Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity..." // www.dol.gov
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- Title IX Vignettes
Sarah (Marshall) Ryan
Known as Sarah Marshall when she played at McAuley High, an girls-only private school in Portland, she never had to worry about any possible Title IX inequities – there were no boys’ teams. But Ryan, 26, knows how fortunate she was to have grown up when she did.
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Lynn Welch
Once Title IX began, she saw fairness, respect
Lynn Welch was a sophomore at South Portland High School in 1972, the year Title IX legislation went into effect. That spring she won the first of three consecutive state singles tennis titles.
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Coach William “Tige’’ CurranAs opportunities improved, so did the athletes
William “Tige’’ Curran remembers the first girls softball team he coached at Deering High in Portland very well. The year was 1976, four years after Title IX was signed into law.
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Dr. Dora Anne Mills
Sports in school became a lifetime passion
Dr. Dora Anne Mills remembers the buzz on the Bowdoin College campus on a spring day in 1979, when fellow student Joan Benoit won the Boston Marathon.
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Emily Ellis“I knew I could play with those guys’’
It was 1973, a year after Title IX became law, and she was sitting in the stands – “drinking Pepsi,’’ she said – while her brother played a B.U.M. (Brooks-Unity-Munroe) League youth basketball game at the Mt. View High School gym in the small central Maine town of Thorndike.
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Julia Pitney
Brush with bias shapes life of advocacy
Pitney, a lawyer at the firm of Drummond & Drummond in Portland, said she is a lawyer because of what she learned fighting for equal rights as an athlete at Connecticut College in New London.
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Joanne P. McCallie
“Title IX gave me a sense of belongingâ€Â
Joanne P. McCallie has often called herself a “Title IX baby.’’ Born in 1965, seven years before the anti-discrimination statute became law, McCallie grew up in Brunswick in an era when she didn’t know anything but acceptance.
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Joyce WheelerAn early taste of inequities, then a chance to change it
Now a Superior Court Justice for Cumberland County, Joyce Wheeler was a member of the women’s sailing team as an undergraduate at Boston University in 1970, two years before implementation of Title IX legislation.
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Gary FifieldUSM was strong advocate of women’s programs, coach says
Gary Fifield has won 601 games in 24 seasons as coach for the University of Southern Maine women’s basketball team. He has seen a huge improvement in the quality of the game across the state, thanks in part to Title IX.
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Kristen (Briggs) Carmichael
Star athlete grateful for better scholarship opportunities
Named the Female Athlete of the Year by the Maine Sunday Telegram in 1992 after an impressive three-sport career at York High School, Kristen Carmichael went on to play soccer and softball on a dual athletic scholarship at the University of Vermont. In 1996, she won the university's senior female athlete of the year award.
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Leigh SaufleyWhen Saufley was in school, 'girls' sports were not big'
As the first female chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Leigh Saufley wears distinguished black robes in the courtroom - a far cry from the hideous “unitard†she recalls wearing for physical education as a girl in the South Portland school system.
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Janet JudgeOpportunities fuel pride, and a desire to give back
Judge attended Harvard University, where she was the goalkeeper on the soccer team. And now, as president of Sports Law Associates in North Yarmouth, she is one of the nation’s foremost Title IX authorities.
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- Title IX Stories
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