Luther Halsey Gulick

The Efficient Life (1907) by Luther Halsey Gulick

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. Gulick was born December 4, 1865 in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. His father was missionary physician Luther Halsey Gulick Sr. (1828-1891) and his mother was Louisa Lewis. His paternal grandfather Peter Johnson Gulick (1796-1877) was an even earlier missionary. He married Charlotte "Lottie" Emily Vetter of Hanover, New Hampshire in 1887. He studied at Oberlin Academy (a preparatory department of Oberlin College) 1880-1882 and 1883-1886 and at the Sargent Normal School for physical training (now the Boston University college of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences[2]) He graduated from the medical school of New York University in 1889.