Wichita State University - Parnassus Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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FEMININTTY IN ATHLETICS lncluding all women's sports, both in active and theoretical phases, the women's physical educa- tion department of the University presented this year an array of activities for upper and under classrnen. The department is under the direction of Gladys Taggart, director, and Evelyn Hinton. Both are widely known in this district for their work in physical education and women's sports. Classes offered by them included hockey, tennis and badminton, golf, swimming, dancing, basketball, archery, and horseback riding. A The Women's Athletic Association was active this year in giving University women an oppor- tunity for extra-curricular sports, and participated in local and state-wide events. Officers for the group were Betty Gensch, president, Barbara La Rue Engle, vice president, lda Nelle Barnhart, secretary: Margaret lones, treasurer: and Dorothy Strickland, recorder of points. The organization was hostess to the state W. A. A. convention last October. Approximately 200 delegates from 22 Kansas schools attended. Miss Gensch, state president, presided at all busi- ness meetings tsee opposite pagel and social functions during the two-day meet. Beulah Bar- rett was general chairman for the occasion. Act- Sports Directors Taggart and Hinton ing directly under the W. A. A. was the Intra- mural Council, which had charge of all women's intramural sports. Headed by Marguerite Mc- Cluer, it was composed of a representative from each sorority and the Barbs. V Social functions of the association included mixed co-recreational playnights, the annual party for freshmen women, a dinner in December clos- ing the hockey and badminton seasons, a spread and skate sponsored by the rifle squad, and the playday in the spring given for prospective Uni- versity students. The season was climaxed by the annual spring formal banquet, when the new offi- cers were installed and final awards given. . . . . stress extra-curricular activities . . . . Furthering advancement in women's sports is the board of the W0men's Athletic Association composed of Cseatedt Margaret Jones, Marguerite McCluer, Betty Censch, Evelyn Hinton, advisor, Mary Evelyn Brincefield, Cstandingl Alice Jane Brown, Audine Belford, Barbara LaRue Engle, Beulah Barrett, and Ruth Hinman. Not pictured are Aileen Calkins, Ida Nelle Barnhart, Mary Harrison, and Vivian Melcher.

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OMEN'S sports were off to a good start last year with field hockey the first sport to be scheduled on the calendar. The outstanding event of the hockey season was the interclass tourna- ment played in November. It was won by the sophomores. Other highlights were the hockey play day during the W. A. A. state meet and the game in which the Welsh team played the Wich- ita Hockey Club. The University varsity played and won matches with the Friends University team and the alumnae varsity on Homecoming Day. Proving a popular innovation to the campus was BADMINTON . . . which was played during the late fall months. The intersociety tournament was won by Martha Barrett, who also won the PING PONG . . . tournament later in the season, and which was on an intersociety basis like its predecessor in miniature tennis. With Mary Harrison as W. A. A. manager, the University SWIMMERS . . . entered the state meet in April held at the Elks Club pool. Although competing in the state tourney, the contest was also an intramural sport for the local organizations. This event is an intercol- legiate match sponsored by the University of Kansas. A life saving class, not given last year, was offered this spring. The swimming classes, taught by Gladys Taggart, director of women's physical education, provided an opportunity for all girls who had not learned to swim. Each team entered in the annual VOLLEYBALL . . . tournament played six matches. The Vandals won the final decision. As an intramural activity it was one of the chief winter sports. A mixed volleyball play night, in which Club and W. A. A. members participated, was held last Ianuary. Following volleyball in the schedule was BASKETBALL . . . played during the early spring months. The University cagewomen won the two matches played with Friends University. Coming as an- other of the intramural sports, a round robin tournament was held in March. The Delta Omega sorority was victor. Also active during the school year were UNIVERSITY ARCHERS . . . with the Archery Club which was organized early in the fall. A constitution was adopted and Irene Box was e l e cte d president. Mary Margaret Schroeder was chosen secretary-treasurer and Phyllis Powell, publicity manager. Rosemary Ridings headed the central committee. Members of the club participated in local tournaments. The club sponsored a weekly craft hour when archers learned to make their own bows and other equip- I24l ment. With the archery classes, the group en- tered one telegraphic meet and during May par- ticipated in the annual Intercollegiate Tournament. For the first time, members of the various archery classes had access daily in the winter to an indoor range and were thus able to enter the Intercollegiate Winter Archery Meet. Proving to be more popular than ever before was HORSEBACK RIDING . . . with the department offering four classes, two be- ginners' classes at the Bridle and Saddle Club, and the advanced classes at the National Guard stables. Advanced students particularly studied ring riding and jumping. Pegasus, the riding club, was reorganized this year with Betsy Tatlock head- ing the group. Picnic rides were sponsored reg- ularly by the equestriennes. The spring show, highlight of the University riding season, was held in May. One of the outstanding extra- curricular sports was RIFLE . . . which began immediately after the Thanksgiving holidays. Following intensive practice, the rifle team went to Booneville, Mo., last March to enter the Midwest Indoor Gallery Meet at Kemper Mil- itary Academy. The University team took second place. Barbara Engle was captain of the squad this year, with Alice lane Brown as manager. Prior to the Kemper trip, approximately 75 girls out for rifle participated in four telegraphic matches with universities in all parts of the country. Cli- maxing the spring season were the three major activities of GOLF, TENNIS, and BASEBALL . . . which were either on an intramural or an inter- class basis. Although golf is primarily a fall and spring sport, practices were held by members of the class during the winter in the women's gymnasium. Their annual tourney was held in April. In tennis the three annual tournaments took place, the free-for-all and intramural: the be- ginners, with Catherine Dedrick managing, and mixed doubles, with Vivian Melcher as manager. Tennis and its various forms were played through- out the year. In the annual baseball contest a team from each class participated. Martha Bar- rett was manager for the sport. One of the most important activities of University women in the physical education department is DANCING . . . with classes in dance technique, dance forms, folk dancing, and clogging. Professional and teachers' dancing classes, under Mrs. Alice Campbell Wrigley, with Mrs. Hildegarde Lewis as instructor, are given in the College of Fine Arts. Orchesis, dance sorority, has figured prominently in Uni- versity events this year by presenting a state- wide dance symposium, its annual spring recital, and by presenting the May Fete.