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Frank Hatten and Pauline Betz AddieÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â County Executive Ike Leggett

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Pauline, Billie Jean, and County Executive Ike LeggettÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Councilman Phil Andrews

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New Entraceway Canopy at the Tennis CenterÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â New Signage at the Tennis Center

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Parks Department Staff Who Worked on this EffortÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pauline and Colleen Holt of Parks Dept.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

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Special Cake: cover of 1946 TIME magazineÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Special Cake marking the Facility Renaming

PLANNING BOARD APPROVES PROPOSAL TO RENAME CABIN JOHN INDOOR TENNIS CENTER IN HONOR OF PAULINE BETZ ADDIE

(Silver Spring, MD, December 10, 2007) ---- The Montgomery County Planning Board last Thursday approved a public-private partnership proposal initiated by MCTA that will result in the renaming of the Cabin John Indoor tennis facility on Democracy Boulevard to the â€œPauline Betz Addie Tennis Center at Cabin John Regional Park.â€ Â

â€œWe are pleased and excited that the Planning Board agrees with us,â€ said MCTA President Frank Hatten, â€œthat Pauline Betz Addie is richly deserving of this honor and recognition. We are grateful to the Board and its staff for their willingness to work with us to realize our common objective.â€ The approved plan calls for the immediate renaming of the facility in Ms. Addieâ€™s honor, in conjunction with development of a feasibility study and facility plan to build additional indoor tennis courts at the existing site.Â

Pauline Betz Addie, 88 years old and living at Summerville Nursing Home in Potomac, was a world-class tennis champion in the 1940â€™s. She is a long-time resident of Montgomery County; and was the driving force behind the construction of the Cabin John Indoor tennis facility in 1961. Under a lease arrangement with the county, Pauline managed the facility for more than 20 years, where she was a daily presence, and teacher to thousands of tennis-hungry citizens. She also taught tennis as a member of the faculty at Sidwell Friends School in northwest Washington, DC.Â

Career Highlights
Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Won 6 Grand Slam titles.
Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Won Wimbledon the only time she entered (1946) and never lost a set.
Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Won Forest Hillsâ€”now the US Openâ€”four times.
Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Ranked #1 internationally in 1946, and won the World Trophy as that yearâ€™s outstanding amateur athlete, for which she was honored on the cover of TIME magazine September 2, 1946.
Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Twice scored â€œtriplesâ€ at the U.S. Indoor championships, winning the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles titles in 1941 and 1943â€”a feat equaled only one other time, by Billie Jean King in 1966 and 1968.
Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1965; the USTA/Mid-Atlantic Section Hall of Fame in 1990; and the ITA Womenâ€™s Tennis Hall of Fame in 1995.
Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 1990 recipient of the United States Tennis Associationâ€™s Sarah Palfrey Danzig Award for lifetime service and contributions to the game by a woman.Â Â Read the letter Planning Board Chairman Royce Hanson sent to Pauline Betz Addie.

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