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Show Miss Martha Bird Named To Attend Cuban Celebration . Miss Martha Bird of this city, instructor in the Maeser school at Provo, has been invited by the government of Cuba, to be a guest of that country for two weeks, during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of public instruction in-struction in Cuba. The celebration is slated to take place during the Christmas hoi-' iday vacation December 18 to January Jan-uary 1. Miss Bird, daughter of Reed and the late Menette A. Bird, will be the only representative from Utah, named to go to the islands. Her selection was made by the Provo district school board last week and announced by Supt. J. C. Moffitt. In making the announcement, Dr. Moffitt said that one teacher would be selected from each of the 48 states and the Cuban government gov-ernment will pay their air transportation, trans-portation, food and accomodations accomoda-tions during the two weeks. The Provo school board made the appointment of Miss Bird and it was sanctioned by Allen Bate-man, Bate-man, education director of Utah. In a letter from Kendric N. Marshall', director of the division of international education relations, rela-tions, Washington, D. C, Miss Bird was told that the Cuban c lebration is in observance of an event in the summer of 1900 when 1450 Cuban public school teachers attended' a special institute at Harvard University in the United States. The incident was important import-ant in the establishing of Cuban public schools, it was stated in the letter. Special lectures during the stay of the 48 American school teachers tea-chers in Cuba, will be held at the University of Havana. Martha' attended schools in Springville and received a bachelor bach-elor degree from the B.Y.U. She taught school in Nebo district and later went to the Franklin and then to the Maeser schools in Provo. |