University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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GIRLS’ ATHLETIC DIRECTOR MISS WIRT Miss Wirt, who came here in 1920, is a graduate of the Nebraska University. Before coming to River Falls, she was physical training director in the Montana University; also physical training director in the St. Paul Y. W. C. A. She has attended the summer dancing camp at Rocky Mountain Camp, Steam Boat Springs, Colorado; and at Camp Halcyon, Holland, Michigan. While attending the University, Miss Wirt also belonged to a number of different teams. They were: Basket ball, base ball, soccer ball, volley ball, and swimming. She has proved the big work she has done during the past years in the physical training department by putting on an annual gymnasium demonstration in which each of her classes partake, exhibiting to the best of their ability the gymnastics taught during the year. We owe a great deal to Miss Wirt for her ability to promote and push things on to success, and for her originality. Under her guidance there has been organized a Girls’ Athletic Association, which has aroused in the girls a keener interest in outdoor sports as well as indoor sports. Each spring, the G. A. A. goes on an annual camping trip with Miss Wirt as chaperon. While at camp she has taught many to swim. She has also given us an idea of real sportsmanship which will prove of value to us in later years. ! a jc 12.1

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THE GIRLS’ ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OFFICERS 2nd Semester Pres.......................NELLIE ROESE V. Pres. .... AGNES VENNES Sec.........................GRACE MILLER Treat................................RUTH MYERS The purpose of the Girls’ Athletic Association is to encourage participation of all girls in physical activity, to further abidance of the rules of personal hygiene, and to foster the spirit of good sportsmanship in all intramural and inter-scholastic projects. For the successful Home Coming ’ G. A. A. donated one thousand red and white streamers at the game. The organization also decorated a float for the parade, and was awarded first prize. The G. A. A. voted twenty-five dollars for playground apparatus making it possible to provide four teeter-totters for the children of the training school. G. A. A. makes it possible for upper class girls to earn official “R” sweaters by means of the point system through participation in various athletic activities. The annual G. A. A. gymnasium demonstration consisting of tactics, drills, stunts, games and aesthetic dancing was given April 20th, Although the society is but three years old, it has grown, prospered and enlarged its field of activities through the consistent efforts of Miss Wirt, the adviser. 1st Semester VIOLA WHITE VIDLE TUBBS . LENORE REED ABAGAIL BENNETT Page i 5