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Show Maurice Nuttall To Be Hurricane High Principal School Leaders Praise Work and Ability Of Mr. Nuttall; Was an "A" Student in Administration After months of consideration by the Washington County School Board, Maurice Nuttall, of Overton, Over-ton, Nev., was appointed to the position of principal of the Hurricane Hur-ricane high school, at the meeting meet-ing of the school board June 6, Supt. Milton E. Moody announced today. In telling of his qualifications Mr. Moody states that Mr. Nuttall is a graduate of the B.Y.U. with an A. B. degree in 1933, and he has since done graduate work there and at the Agriculture college. col-lege. He has majored in educational educa-tional administration and his grades in this work indicate that he has done very well. L. W. Sledge, deputy superintendent of the fifth district of Nevada gives him an excellent rating and has this to say: "Although Mr. Nuttall has not been doing administrative work in this district, I know he is well qualified for it and that he would make an excellent administrator"-. Paul Thurston, superintendent of schools, Overton, Nev., has this to say: "Mr. Nuttall has a keen (Continued on page eight) Maurine Whipple (Continued from first page) who this year submitted novels in this contest. Miss Whipple is leaving Thursday Thurs-day for Boston to confer, on invitation, in-vitation, with the board of directors direc-tors of Houghton-Mifflin Co. on points respecting this novel and plans for future novels. The itiner ary 01 tms trip as piamieu wm include in-clude visits with friends in Chicago, Chica-go, New York and Washington, D. C. and brief stopovers at many points of historic and scenic interest. in-terest. She will make the return trip in company with a number of writers with whom she will attend the Rocky Mountain Writer's conference con-ference at Boulder, Colo. Last summer upon submission of her first novel, "Beaver Dam Wash" to this conference, she out of from 600 to 1000 entries of prose, poetry, poet-ry, fiction, texts and dramas, was awarded the novel scholarship, paying a part of her expenses to this summer's session. However, in view of this Houghton-Mifflin fellowship, she is advised by the conference director, Edward Davidson, David-son, that this scholarship has advanced ad-vanced to a teaching fellowship. Maurine Whipple is the daughter daugh-ter of Charles and Annie McAllister McAllis-ter Whipple and she was born in St. George, January 20, 1904. She had her early schooling at the Woodward school, and graduated from the high school department of the Dixie junior college in 1922. In 1926 she graduated with honors from the University of Utah where she had majored in English composition com-position with minors in dramatic art and physical education. She was an active associate with the publication of the "Pen", the university magazine. Since her graduation she has taught school in several towns in Utah and surrounding sur-rounding states, and has also taught dancing. "Giant Joshua" says Miss Whipple, Whip-ple, "is purely fictional as to names, setting and text". She is striving to give the novel the full flavor of the expanding experiences of Mormon pioneer life. The fact that Houghton-Mifflin Houghton-Mifflin company are anxious to sponsor its publication and have accepted it with that in view, is definite commendation, say those familiar with the processes of get-ing get-ing on the market as a writer. |