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Show Tells Advantages of Studies ft HE WAS AIDED BY ADULT NIGHT SCHOOL Malin Anderson, right, talks with Virginia Russell For 18 years many men and women of Salt Lake City have eaten hasty supper after a hard day's work, put their books under their arms and gone off to evening school in an effort to advance their I I chances in life. j The high school graduation age for this city ' . have found attendance at evening school necessary Seriei to qualify them for employment. Others who are ' 1 already employed have studied in order to advance in their own firms, or to become Americanized or cultured. t This year nearly 2000 of these peo- pie are in the various divisions of .the adult education program sponsored spon-sored by the board of education. Many will graduate with high school credits, many do not wish to graduate, grad-uate, but will receive the bit of knowledge which they sought, and others will become American citizens citi-zens as a result of their studies. I But what has happened to the many people who have worked by jday that they might obtain an education edu-cation at night? The answer is an imposing list of prominent Salt Lake City citizens of today who look back with pride and satisfaction on that part of their education obtained in the evening schools as an aid to their business and professional careers. ca-reers. Filed In the office or Earle F. Gardemaiui, coordinator for the board of education, is a group ofl letters from citizens who have expressed ex-pressed their thanks to the program pro-gram which assisted them to advance ad-vance in their vocations. Some of them are Robert Brewer, assistant display manager, Z. C. M. I.; Julia Taylor. Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company: Tom Me-tos, Me-tos, salesman. Success market; Malin Ma-lin Anderson, salesman, Auerbach company: Maurine Jenkins, department depart-ment head, W. T. Grant A Co.: Al Thompson, assistant manager, F. W. Woolworth company store in Kansas Kan-sas City, Mo. Another list af prominent business busi-ness people and professional men who have attended the schools and who recently Indorsed the program includes Paul B. Wright, transmission transmis-sion man for the American Telephone Tele-phone and Telegraph company: Mrs. Adeline Raymond Kelly, emergency nurse and former supervisor at the general hospital; Rudolph Bjorn, buyer, Shapiro Trunk and Bag company: com-pany: Dr. H. D. Hull, dentist, of Bingham: Dr. M. H. Dearden, optometrist; op-tometrist; Ann Fillmore, assistant director, American Nurses' association. associa-tion. New York; J. Lester Barlow, salesman. Bait Lake Hardware company: com-pany: Robert McMullin. salesman, Auerbach company; Cynthia Curtis, case worker in New York City. The school has received the support sup-port of many local lecturers and educators. Business managers also, who have seen the Improvement in their employes, have seen fit to write the board of education their satisfaction and indorsement of the exteasion work. A file in Mr. Garde-mann's Garde-mann's office includes letters from these local business manager! : H. E. Veach. Bears, Roebuck A Co.: H. M. Roe, Roe's Intermountaln Mercantile association; W. C Jah-ries. Jah-ries. & H. Kress at Co.; Margaret Mills. Keith-O'Brien. Inc.; J. M. Nelson. F. W. Woolworth company: Jane Walker, J. C Penney company: Ray H. Butler. Utah State Retailers' association: H. W. Deneke, Western Union Telegraph company. The evening school of 1037 has found new avenues of usefulness and is preparing for the future. |