Franklin Central High School - Liberanni Yearbook (Franklin, NY)

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MUJEHQ The Music Department in the Franklin Central School is under the supervision of Miss Kinslol. Her aim is to develop appreciation and enjoyment of music, and skill in performance. lusic is taught daily in the first six grades and twice a week in the Junior High School. Rudiments of Music and Harmony I are the only courses offered to the Senior High School. The school orchestra has been in existence for nearly tio years. It has at present twenty-five members. It plays for school assemblies and social functions. It is now accredited by the State Department of Music, and the students receive Regents'credit for their work in the organization. The Girls' Glee Club is also in its second year of existence and has appeared in public several times during the past year. This club now has an enrollment of more than forty me bers. Both the school orchestra and Girls' Glee Club took part in the Music Festival of the Susquenango League held at Sidney in April of this year. Instrumental instruction on the various instruments of the orchestra is offered to pupils in the grades and in high school. Beginning pupils are graded in classes of varying sizes and continue until they are able to enter the orchestra. Arrangements can be made through the Music Department for the rental of instruments at a small cost.

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IPHWEDHCEZML IEHDUJCEMFHKDN Ph sical Education includes such activities as running, dancing, games, athletics, safety, and personal and public health, as they appeal to students' interest and are supervised for his physical well-being or correction and prevention of bodily deficiency. Physical education and athletics help maintain and pro ote good health and the social qualities of good sportsmanship. They also provide opportunities for qualities of leadership, courage, loyalty, and self sacrifice. They create interest in school and college life. They appeal to the students' deeper instincts and emotions, development of personal traits which affect one's associates and create in youth, intelligent and healthful interest in physical activity which tend to carry through to adult life for a better use of leisure time vhich is becoming more an more a problem of the nation. All pupils attending the public schools are to take this course,1n so far as they are capable and physically fit. The kindergarten is the only exception to this rule. Physical Education and Athletics are a part of education and lifeg therefore, they should be givenimportance, but they should not overshadow the other worthfvhile things of life. Physical Education is a direction of motor activity as a means of developing the mind, character, control,and the body