Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Miss Wilna Nash gives an eye examination to Grace Damos. There are always times when a student has his ups and times when he has his downs. If the level of feeling ever becomes too low a student may seek the aid and comfort of the health department. Upon entrance to D. H. S. students are re- quired to take a physical examination. Too, at the beginning of the fall term, a tu- berculin test is offered to new enrollees. There are always such minor incidents as nose bleeds, cut fingers, or skinned knees, for the nurse, Miss Wilna Nash, to treat. Dr. Carl Matthey, school physician, and Dr. William Teegen, school dentist, ably help out in the miniature hospital . 23 Dr. Carl Matthey. school physician.

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. Ho 1® Pex iUi Y Pkb°V°nq M » ln CaVb®tVn® B Be seeing you! Have to go put a zipper in my dress. This is a typical remark heard around the home economics building. The building resembles a large home. Here girls learn how to make a home more than a frame structure. Among the offer- ings are courses in: home management, dressmaking, household sewing, cooking, and dietetics. Young girls who leave the building at the end of the year are prepared to keep house for themselves or to take further training in the specialized fields. Mombors of Miss Downing's housohold sowing class work on a weaving loom. Members of Miss Haller's dietetics class give a food demonstration. 22

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As a part of tho commando courso a boys' gym class does the hand stand. Physical education directors. Mrs. Germaine Pella. O. E. Johnson. Miss Deone Gibson. I» II V SUM L Through a door marked Boys at the end of the tunnel go some 500 boys twice a week. The work done by the boys on the parallel bars is outstanding. These ex- ercises are muscle building and help build stamina in young men. So out- standing is the work done by these ath- letes that they put on exhibitions be- tween halves of the basketball games. Volleyball, basketball, tumbling, baseball and track are some of the other sports included in the gym pro- gram. The boys go through a vigorous training program in which they try to reach the rank of Commando The rank is reached by passing a program consisting of ten points. Points are earned for ten separate tests which in- clude scaling a ten foot wall, head and hand springs, a twenty-foot rope climb, a pull-over on a bar, running the quar- ter mile in seventy seconds, and the al- most impossible feat of performing the kip on the high bar. Several boys' squads play baskotball.