Mary J. Mulvaney

(1927- ) born at Omaha, lived in Lincoln. Educator, administrator, was one of the first women athletic directors of a coed college program in the nation, serving as director of athletics and physical education at the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1990, where she was instrumental in persuading the Division III institution to become the first in the nation to offer student-athletic scholarships to women; was one of the first two women elected to the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics executive committee, and was elected to NACDA Hall of Fame in 1990. Consult UNL Nebraska Alumnus, July/August 1989, p. 30 and UNL Alumni Association's GoodNUz, Spring 1999, p. 8 and Who's Who in America, Vol 2 (2003) 3767.

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