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Show June29,20ii - V TIMPANOGOS TIMES 3 LLjllhiUIiMIM James Frederic Gilbert April 12, 1940-Ju- ne 8, 2011 J 'A v his vegetables were enjoyed by many friends and neigh-bors. Jim also loved sports and he spent many years of-ficiating and assigning sports officials in the state of Utah. He was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da-y Saints. Jim was a true friend to many and he will be greatly missed by his family and friends. He is survived by his wife, Bonnie, his son, Dar-ren' and Mindy Christensen Gilbert of Cedar Hills, Utah; granddaughters, Madisen and McKenzie Gilbert, and one brother, William and Vivian L Gilbert of Red Feather Lake, Colorado. Jim was preceded in death by two sons; James "Jimmy" F. Gilbert, Jr. and Brett Howard Gilbert. A graveside service was held at the Orem City Cem-etery on June 13, 201 1. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the char-ity of your choice. Condolences may be sent to the family at 9161 Silver Lake Drive, Cedar Hills, Utah 84062 or at www.olpin-mortuary.co- Bachelor's Degree from Brockport State University at Brockport, NY. His Mas-ter's Degree at University of Arizona in Tucson and his Doctorate at BrighamYoung University in Provo, Utah. Jim married Bonnie Lee Risley, daughter of Van and Dorothy Thompson Risley, on June 3, 1962 in Ontar-io, NY. Jim spent 32 years teaching in the Provo School District working with special needs children and troubled youth. He retired from teaching in 1999. Jim and Bonnie have spent the last ten years living in their 5th wheel trailer traveling the United States. His love of fishing has taken them to the Texas Gulf Coast for the past six winters. Jim loved the outdoors and especially enjoyed fly fishing in Utah, salmon fish-ing in Washington State and fishing off the jetties in Tex-as. He never quit especially if there was a fish involved. He was a master gardener and James Frederic Gilbert. James Frederic Gilbert, age 71, passed away from complications due to Leu-kemia on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at Utah Valley Re-gional Medical Center in Provo, Utah. Jim was born ' April 12, 1940 in Pough-keepsi- e, Dutchess County, NY to Frederick "Fred" and Florence Pruden Buchanan Gilbert of Hyde Park, NY. Jim graduated from Roosevelt High School, Hyde Park, NY, in 1958 where he was very active in sports. He received his Scout Expo Combines With Utah County Fair A Scout Expo, hosted by the districts in Utah County, will be held in conjunction with the Utah County State Fair this year. The cost is free and will take place August 17 through 20 at the Utah County Fair Grounds in Spanish Fork. The cost to the fair is also free and is great activity for the entire fam-il- y. Scouting units in the Tim-panog-and Battle Creek Dis-tricts have been requested to sponsor booths on August 20 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. If you would like to sponsor an Expo booth or provide entertainment or service during the ExpoFair, go to utahscouts.org to sign up. Participating units will re-ceive patches and ribbons, plus awards will be given for the best booths and performances in var-ious categories. There are many reasons to sponsor a booth. It brings to-gether Cub Scouts and Scouts from all over Utah County. It gives an opportunity for Scouts to be involved in a big event. It gives Scouts an opportunity to demonstrate their skill so the community. It allows other Scouts to experience the skills that other troops have to of-fer. It gets boys excited about Scouting. It showcases and brings awareness of the good Scouting does. It provides a day of inter generational fam-ily fun. Everyone is invited to come to this exciting event, and see amazing Scouting displays while attending this year's Utah County Fair! There will also be all of the normal fair activities such as livestock contents, art shows, etc. "The Sleeper" V ' Minx. x-- by Geri Taylor There are facts, lessons, and very important information left out of the Truck Driver's handbook that I believe should be included. For instance, there are no references to lot lizards, bear bait, gators, Smokey Bears or chicken coops, let alone how to alter life-lon- g sleeping pat-terns that will keep a driver safe, ticket free and awake at the ap-propriate times. Fortunately I had a very good instructor who always had my best interests at heart - and didn't want me to lose my paycheck. I soon found out why truck-ers smoke, eat sunflower seeds and drink coffee by the jug-fu- ll - it seems to be the only way to stay awake! But alas! I didn't smoke, drink coffee, nor could I tolerate spitting seed hulls into my hand every two or three seconds. (And I sure wasn't going to spit them on the floor!) I had to come up with an alter- - bed. south of Nephi and the reservation roads between Page, Arizona and Flagstaff were particularly bad areas and being in the bed could be haz-ardous to ones health. Which brings me to a regulation I never did embrace. The back wall had brackets about 3 feet from the bed, but I didn't bother asking what they were for because my philoso-phy was: if it looks irrelevant, ignore it. Several months af-ter taking to the road, and af-ter a particularly bumpy ride, Rodger informed me of the requirement to secure oneself on the bed in a moving semi with a net - thus the brackets. I located the mesh covering, calculated it's likely proximity to my prone body, and flatly re-jected its use on the hypothesis that physical confinement in an already small space would lead to claustrophobia and other mental problems which are not good for truck drivers or the public in general. Call me ec-centric, and even call me a law breaker, but there was no way I was going to sleep in a mesh prison. Rodger pointed out how it could save a life if the truck rolled and it was designed for our protection, but when I asked why he didn't use it, he looked me straight in the eye and said, "Are you crazy? I'd go nuts if I were pinned down like that". Case closed - and I would be willing to bet there are thou-sands of unused nets stuffed in corners and under beds of trucks all over the country. I decided to take my chances and opted for not rolling the truck and learn how to hang tenaciously to the bed. Back to my original prob-lem of staying awake. Dur-ing the six months we drove for EA Miller, our destinations were always within a 15 to 20 hour drive time, which normally didn't cause us problems. The roads were good and I found the movement of the truck very calming - except when Rodger hit the rumble strip. I was sur-prised at how quickly I adapted to the disruption of a normal life, in more ways than one, and began wondering why all the stimulants were presumably necessary to keep a rig on the road. I should have knocked on wood. nate method of staying awake at 3 a.m. (or anytime for that mat-ter). I clearly remember the first time I was expected to sleep in the middle of the day. At the end of my turn, Rodger took the wheel and I sat in the passenger seat, looking forward to watch-ing the beautiful California scenery. He patiently suggest-ed I get some sleep because he would only be driving five hours and it would be my turn again. I have no idea why it didn't dawn on me that I needed to sleep, but my protests of not being able to slumber in the daytime fell on ' deaf ears. The bed was a slightly over-sized twin with a tolerable mat-tress and a pull-dow- n bunk that held blankets, coats and things too big to fit anywhere else. Two full length, heavy vinyl curtains with Velcro strips, hung on ei-ther side of the truck behind the seats, and when closed created a room of total darkness. The air conditioning was on year-roun- d when we slept, and we used a down quilt to keep us warm. In order to get the most beneficial rest, I had to prepare as if I were going to bed at night, sleeping clothes and all. I shut the curtains, prepared my bed, turned off the light and snug-gled into the comforter, willing myself to sleep, even though I wasn't tired. I remember think-ing how insane this was and wondering if I would ever get the hang of it. I was used to power naps of not more than 20 minutes if I felt groggy, but to sleep five hours and expect to be bright eyed and bushy tailed at the end was more than my mind could conceive. An interesting phenom-enon took place as I attempted to relax and pretend it was night - the gentle movement of the truck actually lulled me to sleep and before I knew it, I was out. I had literally been rocked to sleep. That was California , where the roads are generally in good condition and the freeways are fairly open during the night. It didn't take long to know where the killer stretches were and how to maximize sleeping time before being bounced out of Utah's Oldest School Building Part of Pleasant Grove's Heritage whittled from slate rock -- some of which we found in a hill near the mouth of Battle Creek Canyon ." Before taxes were lev-ied, tuition was usually paid with produce or barter equal-ing $3 per student each term, which was sixty days. "The teacher might receive wheat, potatoes, butter, eggs, beef, wool, or even a load of sage-brush or other fuel." Though the turnover of teachers was common, the focus was al-ways on providing a sound education for the children of Pleasant Grove. (" Timpanogos Town " has been a great source of information and insight by Howard R. Driggs, grandson of early settlers of this com-munity) . , - -- ' i. v." , I by Geri Taylor Editor's Note: This is the first of a multi-pa- rt series on the Old Bell School. A principal focus of the Mormon pioneers was to build schools soon after es- - tablishing their homes. In the newly formed settlement of " Battle Creek," the need was temporarily satisfied by using the two-stor- y cabin built by William Stevens two miles west of the main group. Situated next to a natural spring, the Stevens' home became the gathering place for church, community activities and school. In 1852, this fast grow- - ing town was designated School District No. 5, which included territory south to the Provo City corporation line, thus becoming the in-centive to build a school house. In the book Tim-panogos Town, Howard R. Driggs relates how President Henson Walker approached the task in typical pioneer fashion: At Sunday services Walker announced: "Breth-- I ren, we must have a school and meeting house. One week from tomorrow. I want you to join with me in build- - ing one. Meantime, we shall have a committee choose a convenient site near the center of town and have the plans ready." It was a given that everything from materi- - als to labor would be donat ed by the citizens. It took from September to late November for work- - ers to complete the building that stood near 600 West and Center Street. Three resi-- j dents, George Clark, Samuel White and Thorit Peck, who marched with the Mormon Battalion, had learned how to make adobe bricks used , in the Indian huts in New Mexico. They had used this skill to construct Fort Moore in California and now shared their knowledge to erect a new school house in Pleas- - ant Grove, In December of 1852 the first students commenced reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography and grammar with Alonzo Win- - ters as their teacher. When he moved from the settle- - ment the following spring, 21 -- year-old William Framp- - ton was chosen to take his place. He had arrived in Salt Lake the previous August with the John Higbee wagon train and soon made his way to Pleasant Grove. The first celebration in the newly formed commu-nity was held July 4, 1853 and featured the children performing a song they had recently learned. Framp-to- n was particularly adept at teaching rote singing, or harmony, and the students sang to the more than two hundred settlers under a bowery erected in front of the school. Classes were resumed at the. close of the celebration since there was no vacation for students or teachers. The population was recorded that Fall at 290 persons. When Brigham Young counseled the towns to build forts for protection against the Indians, it was decid-ed to move the new school building inside the fort it-self. Shortly after Indepen-dence Day the structure was dismantled brick by brick and reassembled near the southwest corner at what is now Second South and Main. The move, which included the efforts of many women and children, took only one day to complete and would now be used as school, church and recreation center. During the crowded win-ter term, Frampton was as-sisted by Frank Farnsworth, a who had driv-en an ox-tea- m nearly 1,700 miles from Indiana to Salt Lake , arriving in Septem-ber of 1853. Another young immigrant, George Harris, conducted a private writing school one night a week in the school building, and was known for his love of poetry and penmanship skills. He was among several in the community who organized their own academies which helped with the overcrowded public school. Frampton recorded his early teaching experience this way: "We used quills for pens, the teacher hav-ing a sharp knife to keep the quills ready for action. Ink had to be made from oak bark boiled with copperas (ferrous sulfate). Since pa-per was scarce, however, the main stay for writing was slate. Slate pencils were Alonzo Winters taught for a few months at the first public school. ., " ; '') ''"'V;;'-- ' ;.".'v " ' i : ; . 'y. . . ' -- V.'-..' ' '' ':M-::.-6f- - '" ' ;V"" 'r L. . .... A .".j-r..S:-- J. - - Willaim M. Frampton was the second teacher of public school in Pleasant Grove. Senior News Pleasant Grove Jacobs Senior Center, 242 W. 200 S., Pleasant Grove Activities Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. Bingo Friday at 1 p.m. Movie Monday at 10:30 a.m. Exercise Class Friday at 10:30 a.m. Exercise Class 1st & 3rd Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Health Clinics MENU Wednesday, June 29 Beef Stroganoff Thursday. June 30 Chicken Pot Pie Friday, July 1 Country Fried Steak Monday, July 4 CLOSED Tuesday, July 5 Creamed Chicken Wednesday, July 6 Spaghetti & Meat Sauce Thursday, July 7 Meatloaf Friday. July 8 Roast Pork Lunch served promptly at noon. Call between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. to make appointments (801) 785-281- 8 Suggested $2 donation. Meals funded by State of Utah Dept. of Human Services. Mountainland Assc. of Gov., and Pleasant Grove City. Call the day before for reservations. |