This lantern slide shows a portrait of Philip Loring Gillett (class of 1901), a graduate of the International YMCA Training School, now known as Springfield College. He was a Christian missionary and American anti-colonialist from LaSalle, Illinois. According to Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu, “Gillett embodied the ethos of midwestern Christian athleticism.”
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Notes:
Gillett graduated from Colorado College in 1891 and went on to attend Yale Divinity School. After graduating from Springfield College, he was hired as the general secretary for the YMCA’s International Committee for Korea, where he is widely credited with introducing baseball and basketball. Gillett continued to serve in this capacity in Shanghai, China (1913-1915), Nanking, China (1915-1930), and Taiwan (1931-1932). On October 21, 1932, he retired. Gillett died November 26, 1938.
Text on border reads, "P L Gillett, Intl Sec Y M C A, Shanaghai, China."
