Introduction

   The First
       Class

   The First
       Building

   Bylaws

   A Founder's
       Account

In 1925, Marjorie Bouvé left BSPE to form the Bouvé School. Click here to find out more about the split.

Although seven women were present at the founding of the Boston School of Physical Education, responsibility and authority quickly fell to three: Marjorie Bouvé, Marguerite Sanderson, and Mary Florence Stratton. They ran their School with firmly held beliefs, as are evidenced in the catalog:

“The School was established to provide for women a thorough training in physical education which would fit them to meet as teachers the increasing need for instruction in the proper use of the body and its functions in relation to human efficiency...the school proposes to graduated only such students as will make good teachers and who are qualified to carry forward and maintain the hightest ideals of p.e. in their professional work." (First Annual Catalog, page 3, BBC, Box 48, Folder 4)

BSPE school patch, 1920s, BBC, Box 97