George Peabody College For Teachers - Pillar Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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THE DANCE: Left to right: Sondra Womack, J. P. West, Lana Hahn, JoAnn Gordon, Neil Sofge, Kay Bonner, Jan Brach, Judy Snellgrove, Becky Maxwell, Patsy Black, Art Weilman, Ralph Whaleyi, Kaye Collins. During the fall and spring quarters, tennis tournaments lor boys and girls are played on the eight outside courts on campus and the nearby courts at the Demonstration School grounds. The non-Contact sport also allows lfor much fun and competition on a co-educational basis. Spanning over the entire year is the activity ol Miss Haddox's dance group. Highlight ol the group's year is the Butler belts base hit in spring softball. program presented on the temporary stage in front of the Social Religious Building during the spring qlla1'tCI'. Softball facilities are maintained at Peabody a11d intra- mural play goes on. Last year a tournament involving teams from Belmont. Vanderbilt, and Peabody saw Peabody top Belmont, 6-5, and the Vanderbilt Phi Delts, 2-l, to take the championship. Dickie Dickerson displays his serve in tennis during spring intramural program. Page l85

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Peabody fields extramural soccer team. Vaughn Christian races to cross-country victory. Qtlzei' recreation emerges tlzrougfiout entire aca emic gear Intramural ping-pong provides recreation for Peabody men. Peabody Coeds hit the water in the annual Outing Club swimming meet. Page 184 A year-round program of recreation is provided at Peabody both for girls and boys. The lield of ac- tivities is so vast and so varied that everyone is able to Iind some means of recreation which will satisfy his needs. For example, this year a soccer team was organized by a group of .Xmeriean and International students which engaged in several informal games against representative teams from Belmont College aml Vanderbilt University during the fall and spring quar- ters. Cross-country racing, that is, cross-campus, pro- vides an opportunity for the high school track man to try his speed and endurance once again. Pingspong tournaments are very popular and held each quarter. with participants from age seventeen to forty-plus. Also each year during the winter quarter, the Outing Club sponsors a girls' all-campus swim meet. For the second year in a row, the girls of North Hall picked up the championship trophy, edging out the team representing Beta Kappa Tan sorority by a single point. Other activities such as badminton. foul-shooting. howling, and archery are ollered to the Peabody stu- dent. Tommy Andrews tries his eye in foulfshooting contest.

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Freshman girls take swimming, taught by Mrs. Pirrie, during the winter quarter of the aca- demic year. cgszccz e ucatton epcutmenl prov! es variecl class actizdty 'l he physical education department ollers a wide selection of class activities during the year. Two years. or six hours, of physical edu- cation are required for graduatioug these requirements are usually met hy freshman and sophomore courses. Freshman girls take speed-away. a combination of sottrer and foot- hall, their first quarterg swimming second quarter. and the third quar- ter is devoted to volleyball. Fall quarter of the sophomore year in- cludes held hockey. followed by dance or basketball in the winter, and sotthall in the spring. Field hockey is played as an intramural sport in the fall with color teams. and the games usually arouse widespread participation. Basketball. as a winter intramural, is quite popular with the color teams playing once again in tournaments. Volleyball is the spring activity' for girls in intramural area and in supervised hy Miss LaSalle and the intramural managers. Nliss l.ut'ile LaSalle and Mrs. Betty' Pirrie are professors for the freshmen and sophomore classes. Three physically fit sophomores exercise in gym class Stress on the physical provides a welcome relief from the mental.