Leamington District Secondary School - Phoebus Yearbook (Leamington, Ontario Canada)

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iPfuj i icat Education » » In the new school there is a more extensive physical education programme and more club activity. Badminton and dancing clubs are proposed and a tumbling club has already been formed. Two periods of competitive athletics each week are com¬ pulsory unless a student is medically unfit. One day a week each student must use half of his lunch period to participate in the athletic programme; the other period is taken from the physical education. Showers are now available at the conclusion of the athletic periods. In each grade, there are both major and minor teams for each house. All House games in the gymnasium are played on the smaller courts, as both girls ' and boys ' athletics are carried on at the same time. Final House games in a sport such as basketball are played on the large court with some of the students of the school present as spectators. Miss Betty Fullerton. B.A., a Dopular member of our teaching staff, graduated from Victoria College. University of Toronto and came to lecmington High School in 1948. The High School which she atlended was the Colleg ate Insti¬ tute in Cobourg, Ontario. It was at the University of Toronto where she started her Physical Education training by ontoring in all the available sports. Miss Fullerton is very busy organizing the girls Physical Education classes and activities. She teaches girl ' s Health and has a tumbling group in the twelfth period. She has many hobbies which include photography, travelling, bridge, dancing and sports. —PAT WHITTLE — JOYCE MOODY

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Mr. J. R. Clement, B.A., attended Temiskaming High School and also Me Master University where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. This is Mr. Clement’s first year on the staff of Leamington District High School where he teaches French. Mr. Clement pre¬ sides over signals and aids with cadet training. Miss Flossie Galbraith, B.A., attended Fort Erie High School, University Col¬ lege of the University of Toronto where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. Miss Galbraith taught for one year at Durban in South Africa on exchange. Miss Galbraith is the head of the classics department. !l ' ll ' i ‘ ! il MMk IU . ; r rf tr -— miji nun HiniiMfiffSirttoMM i l mrvpi . J,- i ' VL Li ai I • i H ga — This library is equipped with new, modem, blond furniture; the tables are inlaid with a resilient cover¬ ing to reduce noise and the special linoleum floor is for the same purpose. Under the drection of Miss Ellwcod, our librarian, the two thousand, eight hundred, thirty-nine volumes are circulated. We have complete sets of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Americana, the Encyclopaedia of Canada, and the Books of Knowledge. We subscribe to three newspapers and seventeen magazines. We also have a wide selection of plays which have been purchased for presentation by the drama groups. A simplified version of the Dewey Decimal Cata¬ loguing System, which is the same as used in the large public libraries, is employed here. All students have one period in the library per week except grade thirteen and special commercial, because no supplementary reading is required from these two forms. —MARILYN LATIMER, JIM TRUAX. LAURA ANN DRIEDGER

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±icu[ education » » » The Physical Education and Health Is under the direction of Mr. Kenneth Myers. B.A., who Is a former student of the school and while attending here was the Delta House Captain. Before moving to Leamington he taught at the Chatham Vocational School. In the ac tivity period he Is responsible for the boys tumbling and the Quartermaster ' . Boys School Teams are under his coach¬ ing. Mr. Myers received his University training at Assumption College and the University of Western Ontario. Gymnasium —There are folding doors to make two gyms wuh the girls using the front half with the stage and the boys using the south half. An electric scoreboard was purchased with money earned by the students. Each Physical Education class will have the complete gymnasium once weekly. Stage -It is much larger than the one in the old school being twenty-three feet deep, thirty feet wide at the arch and sixty feet at the back. There are two entrances making plays easier to present. Floodlights and overhead stage lighting are available for stage productions. Dressing Rooms —The dressing rooms are complete with showers, washrooms and an office for each teacher. There is a dressing room for the visiting team. This rocm is also complete with showers. Sports Equipment -Six full new football uniforms are to be ordered each year. New house basketball jerseys are to be ordered and if possible extra house sweaters for football and soccer. The football field will be reseeded and the football bleachers rebuilt. The girls will be able to participate in basket¬ ball, track and field, volleyball, ping-pong, badminton and goli. The boys may play basketball, football, soccer, golf, ping-pong, track and field and volleyball. —KAZUKI SHIKAZE