Edina High School - Whigrean Yearbook (Edina, MN)

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Physical Education Keeps Students Fit Physical Education is required in tenth grade and is an elective in the eleventh and twelfth grades. The course is designed to promote physical fitness and to teach recreational skills which may be useful outside of school. Students keep physically fit through daily practice in gymnastics and calisthenics. Recreational activities such os golf, tennis, and bowling are offered. There ore also units on team sports such as football, softball, volleyball, and basketball. Modern donee and archery are special features of Girls' Phy Ed. Neither cold nor wind will keep the boys' gym closs indoors. Aiming in unison, four girls strive for increased occurocy. MR. DUANE BAGUFN - Boys' Physical Education - attended U ot M — coochet bolt iball and baseball — enjoy gotftng. booting, and fishing — penalties of pushup and burpee . MR. STAVROS CANAKES - Physical Education and Health - head football cooch — crltkolly review movie of Edina game with hi gym clatte — famous for hi lecture — You jeOy donufsl MRS. PATRICIA ENGEIHARD - Girls' Physical Education - odvlter of GAA — remembers every one of her gab — feminine, petite, ond perky — Run. run, leapt 27 MISS MARLENE YOHE — Physical Education ond General Foods — come to Edina afler graduating from Wortburg College. Woverly. towo — enjoy knitting and horse bock riding.

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MR. WIUIAM BICANICH — Occupational Relation ond Distributive Education — attended U of M and Northwestern — advise Future Sole Leoders of Edina — aims To develop on understanding D.E. progrom. MR. ROGER SOERGER — Social Problems. Business Management, ond Bookkeeping — attended St. Cloud State. Mankato State, ond U of M — 'You may ossume the perpendicular position MISS IOITH GRANSBIRG - Typing and Offco Proctice - attended U of Cotorodo ond Northwestern U — co-odvise Junior Red Crow Council — oKvays well-dressed MISS GLORIA IRVINE - Shorthond I ond II ond Office Proctice - attended U of M. U of Colorado, and U of Hawaii — advises FBLA — Write, don't drawl Fosterl Foster! MISS ARDYCE LoPRAY — Typing — a co-adviser of FBLA — both taught ond attended summer school — Typing con be rosy If you get lh . lght start — hobbies ore swimming ond travel. AAR. MELVIN MARR — Business Management. Everyday low, ond Recordkeeping — attended Cornell ond U of M — advises Rhon Hi-Y and Concessions Club — enjoys hi-fi and gordening. Commercial Arts Teach Business Skills Edina's Business Education department offers, in addition to the regulor office courses, o relatively new subject, Distributive Education. In this course o student studies English, Occupational Relations, which is a study of individual ond group selling, ond one elective subject. He attends classes in the morning ond receives on-the-job training in the afternoon. The Commercial Arts department offers Typing, Shorthand, Office Practice, Bookkeeping, Recordkeeping, Everyday Low, and Business Management to prepare the student for future employment. Miss Gransberg checks Marilyn Feigum's progress on the triplicate form. 26 Miss Irvine's Shorthond class leorns one of the secretarial skills.

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School Provides Special Services Mr. Howard Merriman has served as Edina's director of athletics for ten years. He schedules and supervises all activities connected with athletic events. Mrs. Lois Engel serves as the senior high nurse. Besides signing admits and attending to students who become ill at school, Mrs. Engels advises Y-teens. Mr. Douglas Hed, as audio-visual director, selects and obtains all films used by the senior high. He also trains audio-visual operators. Mrs. Sybil Wersell conducts special education courses. She helps senior high students who need extra help with their studies. Testing eyesight is only one of Mrs. Engle's duties. Mr. Hed, who orders all films, checks his files. 28 Mr. Merriman unlocks the football field before practice. Mrs. Wersell studies her materials before class.