President-Elect (2009-2010)

Kathleen Cordes is President-Elect for CAHPERD and has served our organization as vice president of GWS, vice president for Recreation, vice president of the Foundation Board of Trustees, Publications Chair, Section Chair, the Legislation Committee, and in various offices at the district and unit level.  She has served as vice president of Recreation and Intramurals for AAHPERD's Southern District and on the Publications/Editorial Committee for AAHPERD.  In her capacity as AAHPERD's interim executive director for the American Association for Leisure and Recreation (AALR), Cordes served on the executive board for AAHPERD and represented them on the White House Green Ribbon Panel.   
  
Cordes is author of America's Millennium Trails, an official project of the White House Millennium Council (AAHPERD); America's National Historic Trails and America's National Scenic Trails (both University of Oklahoma Press).  Her college textbooks include Applications in Recreation and Leisure (McGraw-Hill, including Chinese translation), Outdoor Recreation Encrichment for a Lifetime (Sagamore), and Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Service Management (Eddie Bowers).   
 
The recipient of AALR's Outstanding Achievement Award and CAHPERD's Past President's Award of Merit was presented with both organization's Distinguished Serivice to Leisure and Recreation awards.  She is an elected Fellow in the American Leisure Academy and is listed in Who's Who of American Women (2007, 2008), Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2008), Who's Who in America (2008, 2009), and Who's Who in the World (2009).  Cordes, who is professor emeritus and served as Honors Director and Department Chair at Miramar College; department chair at Whittier College; Athletic Director at Saint Mary's College; the first woman to coach a varsity sport at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana; and as visiting professor at the University of Zulia and the University of the Andes in Venezuela, presents papers at the state, national, and international levels.  Her favorite topics include sports history, sport ethics, the history of womens' sports, American Indian dance and ceremonials, curriculum and interdisciplinarity, outdoor recreation, America's trails, and tennis - the sport Cordes lettered in at Indiana University.

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