Luther Gulick (physician)
American physical education instructor, international basketball official, & co-founder Camp Fire Girls (1865–1918)
Luther Halsey Gulick Jr. (December 4, 1865 – August 13, 1918) was an American physical education instructor, international basketball official, and founder with his wife of the Camp Fire Girls, an international youth organization now known as Camp Fire.
Life
Gulick was born December 4, 1865, in Honolulu of the Hawaiian Kingdom. His father was missionary physician Luther Halsey Gulick Sr. and his mother was Louisa Lewis. His paternal grandparents Peter Johnson Gulick and Fanny Gulick were earlier missionaries.
He married Charlotte "Lottie" Emily Vetter of Hanover, New Hampshire in 1887.
He studied at Oberlin Academy (a preparatory department of Oberlin College) 1880–1882 and 1883–1886 and at the Sargent Normal School for physical training (now the Boston University college of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences)
He graduated from the medical school of New York University in 1889.
Gulick was founding superintendent of the physical education department of the International YMCA Training School, now Springfield College, in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1887 to 1900.
He designed a triangle logo—Spirit, Mind, & Body—representing the YMCA philosophy.
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