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Show Dm Yfefflff (DpQm8m p U Letters MfM Guidelines 1 The Davis County Clipper welcomes your letters, but we reserve the right to reject or edit those that may be defamatory or offensive to the community. 2 The maximum length is 300 words (about one and one-half one-half d o u b I e - s p a c e d typewritten pages). Letters may be edited in the interest of space and conformity. 3 Indicate your name, address, and a daytime phone number so we can verify the letter's authenticity. No typewritten signatures will be accepted. 4 No more than one letter from any individual will be published during a month. 5 Letters of appreciation will be published based on individual merit. Don 't abolish baccalaureate i i ; Editor: Don't abolish baccalaureate as one of your readers suggested. June 12th, my fourth child graduated from Sparks High School, Sparks, Nev. She is my last child. Sunday evening we attended her baccalaureate with her. It was held in a hotel casino. Not all the seniors attended. They weren't required to. Those who did were well rewarded and happy they went. Many hadn't intended to go until persuaded by classmates. Their comments after were very positive. They were glad they went. Baccalaureate is accepted as the religious part of graduation. All denominations de-nominations are represented and if a person wants nothing to do with it, they don't have to. There was an invocation and a benediction offered by graduating seniors. Several students read passages from the Scriptures and a pastor spoke. He gave a very inspirational talk that was interesting to all, especially the young. Everyone was enriched. There were musical numbers from the students and a slide presentation for the parents showing their children in all activities throughout the year. No one complained about it. Everyone was quite positive. Refreshments were served after and there was a lot of hugging and reminiscing. It was over in about an hour and 15 minutes. All of the other activities pertaining pertain-ing to graduation were over, yearbooks year-books signed, awards given. It was a great time out, a 'get revitalized' time. The principal and most of the counselors and teachers attended, showing their affection to the students. Some of the students who attended attend-ed had never attended any type of religious services and were very happy about being there. Some of us parents were finally able to meet and talk with each other also. This activity was a little quieter and calmer than some of the others. It was special. No one was pressured into going and no one minded it being on Sunday. Don't do away with it. Make it mean something. None of us are too old or too young or too busy to be spiritually spiri-tually lifted. Barbara Eastman Sparks, Nev. Hansen's number not in directory Editor: I would like to respond to the letter by Peter H. Jenks (Special Assistant to Congressman James V. Hansen) which recently appeared in the Davis County Clipper where he tells me James Hansen's address is in the South Davis Directory. I have not found one friend or family member who would have thought to look under the "Voter Information, Public Officials and Processes" section of the 1991 directory. di-rectory. Congressman Hansen has nothing to do with voting processes except to be either voted in or out of office. The second phone number listed does not indicate that it is a Farm-ington Farm-ington number. Unless you are familiar fa-miliar with the prefix of phone numbers, the ordinary person would think that it was another Ogden number. I phoned Mr. Vernon Carr to find out why Congressman Hansen's name and address were not listed in the Government Section. He could give me no answer, except that they listed his name on page A-26 as a courtesy. I phoned US WEST Direct to find out why he was not listed in the Salt Lake Directory. I was told that they list only the names of elected officials who request to be listed. I can remember when Congressman Congress-man Hansen first went to Washington Washing-ton he had an 800 number listed. Now that he has greatly increased in salary and increased his benefits and is close to being a millionaire, he expects his constituents to pay for long distance calls to Ogden or Washington. Mr. Jenks, if you recall, I did phone you personally to obtain the address of his campaign headquarters. head-quarters. I was given a house number on 200 West in Farming Farm-ing ton. But his headquarters had no house number, it had no posters, or any signs to indicate it was his campaign headquarters. I know Congressman Hansen flies to his Farmington home nearly every weekend. Why should I have to send any letter to him to Ogden or Washington, D.C. when he can be reached just as quickly in Farmington? Farm-ington? I also want Mr. Jenks to know all of my letters about Congressman Hansen's address were written and mailed the same day to the editors of the various papers. Exactly when the paper or the editor decides to print my letters, I have no control over. But I want to thank Mr. Jenks referring re-ferring me to the page A-26 in the South Davis Directory because it lists all of the counties Congressman Congress-man Hansen represents. Maybe next time I can get a letter in the paper in all of those counties. I still maintain that if Congressman Congress-man Hansen really wanted to hear from his constituents, his name and address would be listed in the Government Section of all Utah phone directories and also in the H section under Hansen. I'm not asking him to list this home phone and address, but he should be listed prominently in the Government Section and the H section sec-tion with his Farmington Headquarters Head-quarters phone number and address and then put the house numbers on his log cabin in Farmington. I didn't know our congressmen had to have special assistants to do their dirty work for them. How many special assistants does Hansen have? Pearl Wendel Bountiful Year round is a good idea Editor: Year-round schools. Some people peo-ple want to have them, some don't. I think we should have year-round schools, because that would solve a lot of problems. Sure you would have to hire new teachers, but you'd have to do that anyway, so there aren't 35-40 kids in one classroom. That's about twice as many as I had in first grade. When I was in sixth grade we had 29 students, and we counted ourselves lucky, for our neighboring neighbor-ing classes had about ten more than us! Also, year-round schools give you more vacation time. Sometimes you get so blah! of school that you don't even try to learn. Teachers are like that also. They sit there and scream at you for dropping your pencU, or something. Sometimes everyone just needs a break. I think year-round schools will do thatreduce classroom sizes, and give breaks to people. The lowly . seventh grader speaks. Becky Lauritzen Bountiful ft |