Bar Harbor High School - Islander Yearbook (Bar Harbor, ME)

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THE 1923 ISLANDER BOARD

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'5 ...s..?lw-IW??f?l0T .Mm .sm n, the building itself, proud of its well-chosen faculty-and they are justified in this pride, but have they reason to be proud of the dancing and movie craze that is dulling the spirit of their girls? Providing they are truthful, we know what the answer will be. Yet they will, perhaps assert that they have no remedy for this evil. There is a remedy and one which entails an unbelievably small expense. Connected with this school there is no one to direct girls' athletics. Every year the submaster has been the director of boys' athletics and in the last year a coach has been hired who has been a heavy expense to the Athletic Association. For a girls' basketball coach, the school was fortunate enough to receive gratis the services of the Y. W. C. A. Girls' Work Secretary. The girls' squad is certainly grateful to the Y. W. C. A., both for this secretary's work and for the use of the gymnasium. Under this young woman's strong influence and unusual ability the girls of B. H. H. S. were inspired to make a name for themselves in basketball. Another year, perhaps, there will be no young woman in town sufficiently interested in the school to devote her time to coaching the girls, receiving absolutely no remuneration from the school. Then what We must have to oust the movie and dancing craze is a dean for girls, hired by the town to look out for the best interests of the girls, a young woman of strong personality, whose understanding of girls is unlimited, and whose athletics prowess is sufficient to command the respect of her pupils. Such a woman is not hard to find. Any graduate of an academic college who throughout her college career has had interest and been an active participant in the athletic life of her college could qualify, to say nothing of graduates of physical education sc ools. With such a director there might be teams for both field and ice hockey, tennis, soccer, track and swimming as Well as basketball. Perhaps, some will argue that we have no gymnasium, nor poolftherefore such teams would be im- possible. Such objections can be easily removed. As this year, the Y. W. C. A. gymnasium would probably be avail- able for basketball 5 Glen Mary Park skating pond would serve for ice hockey and a part of the Athletic Field for hockey, soccer and track, the Y. M. C. A. tennis courts could be renovated at very little cost for tennis, and one may be sure that the Y. M. C. A. could be persuaded to allow the use of its pool at certain times during the week in so worthy a cause as a B. H. H. S. Swimming Team. Then the sole expense, as shown, would be the salary of the -dean. What a small cost in comparison to the gain! Think