Santa Monica remembers Thelma Terry
Mar. 03, 2021 at 6:00 am
Dance: One of Thelma Terry’s many achievements was the formation of The Terryettes, a drill team of 20 local girls. Quinn Research Center
Women’s History Month is often celebrated in March to commemorate the vital role of women in American history. Women like Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt are some of the few who will be mentioned in the coming weeks, but Santa Monica residents believe the name Thelma Terry should be among them when locals discuss the most prominent figures of the past.
Born in 1907, Terry became a prominent basketball player at Santa Monica High School and Santa Monica College before she used her love of sports to foster recreation and arts education programs throughout the Westside prior to her death in 1979.