Batavia High School - Bee Aitch Ess Yearbook (Batavia, IL)

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1916 BEE AITCH ESS 1916 Girlz' Athlviirz HE Girls' Athletics in Batavia High School have taken a new and definite turn in comparison with former years. A new state law is enforced which states that every school girl in the state of Illi- nois. must be required to take one hour of gymnasium work each week. This change in arrangement of the course is quite notice- able, when we consider the previous arrangement of gymnasium classes. Now four classes are completely organized. These classes are regulated as other classes and credit is given for the work done. Miss Mored, the in- structor, has been obtained, who takes care of the Girls' Athletics only. The value derived from this work can hardly be estimated. With some girls, it is the only real exercise they have during the entire week. The corrective exercises produce finer and better physiques, while taking it all as a whole, it furnishes the best chance possible, by which girls can become interested in athletics. The time in these classes is spent chiefly in gymnastic exercises and military tactics, with the variation of basket ball has been especially em- phasized this year. The girls had a basket ball tournament, but as the teams were not fully organized it is hard to say which class deserves the most credit. Spirit ran high during this tournament. The exhibit in the latter part of the spring serves as the grand finale in this class, and it also gives the girls a chance to show what they have accomplished during the year. This exhibit also serves to furnish an in- centive for practice, as all the work aims towards this end. The exhibit this year exceeds the previous one 5 including the following: Grand March, Ex- tension Drill, Military Tactics, Couple Steps, and Basket ball. ETHNA ROGERS, '16, - I have a heart to let.--Esther Peterson. l108l

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1916 BEE AITCH ESS 1916 GIRLS' BASKET BALI. TICAM WENBERG JOHNSON PERUSSE ELFSTROM LARSON BARTELT H071

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1916 BEE AITCH ESS 1916 Kerman Glluh HE students of the German classes have organized a club to further the study of German. Its purpose is to present German from a point of view not like that of the class-room, and to train students in the use of idiomatic conversational German, by free inter- course. The club meets once a month and at each meeting a pro- gram is given. This may consist of readings, recitations and musical selec- tions, both vocal and instrumental. After the program a short business meeting is held in English, which, however, we hope to have in German also later on. The social part of the evening consists in playing various games, such as Kofferpacken, Summ, Der Mond ist Rund, etc. The students enter heart- ily into them and thus derive some self coniidence in the use of German, which benefits them greatly in their class work. At the close of the eve- ning, light refreshments are served. At the meeting held on April 19th, there were several guests present, some of whom asked to be accepted as associate members of the club. The following program was rendered: Songs- Die Lorelei, Ach, wie war's moglich .... ............ C lub Poem- Der Handschub .................... .... E lenora Larson Vocal Solo- Die Frage ........ .... M iss Merrifield Poem- Du bist wie eine Blume . . . .... Francis McNair Song- Die Wacht am Rhein . . . ............. . .Club Piano Solo- Lily of the Valley . . . .... Martha Elfstrom Reading- Die Wette .......... ..... H ertha Wendt Vocal Solo- Das Bachlein ........................... Miss Merrifield Quartette- Die Lindenwirtinn .............................. . . . . . .Francis McNair, Theodore Daniels, William Downs, Harold Frisbie Talk- Die Vortheile eines deutschen Vereins .......... Mr. Hohenstein Vocal Solo- Sing mir dein Lied ............ .... M iss Drath Scene from Hoher Aids die Kirche. . . ........ . . . . Kaiser Maximilian ............. ..... E dward Leary His Secretary ..... .... O liver Freedlund Hans Liefrink . .. ..... Elmer Sackrison Maili Ruppacher ......... .... C onstance Johnson Nurse ................ ..... ..,... M i riam Giese Solo- Du bist Wie eine Blume . . .... Miss Merrifield Song- Deutschland uber alles .............. Club MISS DRATH. 1109i