Application of Peter V. Karpovich, 1925

This is the application of Peter V. Karpovich to attend the International YMCA College, now Springfield College, dated September 30, 1925. The application for admissions gives information on his date of birth, current address, educational history, qualifications, sports played and taught, and his future plans.Peter V. Karpovich (1896-1975) was born in Russia and trained as a medical doctor at the State Military Academy of Medicine in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia in 1919. Under increasing political and professional turmoil, he fled to Latvia in 1922. In Latvia, Karpovich worked at the Riga YMCA. In 1925, he traveled to the United States to research at Springfield College. While there, he enrolled as a special advanced student and earned a master’s degree in physical education. In 1927, while completing his studies, he became a professor of physiology at the college. In the late 1940s, he met and married his second wife, Josephine Rathbone, an acclaimed scholar of physical education and relaxation