Delphine hanna lecturer nakhe young

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The Delphine Hanna Lecture honors the memory of a woman who influenced and guided the development of physical education in the United States. Following receipt of a diploma and teaching certificate from the Brockport State Normal School in , Hanna taught in the grade schools of rural New York, Kansas, and Ottawa, Canada for ten years. In , she completed a one-year certificate program at the Sargent Normal School.

Then in , H anna received an M. In , she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University. In addition, Hanna was chosen for an honorary Master of Arts degree from Oberlin College where she accepted an appointment as Instructor in Physical Culture in and remained until retiring in In , Hanna was appointed a full professorship, the first to be awarded to a woman in physical education.

A modest woman of high achievement and influence, Delphine Hanna was one in the first group of forty-eight Honor Award recipients in named as Fellows of the American Physical Education Association. She was arguably, the primary foremother of modern American physical education. Sage Charles 8. Corbin Linda K. Bunker Linda L. Bain Joy T. DeSensi John J.

Shields William G. The mission of NAKHE is to foster leadership in kinesiology administration and policy as it relates to teaching, scholarship and service in higher education.