EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

FREDERICK W COZENS, PRESIDENT
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

MARGARET BELL, PRESIDENT-ELECT
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

DOROTHY NYSWANDER, VICE-PRESIDENT
(HEALTH EDUCATION) 12-26 31ST AVENUE
ASTORIA, NEW YORK

GROVER W. MUELLER, VICE-PRESIDENT
(PHYSICAL EDUCATION) PUBLIC SCHOOLS
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

FRANK S. LLOYD, VICE-PRESIDENT
(RECREATION)
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY

C. H. McCCLoy, PAST-PRESIDENT
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
IOWA CITY, lowa

N. P. NEILSON, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
1201 SIXTEENTH STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTH,
PHYSICAL EDUCATION, AND

RECREATION

 

A Department of the N.E.A.

Barnard College
_ Columbia University
- New York City

ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF
GOVERNING BOARD

EARL E. BOUSHEY
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE

LOUISE S. COBB
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

ELIZABETH HALSEY
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, IOWA CITY

HIRAM A. JONES
STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, ALBANY, N.Y.

THOMAS E, MCDONOUGH
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, RICHMOND, Ky,

GERTRUDE E. MOULTON
OBERLIN COLLEGE, OBERLIN, OHIO

JAY B. NASH
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY

W. K. STREIT
PUBLIC SCHOOLS, CINCINNATI, OHIO

Cc. E. TURNER
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

CAMBRIDGE, MAss.

fo the Director of Physical Education, Health Education, or Recreation:

The May issue of the JOURNAL OF RBALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

carried an article e
National Committee (

xplaining the work which is being attempted by the
of the American Association for Health, Physical

‘Education, and Recreation) on Permanent Eistorical Exhibits, ‘Looking
toward the establishment eventwlly of a permanent historical museun,
well housed and cared for, we are in the meantime endeavoring to

stimulate an interest in the develo

locally,

ping and sponsoring of such exhibits

We need not remind you that such exhibit material tends to
promote an interest in the subject as well as to preserve much which

may be of value historically in future years,

appeal to colleges, universities, institutions,

Over the continent with the ho
important venture,

We are sending this
and organizations all
pe that they will cooperate in this

We know that some institutions already have well developed
collection$+ There is the Cathedral of Sports at Yale; what will be
the Temple of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, housing Dr,
McKenzie's immortal works; the wonderful library at Springfield
College; collections of sport implements at the University of Illinois
and Dartmouth College, records and anthropolégical data at Amherst,
valuable record material possessed by Dr, Anderson at Yale, etc,

I am enclosing for your convenience a list of suggested.
exhibit material and the various forms such an exhibit might take;

also a questionnaire which explains itself,

May I ask you to return

this latter soon, whether you can enter into such a project or not,

Hoping for your cooperation, I am

  

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: » Chairman
: Committee on Permanent
ARW: EN Historical Exhibits

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