West Lafayette High School - Scarlet and Gray Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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Page 18 The fact that rejections for military service from our school are few is no doubt due to the emphasis placed on physical readiness by MR. MALCOLM MACKEY, our director of physical education for boys. Calisthenics punctuated by periods of softball, soccer, badminton, and basketball built us to strength and endurance. Fifty percent of the boys took part in physical education classes while the other fifty percent participated in athletics. Lack of indoor facili- ties sent classes to the athletic field during fall and spring and to the classroom for the study of health and hygiene during the winter months.

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Under the direction of MR. WOODSON IMMEL the boys in our class began to feel like men of industry as they worked with chisels and punches in the school shop. Forging, metal and wood turning, and heat treating of metal afforded an outlet for energy and a relaxation from book work. Across the hall seated on high stools, boys and girls, too, found it interesting to lean over the tall, slanting desks to concen- trate on architectural or machine drawing. In February Mr. Immel retired after twenty years of fine service to our school. He was suc- ceeded by MR. GEORGE PRICE.

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We have no gymnasium, but it was fun to carry on our physical fitness program out-of-doors during the nine weeks of fall and nine weeks of spring- time weather. Whether it was by means of general conditioning exercises of bone creaking nature, play- ing games, or gamboling on the green, MISS BER- NICE FITES helped us to achieve that healthy vim and vigor necessary to match the strenuous activi- ties of a war time year. Many of us were interested in G.A.A., which met after school twice a week, and we rejoiced when our school placed first in an invita- tional archery contest. Soccer, speedball, tennis, and tumbling are other activities in which we partici- pated.