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Show Lucy A. Phillips Retires as College Professor Emeritus; Taught 42 Years i Miss Lucy A. Phillips, one of the state's foremost teach-'. teach-'. : ers, will become professor em- i j eritus on the faculty at Snow College at the end of the current cur-rent school year. She has to her credit 42 years of teaching In Utah schools, j A native of Springville, she ! J ifl the daughter of Rachel Phil- ; lips, who lives at 542 East 4th : ! South, Springville and the late Jonah T. Phillips. i ' ; . 4 v v : V V ! V -w5 A ' Miss Phillips has made no definite plans as yet for activities acti-vities after the close of school. A graduate of the BYU, she returned to that school for her Master's Degree. She has also done graduate work at the Universities Uni-versities of Washington, Wisconsin, Wis-consin, Utah, and Teachers College, Gunnison, Colo-She Colo-She taught in Grantsville, Provo and at Dixie College before be-fore coming to Snow in 1926. When she came to Snow, she constituted the entire English department. With the exception of a poetry award, Miss Phillips has been responsible for all awards given for creative writing since her appearance on the Snow campus. Constituting herself as the unofficial historian of the college, col-lege, she has kept a scrapbook history of all important events on the campus since her arrival. arri-val. She will complete her scrapbook in the near future and present it to the college. In 1926 she organized the Scribblers Club, a group for students interested in creative writing. She has served as president of the arts section of the Utah Miss Lucy A. Phillips of Springville, teacher at Snow College Col-lege since 1926, is retiring this year with a 42-year record of teaching in Utah schools. Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served as president of the Business and Professional Women Wo-men in Sanpete; first- president presi-dent of the American Association Associa-tion of University Women, Sanpete, San-pete, when it was organized. She has also served on various UEA committees. She has served on the stake boards of both Sunday School and MIA, acted as home missionary, mis-sionary, and taught in MIA, Sunday School, and Relief Society. So-ciety. She has lectured widely to clubs and community gatherings gath-erings and is currently serving as a member of the State Library Li-brary Commission. In 1953 she was awarded the Service Candle by the Ephraim Junior High School. This award honors a citizen of Ephraim Eph-raim whose community service has been outstanding. She will be remembered by former students primarily for the unsparing efforts she has expended on their behalf as she gave extra hours of individual tutoring. She has also offered financial assistance to many students. There have been few years when some student has not been attending the college on a scholarship given by Miss Phillips. These scholarships have never been publicized in any way. They are not listed in the school catalog, and seldom sel-dom indeed were the recipients aware whose bounty they were enjoying. She has also opened her home to students for living accomodations, ac-comodations, offering them board and lodging at less-than-cost rates, or for free. |