Dates

• Existence: 1931-

Biography

Janice A. Beran was a professor in the College of Education at Iowa State University until her retirement in 1994. In 1992 she was the first to ever win the Central District Scholar Award from the Central District Association of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Beran has done extensive research on Iowa sport history, particularly on women and African Americans. Her research on the history of Iowa girls' high school basketball culminated in a book published in 1993, From Six-on-Six to Full Court Press: A Century of Iowa Girls' Basketball (Ames: Iowa State University Press) [available through the Main Library, or in Special Collections].

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