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Fall 2018 www.nationalacademyofkinesiology.org/ Volume 40, No. 1 Table of Contents PRESIDENT’S COLUMN PRESIDENT’S COLUMN Preserving Our History and Preparing for Our Future. 1 Preserving Our History and Preparing for Our Future PRESIDENT-ELECT MESSAGE By Bradley J. Cardinal (#475), NAK President Ensuring the Financial Sustainability of the National Academy of Kinesiology. .5 s was shared at legally recognized as such by the Internal PAST PRESIDENT MESSAGE our recent meet- Revenue Service (i.e., we do not hold Planning for Fall 2019 Meeting Underway: A The Optimization of Human Performance . .7 ing in Chicago, Illi- 501c3 status). Our first President, R. Tait New Editor-in-Chief for Kinesiology Review . 9 nois, the National McKenzie, wrote about the need for the NEW FELLOW CITATIONS Academy of Kinesiol- Academy to establish a philanthropic arm, New Fellows Inducted at Annual Meeting. 10 ogy is entering a new including having its own endowment. In NEW FELLOW RESPONSE era. Our management our new organizational arrangement, this Diverse Group of New Fellows Honored services agreement is something that we can begin to pursue by Induction into NAK.. 16 with Human Kinetics in earnest. Brad Cardinal HETHERINGTON AWARD Publishing, Inc. has Toward this end, a Presidential Committee Dr. Jerry R. Thomas Hetherington Award Introduction. 18 Hetherington Award “means a great deal” to Jerry Thomas. 20 ended. Fortunately, Kim Scott has been on Financial Stability has been formed. Our retained as our Business Manager. All who President-Elect, Dave Perrin, has agreed It All Counts: HHS Releases Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd edition. .23 have worked with Kim know of her devotion to chair the committee. Other committee NEWS FLASH to the Academy and her commitment to members include: John Dunn, Academy Update on Science Board for The President’s its ongoing success. Her operational and President, 2007-2008; Pat Moran, who has Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. .24 organizational understanding is impres- extensive development experience and NAK MEMBER NEWS sive, and she has astounding institutional is the wife of Steve Silverman, Academy Member News.. 25 memory. President, 2006-2007; Kim Scott, our Busi- IN MEMORIAM ness Manager; Al Smith, our Secretary- NAK Honors Two Lost Legends.. 27 Financial Stability Treasurer; Lynda Ransdell, Active Fellow; NAK Executive Committee 2017-2018. ..29 During this transition, several immediate and Daniel Weeks, International Fellow. Tim needs have been identified, and we are White, Academy President 1999-2000, has working diligently to address them. For also expressed a willingness to assist in a example, while the Academy has always consulting capacity. operated as a non-profit entity, we are not Continue on Page 2 www.nationalacademyofkinesiology.org/ Page 2 Continued from page 1 President’s Column International Inclusivity review our present policies and reconsider Dyreson, has been working to help us At the Business Meeting in Chicago, we the role of International Fellows in the Acad- understand what documents we need to also discussed a motion regarding greater emy and to consider what we should do retain and transfer to the archives. inclusion of International Fellows in the work and what we can do to enhance the role of Mark is actively involved in other activi- of the Academy. This is also something that the Academy on the international scene.” ties, too, including doing some background our first President, R. Tait McKenzie wrote To address this, a Presidential Com- research on the International Fellows topic. about. McKenzie and the other founders mittee on International Fellows has been As he shared with me (personal communica- envisioned the Academy as being cosmo- formed. Diane Gill, Active Fellow (USA), has tion, November 7, 2018), “Though history is politan. In the Academy’s original consti- graciously agreed to chair this committee. not a policy science, nor, despite the cliché tution, adopted on December 31, 1930, Other committee members include: Kathleen are we doomed to repeat it if we ignore it, I “Corresponding Fellows” were described as, Martin Ginis, International Fellow (Canada); do think it’s very helpful to understand the “members of the profession in other lands Tsung-Min “Ernest” Hung, International past as we debate the future.” who have rendered outstanding service Fellow (Taiwan); Glyn Roberts, Emeritus Fellow (Norway); Cesar Torres, Active Fellow Welcome to the Beautiful Pacific in the field of physical education.” In our Northwest in 2019 current “Members of the Academy” listing, (USA); and Ron Zernicke, Senior Member- Corresponding Fellows and, it appears, at-Large, Executive Committee, who was Our Past-President, Brad Hatfield, is actively “Associate Fellows”, who were described initially inducted as an International Fellow engaged in planning the 2019 conference, as, “men and women in related fields who (Canada) and transferred to Active Fellow which will be held in Bellevue, Washington, have rendered outstanding service in the (USA) status some years later. The plan September 12-14, 2019. Bellevue is a French field of physical education” are labeled will be to present a series of motions for word meaning, “beautiful view.” Bellevue “Int’l” (i.e., International), and they do not consideration at the 2019 Business Meet- sits on the eastside of Lake Washington, carry a Fellow number. ing in Bellevue, Washington. whereas Seattle sits on the west side of the lake. Having grown up 16 miles north Glyn Roberts, the 2014 Hetherington Preserving Our History Award recipient, discussed some of these of Seattle, this is a homecoming of sorts very issues at the 75th anniversary Acad- The Academy’s incredible history is archived for me. From Bellevue on a clear day you emy conference in 2005. He subsequently in the Special Collections Library at Penn- can see, among other things, the Cascade published an eloquent paper on the topic in sylvania State University. However, some mountain range to the immediate east, 2006. He concluded that paper by recom- of our recent historical records have been including Mt. Rainier to the south and Mt. mending, “We need to rethink our stance stored at Human Kinetics Publishing, Inc. Baker to the north. on our international perspective! Perhaps in Champaign, Illinois. As we continue Of course, Bellevue and the surround- we should strike an ad hoc committee to the transition process, our Historian, Mark ing communities are what they are today Continue on Page 3 NAK Fall 2018 Volume 40, No.1 www.nationalacademyofkinesiology.org/ Page 3 Continued from page 2 President’s Column because of the countless people who rate. If you are aware of new doctoral pro- Administrative Assistant, Department of through determination and sacrifice made grams, please be sure to let the Doctoral Kinesiology, University of Maryland; Michelle them so. Some of those people contributed Program Review Committee Chair, John Klampe, Writer, News & Research Com- against their will, others because they left Challis from Pennsylvania State University munications, Oregon State University), for their homelands in the hope of a better life, know (Email: [email protected]). He has been their assistance in preparing and issuing a and some lived in the area for generations shepherding this important committee and “Press Release” about the newly inducted long before. In this region of the Pacific will, ultimately, be reporting on the results Fellows. It was distributed to individuals, Northwest, the Native American popula- during the 2020 conference in Providence, institutions, organizations, and agencies tions include the peoples of the Duwamish, Rhode Island. internationally. It is a good way to welcome Muckleshoot (Ilalkoamish, Stuckamish, and Because it is novel, and because it relates new Fellows into the Academy, inform Skopamish), Nisqually, Snoqualmie, and to the earlier point about the involvement their colleagues and superiors of their Suquamish. The native language is Salish of International Fellows in the work of the recognition, and draw attention to their (a.k.a., Lushootseed or Whulshootseed). In Academy, I do wish to highlight that Patricia achievements in a public manner. With the that tradition, I would like to politely welcome Vertinsky (International Fellow, Canada, structure now in place, this can be further you – Huy’ch’qa siem – to join us; enjoying, sub-disciplinary expertise in Socio-Cultural improved upon in the future. among other things, fellowship, food, fun, Studies and History of Physical Culture and, of course, intellectual stimulation and Studies) has kindly agreed to contribute Thanks for Giving, “A Little Bit More” the natural beauty of the region. to this committee on a special Presidential I know that change and transitions are Advisory Appointment. As an International difficult. In my brief time as President, I Doctoral Program Review Fellow she can offer unique and independent have been humbled and impressed by One of the major ongoing activities of the perspective to the work of the committee people’s graciousness and willingness National Academy of Kinesiology is the (i.e., she has no conflict of interest with the to step-up and serve as we enter a new doctoral program review, which occurs outcome). Her one-year appointment was era in the National Academy of Kinesiol- once every 5 years. The current review fully endorsed by the Executive Committee ogy’s history. cycle will encompass the timespan Janu- and was welcomed by John. Five years ago I was invited to write ary 1, 2015 – December 31, 2019. This is a guest editorial about the topic of ser- the fourth review the Academy will have Press Release for Newly Inducted vice, which was subsequently selected completed. Early indicators suggest there Fellows for redistribution in Stanford University’s has been a continuous expansion of doc- A special “thank you” to the Executive Tomorrow’s Professor (Cardinal, 2013). In toral programs in “Kinesiology,” and we are Committee and some from outside of the the piece I reviewed a “service” vs.