University of the Incarnate Word - Logos Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Not the least remarkable of the many developments in athletic activities for the current year has been the striking manifest revival of interest in fencing. Though this art had been practiced by the students throughout some several previous years, its advocacy in competition had notably lessened from time to time. In October of this year, two classes were organized, and have not diminished in numbers or enthusiasm. The exactions which the discipline of this game imposes on those who would master even its rudimentary technique predicates a genuine devotion to difficulty that is most commend- able. Because of this unquestioning fact, there is a special tribute due to the members of the fencing teams. It can be surely said of fencing that no other physical exercise calls for such subtle practice in the mental mastery of nerve and muscle coordination. The exponents of the art have offered several public demonstrations of their laudably amateur skill. They have given exhibitions at assembly, appeared as a colorful factor in the annual Spring Festival and most capably represented the College in the Fiesta Tournament of Swords, sponsored by the fencing groups of the city. The students who attended the fencing classes are: Wilma Derden, Gwendolyn Hynes, Bernadine Hynes, Ruby Beck, Jo Chadwick, Marjorie McKinley, Petty Pagenkolf, Estelle Cappuyns and Loretta Yeager.

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14W The reporting of this sport of archery, so the present reporter opines, has uniformly 0c- Casioned too many and long continued searchings 0f the thesaurus; s0 bewilderingly multi- tudinous and protracted that the unknowing public has uniformly come to imagine it a recrea- tion much talked about but little practiced. To those of us Who have but Sketchily witnessed the performance of the game, its mention produces no more than literary connotations: ttgraceful and gracious? Rob Roy and Robin Hood, HAgincourt and Crecyf, and the like. Ancient and honorablett though it be, it is modern and realistic twithout prejudice to honom in the scheme of recreations provided for, and played by, the students of I. W. C. Notable among the devotees of archery, 1940-41, and distinguished as such on the campus, there are authentically named: Mary Margaret Morris, Betty Albin, Gretchen Bauer, Jean Powers, Carmen McCormick, J acqueline Coffey, Marguerite Gaines, Frances Thomas, Nelda Palsma, Carmen Torres.

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Historic testimony indicates, not that golf was played by the ancient philistines, but that it had its origin among the less ancient Dutch. Adopted by the Scotch, later by their English cousins, and more recently by our own American citizenry, it has flourished among us. Of its aptness to the requirements of recreational form, a prominent American man of business is reported to have said: There is no 10st motion in the game-th0ugh you may fail to contact the ball, you can always contact the prospect? However true or Wishful that claim may be, Golf is a genuinely wholesome sport for those of temperament compatible With the game. Fur- ther be it declared, it is practiced, With greater or less amateur proficiency and sustained devotion, by no small number of the students of our college. Though statistics of their feats of rivalry in golf are not available and, indeed, are of minor importance, it can be reported authentically that these, of our collegiate community, have distinguished them- selves as golfers in 1940-41: Mary Belcher, Mary Earley, Betty Lee Picard, Jane Garvey, Maydell Celli, Mary J 0 Torregrossa, Lorraine Novelli, Marjorie J ames, Mildred Hoffer, Ann Armbrust.