Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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L’Annuaire, Brookville High School Boys’ Gymnasium E are coming to realize more and more that pleasant recreation and good scholastic ability are closely united. So this year, in addition to our course in girls' gym, has been added a course for boys. Brookville High has needed something of this sort for a long time. The girls have received gymnastic training all the way through school, while the boys have had no opportunity for regular instruction along this line since entering high school. This is not as it should be. The boys require the training just as much as the girls. It is quite generally thought that boys receive enough exercise without additional care, but systematic supervised exercise is what we need. It is what we now have. Then, too, this new field is very valuable in another direction. Often boys are indifferent about school work in general, and may, through the medium of supervised gymnasium work, be led to take an interest in all school work. The boys are under the direction of a special teacher, Mr. Rathman, who is also the basket-ball coach. Their first duty was to learn the “Code of a Good Sport.” They play basket-ball and practice military tactics. Preparations for football are also under way. The new addition is of great value to our school and its usefulness will probably be varied and increased each year. Page Twenty

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The Year Book of Achievements Home Room Organizations NFLUENCES in the home account greatly for one’s actions in the outer world. In the same way the Home Room Organization accounts for the conduct of the student in his everyday school life. For several years Home Room Organization has been stressed. It is only reasonable that if each room becomes a cooperative body, the school itself must run smoothly. A great body of students cannot function properly unless it is subdivided and organized in smaller groups. This year the home rooms have worked together and as a result have accomplished a great deal of good. Each has elected its officers and held meetings in which home room and school problems have been discussed. The students have given to their groups short, impressive talks dealing with individual reponsibility, correcting defects in the study halls, better methods of study, and many others. The students attend to all the business which comes before the group. Therefore, they become intimately acquainted with school problems and as a result are more interested in the welfare of the school. More good can be accomplished in ten minutes by a student's talk than can be ac-complished in half an hour by a teacher giving out rules and regulations. The Home Room Organizations are responsible for the interesting programs which have been presented in chapel this year. Some very unique ideas have been portrayed. It is the universal opinion that this year's chapel programs have been exceptionally fine. Are not all these facts sufficient proof of the good that the Home Room Organiza-tion does in the school? In innumerable other ways the school has been benefited by this busy, efficient department. Page Nineteen

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The Year Book of Achievements Girls’ Gym Classes LL work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. It makes Mary a dull girl, too, for that matter. Brookville High School has tried to offset the monotony of studying books by giving the pupils two periods of gym work each week. The girls' gym work consists of setting-up exercises, marching tactics, aesthetic dancing, parallel bar work, track, archery and games such as basketball, volley-ball, soccer, and captain ball. Each year the girls are required to pass a test which includes the things emphasized during that time. The girls are required to wear light middies, dark gym bloomers and tennis shoes. Each year the girls give a costume pageant under the direction of Miss Anna B. Lilly, the teacher. These are usually based on some historical event. It is a very pretty sight to see all the girls—from the little tots in the first and second grades, to the Seniors—out on the lawn in front of the school in their gaily colored costumes. The girls’ gym classes are said to be better this year than they ever have been before. This is mostly due to the marked difference between the old and new1 gymnasiums. The new gymnasium has so many advantages over the old that it is impossible to enumerate them all here. The larger size and the better equipment of the new gymnasium are the two most important to the girls. The improved girls' “gym” classes in our high school are making healthier and thus brighter pupils and are creating an interest in athletics which will last for many years. Page Twenty'One