First Annual Dance Festival
University of Kansas
October 28, 1939

Dr. Anne Schley Duggan, head of the Department of Health
and Physical Education atTExas State College tor Women, Denton,
Texas, has reached the "tep” in her profession in a very short
timee At the age of thirty-four, she heads one of the largest
physical education departments for women in the United States,
supervising a statt of twelve and working with 125 major students.
Last spring at the Tulsa-Convention, she was elected president
of the Southern District in the National Health and Physical
Education Association, en honor reserved tor those few men
or women whose contributions are so outstanding that they are
recognized throughout this large district.

Upon completéng the work tor her PhD, at Columbia University,
she became a member of the CofBmb ia summer school beauty, 4
position she has held in addition to her regular winter work
every summer since then. It is during these summers in New York
City that she has had an opportunity to do the research neces-
a for her unique work in the field of folk dancing. With her
assistant, who is able to take down the music as it is sung or
played, Anne Schley Duggan has visited every ditterent nationality
group in New York City ¥ learn from them the most authentic
folk dances of their nation. She has been made an honorary
member of most of the eoues and participates with them in
their annual festivals. These are the dances she has introduced
to students and taculty members at Columbia University and the
New York School of Social Research, in the same way that she

will introduce them to KeU. students October 28. These are