Miss Byrn Miss Bell Miss Byrn Miss Bell Miss Byrn Miss Bell PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR JTsALTH Radio Prograia March 30, 1939 "Physical Education for Fun" - (Miss Jane Byrm and Miss Virgimke Bell.) Miss Bell, you have chosen physical education as the field of education in which you wish to specialize, I assume that in the near future you hope to have the opportunity to assume leadership in this field. Yes, Miss Byrn, it is my plan to become a teacher of physical education. That is the end toward which I have been working and studying for two yearse ; Then, you have almost reached the half-way mark oh the path that leads to the completion of your trainings Now, a half-way mark always seems & place to stop for a moment and look back down the road already travel- ede It affords a vantage point, to evaluate our past learning and ij, experience in view of the path that now lies partially revealed to uSe Yes, Miss Byrn, reaching the half-way mark enables you to sec and under- stand the way you have come with a new clarity, a new perspectivee For the most part, I know I am here because I have beon caught in a group beginning training together with a single common interest - that of playe Play was vital to each of us because of remembered experiences in which we cnjoyod a measureitof successé Some of us wero mombers of champion« ship hasketball teams in high schools One of our group tumbled into the field of physical education -= literally tumbled, because it was the only type of physical activity offered in the school attendede In each case, the measure of success we experienced in doing various physical activities, the thrill of participation, the comradeship within the group, the personality of the teacher with whom we worked <= all were such that we were directed toward a teaching career in tho ficld of activity that afforded so much ploasurcs The reasons that students have for choosing the ficld in which they wish to specialize aro sometimes surprising. One of your class, Virginia was the victim of an auto accident, when sho was a child, resulting in injuries which would make participation in physical activities an im- possibility -- at least that was the verdict of the family physiciane She is today a competent performer in all the activities of the departe ment, simply because she refused to give up and worked constantly toward evercoming a handicap which might have blighted her whole lifce It would be interesting to know all the reasons lying back of cach girl's decision to train for a career as a teacher of physical education. I know that there were five girls who graduated in my class in high school who made this choice and I am inclined to believe that the insitmuctor in our school partly, at least, inspired this choiccoe She was really human. She liked to do things, and she always looked happye We vicd for her favor and a word from her, commending our efforts, sometimes made the difference between just another day and a successful day. Then too, we learned so many different activitics that almost every girl found something she liked to do -= probably because she could do it welle ~ a”