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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Thursday March 18, 1982 - Page 7 Self esteem a key need by Deborah Marcus Our talent and our gifts came to the earth with us and it is the Lord's promise for us all to do advised Jeanne Anthony well, over 200 women addressing at the LDS Chapel in gathered Monticello for a Fireside meetfor women last Sunday ing evening. We have an obligation to do something well, guest speaker Anthony said in elaborating her topic Mormon Women and Self Esteem. mother Anthony, with a masters degree in speech therapy, stressed that there is a time and season for development. Using an analogy of a dormant fruit tree that will bear fruit when the time is right, Anthony said that we all have a time and season to produce. Self esteem and confidence are the key to growth . . . within ourselves and in our marriages. We must have patience and respect individualities. We must appreciate, not fight the difference and strenghts of man and . Telesflora Chacon, San Juan County SOCIO representative, poses with her husband, Cosme. J. Noxon photo SOCIO benefits Monticello old s BOYD B. HAWKES AND CHARLOTTE GIBBONS Wedding date set Dr. and Mrs. De L. Gibbons of are pleased to Blanding, announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter Charlotte to Boyd B. Hawkes, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Lee Hawkes of Centerville. The couple will be married on April 22, in the Logan LDS Temple. Charlotte is a graduate of San Juan High School, where she was student body president. She is presently a junior at Brigham Young University. Boyd, a graduate of Woodbridge High School in Virginia, is also a junior at Brigham Young University. They will be honored at an open house in Centerville on April 22, and a reception in Blanding on April 24. The couple will make their home in Provo, where they will continue their education. woman. All marraiges that are happy are not happy all the time, and if marriages are made in heaven must be full of heaven, humor. Anthony, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Redd of Monticello, lives in Salt Lake City. Hie Sunday meeting was the first fireside for women held by Monticello StcfUttp by Camille Davis Attended the services for Margaret Hansen. It was beau- Monday thru Saturday Evening appointments Permanent waves Redkin Helen Curtis tiful, Frosting Tinting Family plan hair care THE HEAD HUNTER Ulene Black 678-25- Blanding 47 Stake. Seniors and TVamat fax, LDS Kerry Certonio 678-23- 05 , Margarets life history was given by Claudia Green. Blanding senior citizens had lunch with us at Hogies. We enjoyed a trip to Hoven-we- ep where many Indian ruins are still standing and I marveled at the many useful plants around and wondered why people could vandalize rock shelters. It is a shame. Think of all the valuable information we have lost by such by Deborah Marcus Dedication and community support Telesflora describe technician at the Chacon, San Juan County Hospital. Involved for 30 years in community X-r- ay activities, she presently serves as a SOCIO representative and as a consumer representative to the Governors Council for Spanishspeaking people in San Juan and SOCIO stands Grand counties. -for Spanish speaking Organization for Community, Integrity and Opportunity. Around the turn of the century, many Spanish-speakipeople immigrated to southeastern Utah in search of work and religious sanctity. Telesflora was born in La Sal. She says she believes that the Hispa'nics immigrated to ng Utah for several reasons, includ- the fact that pioneers had, to a learned the Spanish made the Hispanic the Mormon ing In 1962 good degree, language and feel at home. she married Cosme Chacon, whose family had moved to Utah from Coyote, New Mexico. Over the years, the couple began to feel that Hispanics in San Juan were not advancing and in 1972 Telesflora joined SOCIO, organized Barbera, in 1967 by Richard a Salt Lake City Hispanic, Telesflora served the San Juan Chapter as vice presi1975-7- 9 dent from and as president from When we 1979-8- 0. first started SOCIO there were 25 Spanish-speaki- ng students in Utah colleges. Now are over 900, says there SOCIO was formed Telesflora. to gain equal opportunities for our children and workers. You receive more as a group than as an individual fighting alone for your rights. At present, there are 35 SOCIO members in Monticello benefit-tin- g from SOCIO efforts to procure jobs, assist in legal problems, fight school and job discrimination, assist in school scholarships and grants and keep Hispanics from becoming school drop outs. After World War H, the began to be better Hispanics accepted into the culture, but some of our people still face discrimination and problems and our children suffer the most. SOCIO has been helping them to cope and succeed, Telesflora says. Anglo-Americ- an She enjoys personal satisfaction from her work in SOCIO and feels that she has helped organize a minority group so that they have Her hospital a legal thrust. work and her SOCIO efforts are appreciated in both Monticello and Salt Lake City. Despite her benign nature and cool composure, family and acquaintances know her to be a strong fighter and a tiger for human rights. acts. O We played games at the weekly meeting in the San Juan Library. TUtl' 'HwiMntf Thursday thru Tuesday March 18 thru 23 All Girls DRESSES Sizes 2 to SCOTT NATHAN TIANA KAYE RASMUSSEN 14 All Girls PANTS end TOPS V sizes Ladies TOPS BLOUSES and JEANS 7 -- off u jP r MONTICELLO MERC. N. Main Monticello seen lbs 10, a girl 4 lbs 13. Scott Nathan and Tiana Kaye Really made their grandparents day Maternal ones, Dick and Esther Dean Are happy in Iowa - Muscatine And Rasmussens - Wayne and A Ladies Selected styles PANTS and BLOUSES 119 and Teresa Kaye M. Scott Are as busy as bees they say On Oct. 30 their twins were first 597-22- 56 boy-- 6 Cleo Think the twins are just so, so! Missouri is instituting a plan which offers partial college tui- tion payments for grade school and high school students who to segrevoluntarily switch gated schools now. FFA San Juan High sweetheart royalty was crowned at the annual ball during National FFA Week. Queen Jalaine Roberts reigned with Alyn Chamberlain, first attendant, and Pat Shumway, second attendant. Activities of the week included an annual parent-memb- er banquet during which Alyn and Alysen Chamberlain provided musical Those receiving honorary chapter farmer awards selections. were Mr. and Mrs. Neldon Holt, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Chamberlain, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Black and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Harris. The culminating event was a Down Home on the Farm assembly for the high school. Maurice Pugh is the FFA advisor. B. Kuipers photo and text 1 |