Gretchen Schuyler
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Sport:
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Year
Graduated: 1931 |
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Inducted: 1978 |
In an era when participating in athletics was regarded as
"not the thing for a lady to do," Gretchen Schuyler
participated in numerous sports at Sargent College and excelled
in all of them. As an undergraduate she played no less than
nine sports andwas particularly outstanding in lacrosse, field
hockey, basketball and soccer. Following her graduation she
was named ten times to the United States Lacrosse team and
three times as a reserve on teh U.S. Field Hockey team.
During World War II, Gretchen bypassed the military, since
it was not the practice then to send women overseas, and joined
the Red Cross. She served 33 months in the European Theatre
and 13 months in combat, assigned to Patton's Third Army.
She was trapped with the VIII'th Corps at Bastone when General
McCaulliff refused to surrender to the Germans and issued
his famous reply..."Nuts." For her part, and that
of her fellow Red Cross Workers on the front lines, Gretchen
received commendations from both General Bradley and General
Taylor as well as the Bronze Star from President Truman.
Following the war, she returned to Boston University as a
faculty member at Sargent and resumed her competition in sports.
