| PUBLIC SCHOOLS, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURL

 

Library Building
Ninth and Locust Streets

HEROID C. HUNT, Superintendent

Nadine E, liiller
Public Information Service

March 5, 1943

To the Superintendent:

"Fitness Problems of 1943" is the theme of the two-day
streamlined convention of the Central District Association
of Health, Physical Education and Recreation which will
meet in Kansas City, April 2 and 3,

"Fitness Problems" such as: mass feeding in schools,
recreation programs for doorstep children, the value of
"the Grid," and meeting the standards of a good health
and physical education program as outlined by the Victory
Corps, will be discussed in this workshop conference,

Key speakers of the conference will be John B, ielly, a
member of the Federal Office of Defense, Health, and Wel-
fare Services who will give the latest government informa-
tion on improving the nation's physical fitness; Jay 5,
Nash, president of the national organization of Health,
Physical Education and Recreation and an authority on
solving health problems; John L, Bracken, chairman of the
Commission who prepared "Health in Schools;" and Edward
Haislet, Lt,, U.S,N.R., assistant athletic director of the
United States Navy.

This is a convention for civic leaders, educational leaders,
school administrators, classroom teachers, nurses, physical
education instructors, and college students, It is a con-
vention to which every school system should send represen-
tatives,

Sincerely yours,

Nadine E, Miller
Chairman
Publicity Committee

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