Wamego High School - Wa Kaw Yearbook (Wamego, KS)

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Physical Education In Physical Education students participate every day of the school year. Each class starts with a 15-minute warm-up. Curriculum studied includes units on team sports and individual or lifetime sports. Study guides are given to each student concerning history and rules of the games. These arc discussed in class. The freshmen girls’ classes participate in the following team sports: speed ball, flag football, volleyball, basketball, and softball. Bowling, badminton, and table tennis are intorduced as individual activities that can be carried over to later years. Numerous indoor team games are played along with a unit on folk, square, and aerobic dancing. This year a unit on physical fitness concepts was introduced. It stressed the how and why of physical fitness. This was an individual program with each student working out of a workbook. 1. In Girls’ P.E. various types of dances arc learned. This group of girls is learning how to square dance. 2. During the fall, the P.E. classes go swimming at the city pool. Mr. Harshbarger gives Curtis Mumaw a little help into the pool, while Willie Reavis and Paul White look on. 3. Building muscles is an important part of physical education. Jimmy Stewart. Don Corbin, and Rudy Voldrich are learning to utilize the equipment, while developing certain muscles. 4. Team sports develop sportsmanship and teamwork. Ronnie Doll and Jon Mcrtz, WHS freshman, practice skills in basketball as Mr. Holmes, freshmen P.E. instructor, supervises.

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The art classes at WHS arc really much more than meets the eye. Besides teaching good design, color use. and craftsmanship, they teach responsibility and character. Classes offered arc: 3-D Design, Intro to Art, Drawing. Painting and Graphics I. II. III. Visual Design (photography). Sculpture and Ceramics, and Independent Study in Art. 1. Todd Eisenbeis and Linda Oliver concentrate on their sketching in Introduction to Art. 2. A seven-foor Raider that was painted downtown for Homecoming by Ryan Hendricks, Independent Study student. 3. Mr. Simpson ponders over his class. 4. Angie Colbert, Paul Farrell, and Cynthia Clark work in 3-D Design.

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Driver’s Education Driver's Education is a class that teaches students how to drive. Each day four to five students drive with a trained instructor. At first they start out slow and easy, learning about how the car handles. From there they become more at cast and more confident about their driving skills. During the winter, the students learn how to drive in the snow and ice. This is an experience that one never forgets. It teaches each person the right and wrong ways of driving in hazardous conditions. Toward the end of the year each student learns how to park downtown and how to parallel park. Then the students learn how to drive a bus. The basic purpose behind this is to teach each student how to handle a vehicle with a clutch. Driving is not the only thing done in Driver's Ed. On Fridays, the class usually takes a test or goes over a chapter in the book. This allows the instructor a rest from his other hectic days. 1. It is important that the instructor is near the student in case problems arise. Mr. Brown instructs Dale Thomas the proper way of parking the car. 2. Classroom studies are part of the Driver’s Education grade, also. Stephanie Yonning seems to be enjoying the chapter in her manual. 3. Not all students find studying easy. Lorey Smith. Carla Roudybush. Peggy Sender, and Jan Walsh decided that conversing is a good way to break the monotony of the Driver’s Ed. study hall. 4. Driving a car is not the only thing taught in Driver’s Ed. Here Dale Thomas. Carla Roudybush. Lorey Smith. Peggy Sender. Mr. Brown, and Stephanie Yonning are learning about the engine of an automobile.