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Show Page Easter Issue 1973 Utah Woman's Review 10 Mrs. Caroline Romney Miner CHOSEN UTAH MOTHER OF THE YEAR May 1973 Over the years she and her husband have developed farms in Logan, Riverton and Sandy. She said, my husband has always had animals, prize Jersey cows and a farm, providing an ideal situation for our eight children. They all learned to share in the work and responsibility and the experiences that go dong with farming and the raising of animals. . Along with their lovely children the Miners have been blessed with 21 precious grandchildren. She has created a beautiful tapestry of a family tree about 2 by 3 feet in size out of yarn and cloth and placed each cameo picture of the children and grandchildren themselves along respective . CAROLINE EYRING MINER Chosen as Utah's selection for Mother of the Year, and honored along with eight others April 14th at the Assembly Hall, Mrs. Glen Bryant Miner has had a lifetime hobby of writing, with seven books published and over 100 articles, poems and stories contributed to magazines. She is also, the winner of many contests in writing and received the Distinguished Service Award from BYU in 1962. Homemaker, lady of charm and warm friendliness, talented writer and educator, Mrs. Caroline Miner at the age of 65 is full of the spirit of youthfulness and life. She has spent thirty years as a teacher from first grade to University in Arizona and Utah. She belongs to a number of national and local literary or- ring and Caroline Romney Eyring, as refugees, expelled along with other colonists in Mexico. As the 7th of 9 children she recalls the harrowing experience of riding on the train in the dark, of the baby throwing up on her and of living in a lumber yard in H Paso, while I repeople stared at them. member the feelings of trying to get into a hotel that was across the street and then of Mother having us crawl under our grandmother's bed. There just wasn't enough room for all of us to sleep in the beds. I remember too, of being taken out to air like chickens every morning in the courtyard. ganizations, including the League of Utah Writers, National League of American Pen Women, National Poetry Association and the Reynolds Literary Club of Provo. Many years of her life have been given in the service to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving 19 years on the YWMIA General Board, and also on Stake Primary and Sunday School boards. Besides rearing eight children she has found time to write, to garden, to travel, to work with the youth and to be a loving companion to her husband whom she met while teaching English at Safford High in Arizona and married May 20, 1931. Mrs. Miner was born Carolyn Eyring Dec. 14, 1907 to sturdy pioneer stock in old Mexico. At the age of four, she left Colonia, Juarez along with her' parents, Edward Christian Ey Parents of Caroline Miner Edward C . & Caroline Romney Eyring branches and the trunk of the tree. All the children have attended college, the boys have fulfilled missions for the LDS Church, and many have advanced degrees in education. Steven, the youngest and the only one not married, is presently having a marvelous experience as a missionary in Europe in the Italy North Mission. Dr. Biyant A. Miner is a chemistry professor at Weber State College; Dr. Edward G. Miner, a chemistry teacher at Dr. Henry L. Mesa, Ariz.; a German Miner, professor at the University of Evansville, Evansville, Ind.; Joseph K Miner, a student at the Uni versity of Utah medical school Mrs. Edward (Caroline) Mor gan, lives in Salt Lake; Mrs D. Clayton (Rosemary) Fair bourn, resides at Sandy and Mrs. George D. (Camilla) Smith Jr., lives in New York. Mrs. Miners husband, Glen, although suffering a stroke some ten years ago, still loves to drive out to his farm in Sandy to enjoy his hobby of breeding & milking his Jersey cows three times a week. He retired after 20 years of teaching and 17 years as a statistician with the Utah Department of Employment Security. He received an M.A. degree from Stanford University in 1931. Presently Mrs. Miner is head of the English Department at Highland High School and teaches English and creative writing. In addition she has sponsored the Highland literary magazine Black and White for 16 years, of which the last nine the magazine has received the rating. She has travelled extensively over the years. With a group of her students from Highland she visited Russia. In her work as a General Board member of the YWMIA her travels have taken her to far away places, such as Japan, Far East, South Seas, New Zealand, Australia All-Americ- an Her family settled in Pima, Arizona, where she was educated. Graduating from Gila Junior College in 1926 she went to Brigham Young University and graduated in 1929. She received a Masters Degree from Utah State University. The Miner Family and South Africa. She also toured South America with her husband, Alaska with her son, Edward, and Western and Eastern Europe with her youngest, Steven. Of the Alaska trip she recalled, We spent the summer in Fairbanks, where we attended the university and studied the various ways gold has been discovered and mined there. Also we visited Barrow to see the Eskimos, walked along the coast and paddled out into the ocean in a canoe. With Steven in Europe she We purchased a VW said, hardback, took our sleeping bags with us and stopped overnight wherever we happened to be without planning and rolled out our sleeping bags in the back. One interesting place we parked just off the road at Oberammergau. houses huddling along winding, hilly roadways. Japan is ancient and modem, happy and sad. The drabness of the houses of Tokyo contrasts with the lively silks of the ceremonial kimonos seen in the country areas. I think of the complexity of Tokyo, largest city in the world, of Ginza particularly, in contrast to the quiet rice paddies and the lake areas: I contrast the crowded water fronts with the 1 quiet little country villages shuttered and sleeping in the wee' ping rain. Beautiful Japanese Church member Voortrekkers Monument Her description of many of these places is beautifully expressed in some of her many articles. About Japan she writes: Soaring over Tokyo for an hour and a half before we could land, we saw the sacred Mount Fuji, through the clouds far distant, and below us the teeming dty. Rimming the bay were strange fishing boats, green hills bordered by dusters of tiny tile-topp- ed great rugged mountainous areas with beautiful valleys in between. Both have a long history of pioneer hardship and both revere their pioneers and have erected monuments to them. It was something like a trip to Temple Square to go to Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa and visit the Voortrekker Monument and its nearby museum. In the dty of Pretoria, it- self, one views the Kruger Home where there are many mementos of early pioneer days. It was like a visit to the Lion |