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Show Page Six Recreation Pyramid Issu- e- May 23, Wasatch Academy 1984 ll Fourth of Julys are for families. Plan to attend Mt. Pleasants Hub City Days festivities this year. Hub City events Five big days filled with events July 4th events The Fourth of July will open with a flag ceremony and Chuck Wagon June 30 and running through July 4. breakfast from 7 until 9 a.m. at the Mt. Pleasant will be celebrating city park and a mammoth Hub City its 125th anniversary with rodeos, Days Parade at 11 a.m. art exhibits, an A small Fry Rodeo is set for 2 p.m. rally, games, dances, parades and at the city park and a beef barbecue fireworks. at 4 p.m. Building a Better City & County MT. PLEASANT CHAMBER of COMMERCE Pleasant Offers You: EXCELLENT SHOPPING CENTER HOSPITAL AND DOCTORS TWO BEAUTIFUL CITY PARKS AIRPORT-E- US LINE INDUSTRIAL PARK SITE FINE SCHOOLS EFFICIENT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT CARNEGIE LIBRARY EASY ACESS TO CANYONS & RECREATION AREAS & CAMP SITES out-of-sta- te states providing the greatest number of students. Foreign students include and American nationals whose parents are employed overseas. The student teacher ratio is approximately 9:1 e with 17 faculty members dependent secondary boarding and 15 volunteers who fill various school. It is a member of the support positions. Four dormitories e house parents are in with operation. The entire campus is listed in the National Register of Historic places and upon visiting the campus, one begins to sense a New England flavor. All of the buildings with the exception of Centennial Hall (girls dormitory), and the Freund-Hanse- n Multipurpose building are turn of the century or early 20th century style. Stated simply, the mission of Wasatch Academy is to provide an excellent academic program and to help students develop leadership qualities in a Christian environment. For the past 109 years, Wasatch has been encouraging and helping students to reach their maximum academic potential. In addition, it has been preparing its students to live personally satisfying lives as part of a broader world community. Students attend Wasatch for a variety of reasons. Some students and their parents are in search of a full-tim- challenging Pierce Historical Hall ren-novat- UtiQIINIHNIliatlHIHHiliailHNMItiatlltllllllliailHIINtlliaimilllllllCMINIII CWERIOTRID Plan to Attend HUB CITY DAYS Private Recreation At Its Best 12-3-- 4 Hal is your 1462-201- ri & Sal drouth P.0. 0 Mt. Pleasant, i 3458 84647 Box UT WMinHHHIHtIIMMHHHaHimWMHOIHMINmiOltHIHmiOIHHIHmtaHltNIHl7 motivating Wasatch provides an excellent college preparatory and general academic program. Approximately 75 percent of each graduating class goes on to attend college or other post-seconda- institutions. Wasatch has been accredited since 1939 by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges. Pierce Historical Hall, the renovated Academys newly museum, will be the repository of j documents, CALL: Mt. Pleasant full service community 1 FOR INFORMATION IN SANPETE! ANNUAL FLEA MARKET AUGUST 4 and academic atmosphere; others may live in isolated areas where attendance at high schools requires considerable travel; still others from families who live and work overseas would like to complete their education in the United States. Finally, some of our students come to us because of the small, warm, caring community that they find here. on the Wasatch Academy Campus is a newly building which houses documents, photographs, furnishings, and valuable records pertaining to the history of WjQpitch Academy. I JUNE 30, JULY National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), and attracts many and students from abroad. Wasatch Academy operates under the direction of Don Chin, Headmaster. Mr. Chin, a native of San Francisco, has been with the school in a variety of capacities for twenty years. His appointment as Headmaster was made in 1981. The studentbody this past year included 120 students representing 15 states and 7 foreign countries. Utah, California, and Arizona are the The year was 1975. A Presbyterian minister, the Reverend Duncan J. Me Millan, had come to Mt. Pleasant from Illinois in search of a drier climate to recover from a severe respiratory ailment. Upon learning that some local residents were interested in providing an education for their children, Duncan McMillan opened a school in the Liberal Dance Hall on which he personally; assumed mortgage payments. The long history of Wasatch Academy had begun. 1984-10- 9 year later. While the original structure of Wasatch Academy still stands (it is now the Mt. Pleasant Senior Citizens Center), Wasatch Academy has moved to a larger, campus south of Main Street. Since has been an in972, Wasatch full-tim- will highlight Hub City Heritage Days in Mt. Pleasant beginning on Mt. Providing excellence in academic programs photographs, fur- nishings, and valuable historical records of the schools past as well as those yet to happen. Pierce Historical Hall is named in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Pierce of Aztec, N.M., former trustees who underwrote the basic program of renovating and restoring the Victorian building which at different times in the Academys past has housed faculty and has served as a dining hall. |