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Show i f ( 1 ( Donald byREVABOWEN City Editor If there is anything as long-lasting as the Strings on Clifton M. Pyne's Bancroft tennis racquet strung for him 54 years ago by his Lincoln High School tennis coach, Donald "Sanky" Dixon it's Pyne's affection and respect for Sanky. Along with classmate Leo Ver- 1 i Don E. Hunter Don E. Hunter announces retirement Don E. Hunter recently announced an-nounced his retirement from education after teaching for 29 years at Lincoln Junior High School and Lakeridge Junior High School in Orem. Mr. Hunters training included in-cluded a BS degree from Southern Utah State University in zoology with a minor in botany. He later completed his master's degree from Brigham Young University in health and Lesley College in physical physi-cal education. Mr. Hunter enjoys science,. sports, and spending time with his family. Cemetery expansion plan results in split vote by council members More often than not, Orem City Council members are united in their votes on agenda items, but the June 27, 1995, meeting brought some disagreement and a split vote on adopting the proposed cemetery expansion master plan design. Ultimately, the measure passed, 4-3, with council members Judy Bell, Chris Yandow, andfStephen Sandstrom opposing the proposal. On June 13, 1995, city staff presented to the council three concept designs for the cemetery expansion. Each provided for the use of the property as soccer fields until such time as it is needed for burial plots, affording the added benefit of maintaining more "open space" in a rapidly ' , '"V f I I ' ' " ''V' ' YLi:-K' Vr r & ' 1 r "Sanky" Dixon left non, who was coached by Sanky at Lincoln in both tennis and football, Pyne recently met with the 88-year-old Dixon to reminisce about their years at the Orem school, and to honor the former coach. "See this racquet?" Pyne asked his mentor. "I paid you 75-cents to string it for me 54 years ago. It's as tight today as it was then." "And the string cost $1.50," Sanky said, smiling and remembering. remem-bering. Popular coach Vernon emphasized that Dixon was a popular teacher and coach. "All the kids liked him," he said. Sanky said he began working at Lincoln in 1930, where he taught history as well as fulfilled his coaching duties. There was no football foot-ball at the school when he first began, but Ott Romney provided some equipment, and the new team began to practice in "Tom Cordner's cow pasture", which resulted in the development of some "shifty runners", according to Sanky. The next year, Dixon said, Superintendent Su-perintendent Gourley gave the program a budget and the team entered. the Alpine League. One of the memories Sanky has of his 19 years at Lincoln is that of coaching the Edwardsboys in football foot-ball the now-famous La Veil and his brothers. He said La Veil was "a great defensive player one of the best in Utah". When the young man decided to go to Utah State to play college football, rather than Brigham Young University, BYU's coach Eddie Kimball was upset and asked La Veil why he had made that choice. According to Sanky, La Veil responded, "To get out of milking." One of the strong teams In time, Lincoln High School became "one of the strong teams," Sanky said . "We won eight region championships, and went to the state finals four times." Vernon said the football team won the region championship in 1942 and played Park City in state competition. The score was 0-0, and the game winner was going to be determined by which team had developing community. Staff acted on council suggestions and presented one plan for adoption June 27. City officials stated that their intent is to "build as much of the open space and road network as possible from the existing $160,000 that has been set aside for cemetery expansion." Aesthetic Aes-thetic elements would come later, when the land is needed for cemetery use. A proposed cemetery driveway across 1200 North from 910 East, and a landscaped entrance point at 1200 North and 800 East emerged as the controversial con-troversial elements in the plan. At the beginning of discussion, Ecll said that she did not like the gained the most yards. Lincoln was ahead until the last play in the game, Vernon said, when Park City came up with a 30-yard end run play "that beat us". ; Tennis players I Leo Vernon and Bob Fountain were Sanks top doubles players when they were at Lincoln, and they captured the state championship champion-ship one year. Pyne, Vernon, and Sanky all remembered the 1 singles player Ray Tucker -- whom Sanky cailed a "gritty little guy". Tucker had a congenital hip problem, Pyne said, and wore a shoe with a lift when he was involved in other activities, ac-tivities, but when he played tennis he wore regular tennis shoes and played hard even diving to hit balls. Sanky recalled that Tucker was beaten in the state finals by an East High player who went on to national recognition. Sanky and his brother, Buck (who coached tennis and golf at, B YU for many years), achieved ten-1 nis recognition in their own right ' winning an intermountain competition com-petition and the opportunity to go back to Boston to play four times Sanky said he and his brother took . the trip by train twice,drove Buck's Model A back the other two years and had the new experience of playing on grass courts. Changed life One year, after Lincoln won a state championship in football, Sanky received a call from Granite High School that would change the course of his life, he said. He was offered a coaching position at the school. His wife, Lettie Romney Dixon, had relatives in Salt Lake City and she wanted to move there. Sanky worked at Granite for seven years, then went to Olympus, Olym-pus, where he directed the football program and was a counselor. He retired from Olympus in 1971. "Iloved it in Orem," Sanky said. And, after more than 40 years, he has returned. He has lived in the Seville retirement center for the last two and one-half years. Lettie passed away five years ago. "It' s a new experience to be back," he said. "He is on tthe banquet circuit now," Pyne quipped. "He gets invited in-vited to a lot of reunions." streets placed where they were, although she acknowledged she "could be in the minority". Councilman Steven Heinz said he liked the 1200 North access ac-cess as an "entrance statement, not a through street". Councilman Council-man Tim Christensen said he saw a need for "more accesses", and stated that he did not have a problem with those proposed. Councilman Stephen Sandstrom said he did not see a need for the 1200 North access. Heinz said he liked the one that lined up with the intersection of 12th because it provides a natural crossing point and "makes more sense" for snow removal and street maintenance. Public Works Director Richard Manning reminded enduring N: 1', ' r Y i j . . Ktv"v Orem High pitcher Trina Knapp congratulates her catcher after the Tigers defeated the Mountain View Bruins 14 and under team 5-1 in the Pleasant Grove Firecracker Tournament. Both teams will participate in the state softball tournament this weekend with the top seven teams advancing to the Region. Who controls family purse strings? Husbands and wives most commonly share financial decision-making responsibilities in a household, according to an American Express Financial Advisors survey titled, "The Money Mystique". Nearly half (49) of married women over 45 responding to the national survey about mature women and their financial practices said they and their husband share financial decisionmaking decision-making duties. Thirty-six percent said their husband takes care of most money matters. Fifteen percent of the women said they make most of the financial decisions. Who makes the financial decisions isn't necessarily a maSer of income. Fifty-seven percent of the women said the financial decision-maker isn't necessarily council members that the roads would not be public roads, and that there would be a "cultural respect" for the cemetery, and people would not be "cutting through". Area resident Mark Rasmus-sen Rasmus-sen said he opposed the access at 910 because it creates a "major thoroughfare coming and going from soccer games". Rasmussen also introduced another element of controversy into the discussion when he approached the council about the possibility of the city's continuing to lease a home on the expansion property to a resident single mother who is reluctant to move and leave behind the support sup-port system she has in her neighborhood. 63-83002.00 Utah Press Assoc. 307 West S00 South H500S Salt Lake City, UT 84101 Eire;:, end Clif-c;: Clif-c;: : r;:c(icft to riz'.iU reminisce firn c Lincoln Ir Czhcol ccacic:I them in tennis and football. Coaching the person who makes more money. Forty-three percent said the .partner making more money makes most of the financial decisions. Fifty-three percent of women Mountain View debate team excels in national tournament Members of the Mountain View High School debate team have returned victoriously from competing in the National Debate Tournament. The debate team of David Anthony and Jay Lewis received awards for advancing to the Octo-final round of competition. competi-tion. Chet Robinson, competing in Student Congress, received an award for outstanding chaimton. The competition, held the week Administrative Services Director Phil Goodrich explained that the city has no choice in the matter because of the issuance of tax free bonds that require the vacation of the home by April of 1996. He said it would cost the citizens of Orem many thousands of dollars if the tax-free status was forfeited. Rasmussen suggested that the woman could be a "caretaker" of the property. But Goodrich said public bonds can't be used for the benefit of individuals, and a private activity bond would not be tax exempt Council members said they appreciated what the neighborhood neighbor-hood was trying to do, but the city had no option. City Attorney Paul Legacy over 45 said they are more involved in their household financial decisions than they were 20 years ago. Forty-seven percent said their level of involvement has not changed. of June 18-23 in Fort Lauderdale, Eorida, involved over 1,000 of the top speech and debate students , from throughout the nation. ; Other members of the Mt. View team who competed in the national ; tournament were Kenley Grover, ; Student Congress; Toni Nielson, U.S. extemporaneous speaking ; and team debate; and Jeff Tolley, . team debate. The team is coached : by Ms. Frankie Listen. Johnson said, "It's not something we can dojwithout getting ourselves oursel-ves in trouble." Heinz said it was not the proper role of the council to single out one person in the city to help. "The rules and laws are there for a reason," he noted. When the suggestion was made that perhaps the home could be moved to another site, Goodrich said he was "wearing the black hat for the evening", but he was not sure the city could just donate the home. He said there would probably need to be bidding, bid-ding, and legal steps and hoops would have to be followed. "Not bad for a non-lawyer," Johnson said of Goodrich's assessment. . ' |