Ellen Granahan Mohan
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Sport:
Mulitple |
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Year
Graduated: 1952 |
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Year
Inducted: 2003 |
It is hard to imagine that Ellen Mohan had time to compete
in athletics let alone excel in them.
During her entire four-year undergraduate career, she was
a member of the student council. Then, her junior and senior
years, she was elected class president, while she was also
the student council president her senior year.
She was also a junior senate member.
With all these activities, she still found time to be an outstanding
athlete.
It began her freshman year when Ms. Mohan was a member of
six class teams -- basketball, volleyball, fist ball, softball,
field hockey, and lacrosse.
As a sophomore, she competed again in these six sports but
her leadership ability shone forth as she captained both the
field hockey and softball teams.
She retained her captaincy of the field hockey and softball
teams her junior year and added basketball to the two. She
also continued to compete in volleyball, fist ball, and lacrosse.
Finally, as a senior, she captained both the basketball and
volleyball teams, while she also played fist ball and was
a student assistant on the softball team.
Her activities were also well rounded at Sargent Camp where
she was a member of the softball and basketball teams all
three years and captain of the two for two years. In addition,
she played lacrosse at Sargent, participated in golf and tennis
tournaments, and was a leader in marching competition.
Perhaps the most noteworthy of Ms. Mohan's accomplishments,
aside from her student council involvement, her excellence
on the athletic field, and her selection to Scarlet Key, is
that she was valedictorian of her class. With all that she
did, she graduated number one in the Class of 1952.
"Ellen had outstanding athletic ability," wrote
Hall of Famer Mary Pratt. "She was unable to participate
in interscholastic and intercollegiate athletic competition
due to policies that existed.Competition during her collegiate
years was limited to her class games in all sports for which
she was awarded her class numerals and class pin."
