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Show The Country School Legacy A special program on one room schools will be presented pre-sented November 2 in SUSC College Library. Beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Special Collections Room the program will include a 28 minute film on the one room school, a 'panel "dis-" cussion by teachers and stu- dents from southern Utah who taught or attended a one room school, and a ques -tion and answer period. The program is free and light refreshments will be served. serv-ed. At the turn of the cen-...tury. cen-...tury. the U.S. had 200,000-one 200,000-one room schools, but today to-day there are only a thousand. thous-and. We Invite all interested persons to step back to another an-other era and learn of the time when the school was the center of the social and cultural cul-tural activities of the community. com-munity. Country schools were vital vi-tal links in the lifestyles of early settlers. Immigrants learned the tnglish necessary neces-sary to become Americans in these one room schools. The one room school became be-came the pride of the community, com-munity, dances, debates and Christmas programs kept the school alive and families in touch with each other. Most Important, children received re-ceived the education that many of their parents did not. |