Show checkers ranks first among the games okd by pupils of michigan high school and what is the favorite game of modern youth bridge badminton ping pong hockey or loop tennis its none of those if the interests of baldwin junior high school students are an accurate indication its still that old favorite of the era of the general genera 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 to clubs of some type but there is only one game club and that was organized by checker addicts it has 59 members although its membership is 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 95 enrolled in the senior dramatics club and 26 in the junior interest in the camera club has grown rapidly in the last two years and its membership has 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 picture machine and carries on considerable study ot of i conservation practice students get an activity credit for participation in the clubs and although membership is voluntary I 1 most of them belong to some club at some time principal R H bechtold says probably many get more benefit from these clubs than from some of their academic courses |