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November 2007
BONNIE PRUDDEN
receives
The President’s
Council Lifetime Achievement Award
Presented by the
President’s Council
on Physical Fitness
and Sports
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Tucson Myotherapy
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Bonnie Prudden:
The First Lady of
Fitness Fashion
You’re never too old to ward off pain, 91-year old fitness expert says
Bonnie Prudden Develops Exercise Program
Women's Climbing Group Forms National Network
Myotherapy is designed to ease pain in muscles
Catching Up With...
Bonnie Prudden,
Fitness Pioneer
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BONNIE TO
DONATE ARTIFACTS TO
THE SMITHSONIAN
It is not every day that someone receives a call from the
Smithsonian Institution….but that is exactly what happened on Tuesday,
October 1st at 3:00 pm Arizona time.
We received a call from Petra Beoncheff. It was Petra who
wrote the article “Bonnie Prudden: The First lady of Fitness Fashion” (see
our website home page if you haven’t already read it) which appeared in
the April issue of the local Tucson Desert Leaf. Apparently someone at the
Smithsonian saw the article, called Petra and then called Bonnie to ask if
she would donate some of her artifacts.
In an email received from Ellen Hughes, curator of sports
and fitness history: “I am still amazed and delighted that this
opportunity came up to talk to and collect material from the great pioneer
of fitness, Bonnie Prudden. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American
History is a wonderful repository of American’s treasures so to be able to
include the artifacts and documents of someone who has had such an impact
on American’s physical fitness movement is absolutely terrific. I hope you
will agree.”
The Smithsonian is not only a museum but a research
institute as well. They are interested in the following: fitness clothing
that Bonnie has designed and worn like the red one on the front of HOW TO
KEEP SLENDER AND FIT AFTER THIRTY book; equipment that Bonnie has designed
and/or endorsed such as the Picas, The Prudden-Porter Gymster and the
design of the Outdoor Obstacle Course with the first climbing wall at the
Physical Fitness Institute in White Plains, NY; clippings, Kraus-Weber
research papers, letters from Eisenhower, Nixon and other notables, DVDs
of her TV syndicated Bonnie Prudden Show and so on. They are also
interested in coming to Tucson to record an oral history with Bonnie.
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