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Show Highland Boy Community House To Celebrate 25th Anniversary in general. This work includes medical and social work, settlement settle-ment work, work in isolated rural rur-al areas, work in city, town and country churches, teaching as house mothers, housekeepers and hostesses in Methodist homes for children, business girls and retired re-tired workers, work in directing recreation, playgrounds, summer camps and religious training. Under the capable leadership of Miss Duhigg and her untiring staff, the "House of Joy" has more than fulfilled the heavy work schedule required of them. The House sponsors Methodist groups such as the Home Guards, Questers, Queen Esthors, Methodist Metho-dist Youth fellowship and missionary mis-sionary organizations. In addition addi-tion Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, library li-brary facilities, summer and winter recreation programs, social so-cial activities, handicrafts, medical medi-cal and social work are all a part of services offered at the Community House. Extensive lecture tours to all parts of the United States are also included in the duties of Miss Duhigg and her staff. The present" staff consists of Deaconess Ada Duhigg, Deaconess Deacon-ess Mildred May and Mrs. Linna Duhigg, mother of Deaconess Du- by. Steve Smilanich Highland Boy's most famous landmark is celebrating it's silver sil-ver anniversary Sunday. Of course, a big birthday party is scheduled as the Highland Boy Community House observes it's 25th anniversary, but the work,' Elay and worship schedule which as characterized the scene for a quarter century will continue while hundreds of former Highland High-land Boy residents return home to visit and pay homage to Highland High-land Boy's "House of Joy." One of Highland Boy's most distinguished citizens also will share Sunday's . .birthday spotlight. spot-light. She is Deaconess Ada Duhigg, Du-higg, superintendent of the Com-; Com-; munity House, who has completed complet-ed 20 years of service at the Highland High-land Boy institution. It is this two-fold occasion ..which is producing pro-ducing more than the usual a-mount a-mount of activity at the House this week. Dr. Paul.' S. Richards, Bingham's Bing-ham's well known doctor, will deliver the birthday message Sunday evening at which time Miss ..Duhigg will be honored. Sunday' services will begin at 7 p,m. Unlike the abandoned mines which once made Highland Boy a boom town, the Highland Boy Community Hpuse has survived as a guardian of faith in this transformed Community House has survived as a guardian of faith in this .transformed community com-munity where the once highly productive mines have succumb-ed succumb-ed to time and geology. The Highland Boy Community House was dedicated October 2, 1927. Since that -the giant amphitheater am-phitheater and multicolored strata stra-ta of the giant Kennecott Copper Corporation open pit mine have virtually fanned .out . on both sides of the structure. The life of the Community House has virtually vir-tually paralleled the growth, hardships and productiveness of the huge copper pit. While serving this community of 500 with -2 nationalities- and 12 denominations and faiths represented, re-presented, .the : round-the-clock program 6f enrichment for spiritual, spir-itual, mental and bodily health, which the Community House has brought to its immediate surroundings, sur-roundings, has spread a christian influence throughout the entire Bingham Canyon area. Sponsored by the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, the schedule of activities at the Community House represent deaconess work A native Iowan, who traded the plains of Iowa for the mountains moun-tains of Utah and Bingham, Miss Duhigg served as a public school teacher for six years in Huron, South Dakota before completing missionary training at the Kansas Kan-sas City Deaconess Training School. Easily recognizable in her black dress, white clergical collar col-lar and warm smile, Miss Du-higg's Du-higg's 20-years of leadership, wisdom, counsel and devotion to duty have more or less established establish-ed her as one of the outstanding women missionaries in the west a honor she rightfully deserves and humbly accepts. A complete history of events undertaken by Miss Duhigg and her staff -can- never be writterrr In most cases it is the intangible results of , hard work and devotion devo-tion that are most rewarding to a missionary. Such is the case at the. Highland Boy Community House. While fires, landslides, snow-slides, snow-slides, strikes, exhausted veins of ore and other problems have filled fill-ed Bingham's colorful history, the Highland Boy Community House still stands to serve the people it has served continually for 25-years. - w. 'f- it-' ' I rs2 . 4 v t" Ir ' v"""'-""-! -rvv ; - , I rj If ..V" J ' j , I,, in immmmmm m mm' irr-mi i im in"- it |