Tolleston High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Health and safety encouraged safe, Cooch Joseph Voncc, with the aid of a reoctometer, tough» safety students how reoction time is found. In heolth, students learned the muscle structure of tne body. 20

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of public speaking Pioneer Staff members worked diligently to meet the publisher's deodlines. Publishing a newspaper every other Friday was o big 10b for the members of the Tolly Times Staff Like other speech students. Lorenzo Vosquez leorned to speak more confidently before on audience. I»

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healthy living Courage, strength, and sportsmonship were qualities stressed by Tolleston's physicol education teachers. Under their guidance, students soon reolized that, in any sport, winning the game doesn't count half os much as playing the game foirly. Students from grades seven through twelve attended these classes and leorned a variety of skills. They learned to play various sports and meons of keeping physically fit. Among the ac- tivities taught in classes were basketball, football, soccer, table tennis, volleyball, badminton, wrestl- ing, acrobotics, oil of which helped make a well- rounded program. Health, sofety and driver troining courses, taught by our coaches, stressed the need for know- ing how to keep our bodies healthy and how to live safely. In health, students learned about the bone and muscle structures and the many complicated systems of the body. Students enrolled in Safety Education leorned about home sofety, water safety, fire prevention, and traffic sofety. Traffic safety was especially stressed because of the fact that most traffic fa- talities involve people between the ages of 18 to 24. In driver training Tolleston students increased their knowledge of safe driving. Tolleston's physicol educotion progrom, like progroms oil over the country, stressed the need for better physicol fitness.