{"id":728,"date":"2013-12-04T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/?p=728"},"modified":"2020-12-16T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T16:01:19","slug":"resourceful-students-skiing-at-the-pentacrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2013\/12\/04\/resourceful-students-skiing-at-the-pentacrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Resourceful students skiing at the Pentacrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/ski1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-729\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/ski1.gif\" alt=\"ski1\" width=\"432\" height=\"589\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/ski3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-731\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/ski3.jpg\" alt=\"ski3\" width=\"432\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/ski3.jpg 432w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/ski3-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/ski2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-730\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/ski2.jpg\" alt=\"ski2\" width=\"432\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/ski2.jpg 432w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/ski2-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/ski4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-732\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/ski4.gif\" alt=\"ski4\" width=\"432\" height=\"287\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s History Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p>Iowa City isn\u2019t exactly prime skiing country, but these resourceful UI students circa 1930s-1940s made do by repurposing the Pentacrest\u2019s west hill in the heart of campus for their winter sports. (Not recommended these days, unless you don\u2019t mind crash-landing into four lanes of traffic.)<\/p>\n<p>Female students at the University of Iowa have a well-established history of physical fitness; the Department of Physical Education for Women, founded in 1924, was a pioneer in the field\u2019s development of graduate study and professional training opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/islandora\/object\/ui%3Awpe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iowa Digital Library: UI Physical Education for Women<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/ictcs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iowa Digital Library: Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>*This post is duplicated from the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowawomensarchives.tumblr.com\/post\/68982280370\/womens-history-wednesday-iowa-city-isnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iowa Women&#8217;s Archives Tumblr<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Women\u2019s History Wednesday: Iowa City isn\u2019t exactly prime skiing country, but these resourceful UI students circa 1930s-1940s made do by repurposing the Pentacrest\u2019s west hill in the heart of campus for their winter sports. (Not recommended these days, unless you don\u2019t mind crash-landing into four lanes of traffic.) Female students at the University of<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2013\/12\/04\/resourceful-students-skiing-at-the-pentacrest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Resourceful students skiing at the Pentacrest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68,230,236],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}