William Allen High School - Comus Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Class of 1944 un the War Effort A product of Amerucan democracy the Amerucan hugh school has been establushed to provude secondary educatuon for all the chuldren of all the people Obvuously the hugh school has a vutal stake un the outcome of the world confluct whuch wull determune the fate of the common man for the next thousand years Whule promotung the conservatuon of the arts and scuences of peace for a happuer day Allentown Hugh School us vugorously preparung uts boys and gurls to serve theur coun try un thus the tume of uts greatest danger Old courses have been revused to emphasuze the technucal skulls and understandungs necessary to modern mechanuzed warfare New courses have been added to meet the same need Boys of the Class of I944 have learned that trugonometry may mean the dufference between lufe and death They have duscovered new meanung un physucal futness and un the knowledges and skulls of engune work and arc weldung The gurls un addutuon to learnung how to meet nutrutuon and clothung needs un war tume have trued theur hand at shop work The puctorual sectuon of the l944 Camus presents un part a record of the war effort of the Class of 1944 Pluysucal Futness The physucal futness program at Allentown Hugh School has been reorganuzed to prepare boys for the untensuve basuc traunung that all branches of the servuce demand Thus traunung helps to develop strength endurance stamuna muscular coordunatuon and the physucal skulls that wull be of durect value un the armed forces Lnder the supervusuon of Messrs Clymer Landus and Greene the boys are trauned un marchung boxung wrestlung uudo rope clumbung tumblung apparatus commando tactucs and competutuve games Swummung plays an umportant part un the physucal futness program because un thus war ut us of the utmost umportance that every man un the armed forces should know how to swum well enough to take care of humself un the water under almost any condutuon Mr Hacket unstructs the boys un practucally every aquatuc skull necessary for mulutary use More than two hJndred and futy boys have completed theur swummung course thus year The success of the physucal futness program can un some degree be measured by the many letters the unstructors have receuved from students who have gone unto the servuce revealung theur rapud advancement un basuc traunung because of the untensuve unstructuon at Allentown Hugh School O I - 1 I - ' 1 - 1 , . I O I I 1 1 . .... u . . ' 1 I I 1 1 I 1 ' 1 I I 1 - 1 I . . . . . 1

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Physical Fitness Wrestling Wrestling IS now a part of the hugh schocl physical fltness program The sensor boys devote a period a week to learning the fundamentals of wrestlxng The wrestlers are matched according to weight height and ablllty consequently very few matches are one sided Basic holds and means of breakrng them are taught but most of the time the boys are In actual ccmpetltncn The value of quick thlnklng was early apparent the boys realuzed that getting the lump on an opponent usually meant the difference between victory and defeat Quick thinking IU knowing pst what hold to employ when an opponent offered a splnt second opening or hcw to break a lock the minute the other fellow eased up slightly meant the difference between gcod and poor wre tllng The superlcrlty of brain over brawn was established As a ccndltloner wrestling IS hugh on the lust lt ns tops as a means of establishing firmly the code of four play and clean sportsmanshup - Q I D . r I r ' ' 1 j 1 I 1 S . , .