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Show A Deeper Look Into Marriage One very important night just before Halloween, chance to grow up together. I'm really glad we did the doorbell rang at the Warenski home. Sixteen-year-ol- d move away for awhile. To assume that responNorma answered the door, stylishly clad in sibility, do it by ourselves, and not have our parents her older brother's shirt which hung out over her hovering over us and helping us decide how to grow rolled-u- p jeans. Standing on the porch in front of her up. Vou have to get away to do that. So that first old boys, not exactly year at school was very critical for us. However, we were several seventeen-yea- r dressed for Halloween, but trying their lick at did not cut ties with our parents. We merely defined getting the free neighborhood treats just the same. the relationship," Mrs. Matheson pointed out. One tall boy called Scott caught her eye. Norma ran "Scott's father in particular was always a help to excitedly down the hall exclaiming to her mother, him." It was their independence the Mathesons believe "Look at that cute tall boy out there ! " "It looks like something scared him early," which layed the foundation for a very healthy replied Mrs. Warenski, referring to the boy's thick relationship with both sets of parents. "If he can live next door to my parents for twenty hair which he wore in a crew cut. without any conflict that says everything in and their home, years unpretentious lovely Today after twenty-eigyears of marriage, Utah's about everyone involved," stated Mrs. Matheson Governor Scott M. Matheson and his wife Mrs. emphatically. As Mrs. Matheson thought of those early days in Norma Warenski Matheson reflect on their she said, "Whenever I get out our little that and the and California, challenges joys pinpoint marriage have woven their relationship tightly together, and bank statement book we had when we were in school enabled their marriage to not only last but to the first year it looks more like an allowance for a flourish under the enormous stresses of the child." The Governor then added, "She got a job at a medical clinic in Palo Alto for about $145 a month Governorship. Governor and Mrs. Matheson have known each and we lived on it. We paid rent, got one-hapound cents. . .And that of their life, so they did a good of hamburger for twenty-thre- e other and lunch." share of their growing up together. "Of course, he was two meals-dinn- er Mrs. Matheson feels that the value of those hard was a little old to be going around trick or treating", observed Mrs. Matheson jokingly, as she referred to times was in learning to pull together as a team. their first meeting. "In those days we used to trick "Scott always says we did this, and we did that, or treat differently," explained the Governor. "We because anything he has accomplished, I've always used to go out a week or ten days before Halloween felt was partly because of me. I don't think he's and there would be about six or seven of us and we'd become a good lawyer, or he has become successful go just to the homes where we knew people, and at that. We have become successful together." After Law School, young Scott Matheson moved' they'd always insist we come in not for a small treat, but a rather large and adequate treat. It with Norma to Cedar City, Utah where he had been turned out to be a great way to substitute going raised and where they had their first child. He down to get a hamburger." began his law practice, but found it very difficult to "It's called mooching," Mrs. Matheson added and collect his legal fees, since he was related to a good the Governor readily agreed. part of the county. "They didn't know that we were "You weren't too impressed that first time worse off than they were," Mrs. Matheson pointed around, I guess, were you?" Mrs. Matheson asked out. The young attorney taught school at College of her husband, knowing that the style of clothes she Southern Utah, to meet their financial needs, until was wearing that night made him think that she was one day a Federal Judge asked him to come to Salt only about twelve years old. After a short pause the Lake and be his law clerk. Matheson accepted. He Governor answered with a sly smile, "I certainly worked his way through several positions until he became an attorney for the Union Pacific Railroad was." The couple dated while attending East High in Salt Lake City, where he remained until he was School and while attending the University of Utah. elected Governor. n The family was aware of the "We never formally decided to go steady, which was probably a good thing. I think that's too young hour a day committment involved with the camto commit yourself," reflected Mrs. Matheson. "He paign, and serving in office. "We'd always been went out occasionally and I went out occassionally. close and that is what I was afraid we were going to He'd go away every summer and work, and that lose," Mrs. Matheson explained. But through was good too, or we would not have matured and working side by side, the family received a pleasant appreciated one another's qualities. On the other surprise. "It was a family decision, not just inhand, I helped to raise you, didn't I?" Mrs. volving the children, but the extended family as Matheson asked her husband. "That's true," he well. We were together more during the campaign concurred. continued on page 10 Scott Matheson and Norma Warenski were married August 25, 1951 on the silver wedding anniversary of Norma's parents. The two couples celebrate their anniversaries together every year. "In the early years, Norma's parents took us to dinner, now we take them to dinner, so it's worked out very well," the Governor concluded. The Matheson's four children usually celebrate with . their parents also. "Ever since they were little it's been a family celebration. They think it's their 1 anniversary too," related Mrs. Matheson. 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