12 Facts About Margaret Majer

Margaret Katherine Majer was born on December 13,1898, the daughter of German immigrants Margaretha Berg and Carl Majer.

Margaret Majer attended William Penn High School for Girls with the great-grandmother of the Fine Brothers, and in 1917 was class president.

Margaret Majer led the undergraduate women in athletic pursuits at the Kingsessing facility, used as a gymnasium by the University's female students.

Margaret Majer led a successful fundraising campaign to build women's tennis courts on what, for a few years, was a vacant lot on the southeast corner of Thirty-Fourth and Walnut streets.

Margaret Majer was celebrated as the founder of women's athletics at the University of Pennsylvania, and her achievements brought her recognition as the first director of women's athletics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Margaret Majer met Olympic oarsman John Brendan Kelly at the Turngemeinde Athletic and Social Club when she was 14 and he was 23.

Margaret Majer was involved in politics, and after serving as Democratic City chairman, he ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia in 1935.

Margaret Majer would have run for senator however Majer discouraged him from doing so.

Margaret Majer's family was Lutheran, and she converted to Catholicism before the marriage.

Via Grace, Margaret Majer is the maternal grandmother of Albert II, Prince of Monaco.

Margaret Majer went on to chair the College's development program and later received an honorary doctor of letters from the school.

Margaret Majer served as a member of the Philadelphia Board of Education from 1961 to 1964 and as a leader of volunteer boards and groups associated with the Philadelphia Association for Retarded Children, Moss Rehabilitation Hospital and the Committee for Philadelphia House.