Greensburg High School - Tower Tree Yearbook (Greensburg, IN)

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L' nf All this for R. Stockhuetter! We Wonder how these illustrious first aiders would react if that leg were really broken. FITNESS PROGRAM Program with determination if not ac- tual competence. We swam to condition further our bodies, add agility and suppleness to muscles not affected by other forms of exercise. Perhaps as good a skill test as any recreation, ping-pong en- gaged free moments and parts of noon hours. Rope-climbing, ladder-walking, ob- stacle-running were our daily re- freshers with arm-flingers and strad- dle chins thrown in for good measure. We ached-oh, how we ached! But it all seemed worthwhile if we could frog-jump ourselves into masculine or feminine specimens of fitness, with bodies strengthened for victory and responses developed for present satis- faction. Patty-cake. patty-cake-Supermen! Not the ladder of fame but just rou tine! UP and over! ! Not frogs. just their jumps!! lf?

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Up, 2, 3, 4! !! Swing and sway the Riskie way! The weaker sex? Ping pong reigns on wintry days! 8 Can you imagine all of these injuries occurring at the same time??'? Recovery time: 54 seconds!! THE PHYSICAL What with religiously working to be- come physically fit and applying our- selves to tracing an elusive artery or two, this was quite an eventful year for some 400 of us. To the familiar cadence of Riskie's up, two, three, four the weaker sex slaved and suffered all for health's sake, succeeding most admirably- much to that pedagogue's I-told-you- so gloating. Male members displayed enviable motor fitness technique with Tom Downey captaining their efforts. Whatever they lacked in rhythm they covered in agility and endurance. Realizing in our moments of seri- ousness that developing our bodies was, in its way, service to our country, we entered into the Physical Fitness

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