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PRECISION. With the nimbleness and grace of ballet danc ers, the young baton twirlers practice steps they'll execute at the coming grid games. /io i High school gals go to college nowadays to learn how to twirl a baton. For two days, this sum mer, 371 twirlers, drum majorettes and band direc tors took over the campus of the University of Wichita in Kansas. They were from high schools in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma. It was the school's six annual train ing session, or clinic. The baton-twirling was an all-girl affair. Boys pre dominated in the band sec tion. Classes lasted five hours a day. Instruction for twirling covered basic movements, advanced twirling, strut ting, dance twirling. The majorettes marched infor mation. Forthebanddirec tors there were chalk talks and field practice in forma tion. Said the twirling direc tor, Robert R. Wolff: "If President Kennedy knew what these youngsters go through, to provide thebe tween-halves glamor at the football games, he'd be a little less worried about the physical fitness of American youth —at least as far as these twirlers are concerned." The youngsters are shown being prepped for the new grid season. - Leanne Ferm, 15 year-old Lindsborg, Kan., High school student, primps in front of mirror be starting class, her first ing. ■ Instruclor Betty Richter demonstrates neuver called legs cross under." grad who pranced ahead of the Bogs and purses litter grass as giris go off onto field to practice) steps. * . „ ^ mmm'msrn Will leadtheband Sixdrum majorettes get a lesson & ' * in high stepping from instructor Don Dillon who once was a fast-moving drum major at Wichita U, Batons go singing into sgaco«ogals got lowon and clinic director, Bob Wolff Thb Week's PICTURE SHOW-AP Newsfeacure*
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