Anne Harwick
{{short description|American athlete}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Anne Harwick
| image = AnneHarwick1922.png
| alt = A young white woman with short dark hair, wearing a white middy blouse with short dark skirt or bloomers, and dark tights, with flat athletic shoes
| caption = Anne Harwick, from a 1922 publication
| birth_name = Anne Louise Harwick
| birth_date = May 13, 1899
| birth_place = Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
| death_date = April 25, 1974 (aged 74)
| death_place = Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
| other_names =
| occupation = Athlete, social worker, writer
| years_active =
| known_for = 1922 Women's World Games
| notable_works =
| spouse(s) =
| relatives =
}}
Anne Louise Harwick (May 13, 1899Birthdate, birthplace, and parents' names from Harwick's 1922 passport application, via Ancestry. However, her gravestone gives her birth year as 1896. and she gave her birthdate as "May 13, 1900" in a 1968 interview. – April 25, 1974) was an American athlete from Florida, who competed at the 1922 Women's World Games. She won a silver medal in the baseball throw event.{{Cite news |date=1922-09-14 |title=Florida Girl Winner in Paris |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-journal-florida-girl-winner-in-par/152001678/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=Press Journal |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Early life and education
Harwick was born in Jacksonville{{Cite news |last=Loving |first=Boyce |date=1968-09-05 |title=Ex-Athlete Became Battler Once Again |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-progress-ex-athlete-became-bat/152002119/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Daily Progress |pages=2 |via=Newspapers.com}} and lived in Miami, the daughter of William Henry Harwick and Ellen Theresa Perry Harwick. She graduated from the Florida State College for Women in 1922. She was a star athlete in multiple college sports, including tennis, baseball, basketball, running, shotput, and javelin.{{Cite news |date=1922-07-08 |title=Anne Harwick Has Been Star Athlete at School |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-anne-harwick-has-been/151997104/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Tampa Tribune |via=Newspapers.com |pages=10}} In 1952, she earned a master's degree in social work from Tulane University.{{Cite web |date=April 11, 2019 |title=The Way It Was: 'Possum Trot' author |url=https://bakercountypress.com/2019/04/the-way-it-was-possum-trot-author/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=The Baker County Press |language=en-US}}
Career
= Sports =
At trials in Mamaroneck, New York, Harwick broke a world record in javelin throw,{{Cite news |date=1922-05-14 |title=Anne Harwick Second But Also Breaks Old Mark |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-anne-harwick-second-bu/151998895/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Tampa Tribune |pages=12 |via=Newspapers.com}} and qualified for the United States team for the 1922 Women's World Games in Paris.{{Cite news |date=1922-05-23 |title=Miami Girl to be in International Meet in Paris in August |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-news-miami-girl-to-be-in-inter/151998498/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Miami News|via=Newspapers.com |pages=13}} Katherine Montgomery, physical education instructor at Florida State College for Women, helped her raise funds to attend the event.{{Cite news |date=1922-08-11 |title=Part Harwick Fund Lacking; Must raise $156.33 to Clear Expense of Sending Woman Athlete |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-part-harwick-fund-lack/151996623/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Tampa Tribune |via=Newspapers.com|pages=9}} "It will be interesting to many to learn that Miss Harwick is left handed," reported a 1922 newspaper, "but says that she is bringing her right hand up to the left hand in strength, and that she feels she will not be handicapped on account of being left handed." (At the time, javelin and shotput scores were based on athletes' best throw with both hands.)
Although she expected to compete in the javelin event,{{Cite news |date=1922-07-16 |title=Olympic Girls |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-olympic-girls/152001591/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=Chicago Tribune |pages=43 |via=Newspapers.com}} she suffered an injury in training, and had to withdraw from that competition.{{Cite news |date=1922-10-01 |title=Miss Anne Harwick Addresses Students |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-miss-anne-harwick-addr/152001496/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Tampa Tribune |pages=21 |via=Newspapers.com}} Instead, she ran in the 300-meter race, and won a silver medal in the baseball throw, an exhibition event.{{Cite news |date=1922-09-15 |title=Miss Anne Harwick Returns from Paris Athletic Meet |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald-miss-anne-harwick-retur/151997954/ |via=Newspapers.com|access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Miami Herald |pages=6}}{{Cite web |last=Joanos |first=Him |date=July 2012 |title=Stars of Yesterday: Anne Harwick |url=https://www.nolefan.org/garnet/seminole73.html |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=Wakulla Area Times}}
In fall 1922, Harwick became assistant athletic director at Oaksmere, a school for girls run by Winifred Edgerton Merrill in Mamaroneck. In 1924, she was Florida state champion in women's tennis. and in 1930, she was runner-up.{{Cite news |date=1931-12-25 |title=Pairings Made for State Tennis Championships |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-news-pairings-made-for-state-t/152002604/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Miami News |pages=9 |via=Newspapers.com}}
= Later work =
Harwick's post-sports career was in various jobs, including real estate and secretarial positions, social work and writing. She was director of social services at the University of Alabama Medical Center in the 1940s and 1950s,{{Cite news |date=1945-10-12 |title=Social Worker Questions Efficacy of Employment Bill |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-birmingham-news-social-worker-questi/152003127/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Birmingham News |pages=22 |via=Newspapers.com}} and a medical social worker at Blue Ridge Sanatorium in Charlottesville, Virginia, from 1952 to 1966.{{Cite news |date=1954-01-27 |title=Education and Rehabilitation Program at Blue Ridge Sanatorium is Valuable Help |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-progress-education-and-rehabil/152002774/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Daily Progress |pages=5 |via=Newspapers.com}} Harwick wrote a sports column for a Florida newspaper, and wrote a novel set in Jacksonville,{{Cite book |last=McCarthy |first=Kevin M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H4xcm2ifQLQC&dq=%22Anne+L.+Harwick%22&pg=PA46 |title=The Book Lover's Guide to Florida |date=1992 |publisher=Pineapple Press Inc |isbn=978-1-56164-021-8 |pages=46 |language=en}} Possum Trot (1968). She also patented a physical therapy device for hand and arm rehabilitation.
Personal life
Harwick was briefly married in the 1930s. She died in 1974, at the age of 74, at a hospital in Charlottesville.{{Cite news |date=1974-04-27 |title=Miss Anne L. Harwick |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-progress-miss-anne-l-harwick/152002984/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Daily Progress |pages=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}
References
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External links
- [https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:8226 A photograph of Harwick with her javelin], from Florida State University Digital Library
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Category:American female track and field athletes
Category:Florida State University alumni
Category:Track and field athletes from Jacksonville, Florida
Category:American social workers