Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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CALISTHENICS BOYS1 GYM Preparing for that day when they will enter the fight for freedom, the boys in the gym classes are going through a rigorous physical fitness program. During these years when America is engaged in the world wide war for preservation of democ- racy, the physical health of young America is an important asset to have. Tho start of a firoman's carry race in a gym class. O. E. Johnson, boys' gym instructor. By participating in tough physical tests while in high school, trainees are not put under such a strain when they finally take part in Un- cle Sam's physical fitness programs. The goal of all boys is to pass the ten points of the gym program and ac- quire the title of a Com- mando. These points include a pull-over on the bar, five dips on the parallel bar, five chin-ups on the high bar, head and hand springs, four and one-half foot fence vault, hand stand, twenty foot rope climb, the ability to scale a ten foot wall, to run the one-quarter mile in seventy seconds, and do a kip on the high bar. Besides the Commando training, the boys play basketball, run the obstacle course, wrestle, box, and work on the apparatus. 29 Lining up for starts are boy ' gym class members.

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GIRLS' GYM FLIGHT The combining of physical fitness along with the regular gym activities is the basis of the girls' new gym course. Modeled after the govern- ment organized National Victory Corps, the girls' classes have added several new features. At the begin- ning of every class period about five or six minutes are set aside for various sets of calisthenics. Then, regardless of stiff muscles or aching backs, the girls are timed in running the ob- stacle course. Exercise time in e girls' gym dess. Stending on the ledder is girls' gym instructor Mrs. Bonnie Glick while Miss De- one Gibson weits for the box. Each girls' class is divided into teams throughout the semester with contests in basketball, volleyball, baseball, badminton, deck tennis, and ping pong being held. After the intra-mural class competition is over, the winners play in inter-class games to choose the final victor. Dancing is another subject pre- sented to the girls. Folk dances of the various countries, new ballroom steps, and intricate tap steps are taught to those choosing dancing. To bring back the frontier days when America was moving westward, dances such as the Virginia Reel and the square dance, are performed. The Irish Fling and Schottische are also popular with the girls. 28

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Top: Working on a loom in Miss Sollor's household sewing class are. left to right: Doris Hunt, Helen Horbert, Betty Joe Ham- mel, and Evelyn L. Williams. QUARTERMASTER HEADQUARTERS HOME ECONOMICS For that day when all the boys come home again, the girls taking home ec courses learn to cope with their own personal problems, to analyze the working of a good home around a child, to study the house by designing one of their own, and to educate themselves along the line of consumer buying. Good homemakers are the foundation of the Amer- ican home. To preserve this American ideal, these future homemakers learn from the beginning the prop- er phases of housekeeping. In the two year course in clothing, a student learns about the various fabrics on the market and gains practical experience in making her own clothes. A one semester preparatory cloth- ing class is offered to those not studying clothing in the intermediate school. Besides these classes a course in household sewing is given which teaches the girls knit- ting, embroidering, crocheting, and rug making on the loom. Nurses! More cadet nurses are needed now more than ever before. Along with the other background studies for a nursing career is dietetics. The size of these classes has doubled during the past year. One year of foods is also offered by the home ec department. Abovo: Dotormininq caloric values in Miss Haller's dietoiics class arc, loft to right: Irene Ozias, Jean Schwerdtfeger, Joanno Schlabach, and Evelyn B. Williams. Home economics instructors, left to right: Miss Florence Soller, Miss Inez Whitney. Miss Mao Nantz, Miss Cora Wilson, and Miss Ida Haller. 30