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Show Wednesdoy, March 28, 1984 VefHal ExpfeSS 13 mpirssnin)s Vernal hosis history fair " - ' 1 i ' SS" t " """" "" "f y it . J v jpTl Is. , n 1 Tt ' i ir-r w V. TERRY FOSTER, Willie Foster, Lisa Briggs, Elisa trophies and certificates for first place prizes. All Emery and Tyler Caldwell, back row, and Jeff first, second and third place winners will take Crozier, Josh Barneck, Megan Wilson, Nicole their exhibits to the Utah State History Fair to Brown and Natalee Luck, front row, all receive be held at the University of Utah. 1 w.. .. y , i Ii -A i;:.:,1- i.... tiviLr, SECOND PLACE winners are Mike Ufford from Junior High, Kellie Pedersen from overyand Discovery Elementary, Phillip Gale from Maser, Cindy Humphries rom Discovery. Susan DicKer- David Becham from Vernal Junior High, Ryan son was a third place winner from Manila High Mott from Discovery, Kristi Toone from Vernal School. - ss&S n-Vl PTw4" :'' ::::::r V ' X1 . irW:fl iiil -n V::::::)!?;:::::: 'x's? KM TERRY FOSTER and Willie Foster (above) present "The Traditional Indian Fancy Dance" in the performance category and Kristi Toone (below) prepares equipment to give her slidetape presentation presenta-tion in multi-media category. . , ... ! I Till'", tt v 1.mTH8 k The Vernal Junior High School cafeteria bulged Monday, March 26, as students from Uintah, Duchesne and Daggett counties set up and displayed their entries in the Vernal Regional History Fair. The students entered in one of four categories including historical research paper, project, performance, and multi-media presentation. The students could also enter any one of the categories emphasizing the economic rather than purely historical perspective. The historical papers were between 1,000 and 2,500 words and based on documented historical fact. Projects could be displays, reconstructions, historic games, charts, etc. and were accompanied by bibliography. Sheila Beckstead and Erika Hacking from the Vernal Junior High did their project on "Early Uses of Horses in the Ashley Valley." They spent hours interviewing people on tape, going through old newspaper articles and looking through magazines. They also made their own filmstrip to go along with the tape of interviews by drawing draw-ing pictures on film. The result was a display with pictures and information on a filmstrip and tape presentation. Performance includes the presentation presenta-tion and a bibliography with research methods and conclusions. One performance perfor-mance was by Terry Foster and Willie Foster. They performed a "Traditional "Tradi-tional Indian Fancy Dance." They first researched the traditional dances, music and costume of the Indians. In-dians. Terry researched the costumes the Indians wore when dancing. He learned that before the traders came and traded the Indians bells, many used us-ed deer hooves that clattered together to make noise during the dances. Willie, researching the music, found that between singing and drums, the singing is more important to the dance because it is possible to dance with no drums and singers but not to dance with drums and no singers. Willie and Terry practiced their dance then performed it for their fourth grade class before competing in the regional fair. Multi-media presentations included such things as video-taped shows, slide presentations, films and audio-taped recordings. The students were judged according to age, the divisions being elementary, grades four through five, junior, sixth through eigthth grades, and senior, grades nine through 12. The criteria the entries were judged judg-ed on were historical accuracy, sources used, neatness and clarity, adherence to rules, creativity and imagination, im-agination, historical perspective. From 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. students registered and set up exhibits or readied their performance or media presentations. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. they were judged. Each project was judged by two judges separately. As each judge came, the student explained explain-ed his or her project and was ready to answer questions. The students remained with their projects during the judging and tabulation of scores, which took place from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. During this time they studied, ate, waited nervously or visited with other students. Mrs. Morrill, Mor-rill, a teacher at Maeser, brought the Maeser students sheets with games on them to keep the students occupied during the wait. Then, at 3 p.m., the awards were presented to the students participating in the fair. In each age division a first, second and third place was selected in each of the five categories. Winners in the elementary division in historical research papers were first, DR Wall from Discovery Elementary with a research paper en DAVID BRIGGS of Manila and Chris Pease of Maeser receive third place awards in the Vernal Regional History Fair. titled, "Hatchtown to Vernal," second, Mike Ufford of Discovery Elementary and third, Jared McKeachnie from Discovery Elementary. In the junior division, the first place winner was Greg Lamb from Alta-mont Alta-mont High with "The Battle of New Orleans," second, Teryl Hunsaker, Vernal Junior High, and third, Chris Labrum from Vernal Junior High. Project winners in the elementary division included first place, Natalee Luck, Nicole Brown, Megal Wilson, Josh Barneck and Jeff Crozier from Neola Elementary with "Uintah Basin-Heart of Utah," a three-way tie for second, Kellie Petersen from Discovery, Cindy Humphries, also from Discovery and Phillip Gale from Maeser, and third place, Chris Pease from Measer. Junior division first place winner is Wynnde Spalding from Altamont High with a project on Jim Bridger, second, David Beacham from Vernal Junior High, and a three-way tie for third place, Tania Oman from Altamont High, David Briggs of Manila High and Susan Dickerson from Manila High. Senoir division first place winner was Lisa Briggs from Manila High with "Reconstruction of the Logan Temple." Multi-media winners in the elementary elemen-tary division were Ginger Anderson, Discovery Elementary, first place, with a presentation entitled, "Ashton's A Family Affair for 90 Year," second, Ryan Mott, Discovery, and Reneta Cook, third place, also from Discovery. First place winners in the junior division were Kenneth Beede and Patrick Sullivan from Vernal Junior High, with "A History of the Uintah Basin," and second place winner was Kristi Toone. Senior division first place winner was Kerry Jones from Uintah High, with a presentation on inventions. In the performance category, tied for first place in the elementary divi riT UINTAH BASIN- y; r : ' , tr p t , )( I! is , " .1 - I i . ' . f 4 fhrm ' V: - - Ml : I ' t, i . - " ,.Lw wL . yj i , i4; " f' 1 m . mm I . r XI '," V - 1 V , 0C'TurT fT pi iV-i -3sih !... I ' : f t,,.iiii..iY'- ) f'- JEFF CROZIER and Josh Barneck, back, and Nicole Brown, Natalee Luck and Megan Wilson put final touches on exhibit for history fair. sion were Willie Foster and Terry Foster from Maeser Elementary with a dance called "The Traditional Indian Fancy Dance" and Elisa Emery and Tyler Caldwell from Discovery Elementary with clogging. First place winner in the junior division divi-sion was Elina Higley from Vernal Junior High with dances portraying Tahitian history. Lisa Klarigh from Notre Dame in Price won the economic history in the project category. These students will participate in the state history fair April 17 and 18 at the University of Utah. Students who win in the state competition will go to Nation Na-tion History Day at University of Maryland. The Utah State History Fair, which includes the Vernal Regional History Fair, is co-sponsored and funded by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, Utah State Office of Education, National History Day, Brigham Young University, University Universi-ty of Utah, Utah Historical Society, Weber State College, Southern Utah State College and Davis County School District. The director of the history fair is Shannon Hoskins and the assistant assis-tant director is Kim Findley. Hoskins spends the month of March conducting eight regional history fairs stationed throughout the state and the state history fair held in April. She also writes the materials for the history fairs, contacts the school districts and teaches workshops and classes prior to the fairs. The workshops are held in the regions, primarily for teachers to help them prepare students for the history fair. A lecture series is also presented in the regions of the state. This is often given by an expert and usually deals with something related to the theme for the year. It is open to the public. This year in Vernal Dr. William Hartley lectured on writing family histories. The next regional history fair in the Vernal area will be in two years. SCOTT VERNON watches as Bill Carter judges his history fair entry. |