Springfield College Exhibition trip slideshow by Jeff Wolcott, 1980

This is a series of sixty-two slides created by and arranged by Springfield College gymnast, Jeff Wolcott, of the Gymnastics team last gymnastics exhibition tour that took place in 1980. This slides were used in a show was created by Jeff Wolcott. It was done for a photography class that he was taking at the time. The slides were divided between two slide projectors and would go back and forth between two slide projectors. It was timed with music on a cassette tape included in the folder where the original files reside. The song used was "Turn the Page" by Bob Seger. The slides consist of photographs of the gymnasts getting onto the Gymnastics Team Bus, gymnasts on the bus, the team setting up the show at their destination, putting on the silver paint to do a performance of tableaux, and the performances in the show.The history of Gymnastics at Springfield College goes all the way back till nearly the founding of Springfield College in 1885, when Dr. James Naismith, the creator of Basketball, was an early SC Gymnast. Beginning in 1904, the SC Gymnastics team would travel to cities to perform their Gymnastics routines. At the end of their travels, they would perform a “Home Show” at Springfield College, a show they continue to perform to this day. It was during the reign of head coach Leslie Judd, widely considered a father of modern Gymnastics, that the Gymnastics exhibition team really gained a claim to fame. Under the leadership of Professor Leslie J. Judd, the purpose of the Springfield College Exhibition team was to promote and maintain an interest in gymnastics, dance, and the artistic phases of physical education in schools, colleges, YMCAs, and recreational centers. The Exhibition Team has appeared before thousands of spectators in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In fact, in 1941 the team appeared before thirty-five-thousand spectators in twenty-five cities