Hickory High School - Hickory Nut Yearbook (Hermitage, PA)

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hysical Education classes and one, forty minute hygiene class per week for each student. The program includes, gymnastic and athletic exercises, active sports, personal, public and school hygiene. The prime educational purpose of teaching muscular exercises is to use them afterwards in gymnastics, games, or in later life. In addition physical edu- cation seeks to develop various desirable qualities characteristic of expert physical movements. These qualities are mental rather than physical even though they receive physical expression. They are the results of training the mind and nervous system rather than muscles. It is essential that the pupils should know what results are desired and should take an interest and pride in obtaining them, which is what our program tries to ac- complish. .. Accuracy, alertness, speed, inhibition, grace, mental training, impressions and expressions, are what our program strives lor. Accuracy is of two kinds. exactness of position and definite timing. Alertness is a state of mind and body prepared for innnediate action. Inhibition is the ability to withhold from action until the proper time. Speed is a desirable result of physical training. Grace is that quality of movement which is the sign of perfection. Bodily positions and movements leave their impression upon the mind. By means of gymnastics, dances and games, our physical training teachers are increasing knowledge in the technique of expression through movement. A modified program of gym work is scheduled for those students who are physically unable to carry on the regular program. The time allotment is the same in all cases. Miss Gaultine Culler, Medina, Ohio, health and physical education teacher. advises the Girls Athletics Association, and cheerlead- ers. Alter being graduated from Kent with a B.S. degree, she did graduate work at Penn- sylvania State and Edinboro. She taught at Spencer, Ohio, before coming to Hickory live years ago. Mr. Keith Stoner, Farrell, came to Hickory four years ago. He is a graduate ol Slippery Rock with a B.S. degree, and has done grad- uate work at the University ol' Pittsburgh. He teaches health and physical education and is basketball and assistant football coach. Saks Jewelry, 118 W. State St., Sharon, Once a customer always a friend Marks Music, Cor. Fruit and Idaho, Farrell, Pa., Dial 7629 21

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'Www' 5, as t if ' t. 02 F Mag 5 ' Mrs. Dorotha Frantz, Prindle Street, is the school nurse, truant officer and conducts Boy Scout tests. She did undergraduate work at Pennsylvania State, Thiel, Edinboro State Teachers College, and the University of Pitts- burgh. Mrs. Frantz, a graduate nurse, trained at C. H. Buhl Hospital and has had experience at the Greenville and Buhl Hospitals. This was her fifth year at Hickory. Health and The Health Department of Hickory gives every pupil a dental and a medi- cal examination every two years. In addi- tion to this, students may have chest X-rays or the Volmer patch test, and shots for various diseases. Dr. Francis L. Lally was the medical examiner this year and Mrs. Grace Edmunds, the medical assistant. Dr. L. R. Landay, the dental exam- iner, has been at Hickory six years. The dental clinic is supported by the Com- munity Fund and students may get dental care for a minimum fee on the request of their parents. Since this was inaugurated, many people have taken advantage so that now Dr. Landay is kept busy with almost more work than he can handle. The health suite is a combination of- fice, emergency room, dental clinic, and a small adjoining room with two cots. Home visits, treatment of people in the office, supervising health and dental examinations, checking all the first aid kits in the building, and inquiring about lengthy absences by telephone or visits make up the duties of the school nurse. Last year the health department added the May registration and psychometric examinations of pre-school children to the program, consisting of medical and dental examinations as well as psycho- logical tests. An added feature this year is the in- dividual pure-tone audiometer used to test hearing, purchased for the Health Department by the P.T.A. Formerly this test was optional, but beginning this year it was required by the State De- partment of Health as a part of the regu- lar health examination. The health and physical education program requires two, forty minute gym johnson Co., Pre-Fabricated Wood Products, 235 S. Dock St., Dial 3343 20 Singer Sewing Machines, Singer Vacuum Cleaners, 12 S. Water Ave., Sharon

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Mr. George Hollibaugh, Fredonia, teaches biology. He received a B.S. degree from Slip- pery Rock and a Masters in Science from Cor- nell University. He came to Hickory two years ago. Miss Minnie Bevlyn Slippery Rock, teaches chemistry and is science club adviser. She was graduated from Slippery Rock with a B.S. degree, and has done graduate work at thc University of Pittsburgh. She came to Hickory eleven years ago. Mr. Robert Webster, Sharon-lNIercer Road, teaches junior High geography and is faculty manager of athletics. After receiving a B.S. degree from Slippery Rock, he taught one year at Sugarcreek Township before coming to Hickory two years ago. Mr. Charles Snyder, Sharon-Mercer Road. teaches general science and is football and junior high basketball coach. He was grad- uated from Thiel College with a B.S. degree and has done graduate work at Pennsylvania State College. Before coming to Hickory three years ago, he taught at Farrell. 22 South Side Garage, International Science and The science department at Hickory requires general science and biology for grades seven through ten, with chemistry and physics elective for juniors and seniors. Starting in junior high school with the general principles of science. students learn about the universe, plants, animals. and energy in an effort to appreciate our environment. Sophomores study biology. dealing with the skeleton of the entire social. economic. and civic order including an understanding of the nature and selec- tion of foods, the fundamental processes of the human machine, and heredity with application toward human better- ment. Adjusted to the needs, interests, and abilities of the individual student. jun- iors are offered general, college prepar- atory, and advanced chemistry aiming at the social interpretations and inter- relationships of the student with his environment. Dealing with matter and energy, sen- iors elect physics to study about familiar things and to test conclusions. 8a Packard Dealer, 611 S. Irvine Ave.