The physical education exhibition presented Thursday evening in the high school gymnasium by grade boys and girls, under the supervision of Miss Pearl Lancaster and Walter J. McMillan physical training director was an interesting demonstration of the year’s work.
The formal work in the third and fourth grades of Central school, in which the boys and girls took turns in educating the class was especially well received. A feature dance, “The Minuet” in which Mary Gilbert and Lucile Whal appeared with the grace and stateliness of a Colonial dame and squire and the closing number, which was a May pole variation, were among the favorite numbers of the large audience which gathered for the event.
The third grade boys and girls of Central school opened the program with a singing game, “I See You,” and the boys from Sheridan and Lincoln schools entered into several lively contests.
A number of pretty dances varied the program, the third grade girls from the ward schools appearing in a polka dance, the fourth grades, in a rhythmic dance; the seventh grade Central girls, in two dances, “Crested Hen” and “Bleking,” a Dutch dance; the sixth grade, in the clap dance.
The Catholic girls presented the “Swedish Days Order” in a credible manner.
The sixth grade boys of Central school gave a demonstration of mat work, featuring a number of clowns, and the Catholic boys appeared in apparatus work. Central seventh grade boys presented formal gymnasium work, while the fifth grade boys gave a splendid rhythmic number.
May 16, 1974: ‘Disaster’ to hit here this evening for emergency crews
Three ambulances will be rushing around Petoskey tonight transporting victims to the Emergency Room at Little Traverse Hospital.
Although the sights and sounds may be a little disconcerting, Petoskey residents can rest assured that a disaster has not hit the city.
Tonight’s “victims” are really only Cub scouts dressed up to represent various injuries. Students in an NCMC class for emergency medical technicians will be manning the ambulances, caring for the victims and transporting them to the Emergency Room at Little Traverse Hospital.
Personnel in the emergency room are also involved in this disaster procedure test.
The test, which will get underway at about 7 p.m. tonight, is the final exercise in a year long course taught by Dr. Allen Damschroeder at North Central Michigan College.
The 81 hour course, as Dr. Damschroeder describes it, provides training in “super advanced first aid.”
Graduates of the course will have been taught how to treat different injuries, how to transport victims without hurting them and how to administer certain types of emergency care (such as Cardial Pulmonary Respiration).
It used to be that ambulance drivers needed only 20 hours of training to qualify as emergency medical technicians. According to Dr. Damschroeder, “the ambulance is an extension of the Emergency Room.” Technicians need full training in first aid and emergency care to get the patient to the hospital as safely as possible.
Dr. Damschroeder, who is an orthopedic surgeon, is also a member of the emergency room committee at Little Traverse Hospital.
Dr. Damschroeder said he was “frightened” by the type of emergency care offered throughout the country. He said that Emergency Medical Technicians are an “emerging profession” in recognition of the need for better emergency care.
Ambulances for tonight’s drill have been provided by the city of Petoskey and the Gillian-Erwin Ambulance service in Harbor Springs.
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