Nell Martindale

Martindale taught in a Kansas high school after college,^[4] and at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, for the 1916–1917 academic year.^[5][6] She was Director of Physical Education for Women at the University of North Dakota from 1917 to 1928.^[7] Her position included directing the school's May Fete,^[8] an annual pageant which included casts of over 500 dancers and musicians,^[9] with titles such as "A Festival of Dionysus" (1919) and "The Wizard of Toyland" (1922).^[10][11]

In 1928, Martindale was briefly the acting director of physical education for women at Indiana University,^[12] before she joined the faculty of Northwest Missouri State Teachers College in the fall of that year.^[13] She continued directing dance festivals at Northwest Missouri State, until she left that job in 1935.^[14][15]

In 1961, Northwest Missouri State University named the women's gymnasium on campus after Martindale.^[16]

Martindale married George Albert Kuchs. Her husband died in 1966, and she died in 1976, at the age of 84, in Maryville, Missouri.^[17] The health sciences program at Northwest Missouri State University is housed in Martindale Hall, named in her honor.^[18]