Grove High School - Ridge Runner Yearbook (Grove, OK)

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Foreword Physical education is one of the newest subjects in the modern educational program. At the same time it is the oldest of all forms of education, Physical training has always been fashioned to the culture of the people and of the age. Primitive people taught their children only the familiar activities. Boys were trained for war or for hunting. Girls learned domestic occupations such as gardening, weaving, or making pottery. Physical education in the United States began in the 1870's. There were several reasons for the development of formal physical education classes in the schools of the United States. First, the life in large cities cut down on the normal form of exercise done by children on the farm. Second, health examina- tions showed the need of correcting physical defects during the early years in schools. Third, students themselves organized athletic programs which were to become an important part of school life. After World War I the American people be- came conscious of the need for this type of training when it learned about the draft statistics. One third of the men selected for military duty in World War I failed to pass the physical examination. Physical education is now an important part of every school program. It has been included in the cardinal principles of educa- tion as set up by the National Education Association which believes that it is the duty of the public schools to provide a program which will 'secure and maintain a condition of personal good health and physical fitness' for every child. The physical education pro- gram is usually broad enough to reach the wide range of individual differences found among students in every class. lt is concerned with the individual's fullest development and en- joyment. Realizing that the program of physical fitness in our school is weak, the patrons approved a bond issue in the spring of 1957 for building a new gymnasium which will be large enough to carry out a full program of physical education for every school child. The Grove school board in October awarded a 5134500 contract to Gordon Wilson and Son for construction of this proposed auditorium-gymnasium. Ten acres of land were purchased west of the school for a football field and other further uses. The bus barns were moved to the south part of the new addition to make way for the new building. The present gridiron will be used for playground and parking space. This new building will be a double wall construction of brick and light block. It will house a stage, basketball court, dressing rooms, ticket office, and refreshment stand. There will be ample room in this new gym- nasium for all types of physical fitness pro- grams, and we hope that the coming genera- tions will profit from this step forward in our educational program. I - The Staff -Y ll dw . Q ,us . .. '!,,,. l. 'nm - XZ -M fi . . 'fl' il -.,uMmV.b- .- X - . We ..--..... ' HEAl7fHifiNDl'glNTElLECT Our ew

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