Springfield College

Robert W. Straub was born in San Francisco, California on May 6, 1920. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees in Business Administration at Dartmouth College. During World War II, Straub served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. In 1994, he married his wife Pat, who was influential during his governor years, and had five children. Him and his wife moved to Oregon in 1946 and Straub became a builder and developer in Eugene. Straub is not only known as a…

The game of basketball as it is known today was created by Dr.ions James Naismith in December 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to condition young athletes during cold months. He only had 13 rules to the game at first. The first professional league was founded in 1888. There were only six teams in the league. The first champions were the Trenton Nationals and other teams in the future but the league was abandoned in 1904. Then, many small championships were organized, but most of them were not…

winning. Naismith’s love of sports, degree in physical education, and a job at the YMCA led him to discover the need for an indoor sport which is known today as basketball. James Naismith loved physical activities and sports as a kid. When he went to college he studied all the time. One day three of his friends invited him to a game of soccer which he watched for the first time. The next day he had nothing to do, so he went to the gymnasium where they were playing soccer and he joined in. He…

many knuckles. In the same fashion later on, his sketches in Dartmouth College’s rag the Jack’o ‘Lantern. Throughout his career Dr. Seuss wrote about topics close to his heart and experiences that shaped his life and perspective of his youth in Springfield Massachusetts.…

to likelihood to succeed in life or trend toward the 21 century construction of the school to prison pipeline often found in cities like Springfield Ma. While reading and literacy was one of Dr Seuss. Missions to answer I wonder what he would consider doing to address the discriminative educational and economic impacts affecting poor communities like Springfield who in research highlighted in Kathryn McDermott work impacting community distribution of taxes to fund things other then educational…

is Mr. Mathias. The reason that I would like to have them as teachers is because I think that they seem very nice, fun and be a great teacher. I am excited to see how next year will go. I can’t wait to go back to Springfield again for another field trip. Last was very fun in Springfield and I think that it will be more fun this upcoming year in 8th grade. I know that Outward Ingersoll isn’t until the end of the year but I am very excited to be able to experience it with my friends. I think that…

finding scraps from other sports and has turned into a sport. Plus now there are jobs that are manufacturing products for this sport that started out very small, in a school gymnasium. How was basketball created It was 1891, A winter day in Springfield, Massachusetts. Which depending on the day is about 15 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit. There was a Physical Education teacher named James Naismith, he wanted to have a class outdoors. Unfortunately, it was too cold outside. It wasn’t not just too…

Samuel Perry Jacks, also known as Sam Jacks was born in Glasgow, Scotland on April 23, 1915. He immigrated to Canada in 1920. He is best known for the invention of floor hockey and ringette. Jacks began as an assistant physical director at the West End YMCA in Toronto until 1940, after 1940 he was a member of the Army until he returned to the YMCA to create the Toronto Boy’s club, becoming its first president. In 1936 he designed and created the game of floor hockey, and developed the very first…

created an amazing sport played worldwide! Not many people could do what James Naismith did. Now people have a way to stay fit, or to have fun indoors. The inventor of basketball (James Naismith) was a Physical Education teacher at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts (Gels). Born In Almonte, Ontario on November 6, 1861, this average man had created an international sport (Gels). In the year 1891 while working at the YMCA, Naismith was given an important…

life started out like many others of his time. He was born Theodor “Ted” Seuss Geisel on May 2, 1904 in the city of Springfield Massachusetts, which is where he would grow up. His father, Theodor Robert Geisel, was the son of a German immigrant and owned a brewery before prohibition. After losing his job at the brewery, Theodor Robert took a job as commissioner of parks in Springfield. Seuss’s mother, Henrietta Seuss Geisel, was also the child of a German immigrant, but she worked as a home…