Panzer College - Olympia Yearbook (East Orange, NJ)

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PANZER COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HYGIENE

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PRESENTED BY THE STUDENTS OF PANZER COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HYGIENE EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY T H E 1 4 7 L Y M P I A

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PANZER=throtigIi the years Panzer College of Physical Education and Hygiene celebrated its thirtieth anniversary this year. It was founded in September 1917 when the nation was engaged in the first World War. State legislatures throughout the nation passed laws which made physi- cal education compulsory in public schools. The Pier- ,son Act of 1917 provided for A Course in Physical Training to be established and made a part of the course of instruction in the public schools of the State of New Jersey. This act became a school law, but there was not a normal school in the state for the preparation of teachers of physical training and hygiene. In the fall of 1917, therefore, a group of interested men and women established the Newark Normal School of Physical Education and Hygiene to meet the new educational demand. Randall D. Warden and Matt- hias H. Machery, supervisors of physical education in the Newark schools, were elected President and Vice- President of the new organization. The institution, incorporated and accredited, offered a two year normal course for the training of both men and women teach- ers of physical education and hygiene. The first director, John Morris, was succeeded by Henry Panzer who was nationally known as an authority in physical education. As the institution developed professionally, both its enrollment and its prestige increased. This neces- sitated the purchasing of additional property, and in 1926 the Normal School moved to East Orange, New Jersey. Immediately after the change in location, the school was reorganized and became a teachers ' college. In December 1928, the State Board of Education of New Jersey approved the four-year curriculum and authorized the college to grant the degree of bachelor of physical education. The board of trustees changed the name of the institution to Panzer College of Physi- cal Education and Hygiene in honor of the president, Henry Panzer, who died some years later, in October 1932. The trustees selected as his successor Dr. Mar- garet C. Brown who had been the Dean and Registrar of the college since 1921. This year marks her twenty-fifth year of service to the college. In 1938, the State Board of Education gave the trustees author- ity to confer a degree of bachelor of science in educa- tion. This year, 1947, finds Panzer College engaged in its first year of post-war training. There has been a tremendous increase in the enrollment of the students, eighty per-cent of whom are former service men and women. To accomodate this sudden influx of stu- dents, building enlargements an d improvements are again in progress. As democracy has met its challenge so does Panzer extend its educational services to those men and women who have served democracy so well.