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Show Teachers to Vote On Representative Carl Mellor Salt Lake teachers will vote at the Utah Education Association Associa-tion Convention in Salt Lake City, September 28, for the person per-son to represent them on the Board of Directors of the powerful power-ful National Education Association. Associ-ation. Seeking the position is Carl Mellor, fifth grade teacher at the Lehi Elementary School in Lehi, Utah. The NEA is the world's largest professional organization. It comprises a membership of over 800,000 teachers in the United States. Ninety-eight per cent of the teachers of Utah belong to the NEA, and as such have direct responsibilities in selecting the one person who will represent them as NEA State Director from Utah. Mr. Mellor firmly believes that active participation in professional pro-fessional Education organizations is the responsibility of every educator; edu-cator; that every teacher must be informed on, and familiar with, the aims, programs, and the status of his local, state and national professional organizations. organiza-tions. He claims that educational organizations presently face challenges, the solution of which will determine the status of education edu-cation for future generations and that educational associations must emerge as representatives of, and spokesmen for, the total teaching profession. Candidate Mellor is a native of Fayette, Sanpete County, Utah. He holds B.S. and Master of Education degrees in Elementary Elemen-tary Instruction. He has been an active participant in professional education worksshops;, conferences confer-ences and conventions on the local, state and national levels since graduating from BYU in 1953. He was president of the Alpine Education Association in 1957-58 1957-58 and was president of the Utah Classroom Teachers from 1959-1961. 1959-1961. He has served on many committees of the Utah Education Educa-tion Association and was a member mem-ber of the NEA Department of Classroom Teacher Advisory Council from 1959-1961. |