ORDELLE SCHNEIDER was inducted Wednesday into the New Ulm Women’s Bowling Hall of Fame. She’s the sixth bowler selected for contribution to women’s bowling in New Ulm.

Ordelle Schneider was inducted Wednesday into New Ulm Women’s Bowling Hall of Fame.

“Me?”exclaimed Mrs. Schneider.”I don’t deserve it.”

For once, the normally talkative bowler was at a loss for words. Her selection to the honor list of women bowlers in the city stunned her.

The award was made at the annual bowling awards banquet of the New Ulm Women’s Bowling Association at Turner Hall. About 200 women attended. Trophies and prize money from the recent city tourney were given out. But the biggest prize went to Ordelle.

She joins Polly Fenske, Rose Wicherski, Oleta McCuskey, Marge McVeety and Ads Pollei in the hall of fame.

The hall of fame, sponsored by the women’s association, salutes those who have made outstanding contributions to bowling over the years.

Mrs. Schneider has been bowling “35 or 40 years” and all of it in Ladies City League at Concordia Lanes. She started bowling in the league at the old Concordia Club at 114 N. State, but she wasn’t a charter member of that league as some of the previous hall of famers were.

When it comes to plain bowling score achievement, Mrs. Schneider doesn’t stand out that much. She says her best single game was 258 and she’s never had a 600 league series.

But she’s measured for contributions in many other ways to bowling – even for her sense of humor during bowling and after bowling.

Mrs. Schneider was an officer of the New Ulm Women’s Bowling Association when it was chartered in 1949. Over the years, she’s been a league and association officer many times.

One who loved bowling, she entered many city and state tournaments and once bowled in a national meet.

HAVE YOU called husband Harley yet?

“No,” she said after the banquet program.”When I get home tonight, I’ll set the trophy on the TV set and see if he notices it. That’s what he did to me yesterday.”

That reference was to Schneider’s “trophy”won Tuesday at the annual Lions-Rotary bowling match. Schneider got the prize for the low series.

Unlike his wife who is a regular bowler, husband Harley bowls just once a year – the Lions-Rotary bash.

“There were too many conflicts with his job as engineer over the years, so he never bowled regularly,” said Ordelle.

“I hope I don’t break the cameras,” she said as she hugged the trophy for picture taking.

New Ulm Daily Journal

March 11, 1976