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Show Thursday, February 14, 1980 Page 22 School Celebrates FBLA Week V i , ti.', i y , , ' ! !y &--f$ I ';f ' ' . J. "V"' V VI I i ' if""1 ' - ''' ' " ' MM A. i i .. -n...,, . ,.,iiin,,,r,,-.. .,,.,..,.,.,,. ....,,;,. ..,.... -,....,,. ,M,.. . . - Park High seniors Scott a proclamation declaring National FBLA-PBL Week, Feb. 10-16, will be observed by business and office education educa-tion students at Park City High School, who are members mem-bers of the school's chapter of Future Business Leaders of America. The week coincides coin-cides with the observance of National Vocational Education Educa-tion Week and activities of FBLA-PBL chapters, as well Rash Words By Jack Rash The chief merit of a true American word is that its whole soul is in its face. It has no secrets. It is forthright and straight from the shoulder and it seldom wanders into a thicket of double meaning. It is a large thought reduced to a single compact com-pact image. There can be no doubt about the thrust of a phrase such as to make the fur fly or to paint the town red or to know the ropes or to keep a stiff upper lip. Equally transparent trans-parent are under the weather and flat-footed and true blue and high-falutin high-falutin and slim chance. An epoch-making event took place in 1828 and with it the American language found its footing at last and took off on a cross-country spree of invention in-vention that hasn't slowed up to this day : Andrew Jackson became the first American Ameri-can president. Consider this: At the time of the Revolution a third of the population of America was loyal to England. They thought of themselves as English and after the Revolution they looked forward to the day when America and England would be reunited. In many ways though they'd bested the British in the Revolutionary War Americans had yet to win the War for Independence. In-dependence. There was for exampleno exam-pleno American language. At the Resort PRESENTS STAM SMI M1M mm s 11 ; V Chantry, Kim Weaver and Karl Lambert look on as National FBLA-I'BL Week. as other vocational student organizations, will be planned to highlight the importance of vocational and career education and its contributions to the community. com-munity. Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, . Inc., is a national organization organiza-tion operated on the secon The novelists of the day who lived in Boston and New York set the action of their books in London or the English countryside coun-tryside and the people in them spoke pure English and emoted in the English manner. A Londoner touring Philadelphia in 1790 would meet with a mode of expression in no way different from that to be heard over high tea in Piccadilly. But in other levels of society words of American craftsmanship were bandied about with greater freedom. In the raw early days of the country words alien to the English ear were forged on the spot by the iron men who faced the weathers of the New World and put names to things that did not exist in England and for which there was no word in English. These were the proprietors of an infant nation and out of their rowdy notion of fitness the bull-frog sprang, and hog-wallow and no-account no-account and no-how and lickety-split. They caught the colors of the wilderness in cold snap and landslide and copperhead and lightening-bug and prickly heat and foothill and underbrush and rapids. Such words did not spring naturally to the lips of the Pilgrim Fathers; instead it dotted the conversation of the farmers and the convicts and the sailors and the MM, dary, postsecondary and college levels. There are nearly 200,000 members in 6,000 chapters throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and some foreign countries. Members of the Park City High School chapter plan to observe FBLA-PBL Week with a variety of activities. indentured servants. It was the patois of Hie common people and it was slow to leave its stamp in all quarters. The men oi ihe colonies came together in 1776 to fight taxes and when they had won they fell apart again into factions that favored either England or France, the big guns of the day who were locked in a struggle for power on the opposite shore. No truly American leader had yet risen from the soil of the new nation'. . George Washington-Father Washington-Father of Our Countrywas Coun-trywas an aristocrat, a condition that is not a hallmark of democracy, not in the American grain. Thomas Jeffersonwhose Jeffer-sonwhose poetry of freedom runs through the Declaration of Independencewas Indepen-dencewas pro-French rather than Ail-American. Ail-American. He was also anti-British and when he offered a small contribution con-tribution to the language lo belittle, an invention of his own- the English were quick to jump on it: "For shame, Mr. Jefferson," they said. "Spare our mother tongue." For years at a strelch-at strelch-at the behest of his nation: as a diplomat -Benjamin Franklin made his home in England and in France. He followed the Revolutionary Revolu-tionary War from the drawing rooms of Paris. In speech he was English to the bone. John Quincy Adams was president of a group called the American Academy of Language and Belle Lettres whose plan it was to outlaw any Thursday-Sunday 5:00-6:30 p.m. 8:30-Midnight NOW OPEN FOR BREAKFAST SERVING SKIER S OMELETTES Mayor Jack Green signs The Park City High School chapter has seven members. Local officers are President-Karl President-Karl Lambert, Vice President-Tammy Clark, Secretary-Treasurer-Kim Weaver, Wea-ver, Reporter-Historian-Jeff Scott, and Parliamentarian-Bill Parliamentarian-Bill Simmons. The chapter adviser is Miss Arlene Bur-gener. Bur-gener. word or phrase that though good American was bad English. Earmarked for destruction were such words as lengthy and to tote. Thus our first great Americans were not wholly American. They did not speak the vernacular ver-nacular and they often took a hand in striking it down when it found its way into polite society. The first true American the most; American of Ame'n cans-was Aricfrew ac'k -J son. A son of the., "rude' backwoods, he was a man of the people. ! lie was the hero of the Battle of New Orleans,' and with that rout the nation discovered its ego and its confidence roared in a new voice. The river of westward migration cascaded over the continent, con-tinent, spilling onto the great plains and into the' mountains of the west. America found its tongue. And Noah Webster Web-ster recorded it in the American Dictionary of the English Language, the first of its kind. American became at last the official language of America. This happened in 1828, the year Andrew Jackson who engineered engin-eered the final British defeat in the War of 1812-went to Washington. For the next thirty years, the Ohio boatmen and the plainsmen and the men of the mountainssuch moun-tainssuch legendary demogods as Davy Crockett and Mike Fink pierced the heart of the continent with an eloquence that made the English cringe. Park City, Utah Is this FIRST FLOOR 36 X 30' , i, J nrirsin - - I J ium living room SECOND 5. : t A striking contemporary design of strong roof profiles, vertical rough sawn cedar siding and well proportioned window placement. 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