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Show Madsen to be honored at open house fj y.. I FARMINGTON-Farmington Elementary School faculty and PTA will honor retiring principal Jean W. Madsen at an open house from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday in the school media center, 50 W. 200 S. in Farmington. Mrs. Mad sen's friends and associates, asso-ciates, and students and parents from Farmington and J.A. Taylor Elementary Schools are invited. Mrs. Madsen served as principal of J.A. Taylor for nine years. Mrs. Madsen began working in education in 1947 as an elementary music supervisor in Chino, Calif. She held a similar post in Cache County elementary and junior high schools from 1948-1951. She then opted to teach younger children, operating a private kindergarten from 1954-1966, and teaching public kindergarten in the Box Elder District from 1966-1968. She returned to music in 1968, working as an elementary supervisor super-visor in the Davis District until becoming principal at J.A. Taylor in Centerville in 1980. She took the job as Farmington principal in 1989. Mrs. Madsen has been active in civic, professional and church organizations, and has won many awards, among them the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Administrator Award this year, the Utah Alliance for Arts Education Edu-cation Administrator Award in 1989, and Utah's outstanding Elementary Music Teacher in 1979. She was a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for 1 8 years. Mrs. Madsen grew up in Carbon County and graduated from Carbon High. She earned her two degrees from Utah State University, a bachelor's in 1947 and a master's in 1968. Mrs. Madsen and her husband, State Director of Veterans Employment J. Dale Madsen, have four daughters and 12 grandchildren. - Ml JEAN W. MADSEN |