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Vol. XXXIII Indianapolis, Indiana, November, 1949 No. 1
HOME-COMING
An extraordinary treat is in store for the Alumni who ·will attend this year's Home-Coming November 24 to 26. Dr.
Juana de Laban of the University of Michigan will conduct participation-de- monstration sessions on dance activities.
Dr. de Laban is widely known in the United States for her leadership in dance.
She has had wide experience in the field of dance as a teacher, performer and Choreographer. Her training both abroad and in this country has been extensive.
There will be two sessions, Friday and Saturday, November 25 and 26, from 10:00 to 12:00 a.m. Miss de Laban will
• "show how to develop creative work and will develop with the group of Alumni several creative projects. Alumni should come prepared to participate in the ses- sions.
Another unusual part of this year's Home-Coming will be a "Health Carni- val" on Friday afternoon, November 25. This will take the place of the demon- stration by College students. The State Department of Health and other health agencies will cooperate. The carnival will demonstrate a project which can be set up for schools to present to PT A or community groups to bette1· acquaint them with current health practices. This should also prove highly interesting for teachers.
So here we have a program that no one should miss. Of course, there will be the usual other activities at Home-Com- ing, the reunion luncheons Friday noon and the Alumni banquet, annual meeting and dance Friday evening; also sorority and fraternity luncheons Saturday noon.
As in past years, reunions are sched- uled for classes that have graduated 5, 10, etc., years ago. The classe. to meet this year are: 1909, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1934 and 1939. Some of the mem- bers will send special invitations to their classmates to meet at this year's Home- Coming.
Home-Coming activities will begin Thursday afternoon with an inform'll Get-together in the Athenaeum club rooms.
The committee hopes that many Alumni will attend. The above mentioned extra features should make it worth- while for everybody.
RATH MEMORIAL
Those who attended the Alumni Asso- ciation meeting during the 1947 Homc- Coming will recall that action was taken to establish a Rath Memorial Fund to be used for buying materials for the Normal College which will help to improve teach- ing techniques.
The first purchase has been made. An Ektotape Recorder was added to our equipment and now we are having fun trying out this new devfoe. We are re- cording music, particularly special music which Miss Niebergall improvises for children's rhythms. We are thinking of dozens of ways to use this recorder. We expect to show the use of the machine during Home-Coming.
The College is grateful to the Alumni Association for the recorder. We feel that this fund is a fitting memorial to a man whose major interest was improved teaching techniques. C. L. H.
PERSONALS Appointments and Transfers Henry Schiget who taught at the Clin- ton, Iowa, Turners, for many years, has changed to the Milwaukee Turners.
Ray Hein has accepted the position as instructor of Davenport Central Turners, succeeding Fred Bifano who teaches in the Davenport schools.
Two of the 1949 graduates have been appointed to positions in universities, Jack Conley at Notre Dame and Bill Miller at Illinois.
Barbara Sartor, also a 1949 graduate, is teaching at Franklin College.
Philip Tinsworth, now possessing the M.S., has taken a position at Sioux Falls College, South Dakota. ·
Two 1949 graduates, Charles Sallwas- ser (M.S.), and Pauline Wessel, have been appointed as teachers in Cincinnati schools.
William Kultzow is now employed as conective therapist at the Veterans Ad- ministration hospital at Northport, N.Y.
Since graduation in 1940, Lorraine Smith taught for several years in public schools and then spent two years in the Central and South Pacific in the service of the Red Cross. She was married in 1945 and is still teaching in the Syracuse, N.Y., schools.
William S. Hubbard has left the Phy-
·ical Education department and is now principal of one of the elementary schools in Buffalo.
George W. Kuhn and Anne Messore have received appointments in the Buffa- lo schools. Faye Skerkcr Goldstein, Re- nilda Kittlaus Glunz, LaMar Keltz Whal- ley and Edwin Hunt have been tempo1·- arily appointed to the Physical Education department.
Edwin Webdale has been appointed to a director ·hip in the Recreational De- partment of Buffalo.
Emil H. Rothe has been appointed to an administrative position in Lane High , chool in Chicago, but also teaches some
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Wed.dings
Gwendolyn Kinne and William Benz, both of the 1950 class, were manied August 13. They are continuing their studies at Indiana University in Bloom- ington.
Another Normal College student, Joan Stierly, was married August 19 to James Stevenson and lives in Youngstown, Ohio, where she teaches at the Y.W.C.A.
Georgia Connelly and Clyde B. Foster were married August 7.
Virginia Eckel was married June 25 to Austin Kassler. She is still teaching in Washington high school in Indianapolis.
Carolyn Kuebler and Gerald Pate were married June 11. Carol is still teaching at Butler University.
Faye Skerker and Louis Goldstein were married in June. Both are teaching in the Buffalo schools.
Pearl Barnekow was married to Ken- neth Wise June 25. She continues teach- ing in Buffalo.
Emil C. Rothe was married recently.
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Births
August 14, a boy for Florence and Joseph Rubel, at Gamillus, N.Y.
October 2, a girl for Sue and Edward Stanley, at Knox, Ind.
October 13, a boy for Jeanne and Sam Davis. Jeanne was stenographer at Nor- mal College for several years.
September 26, a girl for Melvin and
>frs. Oppliger, in St. Louis.
June 22, a daughter for l\Ir. and Mrs.
Carl Samul in Buffalo; Mrs. Samul was Celia Witczak.
A son for Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ro- berts (Doris Diestel) in Buffalo this fall.
Also a son for Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Marshall (Estelle Ricigliano) in Buffalo.
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Evalyn Giffin's mother died in January, and her brother this summer.
Elsa Kramer spent her summer vaca- tion in Mexico; so did Eleanor Seymour.
Improving his guest cottage and sail- ing his 22-foot boat kept Louis Thierry
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busy on Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River during the summer months.
Arlington Evans spent the summer building a new house at Island Heights, N.J.
Helen Humphrey Scott is teaching again in the Chicago schools after a sabbatical leave.
Dr. Leopold Zwarg spent his summer building and sailing boats in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey.
Lucille Spillman and "Jim" Pilger toured the east this summer, New Eng- land and Canada.
Agnes Pilger has returned to the campus of Indiana University to work for her Master's degree.
Cincinnati took first place in the Junior Olympics. Art Reisner and Frank Mixie were two of the coaches.
Fred Bifano, who is teaching in the Davenport schools, is conducting condi- tioning classes for teachers.
The Pegels have bought a new h0me. They were at the Boy Scout Camp in
1ichigan as usual this summer.
August and Helen Pritzlaff traveled east this summer, fiTst to Buffalo to visit Minna and then to Springfield, Mass.
Stanley Pack again conducted his day camp for boys and girls at Eden, N.Y., for seven weeks during the summer.
Irma Hartman Beck reports that she has fully recovered from a serious opera- tion and hopes to attend Home-Coming.
The Ralph Ballin family spent a won- derful summer paddling their canoe through northern Minnesota and Michi- gan lakes.
Emil Preiss conducted a children's meet for the middle Atlantic district of the American Turners at Riverside, N.J., May 8th, with 122 children attending.
Henry Smid! has been ill recently, but is expected back in Lindblom high school shortly. He coached the champion gym- nastic team of .the Chicago high schools.
Mr. and Mrs: Leo Doering went to hicago recently to see their daughter who is teaching in Oak Park. They also
visited Bobbie Lar en and discussed the Home-Coming meeting of the 1924 cla s.
In June, they visited Camp Bl·o ius.
Agnes (Rapp) and Alfred Eberhardt moved into their new two-story home in St. Louis Hills this fall. You need a good-sized home for four lively young- sters.
Ruth Ann Frasier and husband, Lee Denton, got quite a. write-up in the l<"'ree- port, Ill., paper where they conduct les- sons in square dances for children a. well as adults.
Edward Stanley (Wisniew ki) is teach- ing at California Township school near Knox, Ind. He has boys and girls tum- bling teams and coaches baseball and basketball team .
Gustav Heinemann, professor of Physi- cal Education at Temple University, ha been elected president of the Philadelphia Association for Health, Physical Educa- tion, and Recreation.
Lelia Gunther and Martha Hehrlein went to Colorado to visit Vera Ulbricht at the end of her studies at Boulder, and then remained in Colorado to stay at cottages of friends.
Warren Steele who received his M.S. at Indiana University this ummer, visited
1 onnal College before returning to Oak- land, Cal., where is employed in the Recreation department.
A visit to her parents' home in St.
Louis prevented Therese Pletz from act- ing as a judge at the Lake Erie District Turnfest. She has been active in the Turners' ceramic class.
As if Harry Warnken. did not have enough to do with a thousand member of his classes at the Detroit Turners, he has organized a soccer team and played in its first three games.
Through radio and television, Martha Gable is informing the public what the Philadelphia schools are doing in all phases of education; she is in charge of the division on public relations.
Long range plans for the national championships and the National Turnfest
of the American Turners in 1961 make Emil Pletz's headquarters of the Turners' Executive Committee a busy place.
Dr. E. A. Poos who lost his wife in July, is in the hospital with a broken hip.
He was leading his dog on a lea h and the dog ran around him, wrapping the lea h around his legs, and threw him.
A Get-'l'ogether was held recently at the home of Major Fred Ploetz in Buffalo which included the Barrett Diehls, the John Tanzines, the Dick Roberts, and Roberta Brogan \an Nostrand and hus- band.
Carolyn Wassermann and sister spent eight weeks in Hawaii. They flew over and back. Minnie (Braker) is enjoying her retirement. She and family visited in Boston after spending part of the sum- mer on their farm.
A new home owner among the Alumni i Fred Jacobi in Davenport. Fred again conducted his boys' camp in northern Minnesota during the summer and re- ports an increase of enrollment as well as an addition to the lodge.
Vi . K. Streit who completed his 19th year with the Cincinnati Board of Educa- tion, wa a member of the University of Southern California faculty during the summer and taught three graduate cour ·- es in Recreation and Physical Education.
Grover W. Mueller, in collaboration with Elizabeth Robertson of the Univer- sity of Toronto, has written another book, "Fundamentals of Health and Safe- ty," published by D. Van Nostrand Com- pany in New York. It is a text for high . chools.
The Shafers, Elsa and Ralph, had a wonderful summer. First, to the Gaspe;
then from Quebec to London; three weeks in Switzerland; visited Milan and Florence and had a week in Rome and then Capri; back through the French Riviera.
Herbert Klier is a member of an I1Ii- nois State committee to set up a curricu- lum in Physical Education. He teaches square dancing clas es at the Moline
Community College and had charge of the Moline . wimming pool dul'ing the summer.
By chance, Hattie Hettich Vossel met.
Nanon Roddewig in a store in Brainard, Minn., last summer. Reo Olson drove to Minneapolis with anon who then went on to her cabin. Reo is still talking about her train ride back in the glass-lopped observation c:ar.
Dr. Henry Schneider was elected a fel- low of the American Proctologic Society in June. He keep inte1·ested in Physical Education activitie · by officiating at in- tercollegiate swimming meets and as leader of the Philadelphia. division of the National Ski Patrol.
Attending the Lingia<l in Stockholm, Joseph Kripner was invited to speak on Physical Education in the American high schools. He also talked on an internation- al English broadcast from Stockholm.
Then he and Mrs. Kripner flew to Paris for an extended stay.
John Stocker was recently appointed a member of the National Executive Com- mittee of the American Turners to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George Heeschen. George Jacquin was appointed in Jack's place as regional director of the Turners fo1· the Lake Erie and Western New York districts.
Sorry to report the death of parents· of several Alumni. The father of Dorothy and Charlotte Eck died in spring at Mi- amisburg. Lola Pfeifer's mother also died, at the age of 92 years. Elizabeth Underwood Rupert came to Indianapolis in September for the funeral of her mother. John Garner's father died this summer.
Ralph Sigel pent half of his vacation from the Detroit schools working at an automobile plant and half just taking it easy at the family cottage at Lake Orion. This year he is vice-president of the Phi Epsilon Kappa Alumni Chapter.
He has transferred his Turner member- ship and enrolled himself and daughters in Harry Warnken's Turner classes.
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Dr. Adolph Picker was a visitor in Indianapolis ~eptember 27. He came with the Baltimore and Ohio Glee Club which gave a concert at Murat Theater for the lOOth anniversary of the Indiana State Medical Association. Dr. Picker is still rather active in physical education, e pe- cially in the local and national A.A. U.
He has officiated in three Olympic game.
and trained Olympic gymnast . He ha judged gymnastic at the Naval Academy
ince 1910.
Our most traveled Alumna, Bobbie Larsen, saw about everything this sum- mer that can be seen in the West. She went to the Black Hills, the Tetons, stopped at Missoula, Glacier Park, Wa- tertown lakes, Edmonton, Jasper, Lake Louise, Banff, Vancouver, Seattle, Crater Lake, Sacramento, Lassen Volcanic Park, Reno, Los Angeles, San Diego, El Paso, Carlsbad, San Antonio Corpus Christi, St. Louis. Needless to say, she was on the "go" all the time and says she loved every minute of it.
A convention of the Western Zone of the New York Association for H., P. E., and R., was held in Buffalo October 28.
Eugene Hofmeister is pre ident with Ray Glunz chairman of the membership com- mittee and Carl Spitzer chairman of the publicity committee. Dr. Frederick fa- roney, Dean of Students at Brooklyn College, was the chief speaker. Demon- ,·trations of activities for elementary and high school were conducted by Mar- gery Stocker, Matthew Poeltl, Herbert Suedmeyer and Harry Feucht.
The Milwaukee Journal printed a erie · of four articles about Bill Matthei's trips rnto the wilds of Canada. For twenty years, he has spent his summers travel- ing up north into Hudson Bay country and among other things, penetrated the northernmost 400 miles of the Albany river which flow into Hudson Bay. One year, he wanted to go to a town called Schreiber and had his car taken across the Nipigon river on a raft. After gold was discovered at Geraldson, 100 miles
north of Schreiber, the government put in a road to Gerald on and after that Bill made thi · town the starting place for hi.
tl'ips.
Jewel Gordon Beyer's oldest son grad- uated from Harvard Law School, her . econd :on completed hi junior year at Harvard and the third son hi fre hman
\·ear. Quite a record. Jewel ay . he tried to in. till hi ·h ideals in her bo:i s by quot- ing: "Play fair, win if you can, lose if you must, but take your ictories with- oat boasting and your whippings without a whimper," and "Your appearanc as you pass by, is all of your message t most of the world." She learned thcs · mottoes at Normal ollege. Mr. and Mr~.
Beyel' have moved to Ormond B a h, Fla.
Dear Clas n1ates of '24:
You were talked about this umm r!
During my trip we ·t I topped off and visited "Ko," "Augie" and "Libby." It was like a pre-Horne-Coming meeting and we wondered what the "Unknown "
were doing. Ko, Augie and Lib want to be with u at Home-Coming, but the distances are too great. They said they would be with us in spirit.
My unexpected visitors last Sunday were CyTilla and Leo. It was a real treat to see them again. They will be down at Home-Coming with the Stocker., Polly, Kazzy, Hattie and Clara. Do you remem- ber Nadine Fager? I sav,r her, too, and though she did not graduate with us she toyed with the idea of joining u"
How about you? Haven't you made up your mind to join us? 1o group at A.G.
U. ever had a better time than we did.
Remember? Dro1> a line to some clas:- mate and plan on joining us in the Raths- keller. Don't put it off, plan now and we will be looking forward to a real
"gab-fest" again. Bring snapshots. I'll bring those I took of Ko, Augie and Libby and their families. Let me hear from you. This is our 25th anniversary.
Let's celebrate together.
Bobbie, Secretary '24.
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ALUMNI BULLETIN
Publi ·hed three times a year at Indi- anapolis, in November, February and May by the Alumni Association of the 'ormal College of the American Gymnastic Union.
OFFICERS: Earl Vornheder, President; William Bischoff Vice-President; Helen Vornhe~er, Secreta1:y; all in Cincinnati; Ray Zimlich, Indianapolis, Trea. urer.
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CAMP BROSIUS
Camp Brosius had another successful sea on during the summer. It was a busy place during June when 82 students took their camping courses. Mrs. Hester, Mr.
Martin and Mr. Chappelle were the in-
!ltructors assisted by Rose Marie Singer and Josef Hoog. The ne'.v showers con-
!'itituted a welcome improvement; it is no longer neces~ary for either the stu- dents or the youngsters in the children's camp to walk down the stairs to the shower in the hotel building which are now exclu ively used by hotel guests. An addition 8'xl8' on the west end of Hester
Hall contains five showers for women.
The men's restroom was enlarged to four times It$ former size and also contains five showers. The Navy tables in the messhall, donated by ·Indiana University, were also appreciated.
Enrollment in the children's camp was three less than last year, but the boys and girls were all very nicP. snr:l thP. ciirP.c- tors and counselors enjoyed their work.
Mrs. Hester was director of the camp with Mr. Chappelle as assi tant. The counselors were all either students or graduates of Normal College: Rose Marie Singer, Shirley Diehl, Carol Gorman, Jane Splete, Albert Isler, Wm. Sirka and Joseph Gawrys. Betty Harding· was the nurse. As in former years, the two Drs.
Sputh, father and son, held daily clinics, donating their services to the camp.
The hotel was also ag·ain well patron- ized and the guests expressed themselves as well pleased with the service and the meals. Mrs. Mabelle Schueler was hostess again. Among the Alumni who vi ited Hotel Camp Brosius were Hazel Orr, Dr.
Carl B. Sputh and Mrs. Sputh, Margareth a.nd Meta Greiner, Kathryn Zimmen11an Green and husband, Ray and Connie Zim- lich and children, Thelma Si mm on s Clarke with husband and daughter, Emil and Therese Pletz, Jack and Peggy Stock- er, Mrs. Clara Hester and husband, Bar- bara Sartor, Martha Hehrlein, Robert Goeke with wife and son, and Michael Valentine.
MORE ABOUT HO.ME-COMING We are all set for a big Home-Coming and sincerely hope that the Alumni will turn out. Undoubtedly our special letter has reached you with the advance in- formation.
Dr. de Laban's work should be of in- terest to most of our Alumni. She has assured me that she will spend consider- able time in developing usable material . I have particularly asked that less time be spent on techniques of :r(lovements and more on the aspects developing the crea-
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will spend time on pattern making, one of the really unusual features of modern dance. Our sophomores are ready to be the subjects, but we hope that many Alumni will turn out in work clothes ready to participate both Friday and Saturday morning.
We also hope that the Alumni wltl forgive us for passing up the usual stu- dent demonstration, but one can't do everything in a day and a half. We feel there is more to be gained by setting up t.he health carnival this year. The physi- cal side of our work will be emphasized both mornings.
I would personally like to urge mem- bers of THE class of '24 to be here. We are still the largest class that has ever entered the College. Let's make it the largest 25-year reunion.
Clara Ledig Hester.
DECREASED ENROLLMENT
Enrollment in the Normal College for the school-year 1949-50 is 52, 30 less than last year. The decrease is disappointing, but reflects the decrease in the number of veterans attending school; only three of the freshmen are attending under the G.
I. Bill of Rights. Other colleges experi- enced a similar loss. It is especially to be regretted that the teacher training insti- tutions did not register students up to their capacity, for the Federal Bureau of Education states that 100,000 new teach- ers will be needed every year for the next ten years to care for the expected large increase of public school enroll- ment.
32 of the students are sophomores, 16 men and 16 women; 20 are freshmen, 11 men and 9 women.
The American Turners as well as the Normal College scholarship committee gra,nted a number of scholarships paying from $50.00 to $150.00 .per year.
The AAHPER is now the largest de- partment of the NEA.
FIELD SER VICE
In the past few year , we have been constantly called u1 on for field service in the state. In fact, I could spend fifty per cent of my time doing such work.
On October 24, I went to Huntington, Indiana, and led thrne ses ions in square dancing. The first session of two hours was attended by over 100 high chool boys and girls from the entire county.
The next session was maller and was composed of city and county teachers and practice teachers from a near-by col- lege. In the. evening-, another one-hour session was attended by any one inter- ested. It was gratifying to see so many returnees, e pecially high . chool boy.
and girls.
On October 27,
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Jed a discu sion se - sion for the Women's Phy k I Education section of the Indiana State Teachers Association. Two problems were dis- cussed, one on rhythms and one on the prospect of interschola tic . athletics for girls.Teaching is only a small part of the job of a staff member now.
C. L. Hester.
IN MEMORIAM
Dr. Arthur A. Knoch died May 28 at his home in Cincinnati, at the age of 83 years. For 42 years before he retired in 1937, Dr. Knoch was teacher in the Wal- nut Hills high school. Born in Reval, Estonia, in 1866, he came to America in 1889 and attended the Normal School of the AmE:rican Turners then temporarily located in Indianapolis and received his diploma in 1891 when he went to Cin- cinnati as instructor of the Turngemein- de. He studied medicine, but remained true to his first interest, physical educa- tion. For many years he attended Home- Coming at Normal College regularly.
Older graduates will remember Miss Anna Locke who taught English litera- ture at the Normal College for sev:e.ral years. She died .June 15 at the age of 87 years.
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STUDENT ACTIVITIES Sophomores School's in se:,sion once again With commands and music galore, We hardly know what to anticipate Or what may lie in store.
For now there are new fre hmen Full of vim, and vigor, and pep;
They're anxious, and eager, and willing, But that'll wear off, I bet.
We enjoy their friendly spirit, To us for counsel they turn, But soon they will be wiser, By trial and error they'll learn.
Our office has a new trimming Which makes it pleasant and gay;
She's Patty Perry from old Nap town, But we'll forgive her today.
Jeanne Davis who used to work there And filled the air with joy,
Is now a very proud mama Of an eight pound baby boy.
The other day in dance clas , When up the stairs we ran,
frs. Hester was there to greet u- Jn blue jeans and bandan.
We didn't know what to make of this, We thought she was in a trance Until we heard her call for sets To strike up an old square dance.
The next dance surprise she offered Was that of cutting a rug, So we all let our hair down And danced the "Hucklebug."
Whenever the roll is taken From the sophomore girls we hear Squad two sound off with something new, It's harmony sweet and clear.
Once he was single, but now we are ad, For who'll be the life of the party?
For over the summer he got tied up;
Yes, we're speaking of Dick Udvardi.
Frank Frey a father in February we'll find,
For he told us he was having a baby.
Because that's what he said, so quote did;
Perhaps he's a little excited, maybe?
Mr. Martin welcomed us in Graded Skills
With a pring board as before;
We sprang np and down and up so inuch That Toosie's legs became sore.
And on the apparatus, oh so dear, We watched some artists perform,
"The daring young man on the flying trapeze,"
We now call Sonny Horn.
It's Free Ex. time, with Papa Chappelle, So we grunt, and ugh, and groan;
All this we do, you understand, To keep our muscles in tone.
For Mr. Rinsch we open the book·
And read, and read some more;
And ju t try to get into the class room Once he has closed the door.
Who handles the trouble of lesson plans, Deciphering and translating?
Why it' Mr . Zimlich, with the finger, Who does the job of rating.
Mr. Steichmann is with us once again, With his smile and pipe that smokes, His bright cherry nose, and best of all, He remembers the same old jokes.
On the soccer field we all took note Of a pair of levis new:
Pat Scott was the first of all the girls To sport a pair in navy blue.
We hope to see you all soon
At the Home-Coming demonstration.
Just take a leave of absence Or perhaps a little vacat10n.
We'll dance for you, nnd march for you, And maybe add a brand new creation That you can take back home and use In teaching Physical Education.
Jane Splete.
Freshmen
Another fall semester has r o 11 e d around, and with it comes another fresh- man class. Although the class is very small, twenty students to be exact, it represents a good cross section of this half of the country. There are veterans and recent high school grads, transfer students, and those just starting to col- lege. And they come from towns and cities from Brooklyn to Davenport, Iowa.
But rjghl now we are all freshmen with one objective. to become Physical Educa- tion majors.
Every fre hman class has its first class leader, and so we had Lorraine Chasteler.
At the beginning of the first floor class, she strode to the center of the floor and opened her mouth, and, lo and behold, no- thing came out. Just as she was turning a light shade of crim on, fr. Martin came to the re cue. After demonstrating her duties to her, he put her at ea e by telling her that he was never too severe on the freshman floor leaders at the be- ginning of the year but that by the time the last of the semester rolled around he would be pretty tough. Upon hearing this, Edward Zirnheld heaved a big sigh and wi hed his name began with an A.
Speaking of class leaders brings us to the subject of class monitors. As every one knows, a good monitor watches the clock in the hall and at eight-thirty he locks the door to the lecture room. When Mr. Rinsch's Psychology class began one morning, he noticed there was one ab- sence. Mr. Rinsch had recorded this and began his lecture when there came a pounding at the door. One of the students opened the door and let Fred Friedrich- sen, our monitor, in. It seems that he had been sitting· in the hall watching the clock when Mr. Rinsch, whose watch was a little faster than the clock shut th.e door on his way in.
"What!" remarked the freshman, "We have to dance like a bunch of little kids.
That's sissy stuff." He soon found that these sissy dances could certainly wear a fellow out. He had never realized there were so many ways to walk and to run.
He was singing a different tune whe11 Mrs. Hester fini hed with him. The first week of school closed on a very sore freshman c:lass due to the combined ef- forts of Mr. Martin, Mrs. Hester, and Mr. Chappelle.
This year a new.period has been added, or rather, an old one has been revived.
This is the Thursday proficien y period.
Here the freshmen show the ophomore what they brought to school with them in the way of apparatus technique, and the sophomores show the freshm n what they have aged. During the second pro- ficiency period, the serenity of the cla s was broken by four ophomore bo s dashing aero s the gym floor calling
"Quick, give us the safety belt, Freddi has a victim!" It seems Mr. Martin had talked freshman Herby Vogel into trying a fly-away from the parallel bar . Inci- dently, he is getting it pretty good now.
The combined class of sophomores and freshmen is just 1·ight for two teams to play speedball and soccer ball, so twice a week the journey is made to Riverside Park. "Big John" Sweeney had a jolt this year while playing forward. He ran head- on into fullback Preston Roney of the freshman class. Preston wa the first string fullback .for Crispus Attucks of Indianapolis in 1942 and 1943. He tips the scales at a mere 214 pounds, and it's all man. When these two met, while div- ing for a loose ball, the ground shook.
The spirit of competition was kept alive this year by a pre-season basket- ball game between the fro h and the sophomores. Dick Ball led the Sopho- mores to a 29 to 24 victory over the frosh by hitting numerous push shots from the key hole area. This included three straight buckets in the last two minutes of play to pull the sophomores from behind after a third quarter score of 24 to 23 in favor of the frosh.
The highlight of every fre hman's year is the Frosh Dance, it is here that he can get to know his classmates and really tart to feel at home in the Normal Col- lege family. This year's dance was well in keeping with this tradition. The doing got under way with a few mixers and get acquainted dances. After these the guys and gals loosened up, took off their coats, rolled up their sleeves and really made a night of it. The climax of the
evening was the freshman floor show.
This show featured the male half of the class and their snappy rendition of
"Down by the station." Beauty and charm were added by the girls chorus line. Even Billy Rose has never seen any- thing like this chorus line.
The whole freshman class gives thanks for the chance to come aboard the Physi- cal Education Special. Here's hoping we can uphold the splendid standards and traditions set by those who have gone before us.
Chett McDowell.
BOOK REVIEWS
Tests and Measurements in Physical Education, by
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F. Bovard, F. W. Cozens and E. P. Hagman. Third Edition. 410 pages. W. B. Saunders Company, Phila- delphta. $4.50.The above book has been an outstand- ing Physical Education textbook and ref- erence in the field of tests and measure- ments for many years, and the new edi- tion makes it even more valuable for our present day use. The revision result- ed in deleting some of the obsolete ma- terial, and adding a wealth of new in- formation that has come into the field ince 1938. Briefly, the following topics have been added or revised: the need for and u.::e of measurements; the status of measurements in Physical Education; re- cent developments and general status of various tests in the field of measurement;
athletic achievement tests and scoring scales; the measurement of general qual- ities-strength, power, motor ability, ca- pacity, educability, and neuro-muscular control; physical fitness and motor fit- ness tests; rating scales; and program organization and the technique of test administration.
P. C. C.
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The Vertebrate Body, by A. S. Romer.
643 pages; illustrated. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia. $5.50.
This new reference relates an ~n.terest
ing and practical account of the verte- brate body. The author has tried to add new twists in writing this book, and sat- isfy himself as to the fashion in which the material should be treated since he felt that many such books were inade- quate in this respect. He has added many excellent illustrations, and an appendix that includes a synoptic classification of vertebrates, scientific terminology, and a classified summary of references.
P. C. C.
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Jordan-Burrows Textbook of Bacteri- ology, by W. Burrows, with the collab- oration of F. B. Gordon, R. J. Porter, and J. W. Moulder. Fifteenth edition. 981 pages. W. B. Saunder Company, Phila- delphia. $9.00.
Individuals interested in the field of bacteriology will immediately recognize this book as an important up-to-date reference. The rewriting of the fifteenth edition ranged in extent from entire chapters to sections, together with ap- propriate modification of i-nnumerable minor points.
P. C. C.
Public Health and Hygiene, A Stu- dent's Manual, by C. F. Bolduan and N.
W. Bolduan. Fourth edition. 423 pages, illustrated. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia. $4.25.
This book is a reliable guide to current public health knowledge, organization, and practice. Due to the many advances in scientific knowledge since the third edition, the authors found it necessary to thoroughly revise the text and add much new material. This edition relates new information relative to: use of newer antibiotics; use of synthetic chemical in- secticides and herbicides; atomic radia- tion; health organization and administra- tion; rickettsial diseases; sterilization of air; tuberculosis control by BGG vaccina- tion, and of the epidemiologic method;
Kenny treatment of poliomyelitis; ma- laria, yellow fever and dengue. The book is an intere ting reference, and to fur- ther clarify its contents, the parts are listed as follows: General Information.
The More Important Communicable Dis- eases, Important Noncommunicable Dis- eases and Conditions, Community Hy- giene, and Health Administration.
P. C. C.
Fundamentals of Bacteriology, by Mar- tin Frobisher, Jr. Fourth edition. 936 pages, illustrated. W. B. Saunders Com- pany, Philadelphia. $5.50.
This is a reference book for beginning students with a moderate knowledge of elementary biology, physics and chem- istry including some organic chemistry.
This new edition advances the latest in the field of microbiology. It is divided into four sections: Fir t Principles; Yeasts, Molds and Higher Bacteria; The True Bacteria (Order Eubacteriales), and Some Pathogenic Microorganisms.
P. C. C.
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Corrective Physical Education, by Jo- sephine L. Rathbone, New fourth edition.
300 pages with 37 figures. W. B. Saun- ders Company, Philadelphia. $3.75.
This is a fourth edition of Miss Rath- bone's book first published in 1934. The book has been used widely because it has excellent material for Corrective Physical Education. The materials have been ex- panded and brought up-to-date to show what recent developments have occurred in the field.
C. L. H.
BETTER TEACHERS TOMORROW The following gaps and weaknesses in teacher education were listed by A. H.
Pritzlaff, Chicago, at the 1948 conven- tion of the A.A.H.P.E.R.:
(1) Lack of a definite workable philoso- phy; (2) Lack of a broad concept of physical education; (3) Little or no
preparation on the elementary level; ( 4) Lack of ability to adjust to local condi- tions; (5) Lack of ability or desire to teach fundamental rhythms, especially men; (6) Inadequate training in Health Instruction; (7) Failure to have an un- derstanding of the school and its curricu- lum as a whole; (8) Lack of interest or knowledge of community responsibility;
(9) Lack of ability in the development of daily and semester programs; (10) Indifference in teaching fundamentals resulting in a mere recreational period;
(11) Failure to take precautionary safe- ty measures; (12) Lack of knowledge of proper use and care of supplies and equipment. . . . The philosophy of the teacher training institutions is imposed upon its students. . . . There is often confusion between the teacher training program and the sel'vice program.
Jesse Garrison, State Director from Alabama, adds the following points of weakness:
(1) Lack of appreciation of admin- istrative policy and thus of cooperation with this policy; (2) Lack of a more adequate selection and certification of teachers; (3) Failure to have balanced and functional programs; ( 4) Lack of sound evaluation; (5) Lack of sound pub- licity which in reality results from a good program; (6) Inadequate staff to carry out an adequate program; (7) Not enough thinking in terms of a twelve- months' program.
Anne Duggan, Texas, cites the impor- tance of well-qualified teachers over and above other considerations, stating that excellent potential teachers today will attract better teachers tomorrow. W. F. Meredith, Pa., emphasized the fact that the profession needs to b$ revitalized but that the initiative must come from with- in. Harry Scott, New York, said that the upgrading of physical education may be done by action of the AAHPER as has been done in the field of medicine by the A.M.A. One never succeeds alone, but rises upward on the shoulders of others.
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TOWARD NATIONAL SECURITY Definite and positive measures ahould be taken to insure the health protection, development, conditioning and education of American youth if they are to be pre- pared to make their essential contribu- tion to the security and strength o:f the country.
President Harry S. Truman Since the sound health and physical vigor of our citizens are among the essen- tials of any program of national pre- paredness we urge that steps be taken by our governing board to clarify the responsibility of school authorities for giving more time in the school day and more effective leadership to the long term program necessary, throughout childhood and youth, to develop such vigorous health. We urge also that any expansion of educational programs of health, physical education and recreation that may be needed for national security be channeled through accredited educa- tional agencies.
-AAHPER Resolution HEALTH IS WEALTH Health in its broad interpretation is probably the most prized of all our pos- sessions. Those who do not have it would spend all they have in an effort to secure
it; those who have it should make every effort to retain it. Because of its im- portance it has been a major objective in the program of studies of the public schools for a long while. Among the various aspects of health none is more important, or more far reaching in the child's experience than his physical wel- fare.
The most critical period in which to establish a good physical foundation is, of course, in early childhood. Regular exercise, properly suited to the age and condition of the individual pupil, is essen- ital to good body building. Physical ac- tivity in great abundance is normal for any young child. This natural impulse must be directed into proper channels to assure good and lasting outcomes. Any physical defects should be noted early and corrections made as soon as possible.
Good habits in eating and care of person and -.vholesome attitudes toward recrea- tion and fair play, are also fundamental factors to engage the attention of teach- ers, doctors, nurses and dentists.
A community which provides the means to accomplish these desirable objectives is making a wise investment in both human and economic resources.
--James D. Stover, Ass't Supt., Cincinnati Public Schools.
