JULIE GOODRICH (1956- )
SUBTITLE:»
PAPERS, 1948, 1967-1977
(bulk 1970-1974)
1.5 linear feet and
audiovisual material
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ACQUISITION: |
The papers
(donor no. 169) were donated by Julie
Goodrich in 1993. |
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ACCESS: |
The papers
are open for research. |
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COPYRIGHT: |
Copyright has been transferred to the |
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PHOTOGRAPHS: |
In |
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AUDIOVISUAL: |
1 film shelved in film collection (F5). One
videocassette shelved in video collection (V340). |
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PROCESSED BY: |
Katherine Price, 1994. |
Biography
Julie Goodrich was an accomplished high school athlete in the early 1970s from Adel, Iowa. She was actively involved in the fields of basketball, track and field, cross-country, and softball. In basketball, admittedly her favorite sport, she was a forward on the Adel Tigerettes girls' varsity team for four years, and her team's number two shooter. She received numerous awards from the Adel Community Schools and local sponsors, and was chosen to participate in the all-conference basketball team two years in a row. She was also an all-conference softball player and track star. Her name and picture frequently appeared in the Des Moines Register and Dallas County News, where she even received fan mail. The Dallas County News described her as "a very determined girl who doesn't know what it is to quit or give up." As testimony to this description, in 1973, her junior year, she was a pitcher on her softball team, a quarter-mile runner in track, and a forward on the basketball team, as well as being inducted into the National Honor Society, performing in shows as a tapdancer, and teaching swimming with the Red Cross. This was the year her basketball team made it to the Girls' State Tournament, where they came in second. When she returned from the Tournament, sick with measles and strep throat and afraid of missing out on the State Track and Field Championships, she told a Dallas County Reporter, "I gotta get going. I haven't been too hot this spring." Larry Niemeyer, her coach for both basketball and track, said that the track team's chances of winning the state title improved with Goodrich being there. She was appreciated by her teammates not only for her prowess, but for her unselfish team spirit. In an article Goodrich wrote, called "Adel Tigerettes Live a Dream Come True" (see Box 1, Scrapbooks, Photocopied, 1973 State Tournament), she recounts in the style of a fairy tale the history of her basketball team in 1972 and 1973, which culminates in their performance at the State Championship, then "living happily ever after."
Scope and
Content Note
The Julie Goodrich papers measure 1.5
linear feet and date from 1948 to 1977.
Most of the papers date from 1970 to 1974, when Goodrich was in high
school. They are organized into six
series: Scrapbooks, Personal,
Photographs, Publicity, Family papers, and Iowa girls' sports. The papers document Goodrich's involvement
with girls' sports in Iowa in the early 1970s.
The
Scrapbooks series (1969-1974)
contains the nine scrapbooks that Goodrich kept while she was in junior high
and high school, which form the bulk of the collection. Two of the scrapbooks were preserved in their
original state. The other seven were
photocopied and then disbound. The items
removed from these scrapbooks were then arranged into series. In her scrapbooks she organized newspaper
clippings, press releases, photographs, sports records and statistics, and
correspondence relating primarily to her athletic activities. The photocopied scrapbooks dated 1970- 1971
and 1971-1972 are in their original covers, which are examples of common
designs of the early 1970s. Goodrich
kept two scrapbooks during her senior year, 1973-1974, both concerned with
sports.
The
Personal series (1970-1974) contains
the awards, correspondence, and memorabilia removed from the scrapbooks.
The
Photographs series (1970-1974)
contains the photographs removed from the scrapbooks. Most of these date from 1973 and 1974.
The
Publicity series (1970-1974)
contains the promotional and statistical material related to the sports events
in which Goodrich participated. In this
subseries is one 16mm film from Wolper/NBA Films that lasts several minutes and
shows Goodrich playing basketball at the 1973 State Tournament.
The
Family papers series (1948) contains
one memory book that Goodrich's mother kept during her last year in high school
in Linden, Iowa.
The
Iowa girls' sports series
(1967-1977) contains all the programs and statistical booklets that Goodrich
collected concerning games she did not participate in as an athlete.
Box no. Description
Box 1
Scrapbooks
Original
1969-1970 [oversize: in box
4]
1970-1974 [oversize: in box
4]
Photocopied
1970-1971
1971-1972
1972-1973
1973 regional finals
1973 State Tournament
1973-1974, #1
1973-1974, #2
Personal
Awards and certificates,
1970-1974
Correspondence, 1973-1974
Memorabilia, 1970-1974
Box 2
Photographs, 1970-1974 (4 folders)
Publicity
Film, "Iowa Girls/Julie
Goodrich," Wolper/NBA Films (16mm, 7-8 minutes) [shelved in film
collection: F5]
Video, 1973 Iowa Girls
Basketball State Tournament [shelved in video collection, V340]
Flyers
Programs
Adel High School athletics,
1970-1974
Girls' basketball state
tournaments, 1973-1974
Girls' state softball
tournaments, 1970-1971
Girls' track and field state
championships, 1971-1974
Miscellaneous, 1970-1974
Players' statistics
Girls' basketball state
tournaments, 1973-1974
Press releases, 1970-1974
Box 3
Family papers
Memory book of Joyce Ann
Gibson, 1948
Iowa girls' sports
Programs
Girls' basketball state
tournaments, 1967-1977
Iowa girls' sports
Programs
Girls' state softball
tournament, 1972
Players' statistics,
basketball state tournaments, 1971-1977
Box 4
Oversize
Scrapbooks
1969-1970
1970-1974