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Show s3-a3ooa. oo uth Press Q e City, UT 84in Volume 58 Number 47 Wednesday November 23, 1988 PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS 'Family Night at City Hall' to launch Christmas in Orem Orem Mayor Blaine Willes will throw the switch to officially launch the Christmas season in Orem Monday, Mon-day, Nov. 28 at the Orem City Center. Mayor Willes will turn on the City Ci-ty Center's lights as part of the Pro-voOrem Pro-voOrem Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Commerce-sponsored program that will bring Santa Claus and free candy canes from Hansen Candy for the kids. The program will begin outside at 6:30 p.m. Called "Family Night at City hall," the second annual event will include in-clude the Mountain View High School Mayor declares holiday time to share bounty Declaring the month of November as a time for the citizens of Orem to become more aware of the hungry and homeless, Mayor S. Blaine Willes, invites citizens to share blessings through dinners and other actions to help those in need. ' 'The commemoration of the Thanksgiving Holiday has always signified the expression of gratitude by the citizens of our great country," Willes said. "Numbered among these blessings are life and liberty under the Constitution. Americans are, and have always been, concerned about others who are less fortunate. Because there are some Americans hungry and homeless in this great land, we need : to share with them," he added. " " : Non-readers finding success with phonetic reading program Since colonial days teachers have tried to find the most effective way of teaching Johnny to read. Rachel McOmber, a local teacher, has developed a phonics reading program called the World of Learning. A graduate of Utah State University, McOmber has taught in the public school system and at private elementary schools. She has taught over 1500 students in the Peter Pan preschool. Her program is used in some schools in Alpine School District. ' In the last ten years phonics reading programs have increased in popularity. Current research statistics show that children who are taught phonics are better readers. "The reading program is unique in that its approach is so fun and exciting. ex-citing. The children actually love reading. There is no doubt that these children will be successful in school and in life itself," said Robyn Trin-naman, Trin-naman, who worked in several preschools. McOmber's goal with the program pro-gram is to produce better readers and at the same time build confidence and improve self-esteem. "This reading package builds &vr Ski- v Krsvsn Mr. Yamada, head of J5.000 Sanyo union in America, presents Japanese Japan-ese silk fan symbolizing expansion and growth to Dennis Falrclongh, president and chairman of Icon International. Mr. Takemoto, translator and executive consultant to Sanyo board of directors, stands by. Chamber Choir which will sing Christmas carols for the gathered crowd. Little Caesars will provide free pizza, and Miss Orem Collette Schlap-pi Schlap-pi and the new Miss Utah Valley Community Com-munity college will attend Santa as he visits with the children. "We want to provide a nice program pro-gram to kick off Christmas, a program pro-gram the entire family can come to and enjoy the Christmas spirit," said Chamber of Commerce president Steve Densley. Anyone with questions may call the Chamber at 224-3636. self-esteem by preventing reading failure or changing non-readers to readers. It should be included with materials for teacher, tutors, or parents who desire excellent supplementary sup-plementary materials," said parent and educator Suzanne Slingerland. The program is beneficial to beginning readers ages 3 to 6 and remedial readers of all ages. Consisting Con-sisting of 52 story books, work family fami-ly booklets, flash cards and alphabet and progress charts, the World of Learning has been tested for 24 years by professional teachers, parents, and 1500 students. "I have seen an increase in my students' confidence that they can indeed in-deed read as they go through the series. This has given them the confidence con-fidence to keep trying, to keep reading, and to keep succeeding," said Kathryn Parsons, a first grade teacher at Hillcrest Elementary School. One of McOmber's success stories was a non-reading young man at Utah Valley Community College who learned to read through the program. pro-gram. According to McOmber, "All the round circles and short lines finally final-ly made sense to him. The door of learning was unlocked for him." - -rasa Senior quarterback Bryan Rowley cocks his arm for a pass in the state championship football game against Region Two Tiger gridders end falling to Alta 40-0 By Cathe Owens It was still anybody's game at the half, when the Tigers went to the locker room trailing 6-0, but the Alta Hawks stacked up 22 points in seven minutes of the third quarter to blow the game open, ending Orem's role as a "Cinderella" team. Alta went on to add 12 more points in the final quarter for a resounding 40-0 rout. Orem failed to complete three scoring possibilities in the first half, Open house marks historic venture for Sanyo-Icon By Jeanne Thayne About 1,500 dignitaries and well-wishers well-wishers spanning two continents attended at-tended the open house Monday at the southeast end of the Timpanogos Research and Technology Park marking the move of Sanyo-Icon into their new 40,000 square feet corporate headquarters. "It's an historic occasion," said Orem Mayor S. Blaine Willes. He praised Sanyo and Icon for joining their financial resources and for helping help-ing provide quality jobs for the people peo-ple of Orem. "This community can provide a work force that is principled. principl-ed. . .and can benefit the company," he added. Dennis Fairclough, president and chairman of ICON International, Inc., a subsidiary of the Sanyo Electric company, Ltd. of Osaka, Japan, said the venture has brought together two cultures in a mix that was "sometimes easy and sometimes difficult." dif-ficult." He said the success of the h any one of which could have put them ahead, but Alta's physical play slowed slow-ed the Tiger offense. The first big break came when Greg Kennedy recovered a fumble on the Hawk 39, but Orem lost six yards to the Hawk defense in four downs and was forced to punt. Alta took that punt and marched up the field behind highly-touted run-ningback run-ningback Chad Knowles for an eight-play eight-play 84-yard drive. Knowles carried partnership in Orem company was preceded by much sacrifice. sac-rifice. Fairclough exhibited emotion several times as he introduced the Japanese officials who attended the ceremonies, and expressed great appreciation ap-preciation for their help in moving the company forward. "Dr. Osamu Nakahara has worked work-ed with us since 1984," Fairclough said. Nakahara is the director and general manager of the Computer Division of Sanyo. Fairclough paid tribute to each of the Sanyo officials present as well as others and added, "It is our hope to continue to produce equipment on the leading edge of technology... and our prayer is to grow and provide products whose time has come." Fairclough said the Icon "image is one of integrity and excellence and that is our commitment." There was a standing ovation following his remarks. OP : I f fv V ,V ?Q ,x w j ' f. I Ml 'j champion Alta last Friday. See pages 2. and 3. A u1 miracle showing in tourney finals five times for 68 yards, including a 47-yard run, shaking off Orem tackles to race to paydirt. Alta's extra kick fell wide on the first touchdown for a 6-0 lead that lasted until the third quarter. The Tigers threatened to score on the ensuing drive, marching from their own 21 with the help of a 33-yard Rowley-to-Dave James pass to first and goal at the Alta nine-yard line in seven plays. The large Hawk defense Other speakers included Lt. Governor Val Oveson and representatives represen-tatives of Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressman Howard Nielson, Kem Gardner, of the Boyer Co., developers. Members of the Sanyo group were Motoharu Iue, president of Sanyo America, Yuji Miyake, managing manag-ing director of Sanyo Electric Company's Com-pany's Information Systems Business Headquarters; and Dr. Osamu Nakahara. Miyake said "This partnership and dream of new manufacturing possibilities have become reality today. to-day. Our goal is for Icon to become the largest major computer company in the world." The Japanese officials presented several gifts to Fairclough including a Japanese silk fan symbolic of expansion ex-pansion and growth. Following the talks there was a ribbon cutting ceremony and a Japanese ceremony involving the : 4 iJ- state championship write-up on Cathe Owens photo stopped a Tiger rush, then broke up two touchdown pass attempts before Orem set up for a 25-yard field goal. Cade Schaerrer was never able to get the kick in the air, however, when the ball was fumbled on the exchange and the Hawks recovered. Two personal fouls charged to the Hawks put them in a deep hole to start their next drive. After making up only on-ly ten yards in four plays against (See TIGERS on page 2) planting of an oak tree, also symbolic of growth, on the north lawn of the building. Fairclough founded ICON in 1984 following eight years of research at Brigham Young University. While there, Fairclough conceived of and implemented an architecture for a fault-resistant multiprocessor. Through this work, he developed the idea of implementing high-performance high-performance disk systems and advanced ad-vanced disk caching algorithms with parallel microprocessors. That same year Icon entered into in-to an agreement with Sanyo providing the autonomy Icon desired to implement imple-ment their advanced computer architecture ar-chitecture concepts and for Sanyo to manufacture some components for the systems. In June, 1987, Sanyo made a large financial investment in Icon. Icon was recently listed number 49 in the world in Business Week's list of most valuable corporations. |
