Show Former Student Praises Local School Superintendent For Outstanding Services in Grand County District Tuesdays Tuesday's D Deseret ler t Newt News of last w weak featured a story on Superintendent Super super- tit t Ik Helen M. M Knight with witha a full fuli length picture of the only I woman superintendent In the state There wes was al also o a picture of 01 the new ry school piped named In honor of ot Mrs rs Knight w who has hi served the Grand Orand Cow County y School District for the past put 26 36 I y yews Ai As far as Grand Orand C County i is i. concerned Mrs MR Knight de de- the O Oscar Oacar for lor Teachers Teacher in the Moab area inasmuch as the sire started II as a an elementary elemi teacher in Thompson Utah taught later in the Moab elementary elM grades and still later became a high school English teacher and even coached the Girls' Girls basketball basket ball team as ai stated in the Deseret Deret News article During thus this time Coach Eddie K Kimbel now coach at YOU Young I university was wa making history leading the local teams to victory No doubt it was during one of these victorious events that both Mrs Knight and Coach Kimball stayed laye awake all night in order that the boys and girls would get some sleep as stated in the newspaper article Literally hundreds of students I Ir r remember ber Mrs Knight especially for the love of English and Liter Uter- Literature attire that she he inspired In h her r pupils D Because auae of her inspiration some students majored in English and Literature Under Mrs Knights Knight's leadership I recall ha having won first tiNt prize in English essays in each year yr of my high hip school days The last tet essay won woo In competition with all the high hip schools in t the state of ot Utah and gave me a year low scholarship to the University of Utah where I 1 had the pleasure of majoring in English ilish and Literature Lit Ut- and Spanish Signed Rosalie Robertson |