The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-21
Audience of 400 Applauds
Gymnasium Stunts by
School Pupils
ATHLETIC WORK
FINELY EXECUTED
About 80 Boys and Girls of Grades and
High School Participate and Pro-
gram Given in Armory Reflects
Painstaking Instruction.

THE best I've ever seen, was the
remark made by many of the nearly
400 persons who left the armory last
night at the close of the gymnastic ex
hibition by so boys and girls of the
fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades
and the high school, and the remark
was the verbal expression of senti-
ment that previously had been mani
Tested by hearty applause throughout
the exercises The program included
10 numbers, the boys work being ln
charge of Coach Dicdrieh Stolte and
the girls work in charge of Miss
Bcthania Tucker, teacher of history
and algebra in the high school, she be-
ing assisted in the drilling by Miss
Amy Holland. teacher of Spanish and
French. However. the full extent of
the work of which the boys and girls
are capable could not be shown on ac-
count of the inadcquacy of gymnasium
equipment. those coaching the children
being confronted continually with the
problem of equipment and gymnasium
| facilities for Introducing variety which
would contribute to the best physical
development of the boys and girls.
| Miss Everil Davis played the piano
| for some of the boys exercises and
/ four-piece orchestra composed of
| Charles Gunzinger, Bert Leitzinger,
| Floyd Johnson and Arthur Brasor, ac
companied other numbers and played
for an hour of dancing after the ex-
hibition
Fifteen fifth and sixth grade boys
opened the program with twisting
wand drill, large number of different
positions being taken, and the lads
moved with remarkable precision and
unity of action. Those taking part in
| this drill were Lee Sexton, Clarence
Morrill,. Percy Parsons. Lynn Hoadiey.
Bradford Sargent, Edward Plumb, Don
aid Wood, Clyde Parsons. Charles Will
hanson, Charles Boardman, Francis
Haywood, John Stewart. Howard Coop
er, Harold Wagner and Norris Bragg.
a floor drill by 30 girls, handkerchief
dance by II girls and the games by
all girls in the class were especially
well executed, all being in accord with
the counts, orders and music. as the
occasion required Following is a list
of the girls who participated in these
events:
I,
Helen j. Blood, Mary a. Butterfield.
Marion f. Davenport, Ruth H. Freder-
ickson, Ruth L. Gay, Mildred C. Green
wood. Ruth A. f. Hertzberg, Linnea
A. Kali, Laura Z. Hoadley, Elsie NJ.
johnson, AIuriel Kennedy, Marion F.
Laughton, katherine Lillis, Helen d.
Manley, Mildred H. Miller, Dorothy A.
Miller, Minnie NJ. Murray, Rhona NJ.
Patterson. Marion A. Phelps, Beatrice
5. Prentice, Marcella r. Rolin, Luella
Smith, Nina A. Wood, Helen A. Wood
worth, Mary Baker, Helen .Parmelee.
Evelyn Hamilton, May Williamson;
grade girls-Helen Bushnell, Grace
Thomas, Marjorie Pier, Elizabeth
| Sehwenk, Nathalie Benson, Helen Be
ment, Berenice Gobie.
Several of the stunts by the paral-
: lei bar performers were entirely new
to the audience and some of them were
of the most difficult nature, among
them the grasshopper walk and the
grasshopper dance. The stunts were
remarkably well done and showed 4
tremendous amount of hard practice by
the L high school boys who partici-
patcd. The y were: Francis Austin.