Monica Rosina Wild (1891-1947). Papers, (1923-1954). 5 linear feet.
Monica Wild joined the UNI faculty in 1913 as an instructor in the Department of Physical Education. From 1919 until 1931 she was Professor and Acting Head of the department. Then in 1931 she was named full head of the Department of Physical Education for Women, a position she held until her death from a stroke in 1947.
This collection contains a variety of materials from reel-to-reel films and cassettes to books and handwritten notes. The collection consists mainly of a subject file on topics of interest in the field of physical education for children and women. The file contains films, cassettes of lectures, handwritten notes on classroom activities, correspondence, and notes on developing content areas. Box 4 also contains information on the Women's Athletic Association. Boxes 5 and 6 contain Wild's thesis, and short films used in her research are located in Box 7.
Alcohol, 1943-1946
Athletic Conference of American College Women, 1927-1931
Cedar Falls recreation, 1944, 1948
Child health workshop, 1946
Curriculum Committee
Dysmenorrhea, 1945
Department of Public Instruction-Subcommittee on Physical, Health, and Safety Education-elementary teachers handbook, 1940-1941
"Value of Educational Athletics" - paper, 1931
Elements of motor skills, student test records, 1941-1951
Games and songs, 1935, 1939, 1944
Health education
"Iowa Plan" for Physical Education, 1934-1948
Kinesiology, 1934-1954
Overnight camps handbooks, 1947-1949
May pole dance instruction
PEW 113 - Physical education for the elementary grades, 1948-1952
Physical education uniforms, 1950
Physical exam cards
Play
Play and playgrounds
Play and recreation
Play and recreational leadership
Play Day, 1927-1930
School health problems, 1950
State health tests, 1940-1945
Swimming
Swimming Committee, 1942
Teaching of swimming and basketball, 1923-1951
Monica Wild and Doris E. White text "Physical Education for Elementary Schools", 1936-1946
Women's Athletic Association, 1925-1939
"The Behavior Pattern of Throwing and Some Observations Concerning its Course of Development in Children" by Monica Rosina Wild, 1937, chapters I-VI
"The Behavior Pattern of Throwing and Some Observations Concerning its Course of Development in Children" by Monica Rosina Wild, 1937, chapters VII-XI
"Prenatal Development in Motor Behavior" by Monica Wild, 1936
Films:
Copper print block with "In memory of Monica Wild" engraved on it - used to dedicate books
Cassettes:
Physical examination records
"The Sportswoman", October 1926, December 1929-June 1933 (incomplete)
Mounted results of women's track, tennis, basketball, hiking and swimming events for spring 1925
Camping trip scrapbook page
Dance music from Monica Wild
Rhea B. Marble dance music: Free and Easy Polka for Piano Forte; Dance Exercises; Twenty Dance Studies; Melodies, Bar and Technique for Dance Studio; An Introduction to the English Country Dance; School Rhythms for Kindergarten and Lower Primary Grades; Studies
"The Cycle of the Hours"
Book A of miscellaneous music from Rhea B. Marble
Loose sheet music from Monica Wild
Number 1 Accompaniment for Dance Technique
Miscellaneous dances like Western and Tango
Finding aid created by Susan A. Basye, Special Collections and University Archives, March 1999.