1965 DISCUS THROWER - SOKOLS CENTENNIAL 1262 Plate Block of 4 x 5 cents US Postage Stamps

On February 15 1965 in Washington DC the USPS celebrated the centennial of the Sokols. The Sokol movement was a Czech and Slavic youth and gymnastics organization founded in Prague in 1862. It is primarily a fitness-training center, including lectures and discussions for physical, moral and intellectual training for the nation. The founders, Miroslav Tyrs and Jindrich Fugner, credo “A sound mind in a sound body” is still practiced today. In 1878 there were 13 Sokol chapters in the United States, and by 1937 there were nearly 20,000 adult memberships throughout the United States and Canada.