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Show Golden Jubilee Reunion Proves Successful Event Success marked the efforts of the Springville high school Golden Jubilee anniversary reunion committee com-mittee which arranged the reunion for high school alumni here Monday. Mon-day. Scores of out-of-town folks joined with those from the "old home town" to have a general good time visiting, listening to a fine program, enjoying lunch and a dance. Paul Thorn was elected president presi-dent of -the Alumni, Association to plan for the reunion next year; Mrs. Evelyn M. Miner, vice-president; Cal Packard, treasurer; Zina Johnson and Mary Schwartz, 2-year 2-year directors and Blair Sargent and Jessie P. Condie, one-year directors. Howard Maycock, acting chairman chair-man for this year, read the articles of incorporation and by-laws of the Alumni Association, prepared by Glen W. Sumsion as a preliminary prelim-inary to the program. The objectives of the association as set forth will be to lend support to the high school and its activities and to further the art movement. The reunion date was set for May 30. R. L. Dor.c of Portland, Oreg., former principal of the school, urged that art be always kept as a part of the high school and every student's life be carrying on the projects to raise art funds. He stressed the point that the history his-tory of the art should be kept so that all would know how and from where pictures were obtained. Mrs. Mae Huntington, high school faculty member, gave an interesting paper on the history of the high school, emphasizing some of the humorous as well as the more serious aspects of its development. Elmo Coffman, a former student, stu-dent, spoke on the effect of physical physi-cal aspects of the community on the lives of students and Marilyn Moon, 1954 graduate made an appealing ap-pealing plea for continued support of the art in her well-given talk. Grant Thorn spoke briefly on the objectives to which an aalumni association might aspire. Music for the afternoon program pro-gram was furnished by the Musettes, Mus-ettes, directed by Alberta Hoover; by Miss Glida Ann Packard, vocalist, vo-calist, and a string trio composed of Ann Johnson, Betty Hoover and Jane Harrison, who also played during the lunch. Mrs. Maurice Bird. Mrs. Merle Sargent, and Louise Coffman were accompanists. accompan-ists. Special tribute was riven during I the afternoon to Mrs. L. E. Eggert-sen, Eggert-sen, wife of the high school organizer or-ganizer and first principal; three first graduates. John E. Boyer of Los Angeles; Lola B. White and Sarah Wiscombe; principals, R. L. Done. Ernest E. Knudsen. Wallace W. Brockbank. Paul K. Walker, and also to Harold Alleman of San Diego, who had been a teacher in Springville 41 years and was a j member of the first high school faculty. |