Luther Halsey Gulick, Jr. MD (1865–1918) was an American physical education instructor, international basketball official, and founder with his wife of the Camp Fire Girls, an international youth organization now known as Camp Fire.
From October 1919 news clipping:
DR. L H. GULICK NOW HAS MEMORIAL: Famous Y.M.C.A. Worker invented the Triangle Symbol
SPRINGFIELD, Oct 25 – Visitors to the Oak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, are admiring the newly erected memorial on the grave of Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick, the originator of the well know triangular symbol of the Y.M.C.A. A bronze tablet with the Y.M.C.A seal, with the words, "spirit, mind and body," placed on a native rock from Wilbraham hills, rests on the famous "Y" worker's grave, which is near that of his father, a missionary in Japan and China for many years. Dr. Luther Gulick was interested in the founding of the Y.M.C.A. College in Springfield and in the Y.M.C.A. work in this city.
At the recent celebration of Flower Sunday, in Springfield, Dr. Gulick's grave was heaped with beautiful blossoms as a testimony of the esteem and love in which his memory is held.
Luther Halsey Gulick, Jr. MD (1865–1918) was an American physical education instructor, international basketball official, and founder with his wife of the Camp Fire Girls, an international youth organization now known as Camp Fire.
From October 1919 news clipping:
DR. L H. GULICK NOW HAS MEMORIAL: Famous Y.M.C.A. Worker invented the Triangle Symbol
SPRINGFIELD, Oct 25 – Visitors to the Oak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, are admiring the newly erected memorial on the grave of Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick, the originator of the well know triangular symbol of the Y.M.C.A. A bronze tablet with the Y.M.C.A seal, with the words, "spirit, mind and body," placed on a native rock from Wilbraham hills, rests on the famous "Y" worker's grave, which is near that of his father, a missionary in Japan and China for many years. Dr. Luther Gulick was interested in the founding of the Y.M.C.A. College in Springfield and in the Y.M.C.A. work in this city.
At the recent celebration of Flower Sunday, in Springfield, Dr. Gulick's grave was heaped with beautiful blossoms as a testimony of the esteem and love in which his memory is held.
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