Show Utahn Rises to High Post in in Womans Woman's s Realm tir t i I r w. 4 1 4 r i i Y YI I 4 k f i I Miss liss Hazel Peterson n Six years ago Miss Hazel Peterson president of the Business and Professional Women's club came to the Salt Lake City schools to work with childrens children's problems of social adjustment At that time several persons per sons and departments were working independently with individual children's childrens childrens children's childrens children's chil chil- per per-I. drens dren's difficulties of 01 one kind or another Two years ears ago this work was all grouped under the department of or pupil personnel and Miss Peterson was appointed to a position within the department to continue her line of or work I Her early professional proCessional training was in teaching leaching She prepared herself for this work at the University of oC Ut Utah h from which institution she received received re reo re- re her bachelor of ot science degree For several years she taught in the elementary and high schools of the Jordan district serving two years of that hat principal of f the Highland I Boy school in Bingham Canyon While teaching she became interested in n under understanding more full fully the fac- fac tors ors that contribute to the social and emotional maladjustments of or the thc child Eight years ago she left the teaching leaching profession sion and entered the University of Chicago graduate school of ot social service administration where she spent 15 months studying in the field of social work specializing ing in dealing with problems of child maladjustment Miss Peterson was born in West Wesl Jordan of ot parents whose hose native land was Denmark He Hei father rather and mother came to Salt L Lake ke City in their early carly youth and later were married and I went to West Jordan where they made their home and reared their family amily Since Mi Miss s Peterson entered social work she has been a member of or the University of Utah summer school faculty and has served on th the summer staff of the institute of juvenile research research research re re- re- re search in Chicago She is very much interested in promoting social welfare wel fare work in the state stale of Utah At Athe Atthe he the present time she is a member of ofha th ha tha Community Chest and the Salt Lake county hospital boards and is president of the Business and Professional Professional Women's club and vice president president dent of the Utah Society for Mental Hygiene This Is Ii another In a series strict of articles on business and professional women of Salt Lake City |