As a Dartmouth ’66, I was interested to read your article on “Top Tigers.” I had the good fortune (or, perhaps, misfortune) to personally witness two of your top 25 Princeton athletes compete on my campus: Bill Bradley and Cosmo Iacavazzi, both ’65. They were truly gifted.
However, I am also the spouse of a ’73 at Old Nassau, and I was surprised that there was no mention made of her classmate, Marjory Gengler. As a member of the “first class,” Margie had to be a founding athlete in Princeton’s women's athletic program. While an undergraduate, she twice competed successfully in the U.S. Open. She was the captain of the women’s tennis team, was ranked the number one player in the eastern United States, and was the first woman at Princeton to earn a white “P” sweater. Just before graduating in 1973, you even featured her on your cover as “Princeton’s Best Athlete.”
I recognize that your panel took on an impossible task, and Margie may have suffered from the “recency bias” you admit to in your article, which was a risk. Nonetheless, that should not diminish the history-making contributions she and her fellow alumnae made to their alma mater during those first years of coeducation.
As a Dartmouth ’66, I was interested to read your article on “Top Tigers.” I had the good fortune (or, perhaps, misfortune) to personally witness two of your top 25 Princeton athletes compete on my campus: Bill Bradley and Cosmo Iacavazzi, both ’65. They were truly gifted.
However, I am also the spouse of a ’73 at Old Nassau, and I was surprised that there was no mention made of her classmate, Marjory Gengler. As a member of the “first class,” Margie had to be a founding athlete in Princeton’s women's athletic program. While an undergraduate, she twice competed successfully in the U.S. Open. She was the captain of the women’s tennis team, was ranked the number one player in the eastern United States, and was the first woman at Princeton to earn a white “P” sweater. Just before graduating in 1973, you even featured her on your cover as “Princeton’s Best Athlete.”
I recognize that your panel took on an impossible task, and Margie may have suffered from the “recency bias” you admit to in your article, which was a risk. Nonetheless, that should not diminish the history-making contributions she and her fellow alumnae made to their alma mater during those first years of coeducation.