Show Main Figures in Health Recreation Parley r p iF i F fid I W 1 r f 4 4 NEW NEV PRESIDENT OF HEALTH ASSOCIATION DEFENDS THOSE WHO WIIO DONT DON'T LIKE EXERCISE Louise S. S Cobb installed at conference breakfast I Dr Edna W. W Bailey talks at physical education meet Physical Educators Hear Plea for fOl N The citizen who doesn't give a hang for exercise of any kind had a champion Saturday at the closing sessions of health and recreation recreation recreation rec rec- conferences in the Newhouse hotel The near heresy was expounded by Dr Edna W. W Bailey Ph Eh D. D of the University of Calif California Of Ilia at the last general session of the southwest district American Association for Health and Physical Education Pleading for a better mutual Understanding understanding understanding un un- of their problems between between between be be- tween doctors nurses and physical educators Dr Bailey said the educators educators edu edu- caters must take into consideration the fact that a good many people dont don't care for games their sports as spectators and can live happily and successfully on a shamefully low minimum of exer exer- cise cue Warning Given I For the doctors and nurses she warned that they must learn to allow for their differences in natural natural nat nat- nat nat-I ural inclinations and tastes It is hard hard for ar physician or nurse to realize that some people are not p particularly interested in the sick and defective The failure of these groups to give mutual support is the most serious handicap which afflicts school health work today she continued continued con con- pointing out that school public health programs represent one of the great potential educational educational educational assets and that intelligently administered it is safe from domination domination domination dom dom- by cultists who are re so successful successful suc sue in stringing ham-stringing health pro pro- grams Turning to school physicians she said that school administrators are pretty generally disgusted with the perfunctory medical inspection which schools have too often had hadin hadin hadin in the past Standards Rise She added however that standards standards standards stand stand- ards of examinations are rising as doctors learn more of the objectives of physical educators The trouble has been she asserted that each group has failed to understand the methods aims or significance of the other groups There are groups of youngsters in hi every school she said who while not sick in In bed very often are rarely if ever well and comfortable comfortable com corn in body These generally escape escape the attention attention attention atten atten- tion pf physicians and nurses but butare butare butare are well known to the physical edu edu- cator cater If the physician is too busy to do something directly he should avoid ill feeling and confusion by discussing the problems with the faculty Quacks Fatten He can be sure such patients abound in every high school every year and that quacks and nostrum vendors fatten on the credulity of the children their I parents Barents and teachers she added Dr Baileys Bailey's words spiced closing sessions of if the association While physical education delegates were listening to her in the hotel W P A recreation and education leaders of 11 western states gathered in the Alpine Rose lodge in Brighton Big Cottonwood canyon for the last sessions of their three-day three con con- ference Many delegates who had attended attended attend attend- ed the institute conference of the western division National Recreation Recreation tion association which closed late Friday in the hotel lingered for two gatherings Saturday Conferences Held The W P A delegates left early Saturday for Brighton and went into conferences which climaxed with a demonstration of winter sports I The health and nd education ion con con- ference Saturday opened with a breakfast at which Louise S. S Cobb director of the women's gymnasium at the University of California was installed as new president of the southwest d district i s t r i c t to succeed Charles W. W Davis Officers and directors of the association as association association as- as passed a resolution of tribute to William E. E Day supervisor supervisor supervisor super super- super super- visor of physical education in Salt Lake City schools for his 50 years of membership in the association I Mr Davis said Mr Day had been beena a member since 1888 the longest continuous membership in the organization organization organization or or- Bay City Chosen The 1939 convention of the district will be held in San Francisco next spring it was decided While Dr Bailey was making her plea for a better mutual understanding understanding understanding under under- standing between doctors nurses and physical educators Lucile Czarnowski Czarnowski Czarnowski Czar- Czar supervisor of physical education education education edu edu- cation for women at the University of California was directing dance demonstrations in the Deseret gym gym- 4 The conference ended with a I dance demonstration in Kingsbury hall on the University of Utah campus campus campus cam cam- pus Saturday afternoon by the Utah chapter of national dance society Mrs Myrtle Clancy Chancy Knudsen Knudsen Knudsen Knud- Knud sen state chairman directed the demonstration Luncheon Held During a luncheon of levity Inthe Inthe in inthe the hotel which concluded the last general session of the association G. G Ott Romney director of extension extension extension exten exten- sion courses at the Utah State Agricultural college reviewed the evolution of physical education and pointed out that I After hearings all the challenges and responsibilities placed on them in the field of recreation health and social leadership it appears to tome tome tome me they should be called not physical cal educators but social engineers |