North Side High School - Legend Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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THE LEGEND 1943 Hamlet, Laura Pennell, Deloris Gardt, and Neva Waikel. During the basketball season, an officials' class was started. The girls who enrolled are Margaret Canfield, Lila Childers, Erma Ely, Marcele Gar- man, Mildred Hattendorf, Mary Houser, Berniece Jacoby, Joann Leighty, Eleanor Houser. Marjorie Galloway, Ellen Martin, Glendora Martin, Joann McKeefer, Suzanne Mclfeefer, Annabelle Steph- enson, Patricia Riding, Mona Winkleblack, Neva Waikel, Bonnie Wire, Shirley Zion, and Gene Ann Zimmerman. The class met once each week, and umpiring studied violations, fouls, refereeing, scorekeeping. time-keeping. and all the rules and W. After rhfev they were regulations concerning girls' basketball. had sufhcient training along this line, qualified to help with the tournament. this year are Eleanor Evans, Miriam Franklin, Eleanor Houser, Anna May Jacobson, Marion Knuth, Carol Mulqueeney, Phyllis Rabus, Jessie Ormerod, and Margaret Canfield. The course re- quired a minimum of at least fifteen class hours divided into two parts: a preparatory phase of five hours and a training phase of ten hours. Exainina- tions required two additional hours, making a total for course and examination of seventeen hours. The requirements of the senior course are: standing front dive, swim 440 yards continuously, employ- ing a hand-over-hand stroke fcrawl, trudgeon- crawl, double trudgeon, trudgeonlg a side stroke using scissors stroke of the legs, swim on the back with inverted scissors or inverted breast stroke kick, dive from surface to minimum depth of six feet and swim two body lengths under water, tread ,Msg-ii i T T Left to right: The winning volleyball team: Irene Kerns, Lila Childers, Nlartha Hughes, Betty Mitchell, Joanne Leighty The softball champions. Maxine Richard, Mildred Rathert, Alta Beeching, Norma The tumblers in one of their pyramids. After the basketball season closed, tumbling classes were started. Ah, sweet misery of life, at last T've found thee was the doleful lament of many a girl limping from a tumbling class. That month liniment bottles saw daily usage. Life-saving is another sport which is oH:ered in being the our intramural program. North Side only high school in this city fortunate to have a pool, we are therefore lucky to have a course of- fered in life-saving each year to any girl who is interested. The following girls who participated 96 Front to back: Dorothy Chandler, Harper, Mildred Bauermeister water one minute with hands beneath surface for use as auxiliary supports, and float motionless or rest in a floating position with minimum movements of arms and legs for one minute. After complet- ing this course the girls are fully able to aid in any emergency that might arise. Noon-day activities during the winter months en- couraged hundreds of boys and girls to play vol- leyball, badminton, ping-pong, darts, ring-toss, and shuiiie-board. This opportunity enabled many to have an enjoyable period which might otherwise