Flora Frick Explained

Flora Frick
Birth Name:Flora Margaret Frick
Birth Date:March 13, 1889
Birth Place:Indianapolis, Indiana
Death Date:April 1957
Death Place:Moorhead, Minnesota
Occupation:Physical educator, college professor, playwright

Flora Margaret Frick (March 13, 1889 – April 1957) was an American physical educator, playwright, and college professor. She was chair of the women's physical education department at Moorhead State Teachers College for 38 years, from 1919 to her death in 1957. A building on the campus is named Flora Frick Hall in her memory.

Early life and education

Frick was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the daughter of Philip J. Frick and Bertha Wachstetter Frick.[1] She graduated from Butler College in 1911,[2] [3] and earned a master's degree at Northwestern University. She also attended the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University.[4] [5]

Career

Frick taught drama and physical education in the Indianapolis public schools as a young woman. She began teaching physical education and German classes at Moorhead State Teachers College (now Minnesota State University Moorhead) in 1919. She chaired the women's physical education department for 38 years and is credited as naming the school's teams "the Dragons" after a 1930 fire on campus.[6] [7] She and Jessie McKellar were the physical education department's core faculty for four decades.[8]

Frick also wrote and directed plays and pageants,[9] including five pageants for the Illinois centennial. She was a Camp Fire Girls leader.[10] She was chair of the First Aid Program of the American Red Cross chapter in Clay County for 25 years.

Publications

Personal life and legacy

Frick's widowed father lived with her before his death in 1943.[15] She died in 1957, at the age of 68, in Moorhead, Minnesota. In 1962, the women's physical education building at Minnesota State was named Flora Frick Hall;[16] the name remains as of 2023, but the building's pool and gymnasium have since been converted to other purposes.[17] Frick was posthumously inducted into the MSU Moorhead Athletics Hall of Fame in 1983.[18]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1930-09-29 . Rites for Auto Victim . 5 . The Indianapolis News . 2023-06-30 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1911-06-10 . Graduates Who Will Receive Diplomas at Butler College Next Week . 4 . The Indianapolis Star . 2023-06-30 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1941-02-15 . Miss Flora Frick Wins Butler Alumni Honor . 7 . The Indianapolis Star . 2023-06-30 . Newspapers.com.
  4. September 1920 . Lest We Forget: A Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Landing of the Pilgrims . The National School Digest . 40 . 23–25.
  5. News: 1957-04-17 . Minnesota Rites for Flora Frick . 32 . The Indianapolis News . 2023-06-30 . Newspapers.com.
  6. Web site: Women Leave a Lasting Mark on Campus . 2023-06-30 . Minnesota State University Moorhead. en.
  7. Book: Sloan, C. Joanne . College nicknames and other interesting sports traditions . 1993 . Northport, AL : Vision Press . Internet Archive . 978-0-9630700-3-6 . 188.
  8. Book: Glasrud, Clarence A. . The Moorhead Normal School . 1987 . Internet Archive . 154.
  9. December 1924 . Parke County in 1924 . Indiana Magazine of History . 20 . 4 . 465.
  10. News: 1930-06-11 . Camp Fire Leaders to Train Here; National Field Staff to Direct Week's Course . 10 . The Minneapolis Star . 2023-06-30 . Newspapers.com.
  11. Frick . Flora M. . September 1920 . Children's Right to a Playground . The National School Digest . 40 . 14–17.
  12. Frick . Flora M. . October 1920 . Lest We Forget: A Pageant for the Pilgrims Tercentenary . The National School Digest . 40 . 93–94.
  13. December 1938 . Christmas Festivals, Masques and Pantomimes . Recreation . 32 . 9 . 498.
  14. News: 1980-12-11 . Playhouse Production . 130 . The Morning Call . 2023-06-30 . Newspapers.com.
  15. News: 1943-03-01 . Obituary for Philip J . Frick . 27 . The Indianapolis News . 2023-06-30 . Newspapers.com.
  16. News: 1962-11-19 . Names Make News . 18 . The Minneapolis Star . 2023-06-30 . Newspapers.com.
  17. Web site: 2014-11-17 . MSUM rumors, stories exposed . 2023-06-30 . MSUM Advocate . en-US.
  18. Web site: Flora Frick (1983) - Hall of Fame . 2023-06-30 . MSU Moorhead Athletics . en.

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