Beulah A. Harriss
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N 33° 13.047 W 097° 07.762
14S E 674329 N 3676953
This post-mounted subject marker stands in Quakertown Park, not far from the Denton Civic Center and City Hall.
Waymark Code: WMPVKZ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/25/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
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Marker erected by: Texas Historical Commission

Texas Historical Commission Atlas data:
Marker Title Beulah A. Harriss
Index Entry Harriss, Beulah
City Denton
County Denton
Subject Codes Education, Women
Year Marker Erected 2014

The dedication ceremony was held at 2 p.m. October 25, 2015, at the Denton Civic Center, 321 E. McKinney St. The marker was unveiled in Quakertown Park at the site where the Girl Scout Little House stood from 1929 to 2007. More info here: (visit link)
Marker Number: 18130

Marker Text:
Beulah A. Harriss (1889-1977) moved to Denton in 1914 from Nebraska to become the first women’s physical education teacher at North Texas State Normal College, now University of North Texas (UNT). With a degree from the University of Nebraska in physical education, Harriss coached the university’s first women’s athletic teams and instructed every sport except football. She organized the physical education department in 1918, which grew under her direction, and the green jackets club, whose purpose was to support all activities of the college.

Harriss was a founder in 1923 of the Texas State Physical Education Association (now Texas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance), serving as president in 1933. She was also a founder of the Texas Woman’s Athletic Association in 1924. Established in 1928 at UNT, Harriss was one of twelve charter members of the RHO Chapter of Delta Psi Kappa, a national fraternity for the promotion of interests in the field of physical education. She was named honorary national president in 1960. The first recognized Girl Scout in Texas, Harriss started the first troop at the College in Denton in 1917. She helped build the scout lodge at hills and hollows in South Denton in 1923. Harriss and 12 other professors from the college were charter members of the Denton County Teachers Federal Credit Union in 1936, now DATCU.

After 46 years at UNT as a teacher and women’s athletics activist, Harriss retired in 1960. She was inducted into the North Texas Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987, 10 years after her death. Harriss devoted her life to the youth and citizens of Denton and is remembered each February 27th on Beulah Harriss day. The Girl Scout little house stood near this site.

Marker is Property of the State of Texas (2014)
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