Rosalind Cassidy Explained

Rosalind Cassidy
Birth Name:	Rosalind Frances Cassidy
Birth Date:	July 17, 1895
Birth Place:	Quincy, Illinois, United States
Death Date:	November 4, 1980 (85 years)
Death Place:	Montecito, California, United States
Occupation:	Physical educator, college professor

Rosalind Frances Cassidy (July 17, 1895 – November 4, 1980) was an American physical educator. She was a professor and chair of the physical education department at Mills College from 1918 to 1947, and on the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1947 to 1962.

Early life and education

Cassidy was born in Quincy, Illinois, the daughter of John Warren Cassidy and Margaret Ashbrook Cassidy. Her father ran a successful plant nursery. Her parents divorced in 1905.^[1] She attended schools in Colorado Springs, Oakland,^[2] and Tacoma, and graduated from Mills College in 1918, as a student of Elizabeth Rheem Stoner. She earned a master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1923, and an Ed.D. in 1937.^{[3] [4]} She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1950, Mills College granted her an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.^{[5] [6]}

Career

Cassidy began teaching physical education courses at her alma mater, Mills College, immediately after graduating. She was also an assistant to the college's president, Aurelia Henry Reinhardt. She became head of the physical education department in 1923,^{[7] [8]} and convenor of the School of Education and Community Services.^[9] Following in her mentor Elizabeth Rheem Stoner's footsteps, she promoted modern dance at Mills; she recruited Hanya Holm, Tina Flade, and Marian van Tuyl to teach at Mills in the 1930s, and she directed summer arts programs for dancers, writers, musicians, and visual artists.^[10]

Cassidy became a professor at UCLA in 1947. There, she taught physical education courses, and guided the merging of the men's and women's physical education programs into one department of kinesiology, the name she preferred for her field.^[11] She retired from UCLA in 1962. She gave an oral history interview to UCLA in 1967.

Cassidy was president of the American Academy of Physical Education, the Alumnae Association of Mills College,^[12] and of the National Association of Directors of Physical Education for College Women, among other leadership roles.^[13] She served on national boards of the National Camping Association, the Girl Scouts of the United States,^[14] and the National Education Association. She spoke to community groups and academic gatherings on physical education and girls' fitness.^{[15] [16] [17] [18]}

Honors

Cassidy received the Luther Halsey Gulick Award from the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation in 1956. She received the Clark W. Hetherington Award from the American Academy of Physical Education in 1966. The National Society of Physical Education for College Women named her the Amy Morris Homans Lecturer in 1970.

Publications

Books

• The New Physical Education; A Program of Naturalized Activities for Education toward Citizenship (1927, with Thomas D. Wood)^[19]
• A Handbook for Camp Counselors: A Contribution to Camping for the Pacific Camp Directors Association (1935, with Homer Bemiss)
• New Directions in Physical Education for the Adolescent Girl in High School and College (1938)
• Physical Education in the Secondary School (1940, with Laurentine B. Collins)^[20]
• Physical Fitness for Girls: A Textbook for Teacher Education and a Guide to Teachers in Curriculum Revision (1943, with Hilda Kozman)
• Fitness First: A Physical Fitness Workbook for High School Girls (1943, with Hilda Kozman)^[21]
• Group Experience: The Democratic Way (1943, with Bernice Baxter)^[22]
• Counseling Girls in a Changing Society (1947, with Hilda Kozman)
• Methods in Physical Education: An Illustrated Textbook for Students (1947, with Chester O. Jackson and Hilda Kozman)
• Group Process in Physical Education (1951)
• Curriculum Development in Physical Education (1954)
• Supervision in Physical Education: A Guide to Principles and Practices (1956, with Kimball WIles and Camille Brown)
• Counseling in the Physical Education Program (1959)^[23]
• Theory in Physical Education: A Guide to Program Change (1963, with Camille Brown
• Humanizing Physical Education: Methods for the Secondary School Movement Program (1974, with Stratton F. Caldwell)

Articles and essays

• "A Camp Summer School Housed in Comfortable Residence Halls" (1927)^[24]
• "How College Girls Make a May Pageant" (1927)^[25]
• "Relating Hygiene and Physical Education to the Life of the Student" (1927)^[26]
• "The Western Society of Departments of Physical Education for College Women" (1932)^[27]
• "New Directions in Physical Education" (1940)^[28]
• "The Concept of Integration as it Functions in Health Education" (1941)
• "Guiding Social Learning" (1942, with Bernice Baxter)^[29]
• "Trends in State Wartime Physical Fitness Programs" (1943, with Hilda Kozman)^[30]
• "Education-Trained Women Contribute to Social Progress in the Home" (1943)^[31]
• "Careers for Women" (1944)^[32]
• "How Colleges Can Meet the Crisis of Increased Enrollment" (1957)^[33]
• "Space Age Conference" (1958, with Camille Brown)^[34]
• "The Cultural Definition Of Physical Education" (1965)^[35]
• "Societal Determinants of Human Movement—The Next Thirty Years" (1971)^[36]

Personal life

Cassidy died in 1980, at the age of 85, at a retirement home in Montecito, California.

External links

• Caldwell, Stratton F. "Conceptions of Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America: Rosalind Cassidy" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California, 1966). A doctoral dissertation written about Cassidy during her lifetime.

Notes and References

1. https://static.library.ucla.edu/oralhistory/pdf/masters/21198-zz0008z7c8-5-master.pdf "Interview of Rosalind Cassidy"
2. News: 1911-12-23 . Clever Farces are Presented by Pupils . 12 . Oakland Tribune . 2023-07-04 . Newspapers.com.
3. News: 1936-03-22 . Mills Leader is Honored . 3 . Oakland Tribune . 2023-07-04 . Newspapers.com.
4. News: 1936-07-29 . Oakland Teachers Now at Columbia . 7 . Oakland Tribune . 2023-07-04 . Newspapers.com.
5. Handy, Donald, Ben W. Miller, and Camille Brown. "Rosalind Cassidy, Physical Education: Los Angeles" In Memorial Files, UCLA; at California Digital Library.
6. News: 1950-06-07 . Mills College Honors Dr. Cassidy of UCLA . 36 . The Los Angeles Times . 2023-07-04 . Newspapers.com.
7. News: 1929-12-22 . Mills Teacher Heads Society . 11 . Oakland Tribune . 2023-07-04 . Newspapers.com.
8. News: 1938-04-15 . Physical Education Leaders Inspect Local Schools . 19 . The Salt Lake Tribune . 2023-07-04 . Newspapers.com.
9. Caldwell . Stratton F. . March 1981 . In Memoriam: Rosalind Cassidy 1895–1980 . Journal of Physical Education and Recreation . en . 52 . 3 . 26 . 10.1080/00971170.1981.10629080 . 0097-1170.
10. Web site: Fries . Jane . 2019-06-11 . Dancing with Destiny: The origins of the Mills dance department . 2023-07-04 . Mills Quarterly . en-US.
11. Book: Nidiffer . Jana . Women Administrators in Higher Education: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives . Bashaw . Carolyn Terry . 2001-01-04 . SUNY Press . 978-0-7914-4818-2 . 206, note 75 . en.
12. Book: Mills College . Class Register of the Alumnae Association, Mills College [1857-1925]. ]. 1925 . Mills College . 3 . en.
13. News: 1951-04-15 . Academy Honors Rosalind Cassidy . 21 . Oakland Tribune . 2023-07-04 . Newspapers.com.
14. News: 1947-11-09 . Dr. Cassidy Wins Post . 75 . Oakland Tribune . 2023-07-04 . Newspapers.com.
15. News: 1939-03-13 . Rosalind Cassidy is Speaker for Recreation Assoc. . 8 . Stockton Evening and Sunday Record . 2023-07-04 . Newspapers.com.
16. News: 1943-01-28 . Dr. Rosalind Cassidy Speaks Here Twice Next Week . 12 . Stockton Evening and Sunday Record . 2023-07-04 . Newspapers.com.
17. News: Rood . Alice Ryan . 1938-01-10 . Girl Scout Leaders to Hold Dinner . 6 . Oakland Tribune . 2023-07-04 . Newspapers.com.
18. News: Johnson . Idamae . 1925-03-16 . Camp Fire Girls' Council to Meet Tomorrow Night; Miss Rosalind Cassidy of Mills College to Address Assemblage . 6 . Stockton Evening and Sunday Record . 2023-07-04 . Newspapers.com.
19. Book: Wood . Thomas Denison . The New Physical Education: A Program of Naturalized Activities for Education Toward Citizenship . Cassidy . Rosalind . 1927 . Macmillan . en.
20. Book: Collins . Laurentine B. . Physical Education in the Secondary School . Cassidy . Rosalind Frances . 1940 . A. S. Barnes . en.
21. Book: Kozman . Hilda Clute . Fitness First: A Physical Fitness Workbook for High School Girls . Cassidy . Rosalind . 1943 . A. S. Barnes, incorporated . en.
22. Book: Baxter . Bernice . Group Experience: The Democratic Way . Cassidy . Rosalind . 1943 . Harper . en.
23. Book: Cassidy, Rosalind . Counseling in the Physical Education Program . 1959 . Appleton-Century-Crofts . 978-0-89197-115-3 . en.
24. Cassidy . Rosalind . January 1927 . A Camp Summer School Housed in Comfortable Residence Halls . School Life . 12 . 94–96.
25. Cassidy . Rosalind . December 1927 . How College Girls Make a May Pageant . American Physical Education Review . en . 32 . 10 . 746–755 . 10.1080/23267224.1927.10651914 . 2326-7224.
26. Cassidy . Rosalind . May 1927 . Relating Hygiene and Physical Education to the Life of the Student . American Physical Education Review . en . 32 . 5 . 357–358 . 10.1080/23267224.1927.10652549 . 2326-7224.
27. Cassidy . Rosalind . May 1932 . The Western Society of Departments of Physical Education for College Women . The Journal of Health and Physical Education . en . 3 . 5 . 7–52 . 10.1080/23267240.1932.10626469 . 2326-7240.
28. Cassidy . Rosalind . September 1940 . New Directions in Physical Education . The Journal of Health and Physical Education . en . 11 . 7 . 408–446 . 10.1080/23267240.1940.10622703 . 2326-7240.
29. Baxter . Bernice . Cassidy . Rosalind . October 1942 . Guiding Social Learning . Childhood Education . en . 19 . 2 . 64–68 . 10.1080/00094056.1942.10725692 . 0009-4056.
30. Cassidy . Rosalind . Kozman . Hilda Clute . September 1943 . Trends in State Wartime Physical Fitness Programs . The Journal of Health and Physical Education . en . 14 . 7 . 357–393 . 10.1080/23267240.1943.10623094 . 2326-7240.
31. Cassidy . Rosalind . December 1943 . Education-Jrained Women Contribute to Social Progress in the Home . Pi Lambda Theta Journal . 22 . 2 . 50–55 . 42918711 . 2374-3093.
32. Cassidy . Rosalind . 1944 . Careers for Women . The Journal of Educational Sociology . 17 . 8 . 479–491 . 10.2307/2263109 . 2263109 . 0885-3525.
33. Cassidy . Rosalind . October 1957 . How Colleges Can Meet the Crisis of Increased Enrollment . Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation . en . 28 . 7 . 23–24 . 10.1080/00221473.1957.10628586 . 0022-1473.
34. Cassidy . Rosalind . Brown . Camille . September 1958 . Space Age Conference . Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation . en . 29 . 6 . 16–17 . 10.1080/00221473.1958.10630940 . 0022-1473.
35. Cassidy . Rosalind . April 1965 . The Cultural Definition Of Physical Education . Quest . en . 4 . 1 . 11–15 . 10.1080/00336297.1965.10519577 . 0033-6297.
36. Cassidy . Rosalind . June 1971 . Societal Determinants of Human Movement—The Next Thirty Years . Quest . en . 16 . 1 . 48–54 . 10.1080/00336297.1971.10519712 . 0033-6297.