Belleville College - Dutchman Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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kept physically fit. Physical Education classes provided many hours of fun and relaxation for the college girls. The teachers in this department planned activities that would help relieve the girls from their strenuous academic life. These activities included modern dance, game instruc¬ tions, body massage, tennis, basketball, volleyball, bowling, archery, and soft ball. The girls were divided into three group. Miss Al- hert.i Hamilton, head of the PE Department, taught the nursing students and future teachers the prop-r wav to conduct children’s games. Miss Pat Spurrier suprvised bowling, archery, ten¬ nis, basketball, and volleyball. Miss Myma Smith held the modern dance classes. In the first semester the girls learned the basic funda¬ mentals of m(xlern dance. During the second semester, the bovs joined the girls in learning the current ball¬ room favorites such as, the fox trot and the honky-tonk. • SEATED: Mi$i Morgoret Hamilton, B.Ed., M.A.j Miss Pat Spur¬ rier, B.S. STANDING: Miss Myrna Smith, B.S. MISS MARGARET HAMILTON showed Eileen Risinger, Diane Teel and Nancy Woodward the way to massoge a potient ' s orm as she demonstrated it on Carol Scheske. TO THE DELIGHT of Jeannie Cordie and Edith Biehl, Lavona Shea seemingly bowled another strike. NOW REMEMBER, it s one, two, slide, slidell

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JC men and women 1 he men s physical education program was under the direction of Mr. Emer) ' Carter, assisted by Mr, Norman Armstrong and Mr. Lloyd Elmore. When the young men started classes, they decided l)etween participation in class activities or off-campus sports, such as bowling during the winter semester or goll in the spring, for two hours a week. To be elig¬ ible for these activities, a student had to pass the Marine’s Physical Fitness Test with an ability score of 200. Every two weeks those students reported to the PE office to have their activity cards checked. Students who remained in the PE classes learned the general rules and proper scoring in the various sports available: basketball, tennis, tumbling, track, and weight lifting. Above all, go xl sportsmanship, physical fitness, and athletic agility remain the ulti¬ mate goals of the physical education department. SEATED; Mr. Emery Carter, B.Ed., M.A.; Mr. Lloyd Elmore, B.S.Ed. STANDING: Mr. Norman Armstrong, B.S.Ed. WHILE AL HOPFINGER, Dave Lashley and John Sova watched, Dave Weber demonstrated the principles of lifting weights. ROGER SCHMIDT struggled to chin himself for the fiftieth time. ROBERT VOLLMER displayed some good and bad points of his tumbling form — mostly good, of course.

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Evening courses were open to everyone; MR. FRANCIS L RICHARDSON, who earned his B.S.E. and M.S. at the University of Arkansas, co-ordinated the Junior College evening division program four nights o week. The Belleville Junior College evening division pro¬ vided an opportunity for adults to receive instruction in seventy-five credit courses and sixteen non-credit courses. Regularly enrolled day students also took ad¬ vantage of the night school offerings to supplement their schedules. With approximately 2,000 persons attending night classes each semester, Junior College employed teach¬ ers from other districts and from industry, in additon to the full-time staff, to teach in the evening program. Adults comprised the majorit) enrolled in the night classes. Housewives were interested in sewing, tailor¬ ing, flower arranging, millinery courses, and typing. Business firms sent their secretaries to the college to improve their knowledge of business through courses in accounting, marketing, shorthand, business law, st(x:ks and bonds, and economics. Many women, in terested in teaching, attended Evening Division to obtain an elementary education teaching certificate. AS TWILIGHT APPROACHED, the lights of the “midnight oil burned in the main building, signalling the start of evening classes.