Hall of Fame
Charlotte Waters Mapes ('34)Charlotte Waters Mapes was a three-sport letterwinner during her four years at Rhode Island State College from 1930-34. Nicknamed "Charlie" while attending URI, she starred in hockey, basketball and rifling, a sport for women at the time. A popular student, she was named Best All-Around Athlete and Best All-Around Student as a senior, as well as Most Versatile. She averaged 16.4 points per game, an incredible achievement at the time, under women's basketball coach Winifred Keaney, wife of legendary men's coach Frank Keaney. She was the first Kingston coed to simultaneously hold the presidencies of both the Women's Student Government and Pan-Hellenic Association, the inter-sorority governing council. She served as director of homemaking at the Girl Scouts' school in Providence from 1934-38 and was an agent at-large for extension services for Cornell University. She went on to serve as a Lieutenant in World War II. The Rumford, R.I. native currently resides in Leesburg, Fla. with her husband Sherman Mapes.
