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Show ' ) V it: if tTi mr ii - -- -- - i-ltfT in r i ft--- AttfVm -m3 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE around here who will recognize themselves among the First Grade classes of 1926-27. Picture No. One row one, (bottom) Morlin Conder, Clayton Hall, Allen Mak-in, Mak-in, Junior (Dick) Miller, Leslie Coward, Rex Cunningham, Leo Wootton; row two, Blaine Pierce, Joy Tidwell, Fern Downs, Edith Anderson, Martha Pulley, Ruth Gaisford, Arden Spencer; row three, LaRee Cox, Edith Rowley, Virginia Kartchner, Madge Kirk, Miss Al?ce Parker, teacher; Mary Jane Jacklin, Ima Snape, Donna Lu Davis, Thelma Bertin; row four, (top), Vern Ambrose, Parker Chipman, Max Peck, Dale Peters, Wayne Conder, George Rushton, Clifford Hansen, Marion Kelley. ' ' III " U i' t4' ' '-'1 j PICTURE NO. TWO, row one, (bottom), Leland (Junior) Mitchell, Harland Russon, Bill Durrant, Clifford Christensen, Glen Greening, Carl Shelley; row two, Velma Love, Alice Barratt, Jean Okey, Kathryn Holindrake, Helen Tuttle, Elaine Smith, LaRee Cox; row three, Donna Chipman, Ruth Halstrom, Douglas Pulley, Miss Alice Parker, teacher, Frank Parker, Maxine Robinson, Dorothy Greenwood; row four (top), Virginia Shelley, Bessie Mae Ovard, LaRae Nicholas, Max Seaile, Myrl Miner, Norma Durrant, Ruby Harrington. Absent when pictures were taken: Earl Draper, Junius Gray, LeRoy Phillips, Irene Deakin, Dorothy Peterson. iarnngton Soil By Dena S. Grant (The eighth in a weekly series about Harrington School. May 27 the school will close for regular elementary purposes. May 7 will mark the final PTA meeting Former teachers, principals and students are invited. Details are to be found elsewhere m this issue.) Many hundreds of people remember re-member Miss Alice Parker, the teacher who guided their early footsteps along the path of edu cation. She has kept a record of "each child she has taught - near 2000 of them - during her 22 years at Harrington School, (1924-45) Add to that the Influence she wielded during the next 14 years as a supervisor in Alpine District, Dis-trict, 36 years in her chosen pro fession. Although retired she is called to substitute in classrooms throughout the district. She is rightfully proud of attainments at-tainments of many of her pupils, among them Cecil R. Hansenwho returned to Harrington to teach and become principal of the school, and Lyle Tregaskis and Arlo Shelley, Junior High Principals. Princi-pals. With a mind and a scrapbook filled with pleasant memories she has recently taken or sent Valentines, Val-entines, pictures, etc., to former pupils or their families. Mamie McAllister Hjorth of Mapleton was one who as recent as last Saturday night, expressed her appreciation at being remembered. remem-bered. After graduating from the Eighth Grade, Miss Parker knew the profession she wished to follow fol-low and set out to qualify herself. her-self. She attended BYU for a year, obtained a teaching certificate certifi-cate and came back to the school she had attended, Harrington. The southwest corner room came to be known as Miss Parker's room. She continued to study, taking extension classes and summer "sessions at BYU, S of U, US AC and out of the Stiie until in 1943 she obtained a B.S. degree (1943) and in 1949, a Master of Science degree. "W??cn I began teaching I knew I wanted to teach at Harrington Harring-ton School. It was known throughout through-out the district as the 'friendly school.' I also wanted First Grade. It happened there were no openings in First Grade so I was assigned Second Grade. The teachers were Helen McCleery ar.d Irene Chipman. At Christmas Christ-mas time Miss McCleery was married and resigned and I was given the opportunity to take over I N 14 s , J OOl iliSiiiiiS her group, but I had become so attached to my Second Graders that I was reluctant to change, but was asked to teach a First Grade group part of the day and a ? .cond Grade group the other half of the day. At that time, First and Second Grades were on a half-day basis." Harrington School was about the first school in the district to have summer Kindergarten. She and Florence Dunyon taught a number of sessions sponsored and paid for by the parents. They were custodians as well as teachers, she remembers. Further reminiscing, she remembers re-members the pupils either bring-irg bring-irg sack lunches or going home for lunch. One or two class rooms were designated as lunch rooms with teachers assigned. After lunch the teachers with a pupil or two were responsible for placing the room in order for afternoon classes. She recalls one hectic two-week two-week period. Sixty-five pupils and all available desks and chairs crammed into her classroom class-room while another room was being readied for the overflow enrollment. PTA was special with Miss Parker. She prizes twc pictures presented to her room for the highest number of parents with PTA memberships. Miss Parker's Park-er's room appears regularly in PTA scrapbooks for this record. There - comes to her mind spring operettas presented by the Primary grades, "One I shall never forget was 'The Wedding of the Flowers,' with a full blooming bloom-ing tree "on the stage and Maxine Max-ine Hindley in the tree. Sarah Shelley also took a leading part. Thure was no stage at Harrington Harring-ton so the operettas and practices were at the high school." "I remember when the rooms were equipped with desks," she says. "These were screwed to wooden runners and placed in rows. Later the desks were done away with because the saying was "Screwed down desks, screwed down children." So tables were placed, bui no place for books, crayons or paper. Next small compartments were added under the table tops, next Individual desks, but still in rows, and then individual arrangements of desks. Harrington School has always been well kept. People often commented com-mented upon its neat appearance. "This is a compliment," Miss Parker says, "to good custodians William Hunter, Josephs. Searle, Ed Conder, Issac BInns, Ed Lee, ,Q C) --4 r i' o V Merrill Varney and LaDrue Var-ney." Var-ney." Parents always played an important im-portant role in Miss Parker's classrooms. She made it a point to become acquainted with the parents of each child. "If I was a success as a teacher, I attribute at-tribute my success to cooperative coopera-tive and understanding patrons," is her comment. She enjoyed her association with fellow teachers through the years; Florence Dunyon, Lileth Peterson, and Zina Clayson in the First and Second Grades; Beth Hutchings, Pearl Jo-gen-sen, Anna Bell Miller, Margaret Mar-garet Hayes, Fern Edwards, Ru-lon Ru-lon Brimhall, Miriam Hill, Sylvia Syl-via Peterson, Dean Paulson and Gwen Richards, and the principals, prin-cipals, Lloyd D. Adamson, Lillian Lil-lian C. Booth and George W. Larsen. There was always humor to liven up the routine. Miss Parker Park-er remembers the day she told a pupil to put his chewing gum in the waste basket. He ambled up the aisle, dropped the gum in the basket and turned to amble am-ble back. "Step on it!" was her order. He did just that - turned and stepped on the gum. Would one of our leading citizens remember re-member the May walk when he and a buddy took off? The children always lined up to march back to school after recess. First Grader Winn Carlisle Car-lisle counted and made sure he would stand just opposite to iderma Grant. Well, they grew up, got married and had four First Graders to enroll in Murray Mur-ray schools. Alice Parker has always enjoyed en-joyed exceptionally good health. Grade school records show years with no absent or tardy marks. During her teach.'. ; years, she says, she never neded a substitute. sub-stitute. Now retired, she's doing the things she planned. . . travel, tra-vel, music, gardening, fun with family and teaching. As to those years she spent In the classroom Miss Parker says, "If I had my life to relive re-live I would choose the same profession. I love to teach." A compliment makes more friends for you than the truth. food, rest, mental peace and exercise are the four keys to old age. The days are now getting longer long-er faster in northern latitudes. Mosi people are limited by their Inability to appreciate others. KRISIIE HARVEY RETURNS FROM 4-H COrlVEIITIOI! Ill WASHINGTON Kristie Harvey. American Fork, returned Saturday, April 25, from Washington, D.C. where she was one of four delegates representing Utah. Kristie sad the Conference highlight was ground-breaking ceremonies of expanding the National 4-H Center Cen-ter on the edge of Washington. Tricia Nixon, the President's daughter, led the official ceremony, cere-mony, marking the beginning of $8 million dollars in construction construc-tion work. Sharing the event with her were Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Clifford M. Hardin and other notables. Art and Jack Linklet-ter Linklet-ter of TV fame were masters of ceremony. Another Conference highlight was visiting Utah's Senator Bennett Ben-nett and having lunch with Rep. Burton on Capitol Hill, and "Friends of 4-H" Day. Also delegates del-egates were given a specially conducted tour of the Capitol Building, the White House, Arlington Ar-lington National Cemetery, and other places of historic interest in and near Washington. Kristie said she particularly liked the program arrangement of dividing the entire 4-H delegation dele-gation into 11 discussion seminars semin-ars or workshops of 20 to 25 4-H'ers eachall centering around current teenage problems and "Challenges Facing 4-H." Kristie was in the group considering con-sidering "Ethics, Religion, and An I Standards Each group met daily during the week to review the facts, analyze situations and trends, consider implications for 4-H, and then make specific recommendations rec-ommendations to 4-H officials on how 4-H could further meet the h W 1 f ' I - t- 4 NEW DEC A CLUB OFFICERS INSTALLED in impressive rites. Principal Con Brady congratulates those directing activities of the American Fork DECA Club during the coming school year, Annette Terry, secretary; Nyla Christensen, historian; Ryan Spafford, president. Willard C. Devitt, right, is teacher-coordinator of the program. Vice president Gilbert Anderson was not present when picture was taken. sis mm":: ' ; : i? mm : -wm. vis: . sjCw :; s: 4--m'fm.-x ; ill! :;lllilfalil .;:;:1;::::o::?!::;:;::;-::::': . : O'i-: :i :,: yAyy-y;-:' '-yyy''-' . yyZyyyZSyy-y' v'o::- III: :iW' tel.: 11" ::::;I"lL Kcnnecoti Copper Corporation Utah Copper Division equal opportunity employer Kennecott is People. ..who like to help other needs of today's youth. Kristie and the other three young people were among about 250 outstanding 4-H'ers four or five girls and boys from each of the 50 states, Washington, D. C, Puerto Rico, and Canada who attended the 40th annual National -H Conference in the Nation's Capital. She and the other delegates dele-gates had been named by their States for exceptional personal fPnm- Hi I v ' Th s needs a He wants a job so badly his heart aches. It has been that way all his 16 years. Some people cali him disadvantaged. What he really is, is poor. He's never worked before. And if he doesn't get a chance now, he may never work much. That's been the pattern. Without training and a break, they drop out of the picture. Discouraged Dis-couraged and defeated. Want to help? The JOBS Program of the National Alliance Alli-ance of Businessmen can put you in touch with him, and hundreds of others like him, in Utah. They come in all colors, sizes and shapes. Telephone 328-4825. Or write JOBS, 1714 Kennecott Building, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. Today! THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1970 development, community service, ser-vice, and citizenship achievement. achieve-ment. The Utah group was joined in Washington by Glen Baird, State Supervisor of 4-H, Logan, Utah. Kristie said this year's Confer -erence stressed citizenship and the theme was"Value Valid and Vanishing." Aims were for the .. S... K'l A ooy ymmer delegates to learn more about their government firsthand, to better understand significant issues is-sues facing the Nation, andto appreciate ap-preciate more fully youth's citizenship citi-zenship responsibilities and opportunities. op-portunities. The conference closed Friday night, April 24 with a delegates banquet at the Washington Hilton Hotel followed by a dance social at the Congressional Club. Kristie has been an active 4-H 4-H Club member for eight years. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Harvey. The Utah County Extension office has charge of 4-H work in this area and is at Provo. County Agents are Robert Hassell and Mrs. Irene Thompson. Radio Station KIXX recently recent-ly observed "Kristie Harvey Day" in recognition of her 4-H achievement. No. Utah County DUP Convention Slated Friday The North Utah County Daughters Daugh-ters of Utah Pioneers will hold a convention on May 1 in the Winsor Ward Church and the Sixth-34th Ward Church in Orem, Utah. The officers would like a good turn-out to the convention. A noon luncheon will be available for those attending. People. Job |