| Date Span: | 1971-1993 |
| Creator: | Rubel, Jane Christoffer (1955-) |
| Extent: | 1.00 linear inch. |
| Collection Number: | IWA0346 |
| Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
| Summary: | High school bascketball player who sued the Iowa Girl's High School Athletic Union to be allowed to play on the school team after |
Jane Ann Christoffer was born December 31, 1955 in Emmetsburg, Iowa. Her family moved to Ruthven, Iowa where she became an outstanding participant in six-on-six girlsī basketball. As a sophomore Rubel took the Ruthven Consolidated High School team to the state tournament, having scored 46.7 points per game and hitting 60 per cent of her shots for the season. Christoffer married Kenny Rubel in her junior year, subsequently giving birth to daughter Jennifer. When she returned to play basketball her senior year the Iowa Girlsī High School Athletic Union forbade Jane Rubelīs participation, quoting a rule that a "student is ineligible for any Girls Union-sponsored activity after being associated with a marital status . . . ." Rubel filed a $125,000 damage suit in federal court. Rubel had the full backing of the Ruthven school administration and community and also the service of the American Civil Liberties Union. In November 1971 the girlsī union Executive Secretary E. Wayne Cooley and the unionīs board repealed the seventeen-year old ruling which forbade married mothers from interscholastic competition. Rubel played her senior season, averaging thirty points a game and leading her team to within one game of the state tournament. The Rubels have two children. Jane Rubel later became postmaster in Ruthven.
Arrangement: One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Access: The papers are open for research.
Use: Copyright held by the donor has been transferred to The University of Iowa.
Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 474) were donated by Jane Christoffer Rubel.
Preferred Citation: Jane Christoffer Rubel papers, Iowa Women's Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.
| Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
| Address: | 100 Main Library University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City, IA 52242 |
| Phone: | 319-335-5068 |
| Curator: | Kären Mason |
| Email: | lib-women@uiowa.edu |
| Website: | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa |
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