The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-10-09
Miss Catherine Novack, Di-
rector of Public Recrea-
ton, Expects Very Sue
cessful Year.
PLAN MONTHLY DANCES
Feature of the Social Centers Will Be
Dances To Be Given Each Month
Pool Tournaments For Men and
Checker Tournaments For Boys.

"We expect to have bumper year
for the social centers in the Kenosha
schools" was the confident statement
made by Miss Catherine Noyack, di
rector of public recreation, this morn
ing. "The work has been pretty well
planned, practically all the equipment
has been procured and everything is in
readiness for the formal opening Of the
ccnters on November 3rd.'
The work for the younger boys and
girls, pupils in the elementary and ju
nior high schools, will be conducted in
the afternoons at the Balm, Weiekopf
and Columbus schools. The elementary
schools include both the public and
parochial schools. The boys will be at
the Balm ON Tuesday and Friday after
moons and at the Weiskopf and Column
bus on Tuesday and Thursday after
Moons. There will be high and low
organized games and quiet games for
the boys. The high organized games
include such sports as basketball, while
the low organized games, such as strad-
dle-ball and tumbling, might better be
known as rough-house games. Two
rooms will be devoted to the quiet
games; in one room will be played such
games as checkers and dominoes, and
in the other there will be building sets.
Special attention will be paid to the
checker games as several tournaments
are to be held between the boys.
For the girls of the elementary
schools there will also be active and
quiet games. In addition there is to be
both ballroom and aesthetic dancing.
A class in sewing will also be organized
and i'll this way the girls will be given
an opportunity to make their owo
clothes. One of the features of the
girls afternoons will be a story-hour.
At first the story-hour will be led by
a teacher, but gradually it is going to
be put into the hands of the girls. 1t
is hoped that in this way the dramatic
ability of the girls will assert itself
and it will be possible to produce sew
eral plays. The girls will be at the
Balm school on Monday and Thursday
afternoons and at the Weiskopf and
Columbus on Monday and Wednesday
afternoons.
Libraries will also be run in connec-
ton with the social centers. They will
practically be branches Of the main IL
brary and the boys and girls can spend
a quiet hour reading their favorite
books in the library or can draw the
books out This feature proved very
popular at last year s social centers.
The night social centers will be con
Quoted at the Lincoln and Balm schools.
The men s nights will be Tuesdays and
Thursdays. 1t is expected that many
Of the men who served in the army and
navy last year will wish to keep up
their training and the activities offered
by the social centers give ample oppGr-
tunity for this. There will be routine
gymnasium work and both the active
and quiet games. Those in charge Of
the social centers are very DESTROYS Of
getting up some pool tournaments
which they are confident will meet with
the whole-hearted support of the men.
Last years basketball team played sew
eral outside teams and outside games
will no doubt be scheduled this year
Miss Novack expressed the wish that
they might interest number of men
in choral work and amateur theatricals
as she thought the work would not only
be very entertaining but also instruc-
tive.
In connection with the girls work,
the social centers will cooperate with
the Girls Community Service League
in giving the girls every opportunity
to enjoy the advantages offered. Glass
es will be offered in china painting.
domestic science, millinery, archery,
gymnasium, games, dancing, dramatics,
pool and billiards. The work will he
under the direction of the Misses King
and Schreiner and will be so divided
that maximum of enjoyment and ben
efcial work may be crowded into the
two hours. A teachers and business
women 8 class will be started at The
Lincoln school next Wednesday, but
other classes are not scheduled to start
until November 3rd. All girls who de-
sire to enter any of the classes are re
quested to be on hand to enroll at the
Lincoln school on the nights of Novem-
Der 3rd and 4th.
In conjunction with the social center