Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-03
R. T. CROSBY WILL
 BE GROUP LEADER
Norwich Y. M. c. A. Man to Have Charge of High School Group at Convention.

The Connecticut Y. M. c. A. Phy- sical Directors. held their regular monthly business meeting in Hart ford Friday and elected J. B. Lowry of Hartford, president for the coming year. The coming sessions were dis cussed and it was decided to hold the next convention in Greenwich Dec. 2S. The topic to come up for discus sion will be What the Y. M. c. A. lation to the Industrial Life of the Community. It is felt in certain | quarters that the physical department is in some measure to blame for the woeful condition of the industrial workers of the country today as shown by the examinations for the selcctive draft. Army men say that give them the man with the physique
 and they will give him the military
 training.
 In some cases it is not so much
 the exercise as the recreation that is
 needed and it is planned to have at
 this meeting a member of the Indust-
 rial Department of the International
 Committee to tell them what ought to
 be done and member of the physi-
 cal department of the international
 committee to tell the men what has
 been done and it is also planned to
 have a progressive man from one of
 the big industrial enterprises tell the
 men just what can be done. This will
 be followed by a general discussion of the ways and means to handle the different cases.
 On Feb. ?, 1918. there will be held in Hartford the annual leaders con- vention to which all the associations in the state will be asked to send del esates. This was held for the first time last year and was a decided suc- cess, there being 210 present. Phy- sical Director J. B. Lowry of the Hart ford Y. NJ. c. A. will be in general charge of the convention this year. Tine session will last one day only The morning will be taken up with the business session of the physical directors and it is expected that Dr. G. J. Fisher of the physical depart ment of the national committee will speak on some of the latest develop ments in war work. In the afternoon there will be several addresses on topics of Y. M c. A. interests after which the convention will break up for round table discussion. The groups will be juniors in charge of L. G. Bates of New Haven; Employed Boys in charge of J. B. Lowry of Hartford High School boys in charge of Roy T. Crosby of Norwich, and Seniors in charge of Dr. Fisher. Early in the evening banquet will be held at which Dr. Fisher will deliver an ad- dress. After a short intermission the delegates will adjourn to the gymna- sium where the drills will be carried out Roy T. Crosby of this. city has been asked to work out the figures for the massed drills. He will also have charge, of the drills. A feature of the convention will be an -Inter-AI1y" dance, consisting of steps taken from the national dances of seven of the allied nations originated by J. B. Low ry of Hartford. The programme will conclude with stunt by each group, the stunt to be. chosen by the group itself and practices beforehand.
 Physical Director Crosby has also been asked by the Physical Director Association to prepare paper on the Conduct of a State Leaders Con rention, the paper to be based on his experiences at the 1916 convention. The paper will be published in the National Y. M. c. A. Magazine.