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The Kansas Health and Physical Education
Association

The Kansas Health and Physical Education Association
was organized in 1928 at a meeting of the Physical Ed-
ucation Round Table of the Kansas State Teachers As-
sociation at Manhattan, Kansase
Some of the pioneers in the organization were Strong
Hinman, Supervisor of Physical Education, Wichita, Kansas;
L, P. Washburn, Director of Physical Education, Kansas |
State College, Manhatten, Kansas; L. P. Dittemore, Super-
visor of Physical Education, Topeka, Sansas; Miss Irma
Gene Nevins, Director of Physical Edwation, Kansas State
Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas; Merle Henre, Super-
visor of Physical Education, Kansas City, Kansas--to mention
only a few.

The objectives of the Kansas Health and Physical Education
Association as expressed in the constitution and by-laws are:
a. To awaken a wide and intelligent interest in health and

physical Meneses
be. To aequire knowledge concerning health and physical ed-
Mae aee
c. To encourage the training of teachers for this field.
gd. To secure adequate programs for the children of Kansas.
Ever since its birth the Kansas Health and Physical Education
Assocation has had a steady increase in growth and influence.
There were approximately thirty members in the association
when it was first organized. We now have well over two hun-
dred members.

Some of the early officers of the state assocation later held