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Pia,-....-.. Director Dam Explains s~atena to w .....·· Club Memhera "Wilmette leads the field in the way of organized recreation." .Terse statement, but fact, and coming from the lips of Daniel M. Davis, director of the Wilmette Playground and Recreation board, it gives, with the necessary embellishment, an insight into what this important feature means in the life of the community's school children. It means. something, too, to the adul~ populatiOn of the village but that wall be touched on later in this story. In the above statement Mr. Davis quotes Harry L. Allen, director of the Illinois division of the Playground and Recreation association of America. Director Davis, speaking before the members of the Wilmette Woman's club last week, placed especial stress on the work the board is doing and the success being achieved, and at the same time explained that realization of the responsibilities on the board's shoulders has resulted in the development of a system in Wilmette which is unique, but the most efficient in the state. The interest shown by those listening to Mr. Davis prompts a question which vitally concerns every parent in Wilmette. It is : · "How many parents know just what is be~ done by the PlaYIP'Ound and Recreataon board to promote physical training and better health among the children of the village?" That question will not be answered here, because only the parents themselves can answer it, but there were expressions which indicated an enlightenment which spells a new and more enthu~iastic intea:est ~mong the parents m what the1r children · are doing and what is being done for themaway from home. '.fh_e p~esent program of physical· traanmg m the schools of Wilmette has been in use for more than a year and has been found to function satisfactorily. The salient features of the program may be set down thusly: 1-Physical training is required of all pupils in the schools of Wilmette. Twenty minutes is alotted each day · Is of t he fi rst ssx · to boys an d gtr grades; two forty minute periods each week for the pupils of the seventh and eighth grades. 2-Ciose supervision is exercised in the first six grades, half of the period being taken up with formal or corrective work and exercises, the other half to the playing of games. · Outdoor work is the rule when the weather permits. 3-At the beginning of the year each pupil is given a physical examination by the school medical· officer assisted by nurses and a record card is kept. Cases requiring medical or dental attention are referred to the pupil's physician or dentist. For special cases certain corrective exercises are recommended to the boy or girl these to be practiced at home. ' 4-The director and his assistant supervise all · work with the help of the grade teacher who teaches the daily classes. . A complete outline month by month is compiled for each grade teacher. S-In the seventh and eight grades and in the sixth grade where the work is departmental the boys' and girls' classes are separated, the boys being by men instfactori,. . 'hllla}~~.:$i~~t:3~~ have women instnctan. · 6-The ,hysical training ltUdJ aU grades 11 measured to· sait the . . . of the pupils. Por instance in the first' grade the pupils are &i_ven rb:rthiDI, pmes and story plays; The!'·the work as I!> arranged that the pupal adftnces dunng the .year to the more clifticalt work and an the later .andes come th~ mm:e formal exercases. such aa calisthenacs, postural ex~c~~ folk ~nces, games, stunts, hygaenac saages· taons for the Qre of the body, P.JIIel · adapted to school room or gyJDDUIUIIIf including bells, Indian.·clubs, P)'I'UI!idl. apparatus work, ·Jlighly orpnized · games · as weD as competitive relays and ball games. The girls have five or six folk · dances to learn yearly which are not . inclueled in· the boys· program. . 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