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Show 8A DESERET NEW5, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1973 Some yellow school bus reflections Continued from Page A-- 3 until 6 p.m. or after. Thats a school day. Its like a student from Salt Lake City traveling to Logan every day to go to and detouring the last 10 miles over school roads. primitive m 160-mi- If you had your choice, with no one putting pressure on you, would you go to school or stay home? Douglas Mesa students were asked? iH o to school, was the instant reply. If you had your choice, would you board in Blanding or ride the bus? Id ride the bus. Larry Rock, who gets up at 4:30 a.m. and gets home at 6:00 p.m., says he would not want to live in Blanding, I prefer to ride the bus. Why? Some familes need help, was his simple reply, explaining that he chopped wood, herded sheep, helped with the lambing and hauled water. He is a sophomore. Home is where the heart is, in Navajo as or any other language. well as English Students realize, says Charlie Dandy, "that school is what they must have if they want to get a job and have a better life. Dandy, educated at Brigham Young University, is a tutor in the San Juan School District. Because he still speaks Navajo in its traditional form he also serves as liaison between the schools and Navajo parents. Darkness hides hill Students who must ride the bus to school are denied many of the fringe benefits of education participation in athletics and other after-hour- s activities. They arrive at school tired and find studies more difficult. There are other long bus runs in which Minnie Deal descends to meet bus near Navajo hogan. far-flun- g shadows tell the time as bus stops near Mexican Hat to pick up waiting riders. Long San Juan County, the states largest, nearly square miles in the area. 8,000 The Bluff route, which picks up students east of Bluff, including some who cross the San Juan River on a swinging footbridge, travels 40 miles or more. Three buses from the Montezuma Creek area travel 46 to 53 soft light of early morning. miles. Its 43 miles from Cahone Mesa, 25 all to from Hatch and 15 from White Mesa San Juan High. In the north end of the county, a bus carries students 63 miles from LaSal Ranch to Monticello High School. Two groups of students are bused out of state. About 20 students are bused from the Oljato area to Kayenta, Ariz. Another 20 are bused from the LaSal Mountain area near the Colorado boundary to Dove Creek, Colo. The big yellow bus may have replaced the little red school house, but on San Juans long runs they still are not the ultimate answer. Musical sermon at exercises Continued from Page A-- 3 The bad news is that your education continues throughout life. If we are not spendd of our time ing learning new things, we are becoming obsolete. one-thir- In our ever changing g world, education is a we The things process. do today will be uninteresting 10 years from now. Each of us will have to learn something new in the interval. never-endin- But the learning of new things isnt oO bad. It makes it possible to change careers to Lake up every so often to work at new subjects or.e for a while with a new enthusiasm. Its great! How sad it must have been in olden days to work at the same task for a lifetime. In the baccalaureate service, Jan Peerce pointed out in his short remarks that the universal language of music makes everyone into an audience, and all differences of politics, ambitions, races, and eliminated. And it is this condition of being one in purpose that is so desperately needed in todays anxious world. 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