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Show PERMANENT SUMMER SCHOOL. IN I'INTAH CANYON FOR TEACHERS DUCHESNE, UINTAH COUNTIES my MIldred'Dillman) A joint committee of the. Uintah school board of education and the Duchesne board of education met at Vernal last week to discuss plans for a Uintah basin summer school. A a petition has been formed, and is being sent by both boards to the University of Utah, to establish a permanent summer school for the teachers of the two counties, to be located in, the mountains somewhere in this vicinity. The petition sets out the need of such an institution, because our geographic conditions makes it difficult and expensive for persons to get from here to Salt Lake City to attend to the regular session of the summer school there. It also points out the failure of State University or the Agricultural College Col-lege to do any etxenslon work in the basin because of difficulty" confront in transportation. Further the petition peti-tion states, that there are relatively few eachers who attend summer school at all, when if such an institution institu-tion were established it would increase in-crease the attendance materially and would raise the standard of the teachers in the basin. While the place of locating such an institution has not been decided on by the boards, yet it seems at present that Uintah canyon presents the best possibilities for such an undertaking. un-dertaking. Its scenic beauty, com bined with the advantages of nature study, together with Its recreational rinalitlpt: make it verv desirabhv There is also an advantage of being near the Indian agency, where the tribal dances of the Indians are given giv-en the main one the Sun Dance, which is usually staged at the time of the year that summer school would be in running order. Uintah canyon can-yon is one of the most accessible canyons in this neighborhood, and with but little expense a good auto road could be built up it, making communication with a summer school only the matter of a few minutes min-utes travel with a car. Lumber is sawed in the Uintah canyon can-yon and thus the expense of putting up a suitable building for summer school work would be very reasonable. reason-able. This problem has been put up to some of the educational authorities and they seem to heartily ' endorse such a move, and it seems probable at present that some of the best instructors in-structors can be procured whose credit will be received at full value toward state certificates, or teachers certificates. |