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Blanche Trilling

Blanche Trilling. Sawyer Pratt. Life span: 1876-1964 Education: Attended Belmont College and Cincinnati College of Music Historical Time Period: Emergence of Profession . Best know for…. Director of Physical Education for Women at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Blanche Trilling

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  1. Blanche Trilling Sawyer Pratt

  2. Life span: 1876-1964 • Education: Attended Belmont College and Cincinnati College of Music • Historical Time Period: Emergence of Profession

  3. Best know for… • Director of Physical Education for Women at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. • While she was director Undergraduate degrees in Physical Education and dance and a Masters degree in Physical Education were created. • Before taking the job at Wisconsin she was the Director of Physical Education for Women at the University of Missouri and the Chicago Teachers College.

  4. More about Trilling • Member of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection • In 1947 received Luther Gullen Award for distinguished service in the physical education field • One of the first members of the Middle West Society of College Directors of Physical Education for Women • In 1930 an alumnae association created the Blanche M Trilling Scholarship Fund

  5. Little known facts • Trilling believed that competition in women’s athletics was wrong and believed that it overshadowed the majority of the students and focused on the star athletes. • Supported club and intramural teams • She thought that people would eventually get bored of college sports and that the colleges would regret putting money into them

  6. References • Introduction to Physical Education Fitness and Sport/Daryl Siedentop. – 7th ed. • http://archives.library.wisc.edu/uw-archives/exhibits/athletics/athletics.pdf • http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00221473.1965.10618486?journalCode=ujrd18#.UkBiHL-TP-k • https://www.housing.wisc.edu/docs/reslife/rh/liz/history/blanchemtrilling.pdf • http://books.google.com/books?id=q0Efkmw2To8C&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=blanche+trilling,+physical+education&source=bl&ots=wkUeXlkDQ6&sig=d-lcw6WLPB1T4gH2Qp49oDxKwzg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_N5AUtjBBMmKqQHSm4GgBA&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=blanche%20trilling%2C%20physical%20education&f=false

  7. Questions • What degrees were created while she was director of Physical Education for Women? • In what year did she receive the Luther Gullen Award?

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