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Show Mettiremmeinitt LDxDmm Fcdip Coumly TeacEueffs Students must learn to think for themselves Children Should Be Read To At Home Emerson Powell Stella Cozza a career of over 19 yean as an educator in various places and in a variety of teaching positions, hasnt slowed Stella Cozza down at all. An active sportswoman who has always enjoyed bowling, golfing, and other activities such as hiking and camping. she has plenty stirring ahead to keep her busy during retirement. Actually she is still teaching teaching swimming as a Water Safety Instructor for the Red Cross. HER TEACHING career began in the Jordan district where she taught Second and Third grade. After time out to complete a Master's Degree with a major in Counseling and Guidance, and a minor in Special Education, she taught two years at Dugway. After that, it was back to the Salt Lake schools for one year and then to Wendover where she has taught for the past six years. Mrs. Cozza's role as a teacher has been as varied as the locations in which she has taught. She has taught kindergarten, been a librarian, a counselor and has even taught ceramics. MRS. COZZA lielieves in taking children where they are and letting them go where they can. She is a great advocate of the phonics method of teaching reading and also has a certificate as a remedial reading teacher and taught this at Murray Jr. High School. Along with phonics. Mis. Cozza maintains that 80 percent of a childs success in learning to read, comes with a background of lieing read to at home. Clusing My philosophy has always lirai to try to get studrnts to think for them trivet. I do this by giving them problems which they will have to solve for themselves," said Emerson Powell looking txuk on 32 yean at teaching machine shop to Tooele High School students. lie adied, them anything; themselves." - really don't teach just help them to find 1 1 AT A TIME when many other educators, parents, and the public in general have nothing good to say about the present adolescent generation, Powell speaks highly of them. We still have good students. They want to leant." He can point to many of his former pupils who have succeeded in the machinist field. It is a demanding area, but industry is constantly seeking for good machinists. They can advance. The more you know, the more you make," he said. He knows of machinists who are making $50,000. After four years tinder his tutorage, the high school graduate is ready Life of Travel Beckons Mildred Millburn It's great. I cant realize Ive realretired, said Mildred Millbum who ly EMERSON POWEI.L is looking forward to changing the life as an educator to trying something new and different. BEFORE teaching he worked as ACTUALLY I enjoy teaching, a machinist for several years. This was she said of her 25 years in the profesduring World War II when such skills sion, 21 of them spent at Tooele Cenwere in critical demand tral School. For many years she taught Powell grew up in Coalville, Utah the third or fourth grades. Early in and graduated from Utah State Uni- her career, she taught in the secondary to go out on the job without having to take further training. IN A WORLD where mediocrity accepted as good enough, Powell's students have been given the is often opportunity to create, to come up with new ways of doing things. Creativity and inventiveness have been the rule in his classes, not the exception. As for as machine shop instruction goes, Mr. Powell said that the basic fundamentals have remained the same. 1 give them the material, but no concrete answers. "There are always new ways of doing things, and students must come up with their own answers. After all, every student is an individual. Hes different from all others. I treat him as program also. Mis. Millbum said she has seen a lot of changes over the years. None of them have changed her philosophy that the student is the most important element of a school - the student as an individual, that is. She characterized herself as rather versity. He is married to the former Wanda Lear, and they have reared four children, Jay, Stanley, Linda and Maxine. OF RETIREMENT, Powell said, "I just plan to enjoy myself. He likes hunting, fishing, and especially working around his yard. quiet and easy going. I dont get upThe Powells and daughter Maxine set too easily, she said, although I plan a trip to Germany next year. have been fairly strict. such. of Salt Lake City and a graduate of the University of Utah, Mrs. Millbum has also taught in the North Sanpete District and one year in Uintah. She and her husband Judge Ralph Millbum plan to move to Salt Lake City and then to travel. Weve already been most places, she said, but plans are to visit Australia this year. She also loves to sew and hopes to have time for more golfing. BOTH MILLBURN children are also in education. Son Ron teaches Seminary at Olympus High School and Cayle teaches Special Ed in the Jordan district. She said the only way she can keep in touch with former students is to follow their progress through school and in the newspapers. I'm always glad to hear when one of them makes the honor roll, or some other distinction," she A NATIVE said. J 1 Jus Talkin by Margaret VanNoy ) & a, i'Y gibberish under his breath through a court trial muttering . . . Crazy? Maybe dangerous? recently, my sympathies went out A woman in your neighborhood to the judge and the jurors. What your repeated greetings. . . ignores a tremendous responsibility it is to Unfriendly? hold a future, a life, or the finanIn the cases cited, the occupants hands. of ces a human being in your of the car which killed the dog were I envied neither the judge nor the rushing a critically ill child to the jury their task of sorting evidence, They could not avoid hithospital. the real from the circumstantial. the dog, but could not risk stopHowever, such decisions are ting their responsibility, and they mast ping. THE SUPPOSEDLY drunken carry it out. man had just been informed for the ON THE other hand, how many nth time that he did not get the times a day do we unnecessarily judge and convict someone solely job. Tears of frustration and defeat on circumstantial evidence? dimmed his eyes causing him to It is impossible to get into your miss his footing. automobile and go any distance at Hie crazy old man was unable all that involves meeting other drito speak English, and needing frivers without categorizing them and was trying to communicate in ends, condemning them for any one of a his own tongue. hundred moves that dont suit our Hie unfriendly woman is hard present aim. Yet two seconds later of hearing, not unfriendly. we may be the one who slows down IF THERE is anything I have abruptly, causing the driver behind while working for the newslearned us to brake suddenly, or who makes is that there are ALWAYS it paper, a turn without signalling. least sides to every problem at two Ibis is a plea to try to go for that involves people and points of one just day without passing judgAs I sat ment on anyone. NO MATTER what the provocation, try to suspend judgment, and if possible, try to get the facts. Consider the following: In the black of night, a dog runs in front of a car, is hit and killed. The car brakes and swerves in an effort to miss the dog, but doesnt stop. . . Mean? heartless? A downtrodden-lookin- g man staggers out of a building and stumbles over a crack in the sidewalk. . . Drunk? Disgusting? AN OLD MAN shuffles along the street, bobbing his head and view. It is so easy to get riled up when we hear only one side of a story. Its happened to me time after time, and each time I have been terribly ashamed of my hasty judgment after hearing all points of view. Gossip is one of the most pernicious forms of judgment that we mete out to those we know. How many times do we use terms like lazy, wild, dumb, always drunk, never on time? TRUE, THERE are people who are lazy, people who are wild or always drunk, always late. Some tattlers believe that if the choice tidbit is true, it is not gossiping. It is, and does not give us the right to verbally try and convict any other person. How horrible to be faced with the knowledge that we have started an avalanche of rumor that can never be stopped like the fable of the feathers in the wind. NOWHERE IS judgment more rampant today than on people and events in public office. A man can be your best friend, but as soon as hes elected to an office, suddenly everything he does is suspect. How careful we must be in judging men in public office. It has become a national pasttime to blame everything that goes wrong in any area of life on our politicians, forgetting that we put them where they are, and if all of us were honest in our dealings, it would be had for dishonest men to circumvent the law. Our problem is that many of us are not mature enough to deal in ideas, rather than personalities. IVE BEEN to council meetings where tempers heat up and explode, where personal insults and accusations fly thick and fast and intemperate remarks are made in the heat of argument. Ive been in other gatherings where questions are answered, prob lems are brought up, discussed, and worked out, compromises made and solutions worked out calmly and competently without anyone getting hot under the collar. Human nature tends to preclude the right of others to disagree with us philosophically, spiritually, intellectually or politically. Anyone who does is wicked, foolish, stupid or dishonest. WHEN WRONGS need righting,' and there are many that do, lets attack the problem, not the person. Lets not only refrain from passing judgment in the form of gossip, but lets resist the temptation to feel duty bound to pass the sins of the parents down from generation Teaching in Wendover posed some d difficulties for Mrs. Cozza as her was employed in Salt Lake. She spent weekdays on the west edge of the state and then dashed to Salt Lake each Friday to teach a swimming class and lie with her family. ALTHOUGH the educator has reached the retirement age, she said her body doesn't know it yet. She continues to be just as active as ever in following her holiliy of all types of sports. She is married to Louis Cozza and has four children and four grandchildhits-ltan- ren. Taught Basics to Seniors Bertha Whitehouse The line from the old nursery rhyme about Mary and her little lambs cer- tainly applies to Bertha Whitehouse and her students. Why did the lambs love Mary so? Cause Mary loved the lambs, you know. Mrs. Whitehouse loved her students, particularly her seniors, and they loved her. I love to give them a good review in grammar, in writing, and especially in the techniques of research papers before they graduate, she said. These skills are lacking among students nowadays according to their freshman language teachers. FOR 28 YEARS Mrs. Whitehouse has tried to provide students on their own individual level with techniques they would need in speaking and writing even when teaching such basics became unpopular for a time. A native of northern Utah, Mrs. Whitehouse came to Tooele High in 1939, teaching physical education, dance and English. She subsequently taught at North Cache and Evanston, Wyoming, before returning to teach in Tooele after her marriage to Franklin Whitehouse, Tooele Jr. High Principal before his retirement five years ago. Mrs. Whitehouses dynamic per- sonality and an enthusiasm for her subject always drew her young charges to her. According to students and collea gues, she could make such otherwise dull activities as drilling on parts of speech lively and fun. SHE IS DEFINITELY a young persons person. Love shows in her face and is demonstrated through her kind and concerned mannerisms. 'Tve loved every minute of it, she said of her teaching career. Her enthusiasm is contagious. Whatever she is doing at the moment, she does with energy and zest, making her a personality worth emulating. At the moment she is looking forward to many activities to fill the days ahead. listening to her talk about traveling to visit one of the couples five children: Paula, Roger, Scott, Susan and Russell, or working on family histories, gardening or reading, we feel that retirement is not a word which applies to her. HER PHILOSOPHY of education has been, Education does not promise to make everyone a genius, because it cannot control how you actually apply all youve learned. Hiis up to the individual. Success in this life is a personal thing, she added. She has tried to teach this to her students. Mrs. Whitehnuse is living proof of this philosophy, and one feels sure that her vivacious spirit has influenced hundreds of successful is graduates of Tooele schools. to generation. Forget whats happened in the past. Lets give others the benefit of the doubt. Lets 'give credit to people for changing. A leopard CAN change its spots. WHY DOOM the less than expert mechanic at the beginning of his career or the awkward unskill- ed apprentice carpenter to a life- time labeled and classified as incompetent on the basis of early performance. For one day, dont repeat anything derogatory that you hear. Dont use one negative word like stubborn, dirty, or stupid, applied to any other human being. We can change the world with a positive attitude. Be like my neighbor, who during those busy, weary days of child rearing never failed to say, My, you look nice today, whenever he saw me with my shirttail flapping over baggy levis and bandana-covere- d locks. It never failed to move me to hurry to make that you look nice come true. Try it for just one day: youll feel so good about yourself (and really thats what judging others is all about) that youll want to try for more. Bertha Whitehouse stresses scholarship to her senior students. - M.V.N. |