This photograph depicts the members of the Summer Session for Gymnasium Instructors of 1888 of the School for Christian Workers, now Springfield College. The group portrait was taken on the steps of an unknown building. All of the men sitting for the portrait are wearing sports clothes, more likely gymnastics clothes of the time. Also, on the back of the photograph a handwritten caption reads "International Y.M.C.A College Summers session gym class of 1888". Robert J. Roberts and Luther Halsey Gulick are in the middle to the right of the first row. Luther Gulick was the father of physical education and recreation in the United States. Luther Gulick came to the School for Christian Workers, now Springfield College, in 1887, where he helped found the physical training department and served as its first director. For more information on Luther Halsey Gulick, see https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/614. A handwritten penned caption on the back of the photograph reads: "International YMCA College Summer Session gym class of 1888";
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