Mary Mazzio '83 will be on campus February 9 to lead a discussion about her documentary. "Mary C. Mazzio' s A Hero for Daisy is such a rush that it should probably have a warning label ... this is a movie that never stops moving." -- Betsey Sherman, Boston Globe
Hero For Daisy, a
documentary film about two-time Olympian Chris Ernst, who galvanized
her rowing team to storm the Yale athletic director's office in 1976
to protest the lack of locker room facilities for the women, will be
shown Wednesday, February 9, in Gamble Auditorium at 7 pm. A
reception and discussion with Mary Mazzio '83, the film's writer and
director and herself a member of the 1992 Olympic rowing team in
Barcelona, Spain, will follow the screening. Mazzio frequently
lectures on issues related to women and competition. The event, which
is being held in honor of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, is
sponsored by Mount Holyoke and Springfield Colleges, with additional
support provided by the MHC Department of Women's Studies and the
Alumnae Association. In front of a New York
Times reporter, Ernst and the other women stripped, exposing the
phrase Title IX (referring to legislation enacted in 1972 mandating
gender equity for all institutions receiving federal aid), which was
written in blue on their bodies. The story was carried by major
international news outlets the following day. The film includes
interviews with illustrious Yale graduate Senator John Kerry;
legendary football coach and former Yale athletic director Carm
Cozza; Dave Vogel, president of the U.S. Rowing Association and
Yale's head rowing coach; a wide array of Yale administrators,
students and graduates; as well as a number of Olympians. After earning her bachelor's
degree from MHC, Mazzio went on to earn a J.D. degree from Georgetown
University Law Center in 1987. She is now an attorney with Brown,
Rudnick, Freed, and Gesmer, where she heads the firm's commercial
leasing practice group. Mazzio was the recipient of the Mary Lyon
Award given by Mount Holyoke for outstanding achievement, as well as
a Rotary Foundation graduate scholarship and a Henry Luce Foundation
Fellowship.
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