Actonians Remember: How We Got a Junior High Girls Basketball Team
It was September, 1950. I was so excited to be going from the sixth grade to junior high – a big step. The biggest reason was that I could play organized sports, especially basketball, my favorite sport. What a disappointment to find that there was no girls basketball team! The boys had basketball, but not the girls. My friends and I started asking the teachers about this and, lo and behold, they said there was no coach! I started asking some of the high school girls’ teams if they knew of any girls who had graduated and had played on…
