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Show News about people and their lives m Wednesday May 20, 1987 Community briefs Piano students will perform at recital Two Clinton piCLINTON ano teachers will hold a joint recital Wednesday, May 20, at 7:45 p.m. at the North Branch library in Clearfield. Students of Cheryl Bradley and Lynette Winterton will perform. Children's theatre auditions scheduled LAYTON Auditions for the upcoming Childrens Theatre ' Staff photo by Robert Regan Staff photo by Rodney Wright . Principaf Lawrence Cook chats with Dave Beals and Daniel Olds. Stevenson has accumulated many awards, as the wall behind him testifies. Cook will miss school Principal bids. Davis High a fond farewell . ? He is a people perCLEARFIELD son. And its his almost former employees and the thallenges education has to offer hell miss the most. Clearfield High School Principal Lawrence Cook is retiring in June after 28 years of service with the Davis School District. But according to the Clearfield resident he is leaving behind. many memories and people he wishes he could take " with him. Ill miss the good people I work with every day, Cook said. Every day I work with able, qualified and loving people and Ive never had a bad job in education. Cook, who served as a principal for North Davis Junior High prior to being appointed to the Clearfield principalship in 1979, said the key to education is the the adults you work with and the kids. Over the years he has noticed kids are ; getting better and better every year, adding, but it is now more difficult to , motivate them. Motivating students is more difficult-now than in the past, because of television, he said. It (television) giVes you nothing back, you just sit there,. Cook said other elements impacting the students education are not just the financial difficulties facing the state, but the breakdown of the family. The family has been the teacher of kids for years, ...and now most families are lucky if they share one meal together a day, he said, Other challenges Cook named that face students both today and tommorow include alcohol and attendance prob' lems. Cook, who has had six of his own eight children graduate from Clearfield . v, . KAYSVILLE Students at Davis High School have been calling him their principal for 27 years, but this year the principal is calling it quits. Principal Richard Stevenson has announced he will retire at the end of this year after serving 38 years with the school district, 27 of them with Davis Cook behind his desk. High, said we as parents cant isolate our kids from the outside influences, but we can insulate them. Parents cant worry about lifes outside influences, because eventually kids will be confronted with them, he said. But Cook said there are some modem-day improvements in education that have made the students life easier. One such improvement is the teachers. Teachers are better than they have ever been. I dont have teachers teaching out of their field of expertise, he said. Cook said teaching facilities have also improved over the years. The facilities are better than they have ever been, such as the field houses for physical education and the programs we put on have improved, he said. Cook said students are now more recognized in a given field, because more programs are now offered to students, such as ROTC, drama and girls ,r athletics. We try to take care of the needs of every kid, whether he or she is motivated or not, he said. We run a program here at Clearfield High that anyone if , they wanted too could succeed at And when Cooks last school bell rings on June 4, he said people will be able to find him enjoying his 12 grandchildren and just taking time to smell the roses. High. . But the former Layton mayor, city councilman and 1987 Educator of the Year said he wont go without any re- grets. Im going to miss the activities, Stevenson said. Im going to miss the contact with the teachers. Im going to miss the students. Im going to miss the inter- action with the parents. Im going to miss Davis High. Stevenson, who was named as the Davis principal in 1960, credited his long stay at Davis to the community and his understood as a natural part of life people are better able to go through the grieving process and come out of it as stronger people. Those who deny their sadness and or other themselves grief do themselves an injusprepare members of their families for the tice and can even suffer physicald of the inevitable, said Richard Myers of ly. Myers said in the mental illness Mortuaries. country can Myers g be traced to unresolved grief or America is a lack of acceptance of a death. society, he said. Just as there are natural stages is has set one it that And yet in the birth process there are nor- aside a national holiday to commemorate those Americans who mal stages of grief. The first thing that hits after a have died in battle and those other family members who have death is shock, Myers said. Death is very traumatic, he died. said. Shock is natures anestheton death the We tend to put and think that it will ic, a way of helping you cope. only happen to someone else, he After shock, anger and hostility often set in, he said. It is much said. We even deny it in the lansame as if someone has stolen it. the describe use to we guage We say people have passed something of great worth to you, away or gone on, rather than say like a car or a jewel. There is they have died. We inter them frustration and anger that it has rather than bury them, they are been taken from you without taken to the cemetery in a coach your permission. When anger and hostility begin rather than a hearse. is to death said when regress a sense of recoiling sets But Myers one-thir- death-denyin- back-burn- er , 546-858- A there has been some challenges, such as the struggle they had over closing the campus in the early 1960s so the students couldnt leave school. Stevenson said that problem lasted for several years, until Clearfield High School Was built. He said other issues he confronted involved the districts policy on not allowing married students to participate in school activities. And what would Stevenson like people to think when they look back on his years at Davis? I would like to think people will look back on my administration and say I cared about Davis High, he said. 10-da- 15-2- call. He suggested that parents not keep children isolated from death but help them to learn that it is a normal process of life that everyone will experience someday. If death takes a child the parents may struggle, not only with denial but with guilt over what they did or didnt do enough of or how they could have prevented the death. That guilt can last a long time, Myers said, because it is the role of a parent to successfully raise the child to adulthood. Failure not to raise the child brings a sense of personal failure to the parent. 6, 546-442- 546-049- 5. Kays Creek Writers to meet Saturday KAYSVILLE Wanda Peterson of American Fork will be a special guest at the monthly meeting of the Kays Creek Writers on Saturday, May 23. Mrs. Peterson is state president of the League of Utah Writers. The meeting will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Anderson, 785 E. 200 N. in Kays-vilfrom 10 a.m. to noon. Members are invited to bring samples of their work. Carbon copies will be helpful. For information call 2 or le 544-868- 544-882- 8. Clinton to sponsor senior citizerl event folks. in. The mourner tends to withdraw and some describe it as a time that they are not quite with it, everyday happenings seem vague and it can be difficult to cope with other people. Sometimes denial of the death is expressed. The one mourning waits for the deceased person to come home or answer a phone sceneryart class will also be -5 where people support education, academic excellence and any other program you have, he said. Over the years I have had a treme-dou- s stafL.that have been supportive of my administration, Stevenson said, adding, and my wife, Elda, and my four children have also been supportive. The former Davis alumnus said he returned to his hometown school prior to serving as principal for Central Davis Junior High for the joy of it. Im at Davis for the joy of it, he said. The joy of working, with young Ive never looked at it as a period of trial and tribulation. Ive looked at every experience as one worthwhile. But Stevenson admits over the years 0. a part of the workshop and will be taught by Marlene Biondo. Students may register June at the Senior Citizens Center. Space is limited to 12 students. y Fee for the workshop, is $25 per to be held June student. Classes will be from 9 to 12 a.m. Performances will be June 27 and 28, not July, as previously printed. Kathy Skidmore will be musi8 cal director and Charlene Nelson drama director, staff. ' My secret has been that Davis High is located in a tremendous community Don't deny death of LAYTON The death of a loved one is probably the most stressful and difficult situation any person will be faced with, yet people do little to emotionally Workshop, the Pied Piper," will be held Monday, June I, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Heritage Museum for singing and speaking parts. Dancers may audition on May 28 from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Center in Layton. The workshop, sponsored by Layton Arts Council and Layton City Parks and Recreation, is open to students from fifth to ninth grade (ages 10 to 15). Those desiring singing parts should have a short solo prepared. An accompanist will be provided. Those interested in speaking parts must give a short reading or poem and will be asked to read from the script. Singers and speakers should make an audition appointment by calling Karen at the Parks and Recreation Office Dancers should wear dance practice clothes and come prepared to learn a short routine. LaRae Thackeray will be over the dance section of the workshop. Clinton City ReCLINTON creation Department is sponsoring a pot luck dinner and dance for senior citizens on Wed., May 27 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Bring a favorite dish and join the fun. The Merry Makers will provide the music for dancing. Please R.S.V.P., Clinton City Municipal Building. For more information, call Dixie Flint, , Richard Stevenson when he first started teaching. 825-539- 8. After the period of recoiling, get on with life as usual for somebegins the time of adjustment. time. This can be a long and difficult The third month can be espetime. Depression, loneliness, las- cially challenging. The mourner situde, searching, and longing all has usually finished and worked KAYSVILLE The next take a toll. It is also a time of so- through the business end of the of Preceptor Iota, Beta meeting cial adjustment, of beginning a death and paper work and estate Sigma Phi, will be held May 26, 7 new life without the loved ones work is nearing completion. The p.m. in Fruit Heights at the home presence. reality of the death really sets in, of Ann Barentsen. When the mourner has worked Myers said. It can be an overThe annual chapter birthday through these emotions, which whelming feeling. party will be held and Secret Siscan be a time consuming process, a year after the death ters will be revealed. About a period of acceptance comes the when a new lifestyle and new so- comes.anniversaryand syndrome times that Holidays cial relationships begin. bring back memories for a family each bring a renewed sense of The three areas of death acceptance can help a person through loss. The North Davis Chapter of some of the stages of grief, Myers Friends and family members the American Diabetes Associasaid. The viewing before the fucan help the bereaved by being tion, Utah Affiliate, will hold its neral is a form of emotional acsupportive through the difficult education program for May on ceptance. The funeral itself offers months of readjustment. Myers 7:30 p.m. a time for a spiritual acceptance, said people need to care enough Thursday, May 21, at offer a Mentikov will Jeanie and the burial is a time of physito go out of their way to help by lecture titled Nutritional Needs cal acceptance of the loss of the listening and by physically being of the Diabetic. loved one. with the person. Grief shared is The program will be held in But even with the acceptance grief diminished as the sorrow of the Humana Hospital Davis of the death Myers said people one becomes the sorrow of all, he North vocational classroom, should not expect themselves to said. north parking lot. Preceptor chapter plans May meeting Diabetics to hear lecture on nutrition 4 , |