Item 35047 - Portland High School gym demonstration program, 1922
- Item 35047 - Portland High School gym demonstration program, 1922
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Image Info The cover for a demonstration by the boys' gymnasium classes at Portland High School in 1922. The introduction to the program notes that the first-ever Portland High School gym team was organized eight weeks before the May 11, 1922 show.
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More than 100 students participated in the gym team.
The demonstrations included gymnastic marching, wand drill, recreation, Indian clubs, dumb-bells, setting-up drill, apparatus, pyramids, and dance.
The school formed both a freshman team and a varsity team. Arthur Waterman, who saved the program from the event, was a junior and on the varsity team.