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Morristown Magazine 37 education. “I entered college in 1972 and that’s the year that it came into to law,” she said. Alexander said the previous weekend she’d been back to her college to celebrate 50 years of Title IX, a gathering of Alumni women athletes where they were presented with the athletic let- ters, they hadn’t been given 50 years earlier. “I think all those memories were rushing into my head,” she said. After college, Alexander worked as graduate assistant in Women’s Athletics at Temple Uni- versity before becoming Assistant Women’s Ath- letic Director and then Women’s Athletic Direc- tor, earning her master’s degree and doctorate from the school. She went on to an extensive ca- reer in YWCA National office. She also served on the Olympic and Pan-American Sports Advisory Council, the United States Olympic Committee Board of Directors, and was president of the Ar- thur Ashe Foundation. In 1992, Alexander co-founded the Black Wo- men in Sport Foundation with Tina Sloan Green, Nikki Franke, and Linda Greene – the organiza- tion which would later serve as consultant for the very National Archives exhibit, she was touring. Alexander hadn’t been able to go to the exhi- bit’s opening, but the Archives helped arrange the private tour for Alexander, some friends and board members of the foundation. Following the sports exhibit and a display of the 1297 Magna Carta, it was up to the Rotun- da to see the nation’s founding documents as After attending a high school that did not offer women’s sports, Alexander played four varisty sports - including volleyball at the Colleg of Wooser.