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Show MARCH 19, 1986 Schools: He built a better bridge LAYTON -- - What happens when you take a balsa wood bridge kit, apply the principles of physics and calculus and spend at least 35 hours designing and building a small model bridge? In the case of Michael Hadley, Layton High School senior, you receive first place honors in the annual bridge building contest. THE HRIDC.K building competition at Layton High School has become a major activity that rivals athletics. Students sit in the auditorium to watch the bridges entered in the contest hold up under the stress applied by a special machine. They cheer as favorites prove to be strong. Occasionally HONORED FOR OUTSTANDING service to the PTA were, from left, Virginia Parry, Ramona Porter, Georgia Anderson and Carla Shelton. there are jeers when a bridge breaks easily. Into the after school hours, students remain, curious to see if the final entry in the contest will prove to be the strongest. This ear's contest had an added clement of suspense. Garrett Hutson. the 1985 champion, was entering the contest again. Could he repeat and become the school's first two-tim- e winner? GARRETTS bridge held up under 1535 pounds of pressure hich was enough to give him sixth place honors. Michael Hadley's prize winning entry held 1807 pounds. Layton High School received first place honors state wide for the second time in the last three years. Michael was honored at the annual engineering banquet as the state champion. KJH Teacher honored By DAWN KERSCHNER Kaysville Jr. High - All it takes is KAYSVILLE one look at the bright smile, crinkling laugh wrinkles, the enthusiasm shared by teacher and student, and you will easily see why February's Teacher of the month is Monte Webb. MICHAEL HADLEY OF Layton High School poses with his winning entry in the Bridge Building portion of the district science fair. w pounds; Garrett Duston. pounds; Mary Lochner. pounds. Aesthetic winners were Brent Bone, Robert Lochner. Jill Schroader, Robert Marryott and Russell Terry. contest w as the by sponsored physics, math, drafting departments and the physics Club. Michael Harris and Mr. Tovey spent many hours encouraging students and making the con THE OTHER WINNERS in the bridge building contest include Michael Gedris. 729 pounds; Robert Loch-ne- r, 1631 pounds; Ara Bravo. 1609 pounds: David Storm. 1535 1427 1601 bridge-buildin- g test successlul. Michael Hadley built on the experience he gained through entering the contest last year. He says he spent more time, created circular beams and wasted none of the wood provided in the kit. Although his future plans don't include building bridges, Michael does want to use the principles of physics and math in his planned career of a mechanical engineer. After duating from high school, he plans to attend USU. dmg DHS Debaters win region - KAYSVILLE Region Four debate tournament was held March 8 at Davis High School. The schools involved were Davis, Bountiful. Woods Cross, View-mon- t. East and Highland. LAST YEAR there was a three point spread from first place to Davis' third place. This year however, under the coaching of Scott Pullam, Davis jumped ahead with a 20 point spread over third place Bountiful, to win first place in the Sweepstakes with 120 points. Second place went to East High School with points, and Bountiful had 100 points for third 1 rating; Jon Golden, fourth place, superior rating; Jim Bennett, fifth place, superior rating. The debate s record was Brown-Stephan- ie win-los- 18-- 2. DAVIS TOOK three superior ratings by Jelisa Peterson, Geoff Wardle and Kris Smith and one excellent with Kory Christensen in the Lincoln-DoublDebate. Individual superior ratings went to Stephanie Vandyke and Debbie Clay in oratory; Chris Watkins and as Stefan Liese in extemporaneous speaking; Lane Mansell and Holly Nelson in impromptu speaking. Larry Roller in student congress. THE DAVIS High debate team will next compete in the state debate tournament to be held at Utah State University on March 4-- 22. Named intern Layton resident, Tim D. Eccles-to- n has been awarded a three-mont- h internship in the office of Salt Lake City Mayor Palmer He was selected for the student program by the University of Utah's Hinkley Institute of Politics. JENNIFER DASKEVICH Lancer gal best speaker - Jennifer Daske-vicLAYTON an outstanding Layton High School speech, drama and debate student, recently won top honors in two patriotic speaking contests. Jennifer placed second in the state for the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Voice of Democracy contest. She was first runner up in the h, state American Legion Oratorical contest. TOPIC FOR the VFW contest was New Horizons for America's Youth." Jennifer had to place first in the school and district contests before qualifying along with four other winners for state-wid- e competition. The theme for the American Legion contest was a citizens obliga- - tions and duties to their government. Jennifer competed at the school. Post, district and zone level before presenting her speech in the state contest. There were seven zone Enlists in this contest. THIS LAYTON High senior has excelled in oral expression for her entire high school career. Among her honors this year is a first place award at the State Bar Tournament Debate. She in Lincoln-Dougla- s had the led in the school play and she just finished portraying Tiger Lily in Layton High's musical. "Peter Pan." Jennifer hopes to continue in the speech, drama, debate fields in col- "Charlies Aunt lege. dmg F.CCLESTON currently attends the University of Utah, where he is a junior working toward bachelors degrees in mechanical engineering and political science. During his internship, Eccleston will be working in a number of capacities within the Mayor's office, including researching development programs. Wins Spelling Bee third time Jason Kimmel, an at Central student eighth grade Davis Junior High, received first place honors at the area spelling bee that was held last week. He competed against top spellers from eight elementary' and junior high schools for the area title and the right to compete in the district wide spelling bee. The competition was held at E.G. King Elementary LAYTON place. Davis High School had four of the five top debate teams in the region tournament. Scott Dubois-Jef- f Frazier, first place, superior rating; Stephen McDaniel-Randa- ll Bateman, second place, superior Pritt-Brya- n JASON KIMMEL gra- city OVER THE past 20 years, hundreds of University of Utah students have participated in the in- ternship program which provides education in city, stale and federal -- - School. THIS IS the third time Jason has earned the area award. In 1984 he placed second in the district con- test. Jason claims his spelling success can be attributed to a good memory and study, dmg MR. WEBB has been teaching English as Kaysville Jr. High for 12 County DUP holds lunch The County Officers of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers hosted a Captains Luncheon" for the outgoing captains of the Layton area. They have served for the past two years, some even longer. It was held at the Oak Hills Chapel. CAPTAINS h onored MONTE WEBB years, and Journalism for the past four. He claims he doesn't have a definite hobby, but enjoys skiing and has worked as a ranger for the Forest Service. HE SAYS he loves teaching at Kaysville Junior and its a good thing, for students and teachers alike all think he's wonderful. Finance class starts For persons interested in securfuture, a class in ing their financial financial planning will be offered through the Community Education Program of Layton High School. Classes will have five weekly sessions and begin at Layton High School, 7 p.m. on March 27. There will be a $5 building fee. THERE WILL be opportunities to ask questions and look for solutions to the many questions and problems faced by individuals. The classes will be conducted by Willard Higdon of Waddell anil Reed, Inc., a Financial Services company. Galaxy to be on TV LAYTON - Galaxy, a teenage musical performing group -- based in Layton, will perform on the Talent Showcase, KSL-Ton Sunday, March 23 at 4 p.m. as part of the featured entertainment segment of the program. V THE 19 performers, ages 13 to 16, are directed by Jeanne Day and Pam Evans. The group has appeared at the Layton Arts Council Presidents Day Concert, the 49th Street Galleria, the Utah State Fair and many church functions. For the television program "Galaxy" will do two country novelty numbers Any Day Now" and Pocky Top. dmg were Marilyn Tuke, Adamswood: Bar- bara Simmons, Antelope: Diana Coonradt. Deseret: Marie Adams. Fiddlers Creek: Lorene Thompson, Fort Lane; Octavia Neville, Hollyhock; Delpha Reese, Mountain View; Norma Dimond. Oak Country and Virginia Alexander, Prairie Schooner. The new captains or candidates were also introduced and at their respective camp meetings this month, they will be voted on. The candidates are as follows: Adams- wood. Marilyn Tuke and Donna Mockli; Antelope, Bonnie Allison; Deseret, Diana Coonradt; Fiddlers Creek, Jane McFarland; Fort Lane, Lorene Thompson; Hollyhock, Vernetta Wilson: Mountain View, Marge Dehning; Oak Coun- try, Norma Dimond: Prairie Schooner, Martha Brotherson and Charlotte Dahle. governments. THERE ARE over 20.000 mem"The internship program probers of the Daughters of Utah exvides students with hands-operience in city government." says Pioneers throughout the country. Mayor DePaulis. "We see the It is the largest History gathering program mutually beneficial for organization anywhere, that is its both the students and the city of primary purpose. We know there are many women all around who Salt Lake." might be well qualified to become members. Those interested in joinECCLESTON was the 1984 valedictorian for Layton High School, ing should contact Norma Kloser, or Miland received several scholarships, county registrar, dred 4 to General Motors one president Heaps, County including for further information. Any Engineering and Management Institute, Flint, Mich., where he woman over 18 who had a relative attendedfor one year. He is the son in Utah before the coming of the n 544-365- 544-989- of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Eccles-ton- , 616 N. 1875 N., Layton. MR. WEBB was raised in Paris, Ida. and attended Ricks College. He went on a mission to Germany and after returning graduated from BYU. His major was German and his minor, History and English. He met his wife, Kathy, while living in Ogden. They are now happily married with three children: Amy 7, Tana 5 and Danny 3. Mr. Webb and his family reside in West Bountiful, in a home which he and his wife proudly built themselves. It may not compare to a professionally built house, but it looks pretty good to us, he laughs. railroad, May 10, 1869 is eligible, dmg PREPARING FOR PARENT-Yout- h Night this Thursday at Kaysville Junior High are, from left, Clark Caldwell and Carl Gardiner. KJH Parent-Yout- h evening set Thurs. KAYSVILLE - It's a hop, skip and a jump away! Kaysville Jr. High announces its annual h The PTA officers for 1986-8- 7 will be approved for installation at this Night to be held in conjunction with PTA meeting on Thursday, March 20 at 7 p.m. THIS YEARS activity will be a student-facult- y basketball game with both the boys and the girls teams playing. Also on hand with performances will be the cheerleaders, pep club and Wowie Cos-sel- l. A great time will be had by all. Trudy Byington; president-elect- . Laraine Saunders; t. -- Parent-Yout- meeting. They are: president. Larry Brewer; legislative vice president, Pat McBride: secretary. Tina Lependu; treasurer, fora Gatten; individual development. Sherilyn DeDeckcr; family life. Darline Elggrcn; health anil welfare, Valerie Berrett and Julia Fisher. |