Katharine Whitney Curtis : mother of synchronized swimming / Jordan Whitney-Wei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitney-Wei, Jordan, 1992- author.

Contributor:

McFarland & Company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Curtis, Katharine Whitney.

Synchronized swimmers--United States--Biography.

Synchronized swimmers.

Women swimmers--United States--Biography.

Women swimmers.

Swimmers--United States--Biography.

Swimmers.

Synchronized swimming.

History.

United States.

Synchronized swimming--United States--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

200 pages : illustraitions ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Synchronized swimming

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2020.

Summary:

""How do you invent an Olympic sport? For Katharine Whitney Curtis, it took the right idea, great talent, some good timing, and the determination to make it happen. The originator of synchronized swimming as we know it today, she even wrote the first book on the subject in 1936. But there was much more to her life and career. After the start of World War II, Curtis became a recreational director in the American Red Cross and followed the troops wherever the course of war took them, serving under Generals Patton and Eisenhower, before becoming a director of travel for the U.S. Army in Europe during the Cold War. Unbound by fear or the narrow expectations of society, this was a woman who lived ahead of her time, making things happen along the way. As her first biography, this book generously features Curtis's own words, selected from more than 2,000 pages of letters, and contextualized by her surviving friends and family members."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The First Diversion: Beauty (1897-1942)

1. Noble diversions

2. Out of Madison

3. Making history

4. A change of plans

The Second Diversion: Hope (1942-1946)

She's over there

6. Lifting morale

7. Victory lap

8. Loved and lost

The Third Diversion: Harmony (1946-1980)

9. Rebuilding

10. Passing the torch

11. A rolling stone.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476664583

1476664587

OCLC:

1108567275