3004                                    JOINT RESOLUTIONS

RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution are sent to
Senator J. Glenn Beall, Jr., Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C. 20510 and Senator Charles McC. Mathias,
Old Senate Office Building, Suite 460, Washington, D.C.
20510, and the Honorable Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare, 330 Independence Avenue
S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201; and The Honorable Marvin
Mandel, Governor of Maryland; and to [[Congressmen]]
Representatives Robert E. Bauman, Clarence D. Long, Paul
Sarbanes, Marjorie S. Holt, Lawrence J. Hogan, Goodloe
E. Byron, Parren J. Mitchell, and Gilbert Gude at the
House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515; the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, Dr. Neil Solomon,
and the Deputy Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene,
Dr. Matthew Tayback.

Approved April 30, 1974.

No. 20

(Senate Joint Resolution 16)
A Senate Joint Resolution concerning

Physical Education in Secondary Schools

FOR the purpose of requesting the State Department of
Education to reconsider its plan to make physical
education an elective subject in secondary public
schools.

WHEREAS, As a Nation, far too many of as are overfed
and underexercised; and

WHEREAS, The current mandatory physical education in
our public schools, grades 9 through 12, way be the last
and only programmed physical exercise many teenagers
receive; and

WHEREAS, The Surgeon General has stated that
physical exercise is vital to good health; and

WHEREAS, The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of
Maryland have stated that dropping mandatory physical
education classes could damage the over-all educational
process; and

WHEREAS, Many constituents have indicated strong
objection to the elimination of mandatory gym classes;
and

WHEREAS, Many children who need physical education