Mernie Bacon Whitcomb
'49
At ÂÒÂ×Ç¿¼é:
- An extremely active participant in athletics in all four years, primarily on the intramural level
- Played field hockey, basketball, volleyball, and synchronized swimming
- In the Fall, 1948 semester, the University hosted a field hockey festival involving 8 eastern schools
- Attended the Constance Appleby Field Hockey Camp in the Poconos in the summer of 1948
- Competed in basketball over the winter months and went with teams sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association (WAA) to tournaments at Cortland and Skidmore
- Involved with synchronized swimming all through her college days and she was the student head of swimming as a senior
- Helped to plan the annual Water Ballet which was used that year as a fund raiser by the WAA to assist in construction of a new pool
