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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION, AND RECREATION

A DEPARTMENT OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
1201 Sixteenth Street, Northwest, Washington 6, D. C.

 

School year 1945-46

Dear Director and Teacher Educator:

Real progress is being made in our fight for professional status. There has been
splendid cooperation thus far. Teacher education institutions are in a strategic
position to continue to help lead the way. Enclosed is a copy of the official
membership count as of June 1, 1945, which presents also a summary of efforts made _
during the past year.

 

This battle is a major step in achieving for the profession what all of us desire.

Enclosed is a list of those teacher education institutions that have achieved honor
roll status for 1944-45 by having 100 per cent membership in the A.A.H.P.E.R. of
all major students in resident attendance in either men's or women's departments.
These have been published from time to time in the Journal of Health and Physical
Edugation in a special section.called HONOR ROLL OF TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

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For the first time in history. an Association Directory has been published. Tt .
includes all.the names and addresses of A.A,H.P.E.R. members as of June Ly 29k, A
plus all types of Honor Rolls. Included are the names, school afPiliation, and

addresses of state and district membership chairmen. Advertising made this project
a self—paying publication. Jt is being distributed nationwide, and will result in
services rendered to those whose names appear in it. Please stress in your pro-

motional efforts the value of having all teachers in our field included in this ?
official poke bony of leadership for the profession. : | ‘ a

 

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As a teacher educator and administrator you and your staff possess the first chance
to inspire and guide future teachers in the field. Furthermore, this first chance
is the one which can be most impressive and everlasting. To imbue prospective
teachers with the value of professional organization as an instrument to mobilize
the entire leadership of our profession and to help prove through practical first- 2
hand experience that professional organization is primarily responsible for profes- | =a
Sional security and progress is both a duty and an obligation of all of us. qnese :
efforts should begin early. Student memberships help student morale, give them
splendid materials that can be used in their class work, und make them official a
members of the profession they have already entered. 4s Joy Elmer Morgan, Editor oS
of ‘the .N.E.A..Journal, .has stated, "Tf the work of these schools were perfectly. i
done for one generation, there woud be no teacher who did not understand the
importance of taking part in professional organization," \

 

 

In the Septémber, 1944, issue of the Journal of Health and Physical Education,
President Hughes in his editorial, "4 United Profession," presented the plans of
the A.A.H.P.E.R, for the past yeur andthe three Vice-presidents, Dr. Nyswander,