Show Persons Hasten to Classrooms Of Sa Salt t Lake Adult Night zoo School I Young and Old Lay Groundwork Groundwork Ground around work for Business Careers S at Ev Evening ning Sessions By JACK THOMAS THOl THOMASA A grandmother clutching a book on English literature to her bosom walks Up up the steps with her youthful grandson whose ambition is to find fine finda a n job as bookkeeper Behind them comes comes comes' a middle aged man For more than 20 years he has been an electrician but the book In his hand is a text on short wave ra dio dlo Youve You've guessed it Il Salt Lakes Lake's adult adul night school Is convening at the West high school and more than perSons persons persons per per- sons from rom 18 to 65 years old are arc hastening hastening hastening has has- to their classrooms Many of these students are training for jobs and what's more they arc getting them according to Arch M M. Thurman personnel officer for the board of education and arid night school principal I. I Study Brings Results A group of business men planning to hire extra clerks for the Christmas shopping rush agreed to give first choice to the persons in the night schools school's retail retail sales class Studying the proper method or of o over the coun counter ter selling had brought results Mr Thurman said Saturday Besides a complete business tramIng traIn tram Ing trig course the school program includes in In- eludes nil Ill required high school classes and vocational work Graduation exercises ex cx- for more than 40 high school students some of whom are re already middle aged are arc being planned for next spring Although the school has been in operation op op- op cration nearly a dozen years last June saw the first regular commencement program when 30 persons one of whom was 56 years old were presented present present- ed ed high school diplomas Class Glass Schedule Class work is conducted each Monday Monday Mon Mon- day Wednesday and Friday from p. p m. m till p. p m. m and by continued effort a person working in the daytime day daytime daytime time can complete a high school I I i fi fiA A S t H Arch M. M Thurman course as rapidly as if he were a regular reg regular ular student in in a city high school Only adults actively interested inthe in Inthe the he work are enrolled Mr Thurman explained so teachers arc are able to crowd into a 12 week quarter as much work vork as an ordinary high school student student stu stu- dent takes in a semester If It a person takes akes three classes per quarter in night school he can complete nine credits in a year while white only 16 its ts are required for a high school dl- dl ploma loma Originally d planned as an Americanization Americanization Ameri Amen school to teach English to o immigrants and aid the nearly illiterate hIlt hIlt- erate crate the night school dropped this type ype of this fall because of lack ack of demand Nothing below a augh high ugh school standard is being taught Mr Thurman classifies his students Into nto three groups The largest section includes those Many Will Be Hired as Extra Clerks for Ch Christmas Shopping Rush training for a job or to improve their chances of ot advancement There ar are the young men and women study study- typewriting and shorthand an and craftsmen studying welding auto mechanics mechanics mechanics me me- electricity or radio The second group includes thos those who want a high school diploma o or orare orare are arc completing university entrance requirements At least 25 students attending the University of Utah a as unclassified pupils are arc attending the night school to obtain credits credit needed before they can matriculate at the university Then there Is the third group seeking cultural development Here Her are arc middle aged aced and elderly whose families have grown crown up ant and left home who vho are arc studying literature litera litera- ture and history Mr Thurman is anxious to see this group enlarged More fore Leisure American industry is being reorganized to provide more and more mor leisure for everyone and schools school must be prepared to take up the slack so this spare time can be turned t to proper channels H Mr Thurman said Instructors are taken from the regular reg ular city staff except in the sho shop classes where the aim Is Js to instruct the men in the point of ot view of th the trade In the welding class for tor instance Ls is a teacher who had never prevIously taught school but who was acknowledged edged by fellow craftsmen as one o of the best in the city The vocational work attempts t to meet the city's industrial needs b by training men in any trade for or which there is a a demand In our weldIng classes for instance is a group o of plumbers learning the latest trend toward welding pipe joints instead o of threading them the principal ex cx- The winter quarter will begin January January Jan Jan- uary 3 Tuition for two classes is 5 for a week 12 quarter and 7 7 if th the student student takes three courses |