Award
Object number2012.109.5
Date1999
MediumGlass
Credit LineGift of Marjorie Mitchell
DescriptionColorless glass award. Triangle piece that fits into a rectangle base. Text etched on the glass.Dimensions7.375 x 2.875 x 9.937 in. (18.7 x 7.3 x 25.2 cm)Inscriptions"WIBC" "Women's International Bowling Congress / JOYCE DEITCH / TRAIL BLAZER AWARD / LOUISE FULTON / MAY 1999"
Historical NotesLouise Fulton was posthumously awarded the Joyce Deitch Trailblazer Award in 1999. The WIBC Joyce Deitch Trailblazer Award recognizes organizations and individuals who have made important contributions to bowling especially women's bowling as leaders and innovators. Fulton, a native of Kingstree, South Carolina, moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the age of seven. She attended Peabody High School and played basketball and softball. Fulton began bowling in her 20s and became the first African-American woman to win a professional bowling championship when she captured the 1964 PWBA Princeton Open in Princeton, NJ. She joined the Professional Women's Bowling Association in the 1960s. She was inducted into many Bowling and Sports Halls of Fame including the Western Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1971, the Pittsburgh Women's Bowling Association Hall of Fame in 1977 and the National Bowling Association Hall of Fame in 1983. After her death in 1988, Fulton was awarded several honors posthumously including induction into the Pennsylvania State Women's Bowling Association Hall of Fame in 1991, The International Women's Bowling Congress Joyce Deitch Trailblazer Award in 1999, and election to the International Women's Bowling Congress Hall of Fame in 2000.
Related person
Louise Fulton
(died 1988)
Related institution
Women's International Bowling Congress
Related person
Joyce Deitch
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