Carol Heiss Jenkins re ticker-tape parade in 1960

[ice coverage]

Carol Heiss Jenkins is about to be interviewed on CNN re her ticker-tape parade.

Some recent articles have mentioned/quoted her in the context of the 2015 USA WNT that won soccer's World Cup.

But I believe CNN will be her first TV interview (at present) on her place in the history of NYC ticker-tape parades.
(The parade for her was the only one solely for a female athlete. Photo: https://instagram.com/p/49l3H_m38S/.

ETA, correction: It was not the only one -- it was the most recent one.)​

ETA:

The interview was short, but it was great to see CHJ recognized. She looked and sounded terrific.

The letter from CHJ to the WNT and the article about her on the US Soccer site:

http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2015/07/09/20/51/150709-wnt-heiss-reflects-on-parade

http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2015/07/09/21/15/150709-wnt-heiss-jenkins-letter​

IN and the WSJ also have published articles about CHJ leading up to today's parade.​

 

[ice coverage]

Transcript excerpts from the CNN interview.
CHJ was a guest along with Michelle Akers, who was on the American teams that won the World Cup in 1991 and 1999.
The interviewer was CNN's Brooke Baldwin.

... Carol Jenkins is joining me from Cleveland. Also with me, 1991 and 1999 World Cup champion, Michelle Akers.
I'm surrounded by some amazing women.

[14:55:] MICHELLE AKERS, WOMENS SOCCER WORLD CUP CHAMPION: Thank you.

CAROL JENKINS, OLYMPIC SKATING GOLD MEDALIST: Thank you so much. And it's an honor for me to be here with Michelle.

BALDWIN: I know.
Carol, I'm beginning with you.
Your legacy continues to be celebrated. You were invited to be at today's parade. So can you tell me about what that parade was like 50 years ago?

JENKINS: Well, it was just magical, unbelievable, awesome. I mean, I just didn't realize it was going to be history making and I didn't realize it was going to be 55 years before they would honor women or a woman with a parade. But it's something that you don't expect. You work so hard and this is the icing on the cake. Because you get the call and you say, oh, wow. Marvelous. Isn't this outstanding?

BALDWIN: But really at the time, Carol, you didn't think -- you didn't feel it as history in the making and you thought another woman would be honored soon after you?

JENKINS: Oh, sure. I mean, I never dreamed that it would be history making. And I was 20 years old. You know, it's like, oh, this is wonderful, this is marvelous. I'm going to take it all in and it's going to be a wonderful memory for me. And that was it.

BALDWIN: ... This is the first female team, Michelle, and the decision for the mayor and the city to do this for these ladies. I mean, does it feel like a celebration for women's soccer or does it really feel overdue for you?

AKERS: Well, first of all, Carol, wow. Good for you. But it is shocking that you were the first and that's -- you were the only one until now. ....

BALDWIN: Carol, to you. Why do you think so few women have been honored this way?

JENKINS: You know, that's a complex question to answer. But I think it's just -- we have to come to the forefront and I think having this team have this parade -- by the way, I'm so proud of my city, New York City to do it, that now I believe you will see more and more. You know, it's -- since Title 9, my daughter was involved in soccer and it was pickup team and a title 9 team. And this puts it to the forefront and I think the U.S. soccer with their wonderful logo, "She believes," now not just for young women and young girls but I think for boys. But they can dream about wanting to have a goal, to be in a sport and to do something. And then when you write it down, -- take that dream, write it down on a piece of paper, it becomes a goal.

And I think having all of this publicity with it and for the world to see it, much less all of the United States, it gives us all a belief that we can, you know, have a dream come true if we work and we're determined and persevere.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/10/cnr.06.html
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/10/cnr.07.html​

 

[Mathman]

My first skating crush.

Carol's 1960 parade was shown briefly on the regular NBC nightly news this evening, during the coverage of the soccer parade.

 

[iluvtodd]

Great interview! Thanks for sharing it!