Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-05
PHYSICAL CULTURE
HEADS WILL MEET
Annual Convention to Be Held
Here in Last Week of
March.

Leading tnstructoKS II phySlca!
| education will gather in this city tn
latter part of this month when thc
American Physical Education ASS
citation holds its annual convention
The sessions viii be held IN the Ce2
trail and Manual Training Higy
School. in High street. on Wednesday
Thursday and Saturday. March IS
81 %. and %.
Men and women of national promi
nence in educational affairs will be
there The general topic will be Eff
fieiency and Tests for Efficiency"
Richard c. Jenkinson is chairman ~
the committee of arrangements
There are many local men on the
committee. and with headquarters at
the City Hall and the Continental
Hotel they intend to show the visit.
tors what Newark is doing for the
physical advancement Of its children.
Mayor Jacob Haussling will open
the session Wednesday night with an
address of welcome. and Superintend
emit of Schools Addison 3. Poland will
also extend greetings. The presiden-
tial address will be delivered by DR.
r. TAFT Mckenzie, of the University
of Pennsylvania. Major General
Leonard Wood, chief Of staff of the
United States Army. will tell the
necessities and advantages of physi-
cal training.
Will Give National Dance Series.
One of the features of the conven-
ton will be a series of national dances
by the Misses Christine Dobbins.
Eliza Morris. Augusta Patrick, Mar
garet Raleigh and Theora Williamson,
and the Messrs Guido Cavallaro,
Lewis Field. Matthias Maeherey, Les
ter A. Palmer and Ernest II. Siebert
They will dance singly and collec-
lively. One of their demonstrations
will be an aesthetic dance. The
Apollo Male Quartet, composed of j.
Franklin Thomas, Oren Dudley, Les
ter A. Palmer and A. g. Balloon, will
sing. and dancing will follow the
meeting. The Contemporary Club will
serve luncheon
The Public School Physical Training
Society will hear DR.. Theodore Toepel,
physical director in the public schools
of Atlanta, Ga, on Thursday. There
ing Carl Schrader assistant director
of physical education at Harvard Col
lege, and Randall D. Warden. super
visor of physical training in the pub
lie schools Of this city.
Therapeutic Section to Dine.
Luncheon will be served at the Con-
tinental Hotel, and at 1870 a meeting
of the therapeutic section will be held.
At 4 p. m. pupils will give an eXhi-
bltion of elementary school gymnas-
tics in the First Regiment Armory.
James e. Sullivan, United States
commissioner for the Olympic games,
and j. Leonard Mason, Newark play
ground director, will be two of the
speakers at the evening session.
There will be several speakers at
the Saturday session, including DR..
e. II. Arnold and Dudley 4. Sergeant.
The general subject will be National
Organizations Working for Physical
Efficiency" At 4 o'clock there will be
another session at the Armory by the
pupils of Barringer, Central and East
Side High Schools, Newark Academy
and the boys class of the Y. NJ. c. A.
The exhibition will be continued in
the evening, when the participants
will be members of the Boy Scouts,
Turner societies of the vicinity of
Newark, New Jersey State National
Guard, Princeton University, Rutgers
College, Newark Academy, Newark
Parental school and the Y. NJ. C. A.
The Saturday session will be a gem
eral meeting at the Central Training
and Commercial High School. II. H.
Goddard, director of research at the
Training School for Backward and
Feeble-Minded Children, Yineland.
will make the principal address.
council meeting will be held at De
Jianne's restaurant and will conclude
the program.