In 1925, her four-year curriculum to train teachers in women's physical education received approval.
[2][3] From 1921 to 1929, she founded sports clubs on campus, including swimming, dance, tennis, horseback riding, fencing, and archery.
[2][3] In 1923, she helped found the Texas Athletic Federation of College Women, which she directed for its first four years.
The course featured balance beams, parallel bars, hoops, hanging ropes, and a high fence to enhance strength and stamina.
[9] Hiss co-founded the Delta Kappa Gamma, national teachers honor society.
[3] She studiously avoided publicity during the criminal trials against her brother Alger Hiss, an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
[2] Anna Hiss died age 79 on January 28, 1972, at Long Green nursing home in Baltimore.