Scope and Contents: The records of KAHPERD reflect a variety of activities and campaigns to increase public awareness of the need for a well balanced physical education program in the state's schools and colleges. Unfortunately, there is very little documentation on the early years of the organization. This deficiency is offset somewhat by the diligent work of longtime KAHPERD officer Minnie Maude Macaulay who compiled a vast amount of information about the nascent organization in a publication entitled Progress 1909-1973. Of particular interest is the Publication Series which contains a complete set of the KAHPERD Journal. Many of the records document activities associated with the organization's annual convention. Also, there is extensive information about past presidents of the organization in a series of folders entitled "Historical and Biographical Data" in the Subject Series. KAHPERD records were originally housed for a number of years with Miss Minnie Maude Macaulay at Berea College. They were transferred to the University of Louisville Archives and Records Center and finally deposited in the Eastern Kentucky University Archives where they were organized. These records should be used in conjunction with a series of oral history interviews about physical education and school health in Kentucky housed at the University of Kentucky Library's Special Collections and Archives Department. The interviews were conducted by longtime KAHPERD member Dr. Maurice Clay. The Eastern Kentucky University Archives appreciates the effort of retired Eastern faculty member Dr. Peggy Stanaland for assisting in organizing the records and writing the brief history of KAHPERD which appears at the beginning of this inventory.