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American physical educator (1889?1957)
Flora Frick
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Flora M. Frick, from a 1920 publication
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Born
| Flora Margaret Frick
March 13, 1889
Indianapolis, Indiana
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Died
| April 1957
Moorhead, Minnesota
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Occupation(s)
| Physical educator, college professor, playwright
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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
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Frick was born in
Indianapolis, Indiana
, the daughter of Philip J. Frick and Bertha Wachstetter Frick.
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She graduated from
Butler College
in 1911,
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and earned a master's degree at
Northwestern University
. She also attended the
University of Wisconsin
and
Columbia University
.
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Career
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Frick taught drama and physical education in the Indianapolis public schools as a young woman.
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She began teaching physical education and German classes at Moorhead State Teachers College (now Minnesota State University Moorhead) in 1919.
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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.
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She and Jessie McKellar were the physical education department's core faculty for four decades.
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Frick also wrote and directed plays and pageants,
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including five pageants for the
Illinois centennial
.
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She was a
Camp Fire Girls
leader.
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She was chair of the First Aid Program of the
American Red Cross
chapter in
Clay County
for 25 years.
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Publications
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- Stunts for Winter
(seasonal plays)
- Stunts for Fall
(seasonal plays)
- Stunts for Summer
(season plays)
- "Pageantry in Rural Communities" (1920)
- "Children's Right to a Playground" (1920)
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- "Lest We Forget: A Pageant for the Pilgrims Tercentenary" (1920)
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- Christmas Windows
(1928, one-act play, with Mayme Christensen)
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Personal life and legacy
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Frick's widowed father lived with her before his death in 1943.
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She died in 1957, at the age of 68, in
Moorhead, Minnesota
.
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In 1962, the women's physical education building at Minnesota State was named Flora Frick Hall;
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the name remains as of 2023, but the building's pool and gymnasium have since been converted to other purposes.
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Frick was posthumously inducted into the MSU Moorhead Athletics Hall of Fame in 1983.
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