[1] Later, she played a significant role in the development of Arizona State University's School of Dance into one of the best in the USA.
With her team's growing success, she achieved considerable fame, with the New York Times calling her "The Girl Babe Ruth of Blanford, Ind", and her progress was tracked by "every media outlet from rural weeklies to Movietone News".
However, the administrators decided that in view of the role women had played in wartime and in the American Legion, there was no reason why she could not continue.
The following year, the American Legion banned girls from baseball, citing the expense of separate facilities.
[5] There her students including baseball player Reggie Jackson;[6] she is also cited by dancer Bill Evans as his "dance mother".