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=Lillian Coo=

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 * submit WP:DYKN for Lillian Coo
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 * DYK ... that Lillian Coo ...?
 * Comment: I volunteer two QPQ credits for one nomination, to help reduce the backlog of nominations without reviews.


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Infobox and introduction
Lillian Charlotte Coo (November 18, 1914 –February 14, 2005) was a Canadian journalist and sports executive. Also credited as Jimmy Coo.


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Research

 * Lillian "Jimmy" Coo was born in Winnipeg, Manitona, on November 28, 1914, daughter of Abbie Coo and Lillian Margaret Delaney, she was a noted sprinter while a student at Wesley College in the 1930s. After graduation, she began writing a column for the Winnipeg Free Press called "Cherchez la Femme" which covered the local women's sports scene. The column ran from 1937 to 1942, during which she was an executive member of the North End Amateur Athletic Club, Winnipeg Women's Softball League, Manitoba branch of the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada, and Winnipeg branch of the Canadian Women's Press Club. In 1942, she enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force (Women's Division) and served as a flight officer based at Ottawa, Ontario, for the duration of World War II. She resumed her column from 1946 to 1947 before moving to Washington, D.C., to work for the Canadian Department of External Affairs. After a decade there, she married and moved to South Africa where she died at Scottburgh on February 14, 2005.


 * Born Lillian Charlotte Coo, to parents Albert Ernest Horseman Coo and Lillian Gertrude Margaret Delaney. Also wrote as Jimmy Coo. Married to Leslie Price on January 17, 1959, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Died on February 14, 2005, in Scottburgh, South Africa. continued


 * Lillian Coo (Class of ’36) participated in the inter-class track meets throughout her university tenure (and became a women’s sportswriter for the Winnipeg Free Press in the 1940s) – Vox, the Wesley College newsletter, talks about her participation in December 1932 (p.34), as well as various other inter-class and inter-faculty sports.A History of Sports at the University of Winnipeg: Intramurals and Recreation

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https://vancouversun.com/news/equality-in-sports-women-arent-there-yet/wcm/c60e6be1-0e91-43fe-b65c-14c712e3e98d/amp/

http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/equality+sports+women+aren+there/4368587/story.html (search newspapers.com?)

https://books.google.ca/books?id=9sU6DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA322&lpg=PA322&dq=%22Lillian+Coo%22&source=bl&ots=pcFWOFK1AR&sig=ACfU3U1iMHh0ky6GMqyd_Gb9AMhpv0o7Lg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjs_oLPguT1AhUcjYkEHTCtCHgQ6AF6BAgfEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Lillian%20Coo%22&f=false (legacy of her writing)

https://books.google.ca/books?id=e0ErDQAAQBAJ&pg=PR24&lpg=PR24&dq=%22Jimmy+Coo%22+journalist&source=bl&ots=UQxVdMzEfm&sig=ACfU3U35Bxq9Qa6KAobI_daxPZpN8d5F0A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4gJL7hOT1AhWgk4kEHeaEADUQ6AF6BAgtEAI#v=onepage&q&f=false