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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
14-Jul-1992 03:16pm
TO:
Edward J. Walters
FROM:
Janice S. Crouse
Office of Communications
SUBJECT: Flo Hyman
In the materials you got for me are several things that I'd like
to follow-up on:
Please call these folks and ask for info regarding the
status of girls and women in sports:
Girls Incorporated 212-689-3700
National Association for Girls and Women in Sport
703-476-3450
Women's Sport Foundation 212-972-9170
YWCA 212-614-2827
Who is getting the award this year? Find info about the
person.
The info on the award suggests talking with Suzanne Jett,
Flo Hyman's sister Women's Sport Foundation could give you her
phone number.
Women's sport day is usually February - -- reason for delay
in presentation of the award this year?
Senator Packwood's office might have some materials since
he sponsored the legislation creating National Girls and Women in
Sports Day in 1987.
Thanks for you work!!!
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TO: Ed Walfers
FROM: Tracy Hankins
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23-Jul-1992 01:45pm
TO:
Edward J. Walters
FROM:
Janice S. Crouse
Office of Communications
SUBJECT: Here's this speech -- ready to give to Dan b/4 sta
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
FLO HYMAN AWARD CEREMONY
ROSE GARDEN
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1992
Thanks for that warm welcome -- I should be the one
welcoming you. Welcome to the White House and to the Rose
Garden.
[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS]
In recent years, there have been a lot of changes in the
world. None of them has been any more dramatic than the change
of American attitudes toward women in athletic competition.
And, behind that change is the Women's Sports Foundation
...
your passion and commitment have caused a revolution that is
spreading throughout every town and community in our nation.
There was a time -- not too long ago, when girls sat on the
sidelines. But, today's women know that exercise and physical
fitness are necessary for good health
that participation in
sports is for everyone
that success in athletic competition
rewards those who push themselves
those willing to work hard
and pay the price.
Flo Hyman was once asked whether her coach Dr. Arie Selinger
had tough practices. "Only one practice a day," Flo said
but it goes all day. Flo added that in her day many women were
unwilling to pay that high a price to play on an Olympic team.
Today, we see that attitude changing.
A lot of women are experiencing what Flo Hyman, herself,
described. Volleyball, for Flo, went from being a social outlet
to serious competition. At some point the sport became a "matter
of achievement, a matter of accomplishment, a matter of something
well-done." When that happened, Flo added -- "That's when you
get personal satisfaction."
With the Women's Sport Foundation leading the way ...
more
and more young girls and women are experiencing the personal
satisfaction of involvement in sports.
And, more and more are reaching for the brass ring of
outstanding achievement in their sport.
The Flo Hyman award is one of the highest brass rings a
female athletes in the United States can reach. A winner must
exemplify outstanding achievement in her sport.
She also must have a record of outstanding service to
womens' sports
She has to have played a significant role in
increasing the opportunities for girls and women in sports.
Today, we are here to honor the 1992 Flo Hyman Award winner.
In its 6th year, this prestigious award goes to golfing great --
Nancy Lopez.
Bob Hope said, "If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play
it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."
Those of us who have watched Nancy's career, have seen
professionalism at its best. Her life is characterized by
dignity, spirit and commitment to excellence.
We have seen these qualities through an astounding 44 career
victories
in 1976 when she won nine tournaments -- including
a record-setting five in a row.
We cheered each new honor -- Rookie of the Year
Rolex
Player of the Year
Vare Trophy
induction into the PGA
World Golf Hall of Fame
and most recently -- winning the Sara
Lee Classic tournament.
But, even more importantly.
We have seen Nancy give the gift of opportunity to others.
She has raised more than $2 million as National Ambassador for
AIM -- Adventures in Movement for the Handicapped.
We have seen Nancy serve with distinction on the advisory
commission which is helping to implement my 1990 executive order
to improve education for Hispanic-Americans.
Columnist James Reston called golf
a "devilish pastime."
Reston thought it was easier to end the cold war or stamp out
poverty than to master golf.
Well, I beg to differ with him. But
I do admire Nancy
Lopez for mastering this devilish pastime.
And, I admire her courage and grace. She is a role model
for young women across the nation and an inspiration to us all.
Nancy joins other Flo Hyman winners
all of them are
synonymous with U.S. Women's athletics: Martina Navratilova
Evelyn Ashford
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Chris Evert
and
Diana Golden.
Each of these six Flo Hyman Award winners follows in Flo's
footsteps.
Flo was an Olympic volleyball star
and she won a silver
medal in the 1984 games. Flo was an extraordinary athlete
she was charismatic
she had great skill
and she had soul.
People still talk about Flo Hyman's passion and her
commitment. And, years from now, people will still be talking
about Nancy Lopez
her character
her personality
and
her achievements.
Thank you WSF, for honoring Flo Hyman
and, for
preserving her wonderful life as a role model for future
generations of women athletes in America.
I am grateful for your work, and I am committed to
continuing support of your efforts.
Now, let's take a few questions. But afterwards
...
Nancy,
can we go putting so I can get some pointers? I want to be able
to beat Dan Quayle the next time we play.
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Fax Number 2983
Date
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From ED WALTERS
Office Number 7750
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COMMENTS
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 24, 1992
MEMORANDUM TO STEVE PROVOST
THROUGH:
DAN MC GROARTY Druer
FROM:
ED WALTERS Dr
The Flo Hyman Awards Ceremony, scheduled for Wednesday, July
29, has been canceled because this year's winner, Nancy Lopez, is
unable to attend. Public Liaison took the event off the schedule
this afternoon, after the remarks were ready for staffing.
We will save the remarks in case the event is rescheduled.
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WSI FLO HYMAN MEMORIAL AWARD
This award is given on Nat onal Girls and Women in Sports Day to a woman athlete
who captures Flo's dignity, spirit and commitment to excellence. It honors an athlete
who recognizes the far-rea ching benefits of sport and who is determined to share
these values with others. M jor consideration is given to athletes who give generously
of their time and energy SC that thereare greater sports opportunities for all girls and
women.
Nominating Committee:
Input is gathered from Trus ees, Advisory/Board members, WSF staff and the sporting
community.
Selection Committee:
WSF Executive Director, President, Chair, awards committee and past winners.
Guidelines:
*
This award is not essarily an annual award. It is given as a special award to
honor outstanding $ ervice and achievement.
*
As a consideration, Suzanne Jett, Flo's sister, should be consulted.
Calendar:
October 15
Input on possible nominees solicited from Trustees, Board
members, staff, NGB's
November 15-30
Fesearch and compile bios
December 1
[ etermine and notify winner
February
/ nnouncement made on National Girls & Women in Sports
Day
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F10 HYMAN MEMORIAL AWARD
1987
Martina Navratilova
1988
Jackie Joyner Kersee
1989
Evelyn Ashford
1990
Chris Evert
1991
Diana Golden
1992
Nancy Lopez
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CONTACT:
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HOLD FOR RELEASE FEBRUARY 6 (a.m.)
CONGRESS TC HONOR FEMALE ATHLETES AT 6TH ANNUAL
NATION AL GIRLS AND WOMEN IN SPORTS DAY
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jai uary 27-Senator Bob Packwood (R-OR) will announce the winner
of the Women's Sports Fo indation Flo Hyman Award at a Congressional Awards ceremony
celebrating the 6th annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD), Thursday,
February 6. The ceremony will begin at 12:30 p.m. in Caucus Room 325, Russell Senate Office
Building, Constitution Ave: and Delaware St., N.E. The Day is sponsored in Washington by
Sudafed.
Golfing great Nancy Lc pez, who was inducted into the Ladies' Professional Golf Association
Hall of Fame in 1987, has een selected to receive the award. It has been given for the past five
years to a female athlete w) o exemplifies the dignity, spirit and commitment to excellence of the
late Flo Hyman, captain of the 1984 U.S. Olympic volleyball team who died of Marfan's
Syndrome in 1986. In h T professional career Lopez has accumulated 44 victories, and her
career earnings are over $3 million. She had her best year in 1976, when she won nine
tournaments, including a I cord-setting five in a row. That year she was named Rolex Player of
the Year, Rookie of the Y ear and earned the Vare Trophy. In 1989 she was inducted into the
PGA World Golf Hall of } 'ame. Her most recent tournament victory in 1991 was the Sara Lee
Classic.
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30 East 33rd Street
Girls & Women in Sport
342 Madison Ave., Suite 728
726 Broadway
New York, NY 10016
1900 Association Dr.
New York, NY 10173
New York, NY 10003
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In addition to her tour a ctivities, Lopez serves as national ambassador for Adventures in
Movement for the Handicap (AIM) and has helped raised more than $2 million for the
organization.
Previous winners of the iward, which is sponsored by the Women's Sports Foundation,
include tennis champions Ma rtina Navratilova and Chris Evert; track and field stars Jackie
Joyner-Kersee and Evelyn As aford; and world disabled ski champion Diana Golden.
Twenty-eight leading fem: le athletes representing sports ranging from ice hockey to track to
judo will join Lopez for the c remony, which has become a Capitol Hill tradition. In addition
to the presentation of the award, members of Congress, the Administration and supporters of
women's sports will also mark the upcoming 20th anniversary of the passage of Title IX
legislation.
Senator Packwood (R-OR, who was the original Senate sponsor of the resolution creating
National Girls and Women in Sports Day in 1987 noted, "This year's celebration is especially
meaningful because it is linl ed to an important milestone in women's athletics--the 20th
anniversary of the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972."
Rep. Olympia Snowe (D-ME), who has co-sponsored the NGWSD resolution in the House
for the past six years and has been an active proponent of Title IX and other women's issues,
commented, "This legislation P rohibits sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive
federal funds, and has paved the way for more equitable funding for men's and women's sports
program at the university level. Many of the athletes attending this ceremony have benefitted
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28TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format.
Copyright 1991 The Times Mirror Company
Los Angeles Times
September 20, 1991, Friday, Home Edition
SECTION: Part A; Page 24; Column 1; National Desk
LENGTH: 403 words
HEADLINE: PRESIDENT NAMES ADVISERS ON LATINO EDUCATION
BYLINE: By FRANK SOTOMAYOR, TIMES STAFF WRITER
BODY:
Calling the improvement of education for Latinos a critical goal for the
nation, President Bush on Thursday appointed a 17-member advisory commission to
help him implement his 1990 executive order on Latino education.
The President said the commission will "advise me and the education
secretary, Lamar Alexander, on the progress of federal efforts to improve
education for Hispanic-Americans. He acknowledged that the appointments, coming
a year after he signed the executive order, were overdue.
"We recognize the crisis in education and employment for young
Hispanic-Americans," Bush said in an interview with Latino reporters at the Four
Seasons Hotel. "At a time when Hispanics are the fastest-growing and youngest
minority in the United States, their wages and school completion rates are among
the lowest."
In fact, Latinos, who make up one-tenth of the nation's population, have the
highest dropout rate of any racial or ethnic group -- more than 40% never get a
high school diploma. This figure compares to an 18% dropout rate for blacks and
a 14% rate for Anglos.
Bush said federal educational spending had dramatically increased during his
Administration, and he voiced support for bilingual education programs, greater
parental involvement in the schools and giving students the ability to attend
the school of their choice.
To help carry out the Latino federal education programs, Alexander has named
John Florez, a Labor Department official, as executive director of the White
House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans.
Among the commission members appointed Thursday, four are from California but
none is from Los Angeles County. Leticia Quezada, a school board member of the
Los Angeles Unified School District, said that was a "gross oversight" because
Los Angeles County has the nation's highest concentration of Latino students.
Progress since the executive order was issued a year ago has been "very
slow,' and the process to name a commission had become "almost dormant," Quezada
said. "Perhaps this is an opportunity for a beginning."
Among commission members are chairman Andres Bande, a Chicago businessman;
pro golfer Nancy Lopez; Raul Yzaguirre, head of the National Council of La
Raza; Robert J. Miranda, a Santa Ana executive; Peter H. Coors, president of
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Schools.
TYPE: Appointment
SUBJECT: POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS; ADVISORY COMMITTEES; HISPANICS --- EDUCATION;
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30TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format.
Copyright 1991 Gale Research Inc.
Who's Who Among Hispanic Americans
August, 1991; First Edition
LENGTH: 108 words
NAME: Nancy Lopez
PERSONAL:
Born January 06, 1957, in Torrance, California, United States; daughter of
Domingo and Marina Lopez; married Ray Knight, 1985; children: Ashley Marie,
Erinn Shea.
OCCUPATION: Professional golfer
EDUCATION: University of Tulsa, 1976-78.
CAREER:
Professional golfer, 1978-.
MEMBERSHIPS:
Ladies Professional Golf Association, member, 1978-.
AWARDS:
LPGA Rookie of the Year, Player of the Year, Female Athlete of the Year,
1978; Pro Golf Player of the Year, 1979; LPGA Hall of Fame, Inductee, 1987.
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS: Lopez has won 134 tournaments and earned more than a
million dollars in prize money. Author of The Education of a Woman Golfer, 1979.
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37TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format.
Copyright 1989 Gale Research Inc.
Newsmakers 1989
August, 1989; Issue 3
LENGTH: 760 words
NAME: Nancy Lopez
PERSONAL:
Born January 6, 1957, in Torrance, Calif.; daughter of Domingo (an auto
repair shop owner) and Marina (Griego) Lopez; married Tim Melton (a
sportscaster), January, 1979 (divorced, 1982); married Ray Knight (a
professional baseball player), October 25, 1982; children: (second marriage)
Ashley, Erinn.
OCCUPATION: Professional golfer
ADDRESSES: Agent--Mark H. McCormack Agency, 1 Erieview Plaza, Cleveland, Ohio
44114.
EDUCATION: Attended University of Tulsa, 1976-78.
CAREER:
Began playing golf as a young child; won first New Mexico state tournament at
age twelve; as a senior in high school, finished second in Women's Open; as a
college student, won intercollegiate title before leaving school and turning
professional after her sophomore year; professional golfer, 1978---.
MEMBERSHIPS:
Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).
AWARDS:
Named Athlete for 1978 by Associated Press; named LPGA Player and Rookie of
the Year, 1978, appointed to LPGA Hall of Fame, 1987.
WRITINGS:
The Education of a Woman Golfer, Simon & Schuster, 1979.
SIDELITES:
Since becoming a professional golfer in 1978, Nancy Lopez has consistently
ranked among the top women on the circuit. She is one of only five women in the
sport to have earned more than $ 1 million in her career. In addition, she has
won over 40 tournament victories and has been named to the Ladies Professional
Golf Association (LPGA) Hall of Fame.
Lopez first became a golf enthusiast as a child when her parents took up the
game for her mother's health. By the age of 11, she was a better golfer than
either of her parents. Her father became convinced that Nancy was champion
material and began to groom her for tournament play. The family scrimped on its
own needs to finance her golfing. The family's dedication seemed justified by
her performance on the golf course. At the age of 12, she won the first of three
state women's tournaments. While still in high school, she finished second in
the Women's Open. In 1972 and 1974, she won the U.S. Girls Junior title. And as
a student at the University of Tulsa, she won the intercollegiate title before
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dropping out of school to turn professional.
During her first year on the professional circuit, Lopez broke several
standing records. She began the year by winning the Bent Tree Classic at
Sarasota, Florida, in February, then went on to win a record five tournaments in
succession, including the prestigious LPGA title. (Lopez has since won a second
LPGA title as well as a Nabisco Dinah Shore title.) By August of 1978 she had
surpassed the highest earnings record, $ 150,000, set by Judy Rankin in 1976.
Lopez went on to earn more than $ 200,000 by the end of the year. She also
endorsed or made commercials for various golf products.
Since her initial appearance on the pro circuit, Lopez has always been ranked
at the very top of her sport. In 1979, she won 8 of the 19 tournaments she
entered, a feat Bruce Newman of Sports Illustrated called "one of the most
dominating sports performances in half a century." Lopez had her best year in
1985, when she earned more money--over $ 400,000 than any other player on the
circuit. She won five tournaments and set a record-high scoring average of 70.73
percent. In 1987 Lopez was named to the LPGA Hall of Fame, "which has the most
difficult requirements for entry of any sports Hall of Fame in the nation," as
Gordon S. White, Jr., noted in the New York Times. Thirty tournament
victories, two of them major titles, are needed for Hall of Fame inclusion.
Through it all, Lopez has managed to balance the demands of a sports career
with those of a wife and mother. In fact, she told Joseph Durso of the New York
Times: "I like being a wife and mother more than I like professional golf." She
and her husband, baseball player Ray Knight, share the necessary domestic duties
between them. "We complement each other, Knight told Durso. "We help each other
with the chores." And Knight occasionally caddies for his wife. Because of their
respective status in golf and baseball, Lopez and Knight are "probably the most
prominent married couple in sports," according to Durso. They are also among the
happiest. Lopez told Jaime Diaz in Sports Illustrated: "I'm 50 happy with my
life, that now when I play, there is no pressure. It's just all fun, and when
it's fun, you perform better."
SOURCES: New York Times, March 31, 1985; May 19, 1988.
People, April 25, 1983.
Sports Illustrated, August 5, 1985; August 4, 1986; February 9,
1987.
Sketch by Denise Wiloch
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48TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format.
Copyright (c) 1986 Chicago Tribune Company;
Chicago Tribune
April 22, 1986, Tuesday, SPORTS FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4; ZONE: C
LENGTH: 135 words
HEADLINE: SEX THERAPIST, GOLFER AMONG 10 MOTHERS NAMED TO ELITE LIST
BODY:
Sex therapist Ruth Westheimer, golfer Nancy Lopez, opera singer Marilyn
Horne and airline flight attendant Ulrike Derickson were named among the 10
Outstanding Mothers of 1986 Monday by the National Mother's Day Committee.
Also named were Olympic runner Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Beatrice Coleman,
president and chief executive officer of Maidenform Inc.; actresses Carmen de
Lavallade and Janet Leigh; and East Coast newswomen Judy Licht and Marjorie
Margolies.
Derickson, a TWA employee, last summer played a heroine's role in the Beirut
plane hijacking incident. A native of Czechoslovakia, she came to America in
1967.
Phyllis George, named to the top 10 in 1981 for helping abused women and
children while she was the first lady of Kentucky, will make the official
presentations Tuesday.
TERMS: NAMELIST; AWARD; PARENT; WOMAN
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52ND STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format.
Copyright 1982 Time Inc. All Rights Reserved
People
June 14, 1982
SECTION: SPLIT; Pg. 88
LENGTH: 749 words
HEADLINE: MINUS 30 POUNDS AND A HUSBAND, GOLFER NANCY LOPEZ CARRIES A LIGHTER
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BODY:
A chubby charmer with a formidable swing, Nancy Lopez joined the Ladies'
Professional Golf Association tour in 1977 and the next year won nine
tournaments, $189, 000 and a mass of fans who came to be known as "Nancy's Navy"
- her answer to Arnie's Army. Then one day while Lopez was playing in Hershey,
Pa., a handsome Harrisburg sportscaster named Tim Melton broke through the crowd
to interview her.
The attraction was immediate, and they married six months later on Nancy's
22nd birthday. "Everyone thinks my life is perfect," says Nancy, now 25, but it
clearly hasn't been. Last January Nancy moved out of the couple's Houston home,
and recently she filed for divorce. "Tim is a good, Christian man," she notes.
"We're just opposites, and I didn't realize it until this past year. When I met
him I was concerned about finding someone who respected me and wasn't interested
in my money. Now I see there are other things in a marriage."
Although Lopez has won only one tournament 50 far this year, she doesn't
blame her failed marriage. "When I'm on the golf course I'm in another world,"
she insists. "I really concentrate," Rather, she says, golf handicapped her
marriage. "I always said I'd quit the game and have children when I made the
Hall of Fame [she hasn't yet]. But I knew Tim didn't want me to wait too long.
Also, I wanted to play exhibitions for charities, but he thought I should spend
that time with him." When she marries again, she says, "I'll find someone who
understands that for now, my career has to come first."
That may not be difficult. Since the breakup her gallery has swelled with
male fans. But she credits this to a 30-pound weight loss, not her divorce.
"When I was fat I had a lot of people watching me because of the way I played.
Now I'm getting a lot more gentlemen. It's a real ego builder." One
particularly visible candidate for Lopez's affection has been Houston Astros
third baseman Ray Knight, a neighbor in Texas who has been spotted in Nancy's
gallery. She's noncommittal: "Ray and I are good friends. I don't know what
will happen after my divorce."
That could be next month. To mark the occasion Nancy plans to buy a white
Cadillac. "I've always wanted one, but I'm afraid if I buy it now I might have
to split it with Tim," she says, aware that Texas 15 a community property state.
A sports reporter for Channel 13, the ABC affiliate in Houston, Melton still
lives in the couple's home and remains insistently loyal to Nancy. "I don't
want the divorce," he confesses. "I love Nancy very much. She was a wonderful
wife."
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Nancy's Catholic upbringing in Roswell, N.Mex. prepared her to be a
traditional bride. "My parents believed that men were supposed to support women
and that women were supposed to take care of men," she remembers. While she was
married, she tried to fulfill that role. "I'd come home at the end of the tour
and cook for Tim and iron his clothes," she says. "I didn't do it because I had
to. I enjoyed it." Now, when Nancy returns to Houston to pick up clothes or
talk to her lawyer, she stays in a motel. "People look at me in a curious way,"
she notes. "I know when I got married it was very special for a lot of my fans.
I hope that the divorce won't anger them."
The end of her marriage dovetailed with her new devotion to physical health. A
longtime junk-food addict (Big Macs and french fries were favorites), Nancy had
ballooned to 161 pounds last November. That's when she entered the Palm-Aire
health spa in Pompano Beach, Fla. for a total overhaul. "The spa changed my
attitude about eating and exercising," says Nancy, who at 5'4 1/2" now weighs
130 pounds and follows a daily regimen of stretch exercises. The weight loss,
she thinks, has even helped her game. "Last year I had a lot of wrist and
shoulder injuries," she says. "I think when you're overweight, your body just
goes berserk."
Despite her newly svelte shape and single status, Nancy still doesn't like to
go out much. As she puts it: "I don't mind staying in my hotel and ordering
room service." Last month, though, Nancy took three weeks off from the tour to
visit a girlfriend in La Grange, III. There she played golf at the local
country club and watched her favorite television shows -- Dallas, Magnum, P.I.
and Quincy. One night she went to a disco, but none of the men recognized her.
"They often don't," she says with a smile as wide as the fairway, "without my
visor."
GRAPHIC: Picture, "I'll keep my own name if I marry again," says Lopez. She
became Nancy Lopez -Melton after her storybook wedding. UPI; Photograph 1, no
caption; Photograph 2, Since her separation, Nancy (teeing off in Corning, N.Y.)
says, "My fans look at me more and I see curiosity in their faces." Photographs
1 and 2, by Ken Regan/Camera 5
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
FLO HYMAN AWARD CEREMONY
ROSE GARDEN
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1992
Thanks for that warm welcome -- I should be the one
welcoming you. Welcome to the White House and to the Rose
Garden.
[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS]
In recent years, there have been a lot of changes in the
world. Among those dramatic changes is the American attitude
toward women in athletic competition.
And, behind that change is the Women's Sports Foundation
your commitment to change has caused a revolution that is
spreading throughout every town and community in our nation.
There was a time -- not too long ago, when girls sat on the
sidelines. But, today's women know that exercise and physical
fitness are necessary for good health
that participation in
sports is for everyone
that success in athletic competition
rewards those who push themselves
those willing to work hard
and pay the price.
2
Flo Hyman was once asked whether her coach Dr. Arie Selinger
was too tough
if he had too many practices. "Only one
practice a day, " Flo said
every day
all day.
Flo added
that back then
many women were unwilling to pay such a
high price to play on an Olympic team.
Today, we see that attitude changing.
A lot of women are experiencing what Flo Hyman, herself,
described. Volleyball, said Flo, went from being a social outlet
to serious competition. At some point the sport became a "matter
of achievement, a matter of accomplishment, a matter of something
well-done." When that happened, Flo added -- "That's when you
get personal satisfaction."
With the Women's Sports Foundation leading the way
more
and more young girls and women are experiencing the personal
benefit of involvement in sports.
And, many today, like Flo, are finding the personal
satisfaction of outstanding achievement in their sport.
The Flo Hyman award is one of the highest honors a female
athlete in the United States can receive. A winner must
exemplify outstanding achievement in her sport.
3
She also must have a record of outstanding service to
women's sports
She has to have played a significant role in
increasing opportunities for girls and women in sports.
Today, we are here to present the 1992 Flo Hyman Award. In
its 6th year, this prestigious award goes to golfing great --
Nancy Lopez.
Bob Hope said, "If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play
it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. "
Those of us who have watched Nancy's career, have seen
professionalism at its best. Her life is characterized by
dignity, spirit and commitment to excellence.
We have seen these qualities through an astounding 44 career
victories
in 1976 when she won nine tournaments -- including
a record-setting five in a row.
We cheered each new honor -- Rookie of the Year
Rolex
Player of the Year
Vare Trophy
induction into the PGA
World Golf Hall of Fame
and most recently -- winning the Sara
Lee Classic tournament.
But, even more importantly.
4
We have seen Nancy give the gift of opportunity to others.
She has raised more than $2 million as National Ambassador for
AIM -- Adventures in Movement for the Handicapped.
We have seen Nancy serve with distinction on the advisory
commission which is helping to implement my 1990 executive order
to improve education for Hispanic-Americans.
Columnist James Reston called golf
a "devilish pastime." "
He once said
in jest
that it was easier to end the cold
war or stamp out poverty than to master golf.
Well, we all know better. But
I do admire Nancy Lopez
for mastering this devilish pastime.
And, I admire her courage and grace. She is a role model
for young women across the nation and an inspiration to us all.
Nancy joins other Flo Hyman winners
all of them are
synonymous with excellence in U.S. Women's athletics: Martina
Navratilova
Evelyn Ashford
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Chris Evert
and Diana Golden.
Each of these six Flo Hyman Award winners follows in Flo's
footsteps.
5
Flo was an Olympic volleyball star
her team won a silver
medal in the 1984 games. Flo was an extraordinary athlete
she was charismatic
she had great skill
and she had soul.
People still talk about Flo Hyman's passion for the game
her commitment to be her best. And, years from now, people will
still be talking about Nancy Lopez
her character
her
personality
and her achievements.
Thank you WSF, for honoring Flo Hyman
for preserving her
legacy in women's sports.
Thank you for honoring Nancy Lopez
as a role model for
future generations of women athletes in America.
I am grateful for your work, and I am committed to
continuing support of your efforts.
Now, let's take a few questions. But afterwards
Nancy,
I've got my clubs handy
just in case you're willing to give
me some pointers. I want to beat Dan Quayle the next time we
play.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
02 JUN 22 P7:13
SCHEDULE PROPOSAL
June 17, 1992
TO:
KATHY SUPER, DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULING
DAVID DEMAREST $200 ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
THROUGH:
COMMUNICATIONS
FROM:
CECE KREMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
AND DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF PUBLIC LIAISON
Ang
CLAYTON FONG, DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR PUBLIC LIAISON
PROJECT OFFICER: JIM SCHAEFER ja ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF PUBLIC
LIAISON
REQUEST:
To have the President present the Flo Hyman Award
sponsored by the Women's Sports Foundation
PURPOSE:
To honor champion golfer Nancy Lopez, the winner
of the 1992 Flo Hyman Award
BACKGROUND:
The Flo Hyman Award is given annually to a female
athlete who demonstrates dignity, spirit and
commitment to excellence.
This year's award recipient, Nancy Lopez, was
inducted into the Ladies' Professional Golf
Association Hall of Fame in 1987. She had
accumulated 44 victories in her professional career.
She was previously named Rolex Player of the Year
and Rookie of the Year among others. In 1991, she
won the Sara Lee Classic.
PREVIOUS
PARTICIPATION:
The President had presented the award to previous
winners including Chris Evert, Evelyn Ashford, and
Diana Golden.
DATE AND TIME:
Late July; mid-morning
DURATION:
15 minutes
LOCATION:
Rose Garden
& $
PARTICIPANTS:
The President
Nancy Lopez and her guests
Representatives from the Women's Sports Foundation
SEQUENCE OF
EVENTS:
-- The President enters the Rose Garden.
-- The President greets Nancy Lopez and guests.
-- The President and Nancy Lopez pose for a photo
session
-- The President departs.
REMARKS:
None
MEDIA COVERAGE:
Open Press