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Looking Back on May 1
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100 Years Ago: 1921
The Bates Needle club met yesterday afternoon at Rand Hall with Mrs. Belle Shaffier and Miss Sarah Nickerson as hostesses, The routine of business took place and refreshments were served during the afternoon, The next meeting will be held with Mrs. George M. Chase of Frye Street, Lewiston.
50 Years Ago: 1971
Mrs. Alfred Wright Jr. will present a program of piano music when members of the Bates Needle Club meet May 3 at the Women’s Union on Frye Street, Lewiston. Mrs. August Buschmann and Mrs. Lloyd Lux are chairmen of hostesses and they will be assisted by Mrs. Robert Berkelman and Mrs. Margaret N. Taylor. Husbands of the members are invited to attend. The election of new officers will highlight the business meeting.
Bill Wright, Who Broke a Color Barrier in Golf, Dies at 84
In 1959, decades before Tiger Woods, Wright became the first Black golfer to win a United States Golf Association event.
Bill Wright in the Amateur Public Links Championship in Denver in 1959. His victory there was a singular moment for Black golfers at a time when the P.G.A. bylaws still had a “Caucasians-only” clause.Credit.Denver Post, via Getty Images
Feb. 25, 2021
Bill Wright, the first Black competitor to win a United States Golf Association event in an era when African-Americans were not welcome either in segregated country clubs or in the top amateur and professional ranks, died on Feb. 19 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.
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Nicknames can be either a blessing or a curse, especially when they’re awarded so early in life.
As a 17-year-old freshman at the University of Colorado in the mid-1930s, a small-town boy named Byron White picked up a nickname from local
Denver Post columnist Leonard Cahn during the annual Colorado-Denver freshman game that, for better or worse, stuck with him for the rest of his life.
Byron “Whizzer” White was christened after his freshman season, and the expectations that came with it were immediate. Despite a knee injury that derailed his sophomore season, White came back stronger in his junior season with All Rocky Mountain Conference honors.
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