Show ch checkers edcel ranks first among the games okd by pupils of Mic michigan bigan high school I 1 and what Is the favorite game KC f modern youth bridge badman ion on ping pong hockey or loop tennis tendis Us none of those it if the interests of baldwin junior high school students are a an inaccurate accurate indication its still that old favorite of the era of the general store and its open cracker barrel checkers Is right states a birmingham correspondent in the detroit free press about 75 per cent of the students of baldwin high school belong fo 0 o clubs of some type tybe but there is only one ona game club and that was organized by checker addicts addic tSi it has 59 members although its membership is restricted to junior high school students it ranks among the leaders in student interest dramatics hold the interest of the biggest percentage of the students with 85 95 enrolled in the senior dramatics club and 26 in the junior interest in the camera club has grown rapidly jn in the last two years and its membership haf had to be restricted to 57 the knit sew and chatter club draws 72 and the girls club Is one of the bigger organizations it of fers instruction in first aid health and social hygiene the science club with 69 members built a public address system for the school sponsored purchase of a talking p picture machine and carries on considerable study of conservation practice students get an activity credit tor for participation in the clubs and hl al though membership is voluntary most of them belong to some club at some time principal R 11 bechtold becht 01 d says probably many get more benefit from these clubs than from some ot of theft thoi r academic courses |