IX 35 Years Ago,”
http://wihe.com/the-real-story-behind-the-passage-of-title-ix-35-years-ago/
.

Iram Valentin, “Title IX: A Brief History,” WEEA Equity Resource Center, 1997,
http://www2.edc.org/womensequity/pdffiles/t9digest.pdf
.

Barbara Winslow, “The Impact of Title IX,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History,
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historynow/03_2010/historian6.php
.

US Department of Education, “Title IX: 25 Years of Progress,” 1997,
http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/TitleIX
.

C
HAPTER 7

For the history of women's engagement in sports from the early twentieth century, with a specific emphasis of the impact of social attitudes on the choices made available to girls and young women who wanted to play sports, see Welch,
Silver Era Golden Moments
.

I spoke with Chris Ernst on March 20, 2014, about how she handled being gay in the 1970s when she was at Yale, specifically in her role as captain.

C
HAPTER 8

On May 28, 2014, David LaBarge and I had a long conversation about his homosexuality and slow progression to living as an openly gay man in the early to mid-1970s.

C
HAPTER 10

I used standard and commonly accessed online sources to obtain details related to the above, as well as the Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter's decision to boycott the Moscow Olympics, and Anita De-Frantz's challenge of his decision.

DeFrantz v. United States Olympic Committee,
http://www.leagle.com/decision/19801673492FSupp1181_11510
.

I obtained details regarding the celebration and associated events the US government hosted for US Olympians in the wake of the boycott of the Moscow Olympics from
United States Olympic Book 1980
(Colorado Springs: US Olympic Committee, 1980).

C
HAPTER 15

I used standard and commonly accessed online sources to obtain statistics on the growth of women's participation in the Olympics.

International Olympic Committee, “Fact Sheet: Women in the Olympic Movement,” update May 2014,
http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/Women_in_Olympic_Movement.pdf
.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gilder, Ginny.

Course correction : a story of rowing and resilience in the wake of Title IX / Ginny Gilder.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-8070-7477-0 (hardback) —ISBN 978-0-8070-7478-7 (ebook)

1. Rowing—United States. 2. Women rowers—United States. 3. College sports for women—United States. 4. Gilder, Ginny. 5. Women rowers—United States—Biography. 6. Sex discrimination in sports—Law and legislation—United States. 7. Women athletes—Legal status, laws, etc.—United States. 8. United States. Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX. I. Title.

GV796.G55 2015

797.12´3—dc23 2014037358