Ethel A. Grosscup

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Ethel A. Grosscup
A young white woman with dark hair, either short or dressed to the nape
Ethel A. Grosscup, from a 1915 newspaper
Born
Ethel Amanda Grosscup

July 1891
Wenonah, New Jersey
DiedMay 29, 1949 (age 57)
Montclair, New Jersey
OccupationPhysical educator
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Ethel Amanda Grosscup (July 1891 – May 29, 1949) was an American physical educator and child health consultant, based in New Jersey.

Early life and education[edit]

Grosscup was raised in Wenonah, New Jersey,[1] the daughter of Edward Everett Grosscup and Anna Josephine Swaney Grosscup.[2] She graduated from Goucher College in 1914[3] and trained further as a physical educator at the New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics. She earned a master's degree at New York University in 1931, with a thesis titled "Juvenile delinquency fluctuations in areas with and without playgrounds."[4]

While in college, Grosscup was president of the Goucher Athletic Association, and a member of the basketball team. She also competed in swimming, diving, gymnastics, baseball, and hockey events, and was active in dramatics, student government, and music programs.[5] She was part of Goucher's delegation to a YWCA convention on Lake George in 1911.[6]

Career[edit]

In 1915, Grosscup was appointed chair of the English department and director of athletics at the International Institute for Girls in Spain, a Protestant school run by American missionary Alice Gordon Gulick.[5][7][8] She was director of physical education at Hollins College in Virginia from 1916 to 1920. During World War I, she volunteered to train hundreds of young women for work with the Red Cross, and to create a "coast patrol guard" of young women, from a base camp on land she owned in New Jersey.[9]

Grosscup became head of the physical training department at Montclair State Normal School in New Jersey in 1920.[10] In 1922, she staged an original outdoor pageant in Montclair, titled A College Medley, as a benefit for Goucher College; it included dozens of school children and clubwomen in the large cast.[11][12] She was assistant director of physical training for the New Jersey Board of Education until she resigned in 1928,[13] and an advisor to the National Tuberculosis Association in the early 1930s.[14] She spoke about tuberculosis prevention to students at the University of Missouri,[15] and before other community groups.[16][17] In 1930, she helped plan "health trails" for local Girl Scout councils in Binghamton and Newburgh.[18]

In 1931, Grosscup gave a lecture on child health at the New York School of Social Work. She spoke at the American Physical Education Association state and regional conferences in Atlantic City in 1926,[19] Louisville in 1931,[20] and in Jacksonville in 1932.[21] She organized the Round Table Child Health Conference in Syracuse, and gave a paper at the World Federation of Education Associations conference.[20]

Publications[edit]

  • "Physical Education Progress in the Rural Districts of New Jersey" (1927)[22]
  • "The Value of Rest and Sleep" (1931)[23]

Personal life[edit]

Grosscup died suddenly in 1949, at the age of 57, in Montclair.[24]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "New Jersey Girl Appointed Instructor in School in Spain", Evening Public Ledger, September 1, 1915. Accessed January 18, 2024. "At 23 years of age, Miss Ethel A. Grosscup, of Wenonah, N. J., has received appointment to the chair of English at the International Institute for Girls In Spain."
  2. ^ "Grosscup Dies, Ill Short Time; Had Notable Public and Business Career". Press of Atlantic City. 1933-12-07. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-01-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Donnybrook Fair 1915. Goucher College. p. 33.
  4. ^ United States Office of Education (1932). Recent Theses in Education: An Annotated List of 242 Theses Deposited with the Office of Education and Available for Loan. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 27.
  5. ^ a b "New Jersey Girl Appointed Instructor in School in Spain". Evening Public Ledger. 1915-09-01. p. 10. Retrieved 2024-01-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Will Represent Goucher". Baltimore Sun. June 17, 1911. p. 8. Retrieved January 17, 2024 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  7. ^ "International Institute for Girls in Spain". The Mount Holyoke. 25 (2): 135. October 1915.
  8. ^ "American Girl Taught Spain's Queen to Dance". Boston Post. June 1, 1916. p. 8.
  9. ^ "A Coast Patrol Guard Composed of Girls Likely for New Jersey Coast". The Daily Record. 1917-04-09. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-01-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "News of New Jersey Educational Institutions: Montclair State Normal School". Education Bulletin. 7 (4): 55. December 1920.
  11. ^ "Goucher College Benefit". The Montclair Times. 1922-05-27. p. 13. Retrieved 2024-01-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Many Join in Benefit to be Given for Goucher College". The Montclair Times. 1922-06-03. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-01-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "State Educators Distribute Funds". The Morning Post. 1928-06-05. p. 12. Retrieved 2024-01-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Child Health Committee Holds Meeting Tuesday" The Sunday Star (June 4, 1933): A8. via Library of Congress
  15. ^ "Warns Students of Tuberculosis; Miss Grosscup Says 15-45 Age Group Hardest Hit". Columbia Missourian. 1932-10-18. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-01-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Favors Physical Education; Miss Ethel A. Grosscup Heard by Glen Ridge Home and School Group Monday". The Montclair Times. 1927-02-19. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-01-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Radio Address by Mr. Hoover Dinner Number; Part of Program for Ontario Committee on Tuberculosis". The Daily Messenger. 1930-11-18. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-01-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "'Health Trail' is Planned in Girl Scouting". Press and Sun-Bulletin. 1930-11-17. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-01-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "New Jersey Physical Education Association". Mind and Body. 33 (352): 237. September–October 1926.
  20. ^ a b National Tuberculosis Association (1923). Report. pp. 5 (1932), 11 (1933), 17 (1932).
  21. ^ "Southern Physical Education Association". Journal of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. 3 (3): 30. March 1932.
  22. ^ Grosscup, Ethel A. (April 1927). "Physical Education Progress in the Rural Districts of New Jersey". American Physical Education Review. 32 (4): 281–284. doi:10.1080/23267224.1927.10652340. ISSN 2326-7224.
  23. ^ Grosscup, Ethel A. (1931). "The Value of Rest and Sleep". The Journal of Educational Sociology. 5 (4): 245–249. doi:10.2307/2960852. ISSN 0885-3525. JSTOR 2960852.
  24. ^ "Grosscup". Verona-Cedar Grove Times. 1949-06-02. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-01-18 – via Newspapers.com.
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