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NEWS NOTES

Health & Physical Education at Chanute

Health and Physical Education are a
part of the school program in three of the
school divisions of the Chanute Public
Schools. It is taught in the Elementary,
Junior and Senior High School grades,
Present plans call for including courses
in the Junior College Curriculum next
fali,

In the 6 elementary grades there is a
daily period devoted to health and phys-
ical education for all children, In
junior and senior high schools each class
meets daily for a 60 minute period, two
of the periods each week being devoted to
health education and the other three to
physical education, A Co-recreational
period is held on Fridays in the high
school classes including such activities
as singing games, square dances, shuffle
board, aerial darts and volley ball,

Mr. R, Ry Strait is the Director of
Health and Physical Education in the
Chanute schools. His staff includes one
full time nurse, one man and one woman
full time teachers in the junior high
school, one woman full time and two part
time men teaching and coaching in the
high school,

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The National Joint Rules Committee on
Softball has completed its revision of
the rules for the 1939 season. Only one
change was made. The new rules permit the
scoring of runs on a wild pitch, passed
ball, or on the throw-back to the pitcher,
This will most likely increase the scor-
ing and should also increase the quality
and accuracy of the pitching and catching,

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Miss Cecile Gilbert, oa graduate of the
University of Minnesota,is a new instruc-
tor in Dance at Emporia State, taking tho
place of Miss Eleanor Sondern who resigned
in August. to become Mrs. Phillip Hoeffler
of Milwaukee,

_ "Play activities in Hawaii" was the
topic of a talk given by Miss Kdna McCul-
lough to the Physical Education Ciub of
Emporia State. Miss McCullsugh spent two
months the past summer in the Hawaiian
Islands,

An intensive war against Athletes Foot
is being carried on in the Departmont of
Physical Education for Women at Emporia
State. Students in all classes aro siven

a foot examination each month. Those
whe show signs of the infection are exe
cluded from use of the locker room and
reeoxamined weekly. Prevention and
treatment for ring-worm are discussed
in all classes. In the two months that
the plan has been used infection has
been roduced about cighty per cent,

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In connection with a study of safety
by the Junior Girls Health Classes of
Wyandotte High School, several safety
films were shown and talks given by the
City Safety Director, Mr. Claude R. Mc-
Cammet, and a member of the State :
Vehicle Commission, Mr, William Arme-
stead. Mr. Armstead demonstrated the
Drivers License test which is now re-
quired of all persons obtaining drivers
licenses in the State. Topics studied
in the girls Safety classes were ~
Safety in Home, School, Recreation and
Transportation,

The gymnasium costume for girls in
Kansas City, Kansas Jr. and Sr, High
Schools is being changed this year. A
blue one-piece shorts-shirt combination
has replaced the blue romper suit for-
merly used, The new suit has a shirt
style collar and buttons down tho front,
The girls furnish their own insert for
the suit, This style is proving very
satisfactory, and is popular with the
students because of the improvement in
fit over that of the old style suit,

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The women physical education instruce-
tors in the Junior and Senior High
Schools of Topeka, Kansas, are meeting
once each month this year, to discuss

_ common problems arising in their depart-

ments. A social period is held follow-
ing the discussion each time - bowling
will be the activity for the winter
social period.

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Miss Jean Woodard, who conpleted her
graduate work at Emporia Teachers Col-
lege last Spring, is*’now’State W.P,A,
Assistent Supervisor of Recreational
Activities for Women in Kansas, Miss
Woodard taught in the Physical Education
Department ot Enporia Teachers Summer
Session, 1938,

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