Is she the most exceptional Nebraskan you’ve never heard of? Sculptor Dave Biehl believes so.
- “She accomplished so many things, but hardly anybody – I’d bet 99% of the people in the state of Nebraska don’t know about Louise Pound,” Biehl said.
- Pound was renowned intellectually and as a championship athlete. Lift Up Louise formed to ensure Pound’s legacy endures.
- “I thought, once her dorm is gone, I was just afraid that she’d be totally forgot about,” Debra White, a member of the group expressed.
- Biehl’s sculpture of Pound, riding a bicycle with a tennis racket and stack of books, is nearing completion. It’s on track to be installed next summer.
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“She accomplished so many things, but hardly anybody – I’d bet 99% of the people in the state of Nebraska don’t know about Louise Pound.”
Though, they should…