Gender questions began in Cleveland with Olympian Stella Walsh decades ago
by Bill Livingston, Plain Dealer Columnist
Friday August 21, 2009, 7:00 PM
http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2009/08/gender_questions_began_in_clev.htmlThe grave of Stella Walsh (nee Stanislawa Walasiewiczowna) is located near the working-class area where she lived for all but the first three months of her 69 years. She is buried near an area where workers were dumping the damage from the storm.
The site seemed fitting.
Walsh was twice an Olympic medalist in the 1930s while running for her native Poland. Her father moved his family to Cleveland when she was a baby and worked in the steel mills when they gave the sky two sunsets a day.
