Before there were SUVs and soccer moms, there was Alma Taeuber.
Taeuber founded the Regent Soccer Club near her home in the Vilas neighborhood in 1972, when her children were young and soccer wasn’t well known in America. In doing so, Dauber brought the sport to hundreds of west side Madison children.
Taeuber, 75, died on March 3 of pneumonia and advanced Parkinson’s disease.
Taeuber was a part-time demographer at UW-Madison and a copy editor for the American Sociological Review and the journal, Demography. She studied black and white housing and educational patterns and wrote scholarly articles on desegregation and a book on racial segregation.