We Need a Hit - Nicolai, Lois Ann
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This is the true story about little girls living in the small rural town of St. Paul, Indiana, in the 1970's. They began playing softball in 1971 when they were between six and nine years old and played together for seven years when their coach and sponsor entered them in the 1977 Indiana Slow-Pitch Girls Softball State Tournament where they succeeded in becoming the Indiana State Champions. Their coach, Lois Leffler-Nicolai, settled in St. Paul when her husband, Jimmy Joe Leffler, brought her to his hometown after they met and married in her home state of NJ. It only took a few days after…mehr

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This is the true story about little girls living in the small rural town of St. Paul, Indiana, in the 1970's. They began playing softball in 1971 when they were between six and nine years old and played together for seven years when their coach and sponsor entered them in the 1977 Indiana Slow-Pitch Girls Softball State Tournament where they succeeded in becoming the Indiana State Champions. Their coach, Lois Leffler-Nicolai, settled in St. Paul when her husband, Jimmy Joe Leffler, brought her to his hometown after they met and married in her home state of NJ. It only took a few days after arriving in St. Paul for Lois to realize she had just stepped back in time fifty years. After having their six children in the 1960's Lois soon realized there was nothing in this small town for children to do. There was no kindergarten, no Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts, no 4-H, no swimming pool, nothing. Thus, when her daughter Patty was six and Eileen was eight Lois decided to start a softball team for her girls to learn the sport. Since her youngest daughter, Brenda, was only 4, her mother asked her to be their batgirl. Lois had played softball throughout her growing up years in N.J., and she refused to see her children without the fun of a team sport. Together they recruited every girl in their town between 6 and 9 years old and Coach Lois registered them to play in the girls' softball league in Greensburg and the Women's League in Shelbyville. The girls named their team the Saint Paul Super Stars, and kept improving each year until they became undefeted in 1976, winning every game and both season play-offs. In 1977 the girls were 13-15 in age, and undefeated another year in both Decatur and Shelby Counties, plus winning the end of the season playoffs. They now had a sponsor, Rod Eliot, the owner of the Columbus Ponderosa Steak House, and he entered the team in the Indiana softball state playoffs. You must read the book to find out the exciting conclusion!
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Lois Nicolai is a former teacher; Girl Scout Troop Organizer, Leader and Day Camp Director; Indiana State Champions ASA Girls Softball Coach; Detasseling Supervisor for Pioneer Seed Corn Fields; Int'l Organizer/Supervisor of OSCE/PAE Democratic Elections in ten European countries; and Founder/Director of World Citizen Diplomats in Princeton, NJ. She began her Peacemaking Years by leading seven trips into the former Soviet Republics during the fall of Communism in the early 1990's, after fulfilling her duties for 26-years as a wife and mother. Today Lois is an 88-year-old mother of 6; grandmother of 18; and great-grandmother of 18. She was actively involved in peace-making from 1988 through 2014, although her whole life has been a process of learning and practicing peacebuilding. She spent 26 years raising her six children in Indiana. After her husband died in August 1983, she moved back home to her birthplace in N.J., and on her 50th birthday she began her serious peace-making years. In 1988 she walked across the USA with 215 Soviets on the Soviet-American Peace Walk. This was her introduction to the global peace movement! In 1989 she traveled to Volgograd, Russia, as part of a Bridges for Peace Delegation and lived in the home of a Volgograd family. In 1990 she brought fifty people together twice a month for six months in Princeton, N.J. and founded an NGO they named "World Citizen Diplomats". This is a citizen diplomacy organization they founded to help break down the stereotyping and misconceptions people of different cultures, nationalities and religions have of one another. They received their 501(c)(3) in 1992 and met monthly in Princeton for fifteen years, hosting many missions worldwide. Lois made six trips into Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia from 1989 to 1995, as the former USSR was moving from communism into the beginning stages of democracy through Glasnost and Perestroika. She traveled at the invitation of Peoples Deputy Olzhas Suleimenov, who was serving as the Kazakh Peoples Deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the Kremlin in Moscow. This was the era when Deputy Suleimenov was petitioning President Gorbachev and President Nazarbayev to stop nuclear testing in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. With WCD's help they celebrated the closing of the Russian nuclear testing site in 1991, and together they also closed the USA testing site in Nevada in 1992. In 1996 Lois organized, supervised and conducted a three-day Peace Conference at the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica, attended by 12 men and 12 women from 14 nations as they founded the World Peace 2000 Network. In 1997 she drove an Int'l Delegation on a 15,000 mile "Peace Caravan" throughout the USA, coast-to-coast across Canada and up to Alaska. Her delegation stayed in the homes of the citizens everywhere they went and conducted Peace Dialogue Seminars in 20 cities. In 1998 she again drove an Int'l Delegation of 12 people throughout ten countries in Europe and Scandinavia on the European Peace Caravan. She had 4 professors from Muhammadiyah University in Indonesia; 4 nuclear activists from Kazakhstan; 1 Cree Indian from Canada; and several American activists with her. They lived in the homes of citizens everywhere they traveled for ten weeks and conducted Peace Dialogue Seminars in 20 European cities. From 1997-2014 she made ten trips abroad - to Bosnia-Herzegovina; Kosovo; Moldova; Serbia; Montenegro, Republic of Georgia, and Siberia. She was sent by the USA State Dept. as an Int'l Election Supervisor for the OSCE in Europe, helping developing nations create their democracies. From 2020 through 2023 she wrote her 3-book Memoir Trilogy highlighting her peacemaking years titled "ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAOWDINARY TIMES" series. In 2024 Lois wrote her true story taking place from 1971-1977, sharing the 7-years she coached her three daughters and their friends in softball, concluding with their success in becoming the 1977 Girls ASA Indiana Softball Champion