Scottsdale gymnast Marie Bilski recalls Olympic path and coaching
Marie Bilski, Scottsdale Girls Club instructor and ASU student, discusses her gymnastics career from 1962 through 1970 including Olympic team appearances, Pan American Games, and later coaching. She emphasizes discipline, balance, and the joy of teaching while planning to retire when it stops being fun.
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Mary Bach
Marie Bilski
Scottsdale Girls Club
Marie
Girls Club
Arizona State University
Paul
Japan
Merchant Marine
Europe
South America
Canada
Arizona Aau
Lakewood High School
Ohio
Kent State
Baldwin-Wallace College
Cleveland
Brazil
Tokyo
Scottsdale’s
Marie from Cleveland Builds Gymnastics Career
A Cleveland native, Marie, one of five sisters, trains girls in gymnastics three evenings weekly and Saturdays. She began at age 12 under encouragement from her father, joined the American Turners, and experienced early competition where her sister won and she placed last before improving.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Marie
Turners
Woll
Scottsdale groups host interclub events and theatre benefit
The Scottsdale Ladies Auxiliary and Michigan Club invite residents to a Thursday potluck at 6 p.m. in Mesa with entertainment by Carson Junior High School students. A Friday theatre benefit for the Maricopa County Medical Society auxiliary features Laugh-In stars at Phoenix Star Theatre with tickets at $10. Also Friday, Paradise Republican Women host Fran Salmon on The Future is Now, and Saturday Scottsdale Women join events at Safari Hotel and Polynesian Apartments with health and civic talks.
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Scottsdale
Michigan
Mesa
N. “MacDonald
2Nd’ St
Mesa- Tempe
Area
Women’s Auxiliary
Maricopa County
Medical Society
Rowan and Martin
Phoenix Star Theatre
Warren Gorman
Sam Colachis
Gorman
Nauni- Valley
National Federation of Republican Women’s Clubs
Fran Salmon
Paradise Republican Women’s Club
American Association ‘“of
Safari Hotel Convention Center
Kenneth Cardella
B. L. Tims
Grandmother’s Club
Polynesian Apartments
E. McDowell Rd
Maricopa County Heart Association
Outward Bound Center to Place 39 Students in New Hampshire
Dart mouth College's Outward Bound Center will place 39 participants in New Hampshire's frozen wilderness for three weeks with nylon tents and dried food mixed with snow. The goal is to improve self-image and social cooperation under hardship. A separate phase includes a three day isolation period in Boston with ten cents to spend.
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New York
UPI
Dartmouth College
New Hampshire
Boston
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Scottsdale Daily Progress
Scottsdale Ladies Auxiliary
Community Room &T Western Savings: “and Loan Association
Old
Scottsdale Rd
Carson Junior High School
Lois Garrett
Western Savings and Loan Association
Louis Lagomarsino Jr
Papago
Jonathan Marshall
Progress
James Newton
L. B. Lieurance
Frank Samon
N. Old Scottsdale “Rd
Ge “Heince
W. Main St
Trader Vic
Fifth Avenue
A. Spirited. Flip
Barrows & Morrow Catering Service
Phoenix
Tempe
Wigs Cosmetics
Almay & LaFemme
The
Macdowald DR
Granite Reef
Macdonald OR
Bashar
Melleview
Elk
Mcdowello Tsdale AD
IL Mcdowell
Belleview
Indian School
MR Klean
N. Scottsdale RD
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