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Show Page 7) North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, October 3, 19$4 Z' K t i ince W02, Lsyton School Stood for Education LYNDIA GRAHAM Review Correspondent LAYTON It went up in and the old Layton Elementary went on to become a Layton landmark to the thousands of students who were taught in its classrooms, ran in its halls and played on the playgrounds. Last week the old building came tumbling down to be hauled off to .local dumps. Within a day the entire building lay in a pile, an undignified end to an institution that educated so many Davis County residents between 1902 and 1984. Layton Elementary was built on the West Gentile site in 1902 as consolidation efforts moved to get students out of one room schools and into a graded school 1902 and intermediate grade teacher, with May Gibson teaching the primary grades. The school was intended to educate children through the eighth and ninth grades, depending on the qualifications of a given teacher during the year. Those who wanted higher education had to travel to Ogden or Salt Lake until the completion of Davis High in 1914. Over the years, Layton Elementary saw many additions enlarge the origional school. A gymnasium was added to the second floor, property owned by Layton City and the LDS Church helped add a baseball diamond and a bowery. Eventually a cafeteria enhanced the school. New wings, additional classrooms and other remodeling made it almost impossible to tell where the original building ended and the additions began. In the early days of Layton Elementary, education had many differences when compared to todays modern schools, yet many of the everyday experiences were the same. Richard Marston, a Layton resident, remembers many of his childhood experiences at Layton Elementary. He began first grade at the school in 1920 and went on through eighth grade. His grandson Darby Gardner is a student n in the third grade at the new Elementary. Marston said he recalls traveling the three miles to the school in a covered wagon pulled by horses for the first few years of his schooling. A school bus driven by Robert Green later replaced system. The site was originally an Episcopal school called St. Judes. That school burned down in 1900 and negotiations were completed between the Epicopalian Church and the Eighth School District for purchase of the property to build Layton Elementary. The school originally consisted of only two classrooms when it opened on Oct. 12, 1902. Within a month a third room was completed, followed shortly by a fourth, giving the school two ground level classrooms and two on the upper level. Joseph A. Sill was the principal is something not taken for granted by either Richard Marston or his grandson, Darby. Both have been students at Layton Elementary, although at different ends of the century. Staff Photo by Robert Regan students raze old Layton Elementary School, throwing- take demolition workers up on offer to help rocks through windows on upper floors. j GETTING A RARE opportunity, Layton Scores Should Be Private BONNIE SMITH Special to the Lakeside Review Dear Bonnie, You did a column at the very end of the last school year about teachers making kids call their grades out loud all the time. It was great, but the end of the school year was a dumb time to print it. Would you print it again, including the letter from the kid? This time, please print it early in the year so the teachers get the message BEFORE we have to be embarrassed all year! Thanks. Lots of Kids Dear Lots, Id be glad to! Here it is: Dear Bonnie, I know most of your letters are from parents--bu- t could you answer this one from a student? I do try pretty hard, but sometimes my scores arent very high. I have a teacher who makes us call out our scores every day in class, and I get really embarrassed. I tried to ask him not to have us call them out, but he still does it every day. My mom has spoken with him too. I dont like having everyone know when I get bad grades. I a student cant tell a hate teacher what to do. Can he fail ut Two the cafeteria is completed. The classrooms of Marstons memory werent much different from those of today; a large room with a blackboard at one end. The desks were attached to each other by metal pieces at the bot tom, six or seven to the row, and had ink wells, which Marston said he used to dip his scratch d. . The new Layton Elementary is ' a beautiful new building, located C' to the west of the origonal school? : Like its namesake, years of nego- - ? tiations were worked through to; complete a land deal betweent the ; school board, the city of Layton,' ' and the LDS Church to acquire i the property for the new buildihgl The new school has 28 class- rooms, a large cafeteria and a beautiful media center located in ' the middle of the school. Ink wells have given way to 20 television sets, which pipe in a, district cable channel, and several computers which the children. have access to. Separate rooms are available for social workers, speech therapists and music teachers from the countv. The bricks and rubble will soori be gone from what used to be" Layton Elementary but the new ' ' building stands ready to continue with the Layton Elementary tfa1 dition. But when the old bell tow-er fell, despite efforts to preserve' and carefully remove it, help but think its fall.--, marked the end of an era for equ-.- J -- pen in. He cant remember ever dipping a pigtail of a classmate into the ink bottles but one young lass, a Miss Ella D. Adams, became the object of his affections and he became very smitten with her in the second grade. He added that he became quite an expert at the old wink business, something that still seems to be practiced in local schools. Marston said he feels the main differences in education today and yesterday is in the divesifica-tio- n of the subject taught now compared to then. His own love for math has been passed on to his young grandson Darby, but grandpa prefers to use his formulas and a pencil, while Darby reaches for his advanced calculator. 1 t one'-couldn- cation in Layton. . PTA Names Chalk Line ' , mm per-mite- CALCULATOR ! ? the movies were, although they were silent movies. During the evening the principal of the school at that time, E.G. King, would read the subtitles aloud so that the movie could be enjoyed by all, including those who couldnt read. King also spent many recesses with the children, fielding balls for them to catch on the ball diamond. Indoor restrooms with plumbing were not yet a common convenience in the school when Marston attended. Priveys were the wagon. located on the edge of the playHe said the school had a nearby ground. There was no running barn to house the horses that water for common use and many of the students rode to lunches were carried in pails to school. be eaten in the classrooms or outdoors when the weather Crossing guards were as important then as they are now to the saftey of school children but MarMy favorite lunch was canned ston said that service was providsalmon sandwiches, Marston ed by some of the older boys at said. He told his grandson he the school and was considered a didnt remember eating peanut privlege, one which allowed the butter sandwhiches, and joked about Darbys modern version of boys to attend the movies in the school lunch. Layton Theatre without charge. The theater was located in the Ironically, sack lunches are befabwhich a now houses building ing prepared at another school ric shop on Main Street. and brought in for the students at. Marston recalled how enjoyable the new Layton Elementary until Photo by Lyndia Graham . , Lay-to- , M M. me if I refuse to say my scores unless your grades merit an F. out loud? Get an appointment with your Embarrassed principal or vice principal (dont Dear Embarrassed, waste any more time speaking Any teacher who has students with the teacher who has paid no call their scores out in front of attention to requests from yourthe class has the sensitivity of a self or Your mom mother). your rhinoceros. It is a horrible pracdoes not need to go in with you tice and I can think of no circumto talk to the principal, and if you stance under which it could be ask him to, the principal will condoned. Far too many teachers visit in confidence. keep your indulge themselves in this manExplain your feelings and how ner. It is done for the teachers kids feel about this and that other students convenience at the and your mom have both you deplorable trade-ofto talk to the teacher about tried This procedure can and often it. Also explain that while most does cause a sad chain reaction. teachers respond better to reasonA. sensitive child may become able requests, this teacher continwithdrawn, callous, nonchalant ues to embarrass you. You andor misbehave to save face cannot tell the teacher what to in front of classmates. Children the but do, principal can. He can lost or far behind do not expect either stop the practice altogether to do any better next time, so or help work out an acceptable they begin to warn or brag to compromise. classmates--an- d believe I would love to see this practice they will do badly again. disappear entirely. Do let me Quite often their prediction know if your meeting is effective. comes true, but they can say, I Though huge classes breed shorttold you so, ..and feel some concuts, grades are and ever ought to trol over the wrenching embarrasbe a private matter-exce- pt, persment. Placing children in this haps, for extolling successes. situation daily is callous and unQimtions for Bonnie Smith may be sent to her f. them-selves--th- at necessary. . Your teacher cannot fail you at the Lakeside Review, 2146 N. Main, Suite S26, Layton, Utah 14041. Officers At Academy Bountiful BOUNTIFUL Academy has become the first private school in the state of Utah to organize with the state and national Parent Teacher Association. We feel the PTA can offer us some benefits we cant get on our own, said newly elected president, Patty Pilkington, Centerville resident. In many schools children are bent to fit the program, not the program being adjusted to meet the childs needs. When the national, state, and local administrations of PTA work together, the needs of all children can be met, said Mrs. Pilkington. The slate of officers include Diane Wilkins, Bountiful, first vice president; Norm Hassett, headmaster and teacher, second vice president; Julie Busse, Bountiful, third vice president; Susan Tanner Holmes, Farmington, sectrearetary; Vic Lund, Bountiful, historian, surer, and Linda Lund, Diane Maynes, Fruit Heights, family relations and education; Dr. Glenn Gold, Bountiful, safety; Kathy Atwood, Bountiful, health; and Claudia Cleverly, Bountiful, individual development. at Clearfield Named Semifinalists Two ClearCLEARFIELD field High School students have been named semifinalists in the 30th annual Merit Program, which is conducted by the Merit Scholarship Corporation. David V. Cramer, son of Donald R. and Helen Cramer, 1639 E. 750 S., and Lannie R. Sears, son of Stanley and Margene Sears, 1690 E. South Weber Drive, are among the 15,000 high school seniors named to compete for the scholarships. The 1985 competition began last fall when more than a million juniors attending some 18,000 secondary schools throughout the nation took the qualifying test, the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude TestNational Mert Schol- - s. class, were named for Merit considered To be the students must Scholarships, become finalists by documenting semi-finalist- Na-tiOn- al CRAMER arship Qualifying Test. The top scorers in each state, representing DAVID I LANNIE SEARS about half of one percent of the states high school graduating high academic performance throughout high school, receiving the unqualified recommendation and endorsement of their principals and confirming their earlier PSATNMSQT scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. They must also provide information about themselves, including school and community activities and achievements, interests and goals. 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