Top* among the barber siiop quortef* latt yar were the Mai*ac Tbis group of Bureau county folk dantart appear* a bit grim at 



Melody Boys with Pianist Anna McWade. they ttrut their Mtutf at latt year'* fe*tlval. 



Rural Youth at the 



SPORTS FESnVAl 



THE big farm Sports Festival Aug. 

 25-26 will give Rural Youth mem- 

 bers a chance to take part in many 

 athletic events. Before the festi- 

 val, volleyball, bowling, skeet and 

 trap shooting will have been completed. 

 District competition in Softball and 

 county competition in folks and square 

 dancing will have been run off in prep- 

 aration for the final show in Urbana. 



Rural Youth Members can also take 

 part in baseball, rifle shooting, horse- 

 shoes, hog calling, swimming, chair 

 quoits, clock golf, checkers, dart throw- 

 ing, tennis, (singles) tug o'war. table 

 tennis, wood chopping, drama features, 

 and various music events on the Uni- 

 versity campus. In addition to all these 

 activities, various rural youthers will 

 assist in the folk and square dance 

 jamboree and the swing festival to be 

 held on Thursday evening of the Sports 

 Festival. 



Outstanding among the attractions for 

 Rural Youth this year will be the folk 

 and square dancing. Probably this will 

 be the last year in which folk and 

 square dancing will be scheduled as a 

 summer activity inasmuch as the execu- 

 tive committee of the Sports Festival 

 recommends that dancing be brought 

 to a climax at Farm and Home Week, 

 which comes between school semesters. 

 The present plan providing opportunity 

 for one square dance team for 4-H. 

 Rural Youth, and open class divisions, 

 sets up the possibility for keen competi- 

 tion on the countv level. 



University of Illinois 

 Swimming coach Ed 

 Maniey teaches a 

 group of young peo- 

 ple the fundamental* 

 of beginning swim- 

 ming at the 4-H Me- 

 morial Camp near 

 Montlceiio. 



In order to bring folk and square 

 dancing up to a high level, all groups 

 will want to note especially the points 

 to be used in rating dances as listed on 

 page 18 of the festival rules and regula- 

 tions. They are: 



1. Excellence of performance, such 

 as co-ordination with the music, placing 

 on the stage, degree to which the group 

 dances as a unit. 



2. Appeal to the audience — including 

 and interpretation of the dance, and the 

 such points as the show of feelings for 

 enjoyment of the experience of dancing. 



3. Appearance on the stage, such as 

 lightness and gracefulness. 



Rural Youthers will do well to en- 

 gage wholeheartedly in the folk festival 

 activities from both the standpoint of 

 participation and of help to others, for 

 in Rural Youth the emphasis is upon 

 personality and leadership develop- 

 ment. 



By ELLSWORTH D. LYON, Director 



lAA Young People's Activities 



Memorial Gimp 



Interest, enthusiasm, and participa- 

 tion on the part of 205 active 4-H'ers 

 marked the opening of camp for 4-H 

 at State Memorial Camp near Monte- 

 cello on July 6. The camp has a good 

 staff of counselors with John Q. Scott 

 as camp manager. Each camp group 

 of 4-H'ers stays four days. Following 

 an impressive flag raising ceremony and 

 a hearty breakfast, activities get under 

 way. Some of these are handicraft, 

 volleyball, hay rack rides, and swim- 

 ming. Ed Maniey, head swimming 

 coach, U. of I., who will be at the camp 

 throughout the summer, takes a per- 

 sonal interest in all the young folks 

 to see that they make progress in learn- 

 ing to swim and enjoy the water. 



There is also Ed Bennett, assistant in 

 zoology physiology at the University, 

 just to mention another summer staff 

 member who. among other duties, pre- 

 sides over the tractor-powered hayrack. 

 Bennett's tours over the large Allerton 

 Park with hayrack loads of youngsters 



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