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Show EDUCATION The Park Record. Editor: Alexandria González education@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.118 ‘RUNNING WITH ED' RAISES OVER $200,000, A-8 www.parkrecord.com HONOR SOCIETY INDUCTS NEW MEMBERS, A-8 WED/THURS/FRI, May 21-23, 2014 Legendary teacher retires from South Summit MINING FOR MINERS Park City High School has one of the oldest alumni associations in the state, and The Park Record would like to know where those alumni are now. If you know of a PCHS graduate who is doing something interesting, or if you would like to share your adventures since graduating, please send a photo and a short summary of what you've been up to, to editor@parkrecord.com with "Mining for Miners" in the subject field. Spread the word, it will be fun to see what everyone is up to. We will share them on Facebook with the hashtag #miningforminers. PARK CITY HIGH SCHOOL DOCUDRAMA Every year, Park City High School presents a live-action docudrama to warn seniors about the dangers of drinking and driving. With graduation just around the corner, PCHS will stage the docudrama Thursday, May 22. The fake accident will be staged in the parking lot of the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Monitor Drive. For more information, call Park City High School at 645-5650. SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE OPEN FORUM The Park City Education Association is hosting an open forum for all school board candidates at the Ecker Hill Middle School auditorium, located at 2465 West Kilby Rd. The forum will be held Thursday, May 29, at 6 p.m. School board candidates will introduce themselves and answer several questions. For more information, contact Jim Fleming at jfleming@pcschools.us or Ed Mulick at emulick@pcschools.us. UPCOMING HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATIONS South Summit High School will hold graduation ceremonies on Thursday, May 29, beginning at 6 p.m. Graduation will be held at Wildcat Stadium at 45 South 300 East. Should the weather not allow for an outdoor ceremony, graduation will be held in the high school gymnasium. The issue of space will be addressed that day if it happens. Park City High School graduation ceremonies will take place on Friday, June 6. A-7 CHRISTOPHER REEVES/PARK RECORD Chip Hayes discusses the film "Gettysburg" with his students on Tuesday, May 20, during his eighth-grade U.S. History class. Hayes will be retiring next week after 38 years of teaching, 27 of which were in the South Summit School District. Tressa Stevens will take over Hayes' role next school year. Chip Hayes will end a 38-year teaching career next week By ALEXANDRIA GONZÁLEZ The Park Record On Chip Hayes' first day as a teacher, he took the time to write his name neatly on the chalkboard. A student named Tim Nirenberger walked into the classroom, looked him in the eyes and said, "You're not going to teach me a thing this year, so don't every try." Hayes survived his "initiation" and went on to teach for 11 years in the Weber School District and 27 more years in the South Summit School District. His first career plan, however, did not include teaching. During his senior year of undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University, Hayes took the Law School Aptitude Test and was accepted into BYU's new law school. A friend offered Hayes a free breakfast if he joined him for his early morning educational studies class. "You might call it dumb luck, but I call it blessings from heaven," Hayes said. "I just love the kids, and I love what I do. Thirty-eight years of this has been a true blessing for me." The two professors of the educational studies class allowed Hayes to participate in the "Provo Project," which means he taught at a local junior high school for a semester and received 21 hours of class credit toward becoming a teacher. Hayes then received a master's degree from a Utah State University, Weber State University and University of Denver joint program. He started as a junior high teacher in the Weber School District, took three years off to help his parents in his home state of Idaho and returned to Utah to a job at the high school in the South Summit School District. Now he teaches eighth-grade U.S. History and Life Skills classes. Hayes said he has the most fun teaching the slavery unit of his U.S. History class, making his students watch the film "Gettysburg" and then run up and down the hall with a real iron ball and chain around their ankles. He also has a Civil War bayonet, bullets soldiers bit on while suffering a limb amputation during the war and a blood-letting device like the one President George Washington used to try to cure his pneumonia. Although Hayes uses several relics of days past to teach his students, South Summit Middle School Principal Wade Woolstenhulme said he also embraces the future by using cuttingedge technology. "Three years ago, he asked me for a Smart Board," Woolstenhulme said. "It was surprising, because you don't see a lot of people who have taught as long as he has that embrace the new technology. He wants to do whatever it takes to teach the kids." Hayes admitted he shared a common fear with most teachers of the introduction of technology in the classroom over the last decade, but it wouldn't be possible for his students to learn how to write well-developed research papers without access to the Internet in class. At the end of the year, Woolstenhulme said Hayes awards the student with the best research paper with $100 out of his own pocket. "He doesn't ask for a stipend from the district to pay for that; it is his own money," Woolstenhulme said. "He does that all the time, rewards his students for a right answer in class with a $10 bill, and it's always his money. He just loves what he does." Hayes said every year he hopes not only to teach his students a love of what the country has gone through to Please see Hayes, A-9 Kathy Mears, REALTOR ® highly personalizeD real estate serVices Successfully representing Buyers and Sellers in the Park City Area since 1990. call me today, i'm here to help Kathy Mears 435.901.9964 Kathy.Mears@sothebysrealty.com OwnInParkCity.com First hoMe | DreaM hoMe | Vacation hoMe Each Office Is Independently Owned And Operated. |