Beware the Chair!!

The History of
Gym Class

Thursday, March 28 at 7 pm
in the John F. Chick Room

Rebecca Noel explores the sometimes alarming, sometimes hilarious backstory of what we now know as gym class. Physicians worried since the Renaissance that  the sedentary, scholarly life makes people sick. The problem widened along with access to education during the Enlightenment and into the 1800s. Tracing this idea from Europe to the United States, from scholars to children, and from boys’ to girls’ education, the presentation shows how these fears inspired schools to get children moving.

Free and open to the public.