Inventory of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Records, 1927-1991

Collection Number 4095


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
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Email: mss@email.unc.edu
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. Southern District.
Title
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Records, 1927-1991.
Call Number
4095
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 4,200 items (8.5 linear feet).
Abstract
The American Association (later Alliance) for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, a division of the National Education Association, was formed in 1927 to awaken a wide and intelligent interest in physical and health education; to acquire and disseminate knowledge concerning it; and to promote such universal physical and health education as will provide well-trained teachers and secure adequate programs throughout the South. The Southern District includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The records, which are arranged by year, include lists of members, officers, and convention delegates; convention programs; minutes and reports, including financial reports, of the Southern Division organization, its officers, conventions, and constituent boards and committees; correspondence; publications; clippings; and constitutions. Volumes include biographies of Nathan Taylor Dodson, Edward Hitchcock, Jessie Reid Garrison Mehling, Emma W. Plunkett, Jackson Roger Sharman, Mary Ella Soulé, and Solon B. Sudduth, and histories of the individual state associations and of the development of physical education in the South.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Deposit 1976-
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Records, #4095, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. Southern District
Dodson, Nathan Taylor, 1922-1969.
Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911.
Mehling, Jessie Reid Garrison.
Physical education and training--Southern States.
Plunkett, Emma W.
Sharman, Jackson Roger, 1895-1957.
Soulé, Mary Ella.
Suddruth, Solon B.
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Biographical Note

The American Association (later Alliance) for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, a division of the National Education Association, was formed in 1927 "to awaken a wide and intelligent interest in physical and health education; to acquire and disseminate knowledge concerning it; and to promote such universal physical and health education as will provide well-trained teachers and secure adequate programs throughout the South." The Southern District includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

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Collection Overview

The records, which are arranged by year, include lists of members, officers, and convention delegates; convention programs; minutes and reports, including financial reports, of the Southern Division organization, its officers, conventions, and constituent boards and committees; correspondence; publications; clippings; and constitutions. Volumes include biographies of Nathan Taylor Dodson, Edward Hitchcock, Jessie Reid Garrison Mehling, Emma W. Plunkett, Jackson Roger Sharman, Mary Ella Soulé, and Solon B. Sudduth, and histories of the individual state associations and of the development of physical education in the South.