December 15, 1957.

FOASAH Director of Physical Bdusations

 
 

Te Fellew Members of the Faculty:

In cleaning owt my desk when the new setup took place this fall
I ren across sane mimeographed sheets of our first plen for a physical
education major with a Be Se degree in the School of Educatione

To many of you the names of Barto, Sabo, Bunn, Huff, Cappon and
Lookabaugh may not be familiar, but to others who have been here a long
time they will be. Thirteen years is a short while in a great span of
existence. Many of us think that our new four-year setup is rather novel
for us, but by glencing over these courses it merely shows our desire
thirteen years ago to endeavor to do the thing that was done by the Board
of Regents manifeste. :

We have endeavored to bring such a similar condition to pass for
meny years, but it was impossible for one reason or another.

Very cordially yours,

 
 
 

BUREAU OF VISUAL INSTRUCTION

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DIVISION, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS

 

 
    

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Mr Physical Education
Robinson Gymnasium
Campus

In response to requests received, the following materials have been reserved for:

and will be shipped for use on dates as listed. (NOTE: A penalty charge will be made when materials are not returned promptly).

 

lémm. MOTION PICTURES AND PROJECTION

TO DATE.
Sept. 24 BODY DEFENSES AGAINST DISEASE  (Sgunda)
BACTERIA : (Silent)
Oct. 15 BODY FRAMEWORK (Silent)
CIRCULATION "
Nov. 12 BREATHING 7 (Silent)
DIGESTION | ,

Sound projector & operator on Sept. 24, Sielnt projector
on Oct. 18 and Nov. 12
Prof. Elbel's elass.

 

   
 
  
  
   
 

December 1, 1937.

Very cordially yours,

 
 

Novenber 12, 1987.

Sopurtamt af Payeicc? Bduoations , mae

Dear Miss Hoovers ee

Math in yous wrecréne pene’ os
‘ia sana ebionat

if you need auy holp in obtaining
money for a prospectus and for the booster campaign,
please call upon mee I will endeavor to cooperates

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FCASAR : Director of Physical Education.

 
 

Foveaber 22, 1937

 

We notice in the November issue of BEACH
AND POOL your picture.

This is a very mice boost for you and for
the University of Kansase |

Congratulations’

Direster of Physioal Educetions—

 
DIVISION OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE

AND

Oct. 30, 1937.

Dr. Forrest C. Allen,
Director of Physical Education,
Campus e

Dear Dre Allen:

This letter is to confirm our discussion
of Monday, October 25th.

As you will recall we mentioned briefly
the subject of my M.A. degree which I shall receive this
yeare Iam working on a time accuracy ratio similar, if I
may say, to the I1.Q. of psychology tests. I shall attempt to
arrive at this time accuracy ratio on the basis of a physical
test, I am giving, i-e., having advanced fencers and elemen-
tary fencers lunging at a target which is approximately divided
into the body areas of actual fencing. Both the accuracy, which
we shall record by means of connected area lights which flash
when the area is hit by the foil, and the time (or speed) which
is recorded on a modified Hipp-chronoscope shall be taken before
and after a designated amount of actual fencing.

An extremely important and interesting part of
this will be some general intelligence tests which the subject
will take before he begins the physical part of the experiment
and then after he has finished the experiment. It is hoped that
we may make a start to measuring a psycho-physical ratio. In
our preliminary work thus far we have found that in every tested
case the individuals are mentally and physically more alert after
we've worked them, ise. fenced them, for 10 minutes than before
they started to fence. Henee we may offer that physical activity
is beneficial to mental activity.

Also you will recall that we spoke of the possibility
of developing a graduate school and award M.A. degrees. As you surely
know, with my advanced degree I shall be able to supervise other MoAe
degrees. Also with the special training in the field of physical
education and psychology and research I may be able to help to conduct
further research. I feel certain that with yourself, Dr. Allen, and
with Professor Elbel, Dr. Lapp and myself we can develop a real center
for physical education both on the undergraduate and graduate level.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE

DIVISION OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

Dre Forrest C. Allen “2 Octe 30, 1937.

I know of many coaches in the state of Kansas who
have questioned me concerning & MeA. degree here at KeU. Many
of them have been forced to attend other schools to get their
advanced degrees. I merely quote that to show that there is de-
finitely a growing demand for M.A. degrees and since we will have
the men qualified to give advanced degrees, why then I believe we
should have a graduate course in physical education.

I might mention here that I am planning to get my doctor's
degree in physical education, which will give our department four
doctorates, ise, yours, Dre Lapp's, Prof. Elbel's and my own.

Concerning my present work here at the university. I am
teaching classes in swimming, fencing, boxing and I have also taught
tennis, and handball. In fencing I am the originator of the American
School of Fencing. It is primarily a different method of instruction
in fencing. I have divorced my method from the old European schools
such as the Italien, French and Spanish schools with their "fencing
masters" and have given fencing an American psychological approach
in my teaching methods. At present I am writing up my American school
of fencing and will have it published as soon as it is completed. As
you probably kmow, using my American method, I coached and taught the
members of the KeU. fencing team both in 1935 and last year through
undefeated seasonse

In teaching my classes I try to emphasize two things. The
first is the individual difference and second the situation. For example
in boxing I take the individual and try to understand his particular
physical and pscyhological makeup and then give him instruction in boxing
by showing him how and also the situations in which the Bundamental boxing
technique may be used to the greatest advantage so that he gets a whole
related picture and not isolated elements. Last year using this method
I was able to teach and coach the Haskell Indians to an unusually success-
ful season. In fact my team won 5 golden glove championships at Topeka,
one state championship and one of my boys was semi-finalist in the
National A. Ae Ue Also we chalked up five wins over other teams.

In swimming I am a holder of an American Red Cross Senior Life
Saving Certificate. In 1935 I was chosen as a member of the All Big Six
Conference swimming team and listed in the Spalding swimming record of
that year. I hold a championship in one-wall handball (intramural all-
university competition 1935) and in clay court tennis play.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE

DIVISION OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

Dre F. Ge Allen =-s= October 30, 1937

In all my classes I try to have the student feel
as though he or she is an integral part of the work. My method of
motivating my students is by trying to get them interested in the
work, which I try to make progressively more interesting and difficult.

May I offer a few suggestions considering the questions
I get about a course in advanced boxing and a course in wrestling. -
I believe that we can profitably offer such work. I can teach both of
these. Also in our physical education skill classes and in the theoretical
courses we can help in adjusting certain types of socially deficient in-
dividuals by having them function in our group work. Hence, you see
we are working for both the physical and mental well being of the in-
dividual. A very important point which is often neglected.

May I close this letter with the hope that I do become
a full time mémber of the staff and that our graduate school becomes an
immediate reality.

Sincerely yours,

ia brarslel. Neo ae
 

November 4, 1 957.

Miss ‘Ruth Hoover,
Department of Physieal Education,

Dear Miss Hoover :

I have tekken up with Mr. Davidson the
vbuilding of two table frame works for your

tables. If everything is not as
vee desire it, ict us know.

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education.

 
 

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE

DIVISION OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

November 3, 1937

Dr. F. C. Alien

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

I should like very much to have Mr.

avidson build or us, two table frame
eeris’ tn whist 0 plate our eH pong

tables. Horses have been used under
them but are very unsatisfactory.

Sincerely,
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Staff:

Arrangements are being made with Mr. Raymond
Nichols and we will continue our classes on through
the Teachers! Convention Novenber 4 and 5,

It would be well for all instructors to con-
tact visiting principals and superintendents as far
as convenient to acquaint them with the work that
we are doing in our new Mepartment of Physical mat

ducation. I will have a conference with Dean
Schwegler, and there will be more definite inform-
ation later,

We will not be able to msm hold classes in
this building on the first @loor due to the exhibits
for the convention, but we have asked Mr, Nichols for
classroom facilities in other available places so
that we may go ahead with our work,

It will be necessary that everything be cleared
at 8 o'clock the morning of the 4th so that the
carpenters can come to work to fix the necessary
equipment for exhibits for the visiting teachers,

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Septesber 25, 1937

DEPARTHENT OF PHYSICAL BIU CATION:

 
SIGNIFICANCE IN
A SHIFT AT K, U.?

ee

‘New 4-Year Course to Give
High School Contacts.

t

Physical Education Degree
Offered Under Phog Allen.

AVAILABLE TO FRESHMEN

“No Snap,” Those Who Know
. Requirements, Warn.

Change Lifts Hampering Re-
strictions “on the Hill.”

By E. B. CHAPMAN

Lawrence, May 20.—Equip a cas-
ual observer in this “Athens of
Kansas” for a preview of the spring
state editorial golf tournament with
the magic spectacles of imagination;
give him poetic license clad in
overalls and ready for rough work,
and he may see the University of
Kansas inching its way toward the
softball field. 4

There really is no occasion for
alarm. The university isn’t leaving
its culture behind for such dirty
handed, ‘perspiring, hell-roaring rec-
reation. Mercy no! The Athens
of Kansas is taking along its tomes
and .test. tubes, its Greek and Latin,
its ponderance of prerequisites as
compared to electives and every-
thing which makes a. university
scholarly in such a dreadful degree.

Recognizes New Conditions.

What the big school on the hill
actually is doing is recognizing that
the new leisure this generation has
found is. not going to be used ex-
clusively in the superior activities
which cultivate the intellect. Much
of the leisure is going to be used
in play which involves physical
exercise,

 

to recommend it to some persons
in the K. U. group. Many of the
larger educational institutions have
such courses,

So while the decision to establish
a four-year coaching course at the
university may not be revolutionary,
it is of wide interest. What it means
is that the student with a bent for
athletics and a flair for pedagogy
will have a chance to have four
years of the course he desires in-|
stead of being required to spend
most of his time studying some-,
thing else to get a little of what |
he wants.

Not to Be a “Snap” Course.

It would be a@ serious error for)
the prospective student to. decide |
the new course is to be a “snap.” It!
will be difficult. The high school '
athletic who has been weak in,
everything except athletes will find |
it impossible to make the required |
grades, those familiar with the re-
quirements say.

For all the advantages gained for |
candidates for the degree of bach-|
elor of science in physica] education, |
such old enemies as English and |
history and economics, to say noth- |
ing about other terror-inspiring sub- |
jects, are to be met and mastered. ;
The university trained high school .
coach four years hence may be able }
to tell the editor of the county seat |
newspaper something that will help
the editorial golf game. But it]

well educated person, which probably |
is as it should be.

Even a casual observer armed with
@ special dispensation doesn’t men- |
tion K. U. and athletics and Phog
Allen without mentioning football.
The function of the four-year course
in physical education will be to
train men to coach and instruct, in
high schools.

The high schools are the bushes |
upon which the good football play-
ers grow. Kansas State, with its |
four-year coaching course has en-
joyed a much closer contact with
the high schools of the state than
has the university under the con-
ditions which have prevailed in the]
past. That feature may receive the
football significance it is desired to
give it. .
Rounds Out Athletic Department.

Whatever. emotions the change

 
The rea] news is that the univer-
sity now sees the obligation upon
the state’s. first institution of learn-
ing, growing out of that determi-
nation, and is taking steps to pro-
vide a university trained leadership
in community recreation—trained
under modern methods not only in
the things to be taught but in the
art of teaching them.

The announcement is that the
university is to offer a four-year
course in physical education, avail-
able in the freshman year. Dr; F.
C. (Phog) Allen will head the school.
The course is to be under the de-
partment of education and a bach-
elor’s degree will be awarded to
those completing it.

‘Decided Upon Last Fall.

Now that the information has be-
come public as a routine news item,

with the approval of the university |

may have aroused within some
hearts “on the hill,” it ends the
period in which the university was
hampered and its service restricted
by the two-year course. In the fu-
ture it will be able to educate stu-
dents who desire to be coaches, as
it has not been possible to do. in
the past. Among many friends of
the school the shift is regarded as
one which will strengthen K. U. by

rounding out its athletic department,
‘in which something admittedly has

been wrong.

 

 

senate, it is reported with a calm-|. |

ness typical of education that. the
board of regents decided upon the
change last fall. Early in’ the spring,
it is explained with equal calmness,

the board recommended Dr, Allen to}

be head of the school. He already
is head of the physical education
division in the teaching end of the
course and is expected to teach
‘basketball.

Those who follow the fortunes of
the university in athletics and many
others know that all has not been
calm around the university since
last fall. So the change certainly
is news and not the routine matter
the announcement of a new course
at the university ordinarily might
be. Educators of the university at-
tainments seldom are agreed as to
movements which move education
into closer contacts with the masses,
where it might soil its hands and
tear its pants.

Tt is true the Kansas State Col-
lege of Science and Applied Arts—
the snooty name by which the old
Kansas Agricultural college now
goes—but in some circles around the
university the Manhattan institu-
tion is regarded as a “cow college”
for all its new name. The fact that
Manhattan had such a course failed

 

 
 

Novenber 2 9 1957 «

Director, Bureau of Bducational Service,
Teachers College |
Columbia University,

_ New York City.

Dear Sir:

ZX desire to commend to you Miss Elizabeth ¢,
Dunkel, assistant professor of sicai Edueation for
woren, at the University cf Kansas, Miss Dunkel has
. been in our department for ten years.

*  & DriDldant student during her wadergraduate
days, “Miss Dunkel in addition to obtaining Phi Seta

Kappa distineti was one oF the outstanding students
on the canpus, being especially proficient in msie
and fine arts, dramaties and the dance,

_ tides Dunkel was employed for three and one~-
half years by the Arkansas City public sehools in the
Gepevauek of ical Education, Eeturning to the
University in 1927 she hes done an exeeptional bit of
work for us here. oe Dees ‘

Hex experience has well cualified her for ad-
ministrative work for which she has unusual capacity.
She has a most pleasing poarsonality and strength of
eheracter. Buoyant end robust in health, Wiss Dunkel
is a living —— of what physical education should
mean to us ali. fom

She has achieved brilliant suecess as director
of Tau Sigma, the dencing sorority af the University
of Kansas. e Tan Siema reeitals each winter stand
out as one of the University highlights.

4S an exponent of the dance, dramatics and
music, as well as the fine arts, Miss Dunkel has
achieved rare distinction, As a teacher she is most
tek eet oe is ar of the mere accidental
Ls upon work, experience, and study.
She ieads people with the power of her personality and
her unusual talent,

 
 

 

November Ll, 1937 6

Mp, Jim Harold Raport
De nt of Physical Education,
University of Sansas.

Dear Jim:

I acknowledge reseipt of your letter
ef October 30, and I thank you for setting forth the
progress that you have made, ani your hopes and aims
for the future,

| I assure that I will be very
happy to present your qu tions to the proper
authorities with the hope end expectation that you
may contimme to be with us in the future,
We are of having graduate
work in the Departim nt of némeations

Sincerely yours,

PCAs AH | Director of Physical Education,

 
Memo from Jim Raport

Practical and Theoretical Psychology
of Teaching Physical Education

(incorporating practical and
theoretical aspects)

To be taught by Dr. Allen (practical) °
and Mre Raport (theoretical)

FENCING to be added to W.A.Ae point
systeme Mre Raport will see Miss Hoover
on thise