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Show Five Park City teachers recognized by district Park ( itj News Thursday, January 20, 1983 Page A13 byJeffHowrey Governor Scott Matheson has declared Jan. 17 through 21 Teacher Appreciation Week throughout Utah and local school officials have followed suit with observances ob-servances of their own. Five Park City school district teachers have been lauded by local administrators administra-tors for exceptional excellence excel-lence in pursuing their professional tasks. The five are high school English teacher and athletic coach Bruce Reid; middle school science instructor Jill Chris-tensen; Chris-tensen; Linda Singer, who is currently serving as interim principal at Parley's Park Elementary School; first grade teacher Patrice Davis;' and Park City high school mathematics and science teacher C.W. "Moose" Smith. In lauding these five instructorsone in-structorsone for each day of the Teacher Appreciation week local school administrators adminis-trators emphasize that they are in great part just symbolic representatives of the excellent teachers on the staffs of each of the district's schools. Memorable teachers According to a press release from the Utah State Board of Education, the purpose of Teacher Appreciation Appre-ciation Week is "to celebrate the value of teachers throughout the state and to stimulate public awareness of their educational contributions contribu-tions to the youth of our communities." In addition, Dr. Donald Clark, math specialist with the state office of education notes that, "To many of us, memorable teachers have done much to inspire and encourage our young people to succeed. The need for teachers has never been greater as Utah's schools face unprecedented enrollment enroll-ment increases during the coming years. The future of education in Utah will be determined by the number and quality of teachers entering the school system. Teacher "appreciation week"' is a fitting time to renew our support for one of the most challenging professions in our society." Locals honored With that in mind, local school officials have highlighted high-lighted the five area teachers mentioned above for special recognition of their dedication to the community's com-munity's educational needs. The contributions of each are detailed below. Bruce Reid is a native of Orinda, California and graduated grad-uated in 1976 from San Francisco State University. Reid has also done graduate work at California State University in Chico, Orange Coast College and the University Uni-versity of Utah. He is a former Marine, having served in Vietnam. Reid has been teaching at Park City High for six years. He is head of the language arts department and teaches English. According to district dis-trict officials, under his leadership the language arts department is making important im-portant headway in terms of upgrading and improving the language and writing skills of the town's high school students. He serves as faculty advisor ad-visor to the "Bullet," the school paper, and his presence pre-sence has reportedly had much to do with upgrading the quality of that publication publica-tion as well as increasing the number of students who participate. But Reid's most noticeable extracurricular activity is sports. He is assistant football foot-ball coach and head basketball basket-ball coach. His 1980 basketball basket-ball team gave Park City its first major state championship champion-ship trophy. Reid, like all athletic coaches in the district, dis-trict, devotes many hours after school to sports while receiving little extra compensation. com-pensation. Jill Christensen is a graduate grad-uate of the University of Utah w.th majors in health and zoology. She has put her formal training to good use for the past couple of years at the Treasure Mountain Middle School as seventh grade life science and eighth grade physical science instructor. in-structor. She is renowned for bringing bring-ing her real life experiences into her teaching techniques as well. She is an avid outdoorsperson with a significant sig-nificant interest in ornithology ornith-ology and desert ecology. She has traveled extensively, extensive-ly, with visits to such exotic locales as Africa, Alaska and China. She is a big supporter of innovative and motivating instructional techniques. Her students are found in lab work almost as often as they crack open their textbooks. It's not unusual to find a variety of wildlife in her classroom. Linda Singer is a native of the Midwest. In 1971 she graduated from the University Uni-versity of Redlands in Red-lands, Red-lands, California with a bachelor of sciences in speech pathology. In 1973 she received a master's in communicative com-municative disorders. Other educational experiences include in-clude a semester at sea on Chapman College's "World ' Campus Afloat." She got an additional degree in elementary elemen-tary education from the University of Utah in 1977. Her professional experience experi-ence includes a stint working for the Ocean View School District in Huntington Beach, California from 1972 through 1975. In 1975 she and her husband, Rory, moved to Park City and became involved in-volved in the ski business. In 1977 she became a resource teacher for the Park City School District. During her tenure here she has served as administrative assistant under two different principals. She returned this fall to teaching after being on leave since January 1981 when her daughter, Lindsay, was born. She is currently serving as interim principal at Parley's Park Elementary Elemen-tary School. Patrice Davis is a native of Salt Lake City and attended South High School there. She graduated in 1973 from the University of Utah magna cum laude. That same year she started teaching in the Park City school district. During her stint here teaching first graders, she 'has gained a reputation as an exceptionally warm and compassionate instructor. She has gained the respect and admiration of her colleagues col-leagues and the devotion of her students. Perhaps no teacher could aspire to more. C.W. "Moose" Smith is a native of Baltimore, Maryland Mary-land and a 1941 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He was a fighter pilot in the South Pacific during World War II and by the time he had retired from the military had attained the rank of captain. His advanced college work included studies at the University Uni-versity of Utah and Brigham Young University. Smith is in his sixth year of service in Park City High School where he serves as the department head for mathematics and science. According to local officials, of-ficials, under his astute guidance, the department has become one of the strongest in the state. Through Smith's personal extra effort, a number of programs and classes have been instituted at the high school, including advanced placement calculus, whereby where-by a student may earn up to 15 hours of college credit while still in high school. Moose also pioneered a program by which Park City High School physics students are transported to the University Uni-versity of Utah for their lab classes, thereby gaining initial ini-tial exposure to the rigors of college academics. Largely due to Smith's unflinching guidance and astute teaching teach-ing skills, last year Park City high school students captured cap-tured 11 of the top 20 places in the state l-A math competition. Moose also was the catalyst cata-lyst behind the implementation implementa-tion of the high school's computer science programs. High school principal Jack Dozier describes him as "one of the youngest members mem-bers of the faculty in energy and devotion." Although Moose has reached retirement retire-ment age, he has been persuaded by school officials to remain on staff for at least one more year. For his especially outstanding out-standing contributions to the local school district, Smith was awarded a special plaque attesting to his outstanding out-standing educational qualities quali-ties by school superintendent Dr. Richard Goodworth during dur-ing brief ceremonies at the high school last Monday morning. TO 00! TO MANSELL & ASSOC. 592 MAIN ST., PARK CITY 649-1602 ttt'j v r r r t r r r rr r r r : r-f'fl h LI 1 1 Know just where to go when you are considering or are about to purchase pur-chase a Park City area real estate investment. 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