Key Dates

1903
All students enrolled in Physical Culture Classes

1903-1910
Department of Elocution, Physical Culture, and Music (1903-1910)

1910-1914
Music and Expression

Class: exercise, gymnastics, rudimentary dance activities to cultivate correct poise and good presence, health and beauty, and grace and care of manners

1914
Department of Physical Training … First full-time director/faculty

1916
Department of Physical Education

The broader and more enlightened concept of Physical Education as a fundamental medium of the total education of the individual through physical and motor activities as opposed to the narrow concept of the physical training of the individual was so well established that the title of the department was changed.

1916-1926
1^st and 2^nd year students selected from field hockey, basketball, tennis, cross-country, walks, athletic games, indoor baseball, calisthenics, apparatus work, volleyball, aesthetic dance, swimming and diving, and tether tennis

1921
Academic credit given for these above mentioned courses. Any student excused from physical education by the college physician was required to earn additional hours of credit in courses in English, History, Mathematics, or Science.

Old Gym completed (contained swimming pool).  Added corrective/adapted physical education classes

1924
Health exams and posture exams administered. Special reading assignments

1925-26
Practical Health Education Courses

1927
No exemptions … adapted courses required where needed

1936-1973
Dr. Anne Schley Duggan came to T.S.C.W. as Department Head, later first Dean of College of HPER

1937-1964
Units of Health Instruction required in all required classes

Degrees

1916-1920
Professional Education … for prospective teachers

1921
Two year diploma … could then teach and supervise playgrounds

1922
Began first Bachelors degree … Marion Roberts first to graduate with BS

1942
MA in Health, Physical Education and Recreation

1954
PhD and EdD (in all areas of specialization)

1958
Belle Meade Holm and Kathryn A Becker May were the first to graduate from our department with PhDs (HPER)

1980
Undergraduate without teaching certification

1993
M.S. Exercise and Sports Nutrition

Organization

1910
Department of Elocuation, Physical Culture, and Music

1914
Department of Physical Training

1916
Department of Physical Education

1927
Department of Health and Physical Education

Late 1930’s
Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER)

1954
College of Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER)

1976
Departmentalization

1982
Added Dance to title of College (College of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance - HPERD)

1989
College of HPERD eliminated at TWU.  The Physical Education Department became the Kinesiology Department in College of Health Sciences.  Health Education became the Department of Health Studies in College of Health Sciences.  Department of Dance became the Dance Program in the Performing Arts Department of the College of Arts and Sciences.  The Recreation Department and its programs were temporarily housed in College of Professional Education before all of its degree program were eliminated at TWU.

Deans of the College of HPER(D)

1954 to 1973
Ann Schley Duggan

1973 to 1978
Aileen Lockhart

1978 to 1982
Marilyn Hinson

1982 to 1983
Jane Mott (Acting Dean)

1983 to 1989
Ann Uhlir

Deans of the College of Health Sciences

1989-1996
Ann Uhlir

1996-1997
Jean Pyfer (Interim Dean)

1997-December 2004
Jean Pyfer

January 2005 to August 2005
Sally Schulz (Interim Dean)

August 2005-Present
Jimmy Ishee