Meyers High School - Colophon Yearbook (Wilkes Barre, PA)

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SPECIAL EDUCATION Mrs. Mary Morgan Mrs. Mae Loughran Sigbtsaving Special Edutalibn Meyers in Action . . H I 26 FEATURE WRITERS MARSHALL I-IYMAN GEORGE NAI-IAS ANNE BRISLIN JOHN CHRZANOWSKI DAMIAN RAYKOVITZ SUANNE MOSES

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HEALTH - - PHYSICAL EDUCATION MR. JOHN NAGLE MR. MINOR NAGLE MISS BEATRICE ROSENTHAL M155 PHYLL15 STQU1' Expert advice. Other departments in Meyers have modernized with the changing times, the Physical Education depart- ment is no exception. Along with two new instructors Mr. Minor Nagle, and Miss Phylliss Stout, Meyers' gym has also received a face-lifting. There are new lights, which permit better vision during gym classes and basketball games and there is a new floor, which was installed last year. This face-lifting is the main step forward in the Fit- ness department. Other improvements in the gym area are: the tram- poline, which was purchased a few years ago and a basketball rebounding machine, which is used pri- marily by the basketball team. The rest of the gym's equipment is fairly modern and is complete as to the types of apparatus it contains. There are horses , parallel bars, chinning' bars, mats and game equip- ment, which includes softball bats and balls, basket- balls, soccor balls, footballs and tennis rackets. In the gym class the instructor teaches the students teamwork and good sportsmanship. In this depart- ment the main objective of the instructor is to make students use their voluntary muscles so that their in- voluntary muscles, the heart and lungs especially, will develop more fully. Two other modern conveniences included in Meyers' Physical Fitness Program are the swimming pools. In the pool areas students are taught many dif- ferent skills but the main idea here is to teach the students life saving and water safety. Conditioning counts. The gym -classes are arranged so that students have exercise outside as well as inside the gym. During the first and the sixth intervals the classes are held out- side. In the fall, gym classes play football and soccor and in the spring they play softball and tennis. During the winter months classes are held inside. The lirst part of the period is devoted to marching tactics, calisthenics, heavy apparatus and sometimes Physical Fitness Tests. The free play part of the period allows the students to either wrestle or play basketball. All in all Meyers' Physical Fitness Program is up to date in every way.

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A P I U V1 I ??tl1,E CLASS OF 1963