church present costume musicales, with homemade settings
and amateur dramatics.

A symphony orchestra, sponsored by the Kenosha, Wis-
consin, Musicians’ Union has built a fine reputation. Glee
clubs are also popular with boys and girls and have an im-
portant role in community activities. Drum and bugle
corps add a wartime flavor.

Musical quizzes are a highlight of the Ravenna, Ohio, sum-
mer program for high school boys and girls. And in Dayton,
Ohio, a youth center has a scheduled program of recorded
classical music. Outdoor summer band concerts are an Amer-
ican institution and attract all ages. Most famous among
them is New York City’s band concerts on Central Park’s
Mall.

Literature, Debates, Forums

Because a well-rounded recreation program stimulates
minds as well as muscles, literary clubs, debating groups on
current problems, and writing clubs all figure in the war-
time recreation picture.

The New Haven, Connecticut, Park Booster Club conducts
forums in which teen-agers learn government procedure and
help to decide policies in the operation of their parks.

A large number of study clubs are under church sponsor-
ship. A Kentucky church group, for instance, organized a
20th Century Prosody Club which studies American poets,
writes poetry and has produced a giant scrapbook with auto-
graphed letters and poems from well-known American poets.

When the Dansville, New York, teen-age center was get-
ting under way, the teens discussed its organization in their
civics classes, as a model for studying the problems of self-
government.

Many teen clubs, in centers or elsewhere, have debates on
current and future problems, with which their generation
will have to deal.

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