About Dr. Hugh A. Noble

About Dr. Hugh A. Noble

Beginning in 1944, Dr. Hugh A. Noble began a forty year journey as Supervisor of Physical Education and Recreation promoting and developing physical education, recreation, and sports as they related to education. Dr. Noble was an elegant, articulate, charismatic leader and gentleman for physical education and sport in Nova Scotia for over four decades. Many teachers, administrators, and leaders looked to him as their role model. Dr. Noble was instrumental in establishing a program which would allow already qualified teachers to teach physical education, therefore, making physical educators an integral part of all teaching staffs. Dr. Noble was well named as the “father of physical education in Nova Scotia” and the loss was felt by the entire physical education community when he passed away in February of 1995.