IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES
IOWA CITY, IOWA
JANE CHRISTOFFER RUBEL (1955 - )
PAPERS, 1971, 1993
1 linear inch
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ACQUISITION: |
The papers (donor no.
474) were donated by Jane
Christoffer Rubel. |
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ACCESS: |
The papers are open
for research. |
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COPYRIGHT: |
Copyright has been transferred to the University of Iowa. |
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PROCESSED BY: |
Margaret Richardson, 1999. |
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REVISION: |
Bobby Jett, July 13, 1999 version WORD 7. |
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Biography
Jane Ann Christoffer was born December 31, 1955 in
Emmetsburg, Iowa. Her family moved to
Ruthven, Iowa where she became an outstanding participant in six-on-six girls’
basketball. As a sophomore Rubel took
the Ruthven Consolidated High School team to the state tournament, having
scored 46.7 points per game and hitting 60 per cent of her shots for the
season. Christoffer married Kenny Rubel
in her junior year, subsequently giving birth to daughter Jennifer. When she returned to play basketball her
senior year the Iowa Girls’ High School Athletic Union forbade Jane Rubel’s
participation, quoting a rule that a
“student is ineligible for any Girls Union-sponsored activity after
being associated with a marital status . . . .” Rubel filed a $125,000 damage suit in federal court. Rubel had the full backing of the Ruthven
school administration and community and also the service of the American Civil
Liberties Union. In November 1971 the
girls’ union Executive Secretary E. Wayne Cooley and the union’s board repealed
the seventeen-year old ruling which forbade married mothers from
interscholastic competition. Rubel
played her senior season, averaging thirty points a game and leading her team
to within one game of the state tournament.
The Rubels have two children.
Jane Rubel later became postmaster in Ruthven.
Scope and
Content Note
The Jane Christoffer Rubel papers date from 1971 to 1993 and measure one linear inch. The papers
contain the official document describing
Rubel’s lawsuit against the Iowa Girls’ High School Athletic Union; a letter of
acknowledgment of the discrimination suit from the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare; newspaper clippings; letters of support; and a
transcript of a Channel 9 KCRG editorial.
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