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Robin Herman always knew how to speak up.
There she was, in the June 11, 1969, edition of the Schreiber Times, in a preview of the graduation ceremony at Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington, listed simply as "student speaker" for commencement day.
There she was again that autumn, a member of the first incoming class of women at Princeton, demanding to be given a sports beat at the college newspaper, just like all of the other new members of the staff. (She chose rugby.)
And there she was again, most famously, on an NHL All-Star Weekend 47 years before this one, at a time when an All-Star Game in Las Vegas would have sounded as absurd as a woman in a pro hockey locker room.