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Show Foreign Language Diplomas for Upward Bound Demonstrated The majority of high school seniors honored as Upward Bound graduates in recent Southern Utah State College ceremonies are planning to enroll now in Students from several southern and central Utah schools demonstrated their proficiency in foreign language study Wednesday as participants in the third annual Southern Utah State College Foreign Language Festival. Sponsored by the SUSC Department of Languages, the festival is held to encourage en-courage foreign language studies in area schools and to provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate their language proficiency in French, German and Spanish. "This year's festival was very successful, with approximately ap-proximately 200 students and teachers on campus to participate in areas of conversation, vocabulary, grammar, oratory,- poetry, language games and skit presentations," says E. Leon Chidester, language department chairman. Students from Richfield, South Sevier, Hurricane, Kanab, Cedar and Dixie high schools competed in the festival. Students from Dixie and Richfield Junior high schools were also entered in the language competition, Chidester said. Contest winners included Shawn Webb, Glen Webb and Howard Chamberlain, Dixie Jr. High; Lisa McLaughlin and Lisa Jones, Dixie High School; David Stewart and Theresa Bundy, Hurricane; Kent Goodfellow and Danny Wasielewski, Kanab; Rayelynn Staheli, Enterprise; Lauri Mitchell and Keith Hammond, South Sevier; Mark Christensen and Jeanette Hopper, Richfield Rich-field High; April Billings, Richfield Jr. High; and Merilyn Callison, Cedar High. postsecondary educational programs. "Diplomas of graduation from the Upward Bound program were awarded to 16 students during their on- -campus visit to SUSC," says Carolyne White SUSC Upward Up-ward Bound director. "With the exception of one student who is going into the armed forces and another who is going on an LDS mission, all the graduates are planning to immediately enroll in postsecondary programs." Twelve Utah and ARizona high schools are included in the SUSC Upwward Bound program. The majority of graduates this year were from Monument Valley High School, Kayenta, Arizona. MVHS graduates include Edward Luna, Tulley Greyeyes, Ernestine Black, Leonard LUna, Wanda Black, Wilma Thinn and Eleanor Francis. Other Arizona graduates included Edison Yazzie and Douglas DeJolie, Tuba City High School. Upward Bound graduates from Utah schools included Bennie Denetsosie and Bruce Forbush, South Sevier; Arta Elmer, Panguitch; Boyd Beaumont, Beaver; AltaTisi, Richfield; and Sandy LaFevre and Christy Shakespeare, Bryce Valley. "The goal of Upward Bound," White said, "is to increase the academic performance and motivational levels . of eligible students so that they can complete secondary school and successfully pursue postsecondary educational programs." "We are very pleased with the personal growth of students in the program and believe, from the postgraduation plans of our recent graduates, that the program is a highly successful suc-cessful one," White said. High schools in the SUSC program include Panguitch, Beaver, Milford, Kanab, Bryce Valley, Cedar City, South Sevier, Richfield and North Sevier in Utah and Page, Tuba City and Monument Valley in Arizona-. Upward Bound is federally-sponsored through the U.S. Office of Education and is administered ad-ministered at SUSC through the Division of Continuing Education and Public Service. |