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Catherine Leighton Bigelow
The Michigan Alumnus 74-78
The Michigan Alumnus 74-78
Catherine Leighton Bigelow, who comes to the University as Director of Physical Training for Women, was born at Great Falls, N. H., in 1878. Her home, however, has always been near Boston, where she was graduated from the Norwood High School and in 1897 from the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, which has now become the Department of Hygiene and Physical Training of Wellesley College. She then became assistant in the same institution and later in structor in Madame Osterberg's Phys ical Training College at Dartford, England.
She returned to America
as Director of Physical Training at
the State Normal School at Hyannis,
Mass., later giving up this position
to become instructor in physical train
ing at the West Roxbury High School
at Boston, Mass. The year 1907-08, she spent in study at the University
of Chicago under leave of absence.
She is a member of the American
Physical Education Association, and
an honorary member of Madame Os
terberg's Society of Trained Gymnas
tic Teachers, as well as of the Alum
ni Association of the Boston Normal
School of Gymnastics.