Special Gym Issue

     Gymnastics and the people who practiced it with the Long Island Turners are a valuable part of our society's history.  Since the sale of our own Gymnasium in Long Island City, our society has relegated itself to simply promoting gymnastics for children.  We rented gymnastic facilities and several of our members volunteered as instructors. That program was open to all and it was fairly successful.  In the fall of 2002, the high school where we were renting the gym and some gymnastic equipment, decided that Gymnastics would no longer be offered to their students.  They sold off all their gym equipment making it impossible for us to continue our children's program.  Our members regarded this as a major setback, but still resolved that Gymnastics would once again be offered by the LIT.  In that spirit, we decided to assemble a special newsletter to show what was once done and might yet be accomplished again.  With the contributions of many of our Turners, we assembled a collection of photos and articles and posted them on the web site in preparation for a newsletter.  The newsletter was assembled, but early attempts at the printing process were disappointing.  Later efforts were more successful and we were able to publish that newsletter in time for distribution at our 130th Anniversary. 

    We proudly present the material that was contributed and ask that anyone with additional items, please send them to us for posting.  As always, comments and corrections are welcome.

Note:  Some of the photo captions are altered due only to the limitation of the Photo Gallery portion of the software used to develop this web site.