1. Mary Ellen Garber was an American sportswriter, recognized as a pioneer among women in sports journalism.
12 Facts About Mary Garber
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Mary Garber received over 40 writing awards and numerous honors in a sports-writing career that spanned seven decades, the most prestigious of which was the 2005 Associated Press Sports Editors Red Smith Award.
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Mary Garber was born in New York City in 1916, but relocated to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with her family in 1924.
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Mary Garber graduated from Hollins College in Virginia, in 1938, with one goal: to become a newspaper reporter.
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Later in 1944, when the high school sports stringer at the paper graduated and enlisted in the US Navy, Mary Garber filled his slot.
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In 1946, Mary Garber joined the sports department and never left.
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Mary Garber retired from the Journal in 1986, but continued working part-time until 2002.
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In 2002 Mary Garber became the first woman to be inducted into the US Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame.
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In 2005 Mary Garber became the first woman to receive the Associated Press Sports Editors Red Smith Award.
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In May 2008, Mary Garber was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
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Mary Garber recounted her life and career in a series of interviews for the Washington Press Club Foundation's Women in Journalism Oral History Project.
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Mary Garber died on September 21,2008, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.