Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Education Girl 1 Gym Instructors. Miss Reno Hutchins, Mis Shirley Yermasek, Mrs. Bess Thoensen, pianist. Miss Rena Hutchins came to Davenport High School last fall to join Miss Shirley Yermasek as instructor of the girls’ physical education classes. Mrs. Besse Thoensen serves as piano accompanist. all girls have the chance to participate in hockey, volleyball, badminton, baseball, basketball, and track. Intramural teams for all sports are formed by the gym classes for those who are interested. In addition to the usual equipment replacements, new supplies were received for golf and archery classes, a new project which began in the spring. Although the girls’ gym schedules are set up so that each girl attends gym class only twice a week. Motorability tests are taken at the beginning of each semester. These tests denote the physical abilities of a student, and help to determine her semester grade. Squads are formed of girls having similar results of the test. The sophomore Gym girls demon strafe a popular Square Dance step. 25

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Physical i- Tho Boy ’ Gym Instructors. Burt Seidler and James F. Fox. While helping to maintain a strong, healthy body, physical exercise can be both stimulating and relaxing. Participation in some sport relieves the tension in mind and muscle alike; physical competition can be an outlet from a busy, hurried life. Everyone should learn to make a hobby of some sport. For this reason an adequate physical education program is maintained. The boys’ physical education classes, meeting three times a week, are supervised by Mr. James Fox and Mr. Burt Seidler. The year's activities include track, badminton, wrestling, volleyball, handball, ping-pong, soccer, apparatus competition, and baseball. Many boys enter extra-curricular competition which includes volleyball, ping-pong, and baseball. 24 4

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The Horn Economic Instructors. Seated is Miss Catherine A. Downing. Standing are Miss Cora I. Wilson, Mrs. Lucille Stanley, Miss Ada Malueg, Mrs. Helen Diamond. Home B conomics Just a short distance from Old Main lies the home of Davenport High School's branch of Home Economics. The Home Eco- nomics building, once Grinnell College, has the atmosphere of a real home. Decorated to suit the needs of the course, the interior is supplied with modern facilities, such as the new fluorescent lights that were installed this year. Our Home Economics staff conducts courses in Clothing, Foods. Dietetics. Home Arts and Crafts. General Homemaking, and Home Management. Clothing offers instruction in basic and more advanced principles of the construction of garments, cloth composition, and design. Foods I and II and Dietetics help students to plan and prepare meals economically, and study the composition of foods. Home Arts and Crafts offers lessons in knitting, crochet- ing. embroidery, and textile painting. The various units of Home Management are de- signed to show students the best methods of child care and guidance, and living com- fortably on an economical budget. While Audrey Guenther, Audrey Soenke, Pet Mullin, end Joyce Hull wetch, Mrs. Eugene Long bethes her tiny beby, Doboreh JoAnne. The demonstretion we» cerried on in Home Menegement. Susie Cempboll. Betty Mertens, Merlene Jeck. Glorie Biere model creetions of their own design. Judging the show ere stending: Jo Ann Ackermen, Miss Core Wilson. Soeted ere Ber- bere Celletz, Kety Souder. Miss Cetherine Downing.