Anna Hiss was an instructor of physical education at The University of Texas at Austin from 1918 until her retirement in 1957. She revolutionized the role of women’s athletics in Texas through her leadership in the Women’s Athletic Association (later named the University of Texas Sports Association), the University’s intramural and club sports, the completion of a groundbreaking athletic facility, and her overall attitude towards female athletics. The Anna Hiss Collection is comprised of papers, photographs, and scrapbooks documenting the work of Anna Hiss and the history of women’s athletics at the University of Texas at Austin, primarily between the 1920s and 1960s. The collection also includes records related to the Physical Education Majors Club, the Campus League of Women Voters, and Rosemary “Rosie” Slacks who pushed to save the Anna Hiss Gym from demolition in the 1990s.

• Anna Hiss Collection, 1922-2005, undated
  

Photographs from the Anna Hiss Collection

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