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Fraternity Holds Jr. Olympics
With Assist From Merchants

By RANDY WERT

Munich's Olympic Games
are months away but the
Junior Olympics come to
Charlottesville this Saturday,
April 29th at the University of
Virginia's new Tartan track.

Sponsored by Phi Delta
Theta fraternity, the Junior
Olympics will feature nine
track and field events for boys
and girls in the fourth, fifth,
and sixth grades of elementary
schools in Charlottesville.

Charlottesville's first annual
Junior Olympics are scheduled
in conjunction with Phi Delta
Theta's National Community
Service Day.

Beginning with registration
at 8:30 on the 29th, the
Olympics are open to any
fourth, fifth, and sixth grader
who appears to register. The
top three place winners in each
event and age group in the girl
and boy divisions will receive
ribbons and official Junior
Olympic T-shirts.

Competition among the
several elementary schools will
also be organized by the
individual physical education
instructors, and a trophy will
go to the school scoring the
greatest number of points, as
well as a trophy to the boy and
girl with the largest point total
in each age group.

Initial costs of the meet,
which included trophies,
ribbons, and T-shirts, have
been met by the gracious and
enthusiastic support of over 50
area merchants.

Events include the Lord
Hardwicke high jump, the
Noonday Bookstore running
broad jump, the Angus Barn
standing broad jump,
Automobile Dealers
Association 50 yard dash.

Other events are the
Anderson Brothers Bookstores
100 yard dash, the Stacy's
Music Shop 440 yard run, the
A&P Foodstore 440 yard relay,
and the Charlottesville Bank
Clearinghouse 800 yard shuttle
relay.

Members of the University
community who are active in
the "Big Brother" program are
encouraged to bring their little
brothers out to the meet if
they qualify by being in the
three grades mentioned.

Mr. Eugene Corrigan,
University Director of
Athletics, and University
Track Coach Lou Onesty have
joined the merchants and the
local Jaycees in enthusiastically
endorsing the meet, which will
be an all-weather event due to
the synthetic track.

Originated with the
intention of making the Junior
Olympics an annual event in
Charlottesville, the meet will
hopefully yield a profit which
will be sent to the Children's
Rehabilitation Center on
Route 250.