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Show Moab Music Teacher Now On State Board Mrs. Merlyn Maxwell has been appointed to a five-year five-year term on the Music Curriculum Planning Coro. ittee of the State School Board. Currently in charge of the music program at Southeast South-east Elementary, Mrs. Maxwell Max-well has been associated with music in Grand Co., schools for many years. In 1954, prior to the formation forma-tion of a curriculum com-ittee, com-ittee, she was a participant in a music Course of Study Workshop which revised music curriculum for the State at the time. In discussing the needs for music in schools, Mrs. Maxwell pointed out that these are quite different in the curricula of elementary and secondary schools, since children through the sixth grade are all given an equal chance to develop devel-op their talents and discover discov-er interests in music, while a more selective participation participa-tion aimed to develop specialized spe-cialized talents in individual individ-ual tsudents marks the junior ju-nior high and high school program. |
