Thomas K. Cureton, Jr., Ph.D.
Dr. Thomas K. Cureton, Jr., was born in Florida in 1901. He studied electrical engineering for two years at Georgia Tech and completed his undergraduate degree in that area at Yale University in 1925. During his childhood and throughout his college career, he was very interested jn sports, becoming a champion runner and swimmer along the way. This stimulated his interest in exercise and training, and he completed elective coursework in anatomy, physiology and biology at Yale as a part of his undergraduate degree. After graduation, and while working full time, he completed coursework for a B.S. in physical education in 1929 at Springfield College, one of the best-known schools for training in that area. He was appointed as an instructor in mathematics and chemistry at that college and eventually became director of its Biophysics, Anthropometry, and Kinesiology Laboratory. Over the course of the next 10 years, he completed his M.S. (Springfield College) and Ph.D. (Columbia University) degree (7).