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8he helped rais1 funds and/or donate< funds for trophy case1 to house Athletic HaJ

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Throughout her five of Fame inductee decades at East Cen- plaques, photos and tral, Wood also served frames for All-State as cheerleader sponsor, athletes, flags for Bur– director of intramurals, ton Library and ban. organized and super- ners for her women's vised a college-wide tal- bask~tball champi– ent show, supervised onship teams. S.he was instrumen– and initiated halftime tal m . the collection of programs at basketball athle! 1 c memorabilia games, where her phys- that is housed in the ical education classes trophy cases and on the demonstrated their walls in the college class activities such as gym, having re– ribbon dancing, tinsel, searched informa tion the May Day programs,

Billy Stewart. "She was a remarkable represen– tative of our college and

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that is East Central. She made a tremen– dous impact on Clarion-Ledger ------ -!&'I women's athletics in Mississippi's commu– nity colleges and touched thousands of . students' as well as Meridian Star ________ ·. athletes' lives during

her more than five decades of service to

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<1>-Lln, but the job was given.to someone else. Bemg turned down fo~ the coaching job bught have been the est thing to happen for. wo.men's athletics as it laid the foundatio~ for ~ood's ideas con– £iern~n1g opportunities or gir s and women in sports and coaching bl "Mdany people proba- Y o not know that from ~ 9~4 until 1975, the Mississippi J unior C~llege Athletic Associ– ation 01JCAA) did not recogruze women 's bas– ketball as a sport. My second year at East Central (1957), a group

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