She led the undergraduate women in athletic pursuits at the Kingsessing facility used as a gymnasium by the University's female students.
Majer led a successful fundraising campaign to build women's tennis courts on what, for a few years, was a vacant lot on the southeast corner of Thirty-Fourth and Walnut streets.
[citation needed] Majer married Olympic oarsman John Brendan Kelly in 1924, ten years after they first met at a neighborhood swimming pool.
Kelly, the son of an Irish Catholic immigrant and ten years her senior, won a gold medal for sculling in the 1920 Olympics.
She and Kelly had four children: Margaret "Peggy" Katherine (1925–1991), John "Kell" Brendan Jr. (1927–1985), Grace Patricia (1929–1982) and Elizabeth "Lizanne" Anne (1933–2009).