Pekin High School - Pekinian Yearbook (Pekin, IL)

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Students Shape Up In 'Conditioning' Dave Jones waits to return a serve in a ping pong game during an adaptive physical education class at West Campus. Hangnails, headaches, and ingrown toenails are a few of the many excuses P.E. coaches have heard repeatedly for years. However, many students are now getting involved with physical conditioning. Physical conditioning, one of the new P.E. classes on each campus this year, combines both jogging and weight training into one class. Improving health, toning the body, and relieving daily tension are some of the benefits of physical conditioning. The P.E. electives such as tennis, soccer, basketball, and flag football are enjoyed as competitive sports. Shaping up in conditioning class is an aim students strive for individually, with their own rate of progress. Coach Marshall Stoner, chairman of the P.E. Department, comments, I am really impressed with the way the young people are getting involved with the physical conditioning program. I believe they are more aware of what exercising can do to the body. They now know that exercising can make a person feel 100% better. The two coaches for this class are Rick Shemansky and Jack Stoudt. Coach Stoner says he is very pleased with the way they are getting students involved with the program. Stoner adds, They are using a new way to figure the amount of fat a person has on his body using skin calipers. What they do is grasp a fold of skin from the upper arm or waist and measure the thickness of the skinfold. They also figure heart rate while resting and after exercising. The red and white uniforms required for P.E. may be a reason more people are participating in the P.E. program, according to Stoner. He believes everyone will participate if they are all dressed the same. Another new activity presented to the students this year is pickle ball, a combination of badminton and tennis. This game has become very popular with students at PCHS. The only activity dropped since last year is gymnastics because of liability reasons. Weight training, an important part of physical conditioning, is strewed by Pekin PE faculty and coaching. John Bettler checks out another student with the barbells.

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Among the advantages of a strong fine arts background are classes such as drama which teach students to express themselves. Darcy Kriegsman and Terry Bonnett earned a role in the Spring play, Curtain Going Up , using their skills in expression. Techniques taught in art classes form the basis for not just commercial art purposes, but hobbies and self-enjoyment, also. Air brush painting of an eyeball is demanding this student's attention and close hand-eye coordination in East Campus art room. Fine Arts 23

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Coach Joe Venturi gives instruction for basketball in P.E. class. Jump Rope-a-thon attracted more than 60 West Campus students to help raise funds for the American Heart Association. Sheila Thompson and Chris Olt anticipate the next swing of the rope. If you can't participate in regular P.E., you'll find alternatives as Donna Russell chose, the exercycle. Physical Education 25