American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation records, 1927-1991 [manuscript].

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American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation records, 1927-1991 [manuscript].

The records, which are arranged by year, include lists of members, officers, and convention delegates; convention programs; minutes and reports, including financial reports, of the Southern Division organization, its officers, conventions, and constituent boards and committees; correspondence; publications; clippings; and constitutions. Volumes include biographies of Nathan Taylor Dodson, Edward Hitchcock, Jessie Reid Garrison Mehling, Emma W. Plunkett, Jackson Roger Sharman, Mary Ella Soulé, and Solon B. Sudduth, and histories of the individual state associations and of the development of physical education in the South.

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Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911

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Physician and faculty member, Amherst College. From the description of Papers, 1852-1855, Amherst, Mass. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35091769 Edward "Doc" Hitchcock, eldest son of geologist and Amherst College President Edward Hitchcock and artist Orra White Hitchcock, graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1849 and received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Hitchcock was Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education at Amherst College, 1861-1911, college physici...

Dodson, Nathan Taylor, 1922-1969

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Mehling, Jessie Reid Garrison.

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Soulé, Mary Ella.

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Sharman, Jackson Roger, 1895-1957.

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Plunkett, Emma W.

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Suddruth, Solon B.

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American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. Southern District

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The American Association (later Alliance) for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, a division of the National Education Association, was formed in 1927 to awaken a wide and intelligent interest in physical and health education; to acquire and disseminate knowledge concerning it; and to promote such universal physical and health education as will provide well-trained teachers and secure adequate programs throughout the South. The Southern District includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgi...