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Show PAGE 6 TEMPLAR TRUMPET, MAY 14, 1998 MHS students take part in Mormon Miracle Pageant By: Chris Helms When you think of Manti City what comes to sour mind? Maybe the high school, or agriculture, but the one of the things that put Manti on the map is the Mormon Miracle Pageant. This religious gathering has caught the eye of not only Utah, but the entire nation. Every June about 1 35,000 people attend the Mormon Miracle Pageant sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They come from sea to shining sea Even visitors from other coun" tries come to 'The Pageant And three MHS students arc taking part of this cultural event as interns for the Mormon Miracle Pageant Sharie Stewart. Ken Hansen and Sherry Black all take part as interns. They all have important parts that educate them in the world of culture. Sharie and Ken take part as assistant directors. There have been many changes in the Pageant this year and Sharie and Ken have been influential parts in the altercations. They meet with the other directors every Thursday at 7:30 until 10:00, where they act out different scenes and discuss problem areas in the blocking. They also are educated on directing as they shadow different styles and get to try their acquired skill with the actors. Sherrv Black works in the area of costume design department. With this experience she attended the Utah Opera to v iew some of the work of the main costume desiun She attends Mantis Math Team takes first and second place in competitions By: Leslie Good The team consisting of John Nuttall. Catherine Soderborg. Charity Gardner, and Tony Peterson, coached by Mr. Leslie Good, placed second in a competition held at Utah State University on March 19, 1998 A larger team w as put together by adding members Chris Bean. Amy Hintzc. James Peacock. Erin Rassmusscn. Connor Th ompson, and Christine Johnson They competed in the Snow College Math Competition April 7, 1998 and took first place. Catherine Soderborg "s score was a tie for 2nd highest individual score in the competition. This is the 2nd year in a row that Manti I ligh has taken first place at the Snow College I:am Attention Students Especially Seniors: Gel your video yearbooks lor $10.00. Pay in (he office and bring me receipt lo Mr. Dellinger. Available for pick up May 20! Please order no laler man Monday, May 18! Good-by- e, meetings concerning the would be the man to go to. Mrs. Victoria Brandt was pleased to tribute Mr. Christiansen. She said that, "Gaylen Christiansen is one of the finest men 4 know. Mr. Marc Taj lor was also honored cos- tume plans. She currently is working on building the warrior helmets and learning how to work with the different materials. Sharie Stewart stated 1 am glad I have had the opportunity to work with the pageant and its directors. We hope this year's pageant w ill be the best ever" This program is offered through School to Careers. If you are interested in an internship in any area talk with Jill I lansen. at the School to C office in the library at the high school. Truly, these Manti High School students have had a great opportunity to work vv ith one of the dy nasties of this communitv. Gaylen! By: Matthew Hampton "One of the finest teachers in Manti High School," stated Greg Dettinger. will be graduating with the class of 1998. Gaylen Christiansen was noted for his hard work, honesty. and character. If one ev er needed there oil changed or needed new spark plugs he to tribute Mr. Christiansen. He said that "Mr. Christiansen has always been there for me. Teachers don't make a lot of money and auto mechanics can get very expensive, he was always willing to help me out and never asked a tiling for it. When Mr. Christiansen was approached and asked to make a few comments on his depar- ture he humbly declined don't want no fansaying, 1 fare." We would like thank this kind man for teaching us. not only about cars, but about how to be a wonderful human being Manti High School student returns from South Africa By:Anna Osmond On April 3, Tony Peterson journeyed to South Africa where he would dwell until May 9. He journeyed to South Africa to fulfill an internship with a man named Steve Lund. Steve is a local petroleum engineer who has a contract with the South African government to produce natural gas wells. He went down there with Steve to work on phase one of this project Tony was able to get this internship through school to careers. Tony recieved I credit for every 00 hours that he w oi ked "The woik was very interesting and really fun to learn about." Tony said There were some things he was suprised to discover about the real work world. The length of time it took to arrange the equipment, loca- tion and workers was very suprismg. In fact, the "Irons" share of the time was spent getting things ready for the drilling they went to do. Hie language and cultural differences of the local people accounted for most of the time. It was so hard to understand and be understood when the directions were technical and required exact placement. Tony was impressed at Steve's patience. le had to explain directions up to 10 or 20 times. One of the best times of the trip was when Tony and Steve could look around the country and see all of the exotic animals. I le tells the story of an evening they accidentally ran over a cobra. Since the encounter was fatal for the cobra, they thought they would get it stuffed, or whatever you do with dead snakes to pieserve them. The problem that they had was to get any person to come anywhere near the snake. South 1 Africans are extremely supersticious about snakes So when they found out they had a snake in the trunk they wouldn't even come near the car. Tony told about this experience he had. "One day we decided to drive through Kruger National Park Immcdiatly upon entering the park, vve noticed large piles of elephant manucr in the road. As we drove through the park the elephant sign became more and more frequent until it was a task to drive around them just to av oid high centering our little Volkswagon Polo. Eventually we found one of the causes of all our troubles off to the side of the road browsing on small trees. It was not a huge elephant; it might hav e been any of the ones you have seen in the zoo. Everything looked safe enough, so we decided to get out of the car and take pictures Steve took the video camera and I took the 35mm camera and we went a little closer to the elephants. Suddenly, the elephant looked at us. shook his head, flapped his cars, snorted and took a few steps towards us. We decided that was close enough to a charge and raced towards the car. I was in the car and had it started when Steve finally made it back. We decided to tell our families that we had been charged by an elephant. It scents that Tony had a marvelous experience and obviously it will be something that will help him a lot in the future! |