Shaker Heights High School - Gristmill Yearbook (Shaker Heights, OH)

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Girls worked for sportsmanship As Jo'c day at Shaker draws to a close we find her iumping for a bosketball in the Shaker girls' gym. Here Miss Lillian Burke and Miss Helen Komp send the girls through three gym periods per week. Of these, one is instruction in a sport such as bas- ketball, hockey, or badminton, one is spent in playing the sport, and one is devoted to modern dancing, on inovation in the girls' program this year which is taught by Miss Komp. Extra periods in swimming instruction for the girls are optional.

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Constant testing kept Shaker boys on their toes in physical education classes throughout 1947- l948. Today we run the obstacle course. To- day we swim nine lengths for time. How many sit-ups can you do? How many chins'? Coaches soon found out. Whipping Shaker males into shape were Mr. Robert L. Breitenstein, Mr. Fred Heinlen, Mr. Howard G. Moritz, Mr. J. Paul Stark, and Mr. Ray E. Singer. Gym classes weren't all work, however. Football in the fall, basket- ball, boxing, wrestling in the winter, and baseball in the spring made seventh-period gym a swell way to end a day of classes. Boys took vi orous gym course,

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After the books were dumped into lockers there was always a haker team to cheer! After seventh period was over and the clock finally worked its way around to 3:25, Shakerites usually hurried to watch Shaker's athletic teams in action. Perhaps there was a football game in progress out on the gridiron, or a swimming meet in the pool, or a wrestling meet down in the base- ment, or a basketball game in the gym. Or per- haps a Shaker miler was digging his heels into the cinders, or a Shaker pitcher warming up on the mound. Perhaps the girls were playing hockey out on the front lawn. Whatever it was, we al- ways went. And after the game was over, we stuck our books under our arms and went home, and ended another typical school day.