Northside High School - North Star Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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Exercises are a Headache to All The Physical Education Department of Northside consists of Mrs. Clemons, Mrs. Kavitz, Mr. Dyer, and Mr. Isbell. Alternat- ing a gym course with a health course in the eighth and tenth grades and classroom Driver Training in the ninth grade, the physi- cal education curriculum has been expand- ed and improved. Among the sports offered are basketball, softball, speedball, Volleyball, tumbling, and soccer. In addition, the girls study dancing for a part of the year and boys learn gymnastical feats and weight- lifting. In the classroom, the fundamentals of health are broadened and elaborated on by closer study of the human anatomy, piece by piece. The half-year of driver training offered in the freshman year is the course which is recommended by most of the com- panies dealing with automobile insurance. Student teachers Miss Keiger and Miss Brown show gym classes the correct way to hit a volleyball. .,,. Driver ed. teacher Mrs. Garst points out the importance -of a safety belt to Nancy Hatcher, Ellen Hatcher, and Lyn Dillon at iree 3 is ,ifi if Mrs. Nancy Clemons Mr. Ralph Isbell Mr. Don Dyer Mrs. Doris Kavitz 36

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