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The Springfield Student (vol. 128, no. 1) Sept. 12, 2013
No full text“The Springfield Student” was first published in 1909 in the Association Seminar, an alumni publication. The portion published in the Association Seminar has been digitized and can be seen in The Springfield College Alumni Magazine Collection (http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16122coll3/searchterm/The%20Springfield%20Student/field/spring/mode/all/conn/and/order/date). Generally, “The Springfield Student” includes information about student organizations, athletics, alumni, and events. It also occasionally includes student poetry and fiction, as well as the conclusions of student-designed research. As the publication evolved, “The Springfield Student” began including editorials on world events and popular culture, as well as letters to the editor. Originally, the “Springfield Student” was published monthly from October through June, and its formatting resembled a magazine. In October 1913, the cover illustration simplified to only the title, the date, and the capital letter “S,” but the content and structure remained unchanged. On September 27, 1916, “The Springfield Student” was reformatted to resemble a newspaper: the pages decreased from around thirty to just four, it no longer included a cover, and it became a weekly publication. In the inaugural weekly issue, the editors explained the motivation behind the change: “To sustain the intimate and helpful relations that our Alumni and College should stress we feel that a weekly news publication is the best possible medium. [...] It is the purpose of the Staff to cover all College and Student Association activities in a very live way, reporting athletic contests in brief snappy articles, and giving members of the Alumni Associations space for contributions and newsy items.” During October 1917, in acknowledgement of the limited resources and significantly smaller student body caused by the United States’ involvement in World War I, the “The Springfield Student” ceased its weekly publication and instead published a few pages each month in the “The Association Seminar.” Two years later, October 1919, “The Springfield Student” resumed weekly publication. In this first issue, the editors wrote that they wanted to re-establish the newspaper “as the mouthpiece or spokesman of the student body.
Website Page: Monument recognizing basketball birthplace in Mason Square Springfield helped by lifelong city resident Aaron Williams (July 18, 2010)
No full textThis is a website page on Masslive.com containing an article titled, "Monument recognizing basketball birthplace in Mason Square Springfield helped by lifelong city resident Aaron Williams". The article was written by Ron Chimelis and published in the Springfield Republican on July 18, 2010. The website page was accessed and the pages printed out on June 3, 2013. The article talks about the monument celebrating the creation of basketball on Mason Square. Aaron Williams was the driving force in the creation of the monument. There is history of the site and the creation of basketball within. There are 9 pages from the website. Comments made by readers make up the last pages.The building has been known by many different names over the years including the Winchester Square Building, the Mason Square building and the Armory Hill building. Construction on the building was completed in the spring of 1886 and it was dedicated on June 1 of that year. The building consisted of a reading room, gymnasium, parlor, a recitation room, an amusement room and fifty sleeping rooms. The Armory Hill YMCA also rented rooms in the building. In 1891 James Naismith, while a faculty member at the school, invented the game of basketball in the gymnasium of the building. In 1890 the School for Christian Workers separated into two schools which continued to operate out of the same building, the YMCA Training School and the School for Christian Workers. In 1896 the Training School, now Springfield College, finished the transition to its new location on Alden Street and in 1897 the School for Christian Workers became the Bible Normal College and moved to Hartford, Connecticut. The original building was torn down in 1965 to create a parking lot. In 1995, McDonald’s Corporation bought the land, excavating the original foundation and bricks before building a restaurant on the site. Today, there is a monument commemorating the site as the birthplace of basketball
Finding Aid: RG103 YMCA Hall of Fame Papers
No full textThis collection documents both the establishment and organization of the YMCA Hall of Fame at Springfield College and the nomination and induction processes from the institution’s founding in 1985 to the present. The collection continues to grow as new nominees are inducted and as the by-laws and committees change.
Information about the initial establishment and history of the Hall of Fame at Springfield College, including correspondence with attorneys and applications to patent and/or copyright the term “YMCA Hall of Fame,” are included in Series 1: History and Governance. This series includes several lists of committee chairmen, committee members, nominees, and inductees as well as minutes, memos, and draft documents from committee meetings. Official documents such as the Hall of Fame by-laws and selection processes can also be found in this series. In addition, there is memorabilia from the Hall of Fame, including a banner, and the plaque and listing books from the original physical Hall of Fame.
The bulk of the YMCA Hall of Fame collection can be found in Series 2: Annual Induction Ceremonies and Nominations. This series contains information related to the individual induction ceremonies which were first held annually from 1985 to 2007 (with the exception of 2005) and then held every three years beginning in 2007. Although the same materials are not available for every year in this series, almost every year contains programs from the induction ceremony as well as nomination and biographical information on that year’s inductees. Nomination and biographical materials are varied; there are nomination forms and letters, other correspondence, résumés, memos, newspaper and magazine articles by and/or about the inductees, YMCA publications, etc. Other materials in Series 2 include: videos and photographs of the induction ceremonies, oral histories of the inductees, photographs of the induction ceremonies and portraits of the inductees, invitations to the induction ceremonies, plaques of inductees, and committee memos, correspondence, budgets, and scheduling and planning information.For more information, visit https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/44
The 2013 YMCA Hall of Fame Induction Program
No full textThe 2013 YMCA Hall of Fame Induction Program contains information from the Honoree Induction Ceremonies for the YMCA Hall of Fame at Springfield College. The program has information about the YMCA Hall of Fame at Springfield; biographies of the 2013 Inductees, including John Casey, Hugo Grassi, Armin F. Leuhrs, Quentin R. Mease, Tracy Strong, Luther D. Wishard, Luther D. Wishard, Silver Bay YMCA, Paul William Alexander, William M. Barnhardt, Anthony Bowen, Joe Friday, Howard Hopkins, Christian Commission, James M. Stokes, Thomas Sullivan and Peter Ziegler ; the complete roster of the honorees from 1984 through 2013. There are a number of historical pictures contained in the program as well
Finding Aid: RG111- School for Christian Workers Building (Original School Building) Records
No full textThis is the finding aid for RG111 - The School for Christian Workers Building (Original School Building) Records collection in the Springfield College Archives and Special Collection. This collection documents the first school building for Springfield College, at the time the School for Christian Workers, located on the corner of Sherman and State Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. Included in the collection are photographs and negatives of the outside of the building dating from around 1885 to 1946. Interior shots of the building, including one of the few photographs of the gymnasium where James Naismith created basketball as well as pictures of the early library and dorm rooms in the building, are included. There is also a newspaper article that talks about the removal of the original steps and their donation to the Basketball Hall of Fame, and an article that talks about Frank Wolcott’s, Springfield College Faculty member and long-time Gymnastics Coach, retrieval of bricks from the basement of the building of which one is in this collection. There are two bricks from this retrieval within the collection. Materials, including the printed text and copies of the murals and photographs of the Monument for the creation of Basketball erected at Mason Square in the summer of 2010 and some newspaper articles on the monument, are represented in one folder. Within the folder about the original bricks are also photographs (included ones with Coach Frank Wolcott), newspaper articles, correspondence, and invitations on the dedication of the McDonald’s at Mason Square. And within the photographs are some images of the McDonalds that now sits on the site of the Original School Building. Finally there are a group of letters from alum and supporters of the school regarding donations for the furnishing of the rooms for the students from 1885-1888.The building has been known by many different names over the years, including the Winchester Square building, Mason Square building and the Armory Hill building. The reasons for the variety of names are as follows; the building was constructed adjacent to the Hope Church (formerly Hope Chapel) on Armory Hill on the corner of State and Sherman Streets in the Winchester Square section of Springfield (also known as Winchester Park or Triangle). The area was named after Springfield’s mayor at that time, Charles A. Winchester.
In 1987 Winchester Square was changed to Mason Square, after Primus Masonwho originally owned the land during the mid 1800s. Primus Mason (1817-1892) was an influential African-American businessman who invested his money in real estate in Springfield. By 1888 he was one of the wealthiest citizens of the city and when he died in 1892 he left his money to found the Springfield Home for Aged Men which is now the Mason-Wright Retirement Community on Walnut Street.
The School's leaders were determined in December 1884 that 5,500, and a building committee was created to propose a plan for the School for Christian Workers building. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Francis R. Richmond and B. Hammett Seabury and built by E.W. Shattuck Co.
From the time the School began in January of 1885 until the time the building was completed, classes were held in the Hope Church where David Allen Reed (the School’s founder and first president) was the minister. In March of 1886, students moved into their rooms in the new building and on April 1 of that year construction was completed. The School for Christian Workers building was officially dedicated on June 1, 1886.
According to the November 7, 1885 issue of the Springfield Daily Union and a 1923 copy of The Springfield Student, the building consisted of several spaces: a reading room (26 X 18 feet), a gymnasium (49 X 41 feet), a recitation room for evening classes (16 X 20 feet), an amusement room for quiet games (14 X 20 feet), a parlor, and the secretary's cozy room (14 X 16 feet). The building also contained 50 sleeping rooms designed to comfortably accommodate 75 students on the third and fourth floors. In May of 1886, the Armory Hill YMCA began renting rooms in the building and utilizing the gymnasium. Jacob Bowne, chair of the Armory Hill YMCA and head of the School's YMCA department, donated his volumes as the nucleus for a library and the kitchen at the time was located in Hope Church.
In his third annual report on September 1886, Jacob Bowne included a detailed list of the gymnastics equipment on site: punching bags; chest developers; wrist, forearm, and abdominal machines; chest and rowing weights; giant and floor pullies; horizontal, parallel, and breast bars; climbing ropes and poles; quarter circle rope ladder; spring board and leaping standards; flying rings and Indian clubs; wooden and iron dumbbells; two spirometers; two dynamometers as well as 100 dressing boxes, three tubs and a shower bath. Modeled after that at the Boston YMCA, the gymnasium also contained a running track, gymnastics apparatus, bathrooms and water closets, and dressing rooms.
The School for Christian Workers consisted of two departments; a YMCA department and a Sunday school department. The Young Men’s Christian Association Training School, established in 1887, included a Secretarial Department, preparing students for secretary work in the YMCA, as well as a Physical (Gymnasium) Department, preparing students to become physical directors in the YMCA. The second department of the School was a Sunday School Workers’ Training School which prepared Christian laymen for the work either of a Sunday School Missionary, Pastors’-Helper, or Sunday School Superintendent.
On June 10, 1890 the departments of the School for Christian Workers separated into two separate schools: the School for Christian Workers and the Young Men’s Christian Association Training School (now Springfield College). Both schools continued to share the building in Winchester Square until 1896, when the Training School moved to its present location on Massasoit Lake (formerly Watershops Pond). Initially, according to the September 19th, 1890 trustee records, it was agreed that the YMCA Training School would purchase the original school building from the School for Christian Workers. On January 9, 1891, during the International YMCA Training School Trustee Meeting, that decision was rescinded because land on Alden Street became available that was more suited for the needs of the Training School. The thirty acres of land were purchased from two prominent Springfield families looking to settle an estate. Soon after, the School purchased the adjoining land from William R. Purple which added another 450 feet to the school’s waterfront. In 1894, the first building on the new land, Judd Gymnasia was constructed and in 1896 the first dormitory. In 1896 the transfer of the International YMCA Training School to the new campus was complete. In 1897 the School for Christian Workers became the Bible Normal College and moved to Hartford, Connecticut to share the resources of the Hartford Seminary.
The original School for Christian Workers building has significant historic value as it is where the game of basketball was invented by James Naismith and the site of the first game in 1891. In 1965 the building was torn down and the land paved to create a parking lot. In 1995 the land was purchased by the McDonald’s Corporation who was unaware of the significance of the property. When construction began on the new restaurant, the site was excavated exposing the original cellar and bricks of the School for Christian Workers building. The McDonald’s restaurant that now stands on the corner of State and Sherman streets has a monument commemorating the site and is decorated with NBA pennants from most NBA teams as well as portraits donated by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Springfield College Yearbook, 2013
No full textThis is the Springfield College Massasoit yearbook for 2013. Before 1904 Springfield College did not have an official Yearbook, but had publications of various levels of expertise. These included printed "Class Books" and “Class Histories” for various years from 1894 to 1903. As far as we know there were no yearbook-like-documents produced before 1894. After 1904 the yearbook has been called the Massasoit, named after Lake Massasoit upon the shores of which the college sits. Most yearbooks contain information on graduating students, activities of the proceeding years, pictures of faculty and staff, athletic team pictures and information, club information, and pictures and text outlining class histories and the graduating seniors, and other information deemed appropriate by the editors. There were no yearbooks produced from 1918-1919 and 1944-1946.Physical Object; Text
The Springfield Student (vol. 128, no. 8) Oct. 31, 2013
No full text“The Springfield Student” was first published in 1909 in the Association Seminar, an alumni publication. The portion published in the Association Seminar has been digitized and can be seen in The Springfield College Alumni Magazine Collection (http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16122coll3/searchterm/The%20Springfield%20Student/field/spring/mode/all/conn/and/order/date). Generally, “The Springfield Student” includes information about student organizations, athletics, alumni, and events. It also occasionally includes student poetry and fiction, as well as the conclusions of student-designed research. As the publication evolved, “The Springfield Student” began including editorials on world events and popular culture, as well as letters to the editor. Originally, the “Springfield Student” was published monthly from October through June, and its formatting resembled a magazine. In October 1913, the cover illustration simplified to only the title, the date, and the capital letter “S,” but the content and structure remained unchanged. On September 27, 1916, “The Springfield Student” was reformatted to resemble a newspaper: the pages decreased from around thirty to just four, it no longer included a cover, and it became a weekly publication. In the inaugural weekly issue, the editors explained the motivation behind the change: “To sustain the intimate and helpful relations that our Alumni and College should stress we feel that a weekly news publication is the best possible medium. [...] It is the purpose of the Staff to cover all College and Student Association activities in a very live way, reporting athletic contests in brief snappy articles, and giving members of the Alumni Associations space for contributions and newsy items.” During October 1917, in acknowledgement of the limited resources and significantly smaller student body caused by the United States’ involvement in World War I, the “The Springfield Student” ceased its weekly publication and instead published a few pages each month in the “The Association Seminar.” Two years later, October 1919, “The Springfield Student” resumed weekly publication. In this first issue, the editors wrote that they wanted to re-establish the newspaper “as the mouthpiece or spokesman of the student body.
Little Gifts by Carolyn Creager (2013)
No full textThis 19 page document is titled "Little Gifts". It was written and delivered at the 2013 YMCA EMLE (Emerging Multicultural Leadership Experience) conference by Carolyn Creager. In the lecture, Carolyn Creager talks about her life and her motivating influences. There are photographs of her, her family, and her friends within the text.For more information on Carolyn Creager, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/912A print copy has been created and placed within the physical collection.
The Springfield Student (vol. 127, no. 18) Feb. 28, 2013
No full text“The Springfield Student” was first published in 1909 in the Association Seminar, an alumni publication. The portion published in the Association Seminar has been digitized and can be seen in The Springfield College Alumni Magazine Collection (http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16122coll3/searchterm/The%20Springfield%20Student/field/spring/mode/all/conn/and/order/date). Generally, “The Springfield Student” includes information about student organizations, athletics, alumni, and events. It also occasionally includes student poetry and fiction, as well as the conclusions of student-designed research. As the publication evolved, “The Springfield Student” began including editorials on world events and popular culture, as well as letters to the editor. Originally, the “Springfield Student” was published monthly from October through June, and its formatting resembled a magazine. In October 1913, the cover illustration simplified to only the title, the date, and the capital letter “S,” but the content and structure remained unchanged. On September 27, 1916, “The Springfield Student” was reformatted to resemble a newspaper: the pages decreased from around thirty to just four, it no longer included a cover, and it became a weekly publication. In the inaugural weekly issue, the editors explained the motivation behind the change: “To sustain the intimate and helpful relations that our Alumni and College should stress we feel that a weekly news publication is the best possible medium. [...] It is the purpose of the Staff to cover all College and Student Association activities in a very live way, reporting athletic contests in brief snappy articles, and giving members of the Alumni Associations space for contributions and newsy items.” During October 1917, in acknowledgement of the limited resources and significantly smaller student body caused by the United States’ involvement in World War I, the “The Springfield Student” ceased its weekly publication and instead published a few pages each month in the “The Association Seminar.” Two years later, October 1919, “The Springfield Student” resumed weekly publication. In this first issue, the editors wrote that they wanted to re-establish the newspaper “as the mouthpiece or spokesman of the student body.
Website page: Mason Square monument honors first basketball game during Hall of Fame enshrinement week (August 9, 2010)
No full textThis is website that was downloaded from Masslive.com containing an article titled, "Mason Square monument honors first basketball game during Hall of Fame enshrinement week". The article was published in the Springfield Republican on August 9, 2010. The website page was accessed and the article printed out on June 3, 2013. The article talks about the unveiling of the monument honoring the spot where basketball was first played in 1891. The article describes the monument and the festivities at it's unveiling. There are four pages. Much of the pages contain links to other stories and advertising. Also, the photos from the article do not appear.The building has been known by many different names over the years including the Winchester Square Building, the Mason Square building and the Armory Hill building. Construction on the building was completed in the spring of 1886 and it was dedicated on June 1 of that year. The building consisted of a reading room, gymnasium, parlor, a recitation room, an amusement room and fifty sleeping rooms. The Armory Hill YMCA also rented rooms in the building. In 1891 James Naismith, while a faculty member at the school, invented the game of basketball in the gymnasium of the building. In 1890 the School for Christian Workers separated into two schools which continued to operate out of the same building, the YMCA Training School and the School for Christian Workers. In 1896 the Training School, now Springfield College, finished the transition to its new location on Alden Street and in 1897 the School for Christian Workers became the Bible Normal College and moved to Hartford, Connecticut. The original building was torn down in 1965 to create a parking lot. In 1995, McDonald’s Corporation bought the land, excavating the original foundation and bricks before building a restaurant on the site. Today, there is a monument commemorating the site as the birthplace of basketball