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Show New Member Named For Dixie College Faculty For 1936-7 President B. Glen Smith of the Dixie junior college returned from Salt Lake City Thursday night. He attended the meeting of the State Board of Education Monday afternoon and the State Administrator's conference during dur-ing the following three days. At the Board meeting Monday Charles N. Merkley of Logan, 1936, graduate of the Utah State Agricultural college, was named as instructor in Mechanic Arts to take the place of Morris N. Snell, who resigned his position here to work at the Brigham Young university. uni-versity. Mr. Merkley receives a splendid splen-did recommendation from the Agricultural college and from the State directors of vocational work. He is well prepared scholastically for his work and has had considerable con-siderable construction experience, including two years of college at Brigham Young university where he was amember of the Block "Y" club, having won his letter in long-distance cross country running. During high school he was a member of the Brigham Young university high school basketball bas-ketball teams. Mr. Merkley is a returned missionary mis-sionary and is at present in charge of the construction of Professor George D. Clyde's home in Logan. He will report for work here some time in July. Bus Approved The State Board of Education approved ap-proved the recommendation that the Dixie junior college student body purchase a bus for the transportation of students in ex-i ex-i tra-curricular work. Arrange-; Arrange-; ments are now being made with ! Ira Heaton to purchase one of his buses. The purchase of the bus will fill a long-felt need at the Dixie college. Shop Money Releasor Superintendent Charles H. Skid-more Skid-more informed President Smith that the Federal Government has released the money for the construction con-struction of the Dixie junior college col-lege shop building. It is therefore, there-fore, expected that the construction construc-tion of this building will begin in the near future. |