Show 4 t 3 t z L w CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Outstanding Public Service Award Is being presented to Pastor Elmer Haight right by Brent Feltch of the Chamber public relations committee Public Service Award given to Lutheran pastor The third Outstanding Public Service Award given by the Vernal Area Chamber of Commerce to a local civic leader was presented to Pastor Reverend Elmer Haight at the Chamber directors' directors meeting Tuesday of last week This award is presented by the Chamber public relations committee every three months Other recipients are Irvin Haws and L L. L Y Y Brent Feltch public relations committee member presented Pastor Haight with a plaque and a belt buckle PASTOR HAIGHT was born in Seattle Washington but as a youth he and his family were on the move living in many different different different dif dif- ferent places In 1936 he graduated from high school in California By 1937 he had settled down on a ranch in Wenatchee Washington He entered the Air Force as an Aviation Cadet in 1942 and finished up his service in the training command After his discharge in 1946 the Reverend returned for two years to Wenatchee and the ranch From 1948 to 1952 he worked in various professions profession In 1952 he was married to Dorothy Batterman Balterman HE TIE RETIRED from his job in 1963 1903 to enter Wenatchee Junior College From there he went to Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield Illinois graduating in the summer of 1968 1966 At that time he was assigned to the dual parish parishof of Rangely and Vernal which he still serves Reverend and Mrs Haight have four children Terry the oldest daughter 21 will be graduating this summer as a registered nurse from the Lutheran Hospital Medical Center in Cleveland Ohio Robert is a senior in Uintah High School Diane is in the tenth grade and Doug is in the ninth Reverend Haight has been on the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors for three years ears He has served on various committees such as the Bicentennial County Committee and chaired the Civic Betterment Bet Bet- ferment Committee He has been active in the Boy Scouts of America by serving as committee committee committee com com- chairman of the Cub Scout Seoul Pack No for six years and the Boy Scout Troop No Committee for five years |