![Women at one of the Old Maid’s events including two of the oldest ladies, sisters May and Julia Marshall of Strawn on the right. In 1954 two prizes were given out to the oldest (Miss May Marshall, 79) and the one from the greatest distance (Miss Lily Gulvady from India, not pictured).](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20160511011859im_/http://blogs.library.unt.edu/unt125/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/OMD-audience-c1951sm.jpg)
A group of women in Denton started Old Maid’s Day in 1950 to get “recognition, not menfolks.” It all began when Miss Dorothy Babb, a Latin and English teacher at North Texas State College (NTSC, now the University of North Texas) was tired of buying gifts for weddings, Mother’s Day, and baby showers. She complained… Read more »