, Women's Soction + Gladys Tagsart, Chairman.
12:15 Convention Luncheon # Helon Sntih, presiding.
:  §pecial musis.
1:45 Section Moetings :
Publig School Section = Ann THeilen, thairthata
~ “Safeuy Boucation’ - Miss Marien Telford... .
"Understanding the Childy" » Dr, Bert A, Nash, Karisas University,
Athletic Section ~ Leo Green, Chairman,
Stucent Section - Hattie Stoskopf, Chairman,

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5:30 General Session = Earl Kauffman, presiding,
“The Dynamics of a Teacher's Personality," - Dr. Bert A. Nash.
Address - Mr. Howard White, Technical Consultant on Recreation, W.P,A.,
Washington, D. C,

 

4;45 Business Meeting,
5:15 Meeting of the New Executive Committee.

Exhibits: Special exhibit of physical education material prepared by. Edgar Schmidt,
State W.P.A. Recreation Director,
Displays from Lowe & Campbell Athletic Goods Company, and A. S. Barnes
Publishing Company, American Optical Company,

GUEST EDITOR

We are very happy to present, as guest editor in this issue, Dr. Bert A. Nash,
of the Department of Education, Kansas University, and President of the Kansas Mental
Hygiene Society. This is in line with the policy of the K.H. & P.E.A. to promote
closer cooperation with the various organizations in Kansas which are interested in
the welfare of boys ond girls. Dr. Nash in his editorial shows very clearly the close
relation between mental hygiene and physical education in the proper development of
children and youth. Members of our physical education profession should reccive a
great deal of benefit from reading carefully this splendid, clearcut statement by an
educational leader.

Mental Hygiene and Physical Education
~--by Dr. Bert A. Nash, Kansas University.

It has been unfortunate for both the mental health and physical health programs
that we have so long thought of them as separate fields of study and investigation.

As a matter of record, it is clear that physical hygiene developed for many years
with only incidental reference to the role of mental health, and even now many persons
interested in the physical aspetts of children and adolescents fail to demonstrate in
their work that the two aspects of the individual are really ones

There is a great deal of progress apparent in recent years, however, for through
the joint efforts of the mental hygicnist and the physical hygienist the program of
youth instruction in health is much broader now. Instead of being concerned primarily
only with muscle building and physical exercise, physical education teachers today are
emphasizing that these factors are basic to proper emotional and mental functioning,
and the mental hygienist is concerned that youth shall learn that physical health is
basic for effective personal development,

The mental hygienist is ever ready to point out that the attitudes and spirit
which the individual has toward his physical activity, and toward his physical pro-
cesses, are fundanontal in determining the extent to which he may profit in their
culture, The attitude of the child toward his play, what he hopes to make of it,
and how he relates himself to other persons through it are just as fundamental as the
physical activity itself. In adolescence, with all the varicty of physical activity
programs sponsored by physical education specialists, there is even more oppertunity
for the development of the kinds of attitudes toward self, toward others, and the
strengthening of positive emotional bohavior which may render the individual stronger
personality, and more able to get satisfactions from everyday Living.

It is in the realm of personality development that the physical health program
reaches paramount importance, We sec woalmess all around us in the form of shy, retir