Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-15
uiri Reserves Planning Christ
mas Sale - Gymnasium and
Swimming Classes Meeting
on Tuesdays and THURSDAYS

Flans for the Forthcoming Christ
mas sale OF the Augusta Girl Reserves
VIII be discussed at the regular club
meeting which is to be, held Thursday
afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Y. NJ. c.
ne girls are urged in a letter,
, mas been sent to all, to bring
eneir friends. their sewing for the
Christmas sale, any suggestions thew
may nave Tor the sale and for any fu-
ture meetins.
Round the World Gifts" something
new and interesting, will he taken un
at this meeting and it Is thought that
all the girls will be pleased with this
novel idea.
Inc committee in charge of this
meeting, which consists of President
Doris Groves and the advisors. DR..
Doris Perkins, Miss Christine Han
son, Faye Bickford. Ethelle Garside
and Melissa Farnham, will have a
number of articles for the sale ready
Tor the girls to work on, and it Is ex-
pected that there will be plenty of
workers and plenty Of work to make
this sale success.
This, however, Is not the only ac-
tivity planned for the week by the
women and girls department. Miss
Ethelle Garside, the secretary, has a
busy week ahead of her with some
thing scheduled for every day except
Friday.
On Monday a cabinet meeting of the
Girl Reserves will be held at o'clock
The budget for the year will be plan
ned and in this regard considerable
thought will be given to the program
at Camp Maqua for the summer OF
1927, as reservations for that camp
will soon be made and the expenses of
the delegates Viii have considerable
bearing on the budget. Health talks
discussions, socials, classes and the
other varied affairs which make up the
program will be planed by the cabi-
net at this meeting.
On Tuesday, one of the regular girls
days at the ''Y,' swimming, gym
nasium classes and bowling will be In
order. Now that the cool weather has
set in, the interest in the classes is
more apparent and especially popular
is the swimming pool. The girls, in
Guiding several non-swimmers who are
intent on learning to navigate in the
water, are receiving fine instruction
from Miss Hazel Strout, the girls
swimming instructor. most inter
esting program for swimming for the
season has been planned by the women
and girls department.
Physical Director Jack Mahan. who
has charge of the girls gymnasium
classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays
reports that they are larger than they
were year ago and that there is ev-
cry indication that the attendance will
far surpass that of last year. In or.
der that the new members may start
off with the others and not find them.
selves behind in the course of gym
nasium instruction. it is advisable
that they join the classes at once.
The women now have gymnasium
and swimming privileges both on
Tuesday and Thursdays and classes
for women and girls of all ages are
held. The married women meet at
$50 in the morning for gymnasium
period. the high school freshmen
girls at 10 o'clock, the high school
upper class girls at go in the after
noon, the grammar school mtdgets at
3.45 and the grammar school juniors
at 4.30. These schedules apply to
both Tuesday and Thursday and are
followed by swimming periods. The
evening classes of which there are
two start at 7 and 7.45 o'clock on
Tuesdays and at and Gas on Thurs
day evenings.
On Tuesday evening also at Eve
o'clock a rehearsal of the Girl Re-
serve Glee Club will be held with
Miss Faith Cony as director. Miss
Faye Bickford will be the pianist
The glee club has an important part
in the activities of the local organi-
cation and the girls have learned a
number of new songs. A novel fea-
ture has been added recently, several
of the girls who play ukeleles ac-
companying the singers with the
plaintive music of these instruments.
A big program for the Industrial