Show clinton peterson wins odonnell medal at contest held at U H S that a W 0 dornell still lives in 0 uie hearts of the peoli a of hd uintah county c and of 17 especially th the student students and ind f faculty aty ot of toe the high school is attested by the isma ami and enthusiastic crowd which ed to hear bear the finals aln 1 to in the oratorical contest for or the ODo odonnell onnell medal and a n d the t h 8 privilege 1 ot r I 1 pr I 1 I 1 I 1 in C t the h Is U n atah ahr h agh gh school at the U B 1 I 0 mitt autust august marcell young lona lon johnson and clinton B E peterson Pite raon were the winners in the class tryouts and ind came up for or the finals loties johnson was the first speaker and gave give a very fine discourse on education and how it t should be used she used some very effective figures and to stress her points was min johnson Is a freshman in the high school but her talk would do credit to any student of higher rank clinton pet Pete raon was the sec see md speaker lie ile confined himself to local conditions sighting examples of what hat has already been 8 accomplished through education and pointing out possibility possibilities for or young people who wish to do some thin thing tor for and the aln tah uh through education it was undoubtedly the local color the gave his talk that swayed the judges tn in rendering the decision in hia his favor mar manell marell ell young o 0 the last speaker gave a ier i er tr logical al and well thought out talk but it was very evident that he Is over aked mr young had just corn com eted in sn on inter high school debate which won over carbon he ile give an ex excellent celent talk the night before in tho seminary graduating kis HIS activities in dramatics and other school functions together with the responsibility of graduating u 11 was just a little too much for even oven an iron man like marcell we will hear more of this young man in the future while the judge were preparing their decision E peterson gave a brief account of how the 0 odonnell donnell medal came ime existence and what it means to the school and the public in general mr peterson told how he and prank P wellman went to mr odonnell YD onnell and asked him to start the oratorical contest by giving a trophy of some kind mr odonnell a keen mind ft dlly saw the possibilities of rendering real lasting service to the youth of 0 this country and so was he the beginning of this well known feature of our high school life then illien mr peterson stressed the imports importance of gratitude he used as his text the healing ot of the ten lepen lepers by jesus and how only one returned to express gratitude elating that one out of ten Is 13 a good all average of the people who show any appreciation for the opportunities they haw have mr peterson was present when tle tte tl e first winner of the odonnell ormell medal miss martha lameroux called to express her appreciation OP when shi she left mr odonnell UD onnell turned to ut mr peterson with tears tem tn in his eyes and said sold 1 never had anything in my life do me more good than thin this simple expression pres slon of gratitude and as long as I 1 live and have a dollar I 1 in tend to give a medal each year to th alo winner of the oratorical contest mr CV odonnell Donnell as long as he lived did give the medal and now his wife in his behal Is carrying on the good work she wd ud tn in her letter that mr ur odonnell often poke spoke with pride of his relation with the high school and she knew that nothing would please him more than to continue this favor mr ik peterson then pictured the condition of the high school campus a few years ago he ile eald said there were no lawns walks trees or shrubs con only bar bare ground and a big mud hole tn in pt treat of the main building the school board faculty students and patrona patrons could not stand such conditions so with a maty operative cooperative co effort they got together tog ethe and hauled heart nearly Y loads of oil toll planted trees shrubs continued on on page ien ten 7 CLINTO 14 ml ml AT CON TESI HELD T V II 11 8 S col 1 tinned untied prom from page one and law lam and nurtured the n until now r have the beai beautiful campus which is a source of p pride to every O 0 one e ho helped an earnest plea was made to the student end and faculty to show their appreciation by protecting the trees and shrubs lawn lan and all other public property it was urged that the aident t body appoint a committee to handl the he te fe student students who have no respect fr t r public property or appreciation tor for what other others have done for or them the speaker said the alumni u fort ears have given you a campus and they love loe to ome back and see the results of her he r efforts but what nhat a disep ointment when hen they sm sc thai that some it f the trees shrubs and other proof berty arty so dear to them lus has been wantonly an destroyed des troied troed by the very people they thought to 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