Tonight's Topic: "Rolling With Joanie Weston"
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Joan is better known as the "... gum-chewing, power-skating, hip-bumping golden girl of Roller Derby".
Adolescent LW remembers spending many a Saturday afternoon during the '60s and '70s watching the Roller Derby TV broadcasts (in B&W and Color!).
During her 19 seasons, the blonde, athletic, and (did I mention?) buxom Californian Weston was known to her fans as the premiere "Roller Derby Queen"!
So, accodingly, how much do you know about the "golden girl of Roller Derby", Joanie Weston?
Please choose from any of the 3 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B", or "C" (if applicable!) for each question listed below.
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++ "Rolling With Joanie Weston" ++
A. She would receive the College's Softball equivalent of the St. Christopher's Medallion -- since the balls she hit traveled so far, or
B. She would be excommunicated on the spot, as a gesture of sportsmanship and Christian compassion for the other team, or
C. She would have to go chase down the balls she hit after the game, or pay $1.99 for replacement softballs.
Question #2: Besides being known as the "Roller Derby Queen", Joan had other nicknames. Which of the following is NOT one of these nicknames?
A. the "Blonde Bomber", or
B. the "Blonde Bambino", or
C. the "Blonde Amazon"
Question #3: Joan finally succumbed to the brain disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). Although this terrible disease is rare in humans, a non-human variant of this disease commonly occurs in other animals, even leading sometimes to large disease outbreaks. What is it called?
A. Ross River Virus Disease (RRVD) -- also called "Oh Bugger!", or
B. Foot-and-Mouth Disease (HFMD) -- also called "Hoof-and-Mouth Disease", or
C. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) -- also called “Mad Cow Disease”
Joanie
Weston, a strapping power hitter who passed up a promising
and respectable future in softball to become the
gum-chewing, power-skating, hip-bumping golden girl of Roller Derby,
died on May 10 at her home in Hayward, Calif., near San Francisco.
She was 62 and skated in an exhibition game only last year.
Her husband, Nick Scopas, said the cause was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain disorder.
Miss Weston may not have been the most accomplished athlete of her generation, but there surely were not many others who hit eight home runs in a single college softball game.
Q1: Miss Weston did just that at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles, and in fact was perfectly prepared to keep on going. But, she liked to recall, the nuns, in a gesture of sublime sportsmanship and Christian compassion for the team's hapless junior college opponents, told her that if she hit a ninth one out of the park, they would excommunicate her on the spot.
....
It was a prescription that made Roller Derby a national television rage in the 1950's and filled Madison Square Garden and other arenas as late as the mid-1970's.
Q2: During her 19 seasons, Miss Weston, known variously as the Blond Bomber, the Blond Amazon and the Roller Derby Queen, was a premier attraction.
Still, if there were no major leagues for women, there was Roller Derby, and from the time she attended a tryout in Los Angeles when she was still a teen-ager, she was hooked by the sport.
....
As she was painfully aware, Roller Derby was a spectacle forever struggling to be a sport.
But in an event whose whooping fans reserved their loudest whoops for the skaters with the prettiest faces, the blondest hair and the most buxom figures, at least Miss Weston was as pretty as they come, her hair was longer and bleached blonder than anybody else's, and, at 5 feet 10 inches and 165 pounds, she had the perfect Roller Derby build.
It was a build that seemed designed to bounce an opponent on her bottom, and Miss Weston could easily hold her own in the hair-pulling, face-slapping, roll-around brawls that became one of Roller Derby's most crowd-pleasing attractions.
For all that, Miss Weston, who skated pivot, a position that allowed her to be a sprinting jammer in one 60-second jam and a blocker the next, approached Roller Derby as a consummate professional.
She spent untold hours practicing and perfecting the meticulous combinations of strides and body moves for each phase of the game.
Sport or spectacle, Roller Derby was undeniably rough, and Miss Weston had the false teeth to prove it.
In one memorable game, she once recalled, she got into such a vigorous quarrel with a referee that two of the teeth flew out of her mouth, barely missing the ref's ear.
''I don't mind you yelling,'' the startled official said, ''but don't send your teeth out to bite me.''
[SOURCE: NY Times: Joanie Weston, 62, a Big Star In the World of Roller Derbies (May 18, 1997)]
Q3: CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Classic)
Classic CJD is a human prion disease.
It is a neurodegenerative disorder with characteristic clinical and diagnostic features.
his disease is rapidly progressive and always fatal. Infection with this disease leads to death usually within 1 year of onset of illness.
Important Note: Classic CJD is not related to "mad cow" disease.
Classic CJD also is distinct from "variant CJD", another prion disease that is related to BSE.
For information about these diseases, see:
"Mad cow" disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE)
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD)(below)[SOURCE: CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Classic)]
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vCJD (Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)
First described in 1996 in the United Kingdom, variant CJD is a rare, degenerative, fatal brain disorder in humans.
It is believed to be caused by consumption of products from cows with the disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow" disease).
Worldwide, more than 220 variant CJD patients have been reported, with a majority of them in the United Kingdom (177 cases) and France (27 cases).
A classic form of CJD, (see above) which is not caused by the BSE agent, occurs worldwide, including in the United States.
Annually, for every 1 million people in the United States, 1 to 2 develops classic CJD.
More information about variant CJD, including how it differs from classic CJD, is available in the Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Fact Sheet.
[SOURCE: vCJD (Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)]
She was 62 and skated in an exhibition game only last year.
Her husband, Nick Scopas, said the cause was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain disorder.
Miss Weston may not have been the most accomplished athlete of her generation, but there surely were not many others who hit eight home runs in a single college softball game.
Q1: Miss Weston did just that at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles, and in fact was perfectly prepared to keep on going. But, she liked to recall, the nuns, in a gesture of sublime sportsmanship and Christian compassion for the team's hapless junior college opponents, told her that if she hit a ninth one out of the park, they would excommunicate her on the spot.
....
It was a prescription that made Roller Derby a national television rage in the 1950's and filled Madison Square Garden and other arenas as late as the mid-1970's.
Q2: During her 19 seasons, Miss Weston, known variously as the Blond Bomber, the Blond Amazon and the Roller Derby Queen, was a premier attraction.
Still, if there were no major leagues for women, there was Roller Derby, and from the time she attended a tryout in Los Angeles when she was still a teen-ager, she was hooked by the sport.
....
As she was painfully aware, Roller Derby was a spectacle forever struggling to be a sport.
But in an event whose whooping fans reserved their loudest whoops for the skaters with the prettiest faces, the blondest hair and the most buxom figures, at least Miss Weston was as pretty as they come, her hair was longer and bleached blonder than anybody else's, and, at 5 feet 10 inches and 165 pounds, she had the perfect Roller Derby build.
It was a build that seemed designed to bounce an opponent on her bottom, and Miss Weston could easily hold her own in the hair-pulling, face-slapping, roll-around brawls that became one of Roller Derby's most crowd-pleasing attractions.
For all that, Miss Weston, who skated pivot, a position that allowed her to be a sprinting jammer in one 60-second jam and a blocker the next, approached Roller Derby as a consummate professional.
She spent untold hours practicing and perfecting the meticulous combinations of strides and body moves for each phase of the game.
Sport or spectacle, Roller Derby was undeniably rough, and Miss Weston had the false teeth to prove it.
In one memorable game, she once recalled, she got into such a vigorous quarrel with a referee that two of the teeth flew out of her mouth, barely missing the ref's ear.
''I don't mind you yelling,'' the startled official said, ''but don't send your teeth out to bite me.''
[SOURCE: NY Times: Joanie Weston, 62, a Big Star In the World of Roller Derbies (May 18, 1997)]
Q3: CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Classic)
Classic CJD is a human prion disease.
It is a neurodegenerative disorder with characteristic clinical and diagnostic features.
his disease is rapidly progressive and always fatal. Infection with this disease leads to death usually within 1 year of onset of illness.
Important Note: Classic CJD is not related to "mad cow" disease.
Classic CJD also is distinct from "variant CJD", another prion disease that is related to BSE.
For information about these diseases, see:
"Mad cow" disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE)
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD)(below)[SOURCE: CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Classic)]
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vCJD (Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)
First described in 1996 in the United Kingdom, variant CJD is a rare, degenerative, fatal brain disorder in humans.
It is believed to be caused by consumption of products from cows with the disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow" disease).
Worldwide, more than 220 variant CJD patients have been reported, with a majority of them in the United Kingdom (177 cases) and France (27 cases).
A classic form of CJD, (see above) which is not caused by the BSE agent, occurs worldwide, including in the United States.
Annually, for every 1 million people in the United States, 1 to 2 develops classic CJD.
More information about variant CJD, including how it differs from classic CJD, is available in the Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Fact Sheet.
[SOURCE: vCJD (Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)]
Other interesting
references:
JOAN WESTON (1935 – 1997) Roller Derby Queen FORGOTTEN NEWSMAKERS
Derby Memoirs A Tribute To Roller Derby History - Memorials - Joan Weston
Joan Weston, queen of the Roller Derby
"Deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease"
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (Lots and lots of CJD info!!!)
=================JOAN WESTON (1935 – 1997) Roller Derby Queen FORGOTTEN NEWSMAKERS
Derby Memoirs A Tribute To Roller Derby History - Memorials - Joan Weston
Joan Weston, queen of the Roller Derby
"Deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease"
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (Lots and lots of CJD info!!!)
++ QUOTE OF THE DAY ++ -- When Joanie asked what her mother thought about Roller Derby, Joanie's mother said they were no different than anybody else:
“People and sex are like franks and beans,” she said. “They go together.”
[SOURCE: JOAN WESTON (1935 – 1997) Roller Derby Queen FORGOTTEN NEWSMAKERS]
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