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Show Local Bus Drivers Take Course at Provo Tech Fifty-five school bus drivers from 18 Utah school districts are in the midst of a three-day training program as required by the state of Utah at Utah Technical College at Provo. Attending the program from Grand School District was Ted Tibbetts of Moab. According to Kelvin C. Clayton, pupil transportation training officer for the Utah State Board of Education, the current class is one of the largest in the history of the program, which requires 24 hours of special training for every driver of a school bus in the state. Nine of the 55 enrolled are women, the largest number ever to enroll in a single course, said Mr. Clayton. The course began Wednesday Wednes-day at Utah Tech, continues today and concludes Friday. It is sponsored by the Utah Tech Division of Continuing Education, Educa-tion, of which Dr. Roger H. Plothow is director. Utah Tech's entire faculty of professional truck driver and driver training and improvement improve-ment programs is being utilized. They include Lynn Asay, Sherald James, Bernie Knapp, Keith Sondrup, Mel-don Mel-don Standley, Kent Wright and Sherma Soundrup, the latter the only woman instructor. instruc-tor. Those taking the course are family from Payson, Utah, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Ainge and family from Pueblo, Colo., and Robert, Helen, and Rae Lynn of Moab. The final day of their visit was spent attending a family reunion of the Thomas H. Evans family at the Blue Mt. Guest Ranch. getting training in Utah Tech's ., drive-trainer" simulators plus ; actual behind-the-wheel on-the on-the road experience in a school bus. Safety, good-driver techniques, tech-niques, responsibilities and other phases are being featured. fea-tured. Each driver has already had a six-hour pre-service training program in his or her own school district, and will get another eight hours in their districts following the Utah Tech course. They will also receive for the first time the new school bus driver handbook prepared by the pupil transportation division of the Utah State Board of Education. School districts represented ' among the 55 drivers taking the course include Alpine, Box Elder, Beaver, Cache County, Carbon County, Davis County, , Emery County, Grand, Kane Murray, Nebo, North Summit, Piute, Provo, Salt Lake City, South Sanpete, San Juan and Weber. |