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Address by

Les ..Warren

Kansas City, Missouri
Public Schools

Activities engaged in most frequently at home found most teachers
listing same in the order following: Radio, reading — fiction and non—
fiction, entertaining, cooking, card playing, music, writing, photog-
raphy, gardening, needle work, woodcraft, antique collecting and stamp
collecting.

Listed as aétivities engaged in at home once in awhile, more than
one-half of the teachers listed card playing at the top, with the others
as follows: Radio, gardening, cooking, reading, needle work, writing,
entertaining and musit.

Other activities receiving but a few votes are quite varied in
type and run all the way from making of scrap books, chinese checkers,
walking, poultry raising, interior decorating to letter writing, astron-
omy and other such activities.

- Activities engaged in away from home most often listed in order as
follows: Card playing, picnics, attending movies, dancing, parties,
swimming, music, hiking, nature study, riding, golf, tennis and fishing.

Those activities engaged in awry from home once in awhile find pic—
nics at the top of the list, with the others as follows: Card playing,
hiking, swimming, parties, hoakine, nature study, fishing, camping,
tennis, riding, dancing and skating,

Other activities that appear of great interest to the teachers in-
clude: Concerts, movies, travel, driving, book reviews, clubs, CAMPS
théatres and art galleries,

Question number three which states, "I would enjoy additional re-
ercation activities but do not because I am handicapped by the follow-
ing" found the teachers responding as follows: Lack of finances (Ap-
proximately two-thirds of the teachers listed this reason first), lack
of proper transportation, extra-curricular activities interference,
home duties, lack of time and health.

In spite of the fact that few teachers had suggested having en-—
gaged in athletic sports to any great extent, in reply to question number
four which asks the teachers to suggest recreation programs in which they
would be interested, this list was topped by the athletic sport activ—
ities including swimming, golf, tennis, bowling and skating. These
activities were followed up by socinl dancing, gymnasium work, book re-
views, arts and crafts, parliamentary law, nature study and fly casting.

The final question dealt with the type of courses in which the
various teachers might be interested if offered at the Kansas City,
Missouri Teachers College, In this return much interest was manifested
in the promotion of an Individual Sports class, instruction to be offer-—
ed in the various individual sports that hold a definite carry-over value,
Social recreation was listed as second choice; folk dancing and clog
dancing as third choice; dramatics, fourth; playground planning and ad-—
ministration, fifth; games of high and low organization, sixth and handi-
craft, seventh,

Since the time returns have been made and tabulated, a course of
Individual Sports was promoted at Teachers College. and taught by myself.