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Show On Naming Our New School I read with interest Mrs. Boy-er's Boy-er's fine letter in last week's paper about naming the new school the "Rowland-White" school. The naming of the school is one of some importance, and I would like to add my comments. First, let me state that I have the highest regard for the two teachers mentioned, Hannah Rowland Row-land and Lola White. Miss Rowland Row-land was my teacher in the second sec-ond grade, and again in the fourth four-th grade. I loved her, and I still do; she is kindness, intelligence, and patience personified. She taught each of my two daughters, and has taken a personal interest in my son, and they all love her, too. Miss White is undoubtedly held in equally high regard by her many students and friends; I never happened to have the good fortune to be her pupil. But if we were to name a school for the teachers best beloved by the students, our high school should long ago have been named the Finley-Wingate high school; for the students who have known and loved Bess Finley and J. F. Wingate are the same students, plus many more who have revered re-vered Miss White and Miss Rowland. Row-land. The memorial to these teachers, teach-ers, and many more like them, whom we all want to honor, is already built; it is in the hearts of their students, and needs no building, no statue, no plaque in their memory. To single out two i S teachers for such an honor would be unjust to these others; I think they, themselves, would not want it so. If our new school is to be named nam-ed for any single person, I'll nominate nom-inate him, right here and now: Harrison Conover, without whose tireless, unselfish, unpaid efforts we would not have the school today, to-day, and perhaps would not have had it for many years. If anyone doubts the truth of this statement, let him go to the minutes of the Nebo School Board meetings; to the minutes of the P.T.A. meetings; to the minutes of the town meetings; to the files of the Springville Herald for the past five years. Harrison Conover Cono-ver has been the man who has fearlessly worked for our schools. Personally, I favor naming the school for some scenic or cultural aspect of our city Mountain View School, Art City School, something on that order. No partiality, par-tiality, no questioning by future citizen? as to why it was so named, nam-ed, no necessity of ever changing it. But if the townspeople want it named for an honored citizen, I cannot see how they can in all fairness name it for anyone but the editor of this paper (Who doesn't konw I'm writing this and will probably not like it), whose efforts were the base upon which the school was built. Mrs. Ralph E. Child. |