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Show I I 1 Scene '75 TV GUIDE THURSDAY, JULY 17, PAUL HARVEY FEATURES CLASSIFIEDS H75 along the bear river SJPPLEMENT m TO THE NEWS EXAMINER. PRESTON CITIZEN. CACHE CITIZEN. GRACE CITIZEN AND THE MARK HART appears reflective over his TIMES different word power books. Word Power Books Proving Popular By ROBERT MERRILL Preston author, Mark Hart, has authored probably America's first and only systematic approach to programmed vocabulary buildA ing. W Hart, who has been in the area for 29 years, started word study as an LDS missionary in the San Diego area. While on his mission, he tried to learn five new words a day. HART, WITH a jeep load of boxed books. Is ready to make one of bis frequent trips to the Post Office.. After his mission, he started teaching school in Carbon County, Utah. There he started collecting words that might be troublesome to high school and college students. He has since found 5000 al words ually give students lems. , . THIRD ANNUAL Oldtimers Homecoming of former Preston residents will be held Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Robinson Fair Building in Preston. Chairman Mark Hart said the affair will begin at I p.m. and will consist of that us- prob- After three years of teaching English and band in Carbon County, he moved to Lava for one year and then moved again to American Falls. All this time he was collecting words. After two years at American Falls, Hart moved to Bothell, Wash., where he became head of the junior high and high school's English department. While at Bothell, he arranged these words into mimeographed lessons. The lessons consisted of the word, then the definition. In 1945 he began experimenting with putting the definitions before the word and in 1946 the first books were published. In 1950, they came out in parallel arrangement. Since that time, The Dia eld time Persiana-typ- e instruvisiting, vocal music and be will event preceded by the first reunion mentalists. The of all Preston and Franklin County eighth grade graduates of 191H. The annual rrunion is always held on a critic Word Power Testers, have been printed 25 times and are at present in their 26th printing. One and million copies have been sold to students, grade four one-ha- lf through college level. Hart's vocabulary workbooks are used in every state in the Union, including Alaska and Hawaii. Many foreign countries, among them England, Ireland, France, South America, Canada, Mexico, Lebanon, Japan and India also use the book. A short time ago, Hart received an order from India stating that they couldn't pay for the books but wished to have some sent. He sent the books free of charge. One wonders how people in .these foreign countries ever find out about these books," said Hart. A bicentennial motif, with a picture of our Constitution and a poem by Hart, titled, Our Nation, Lord, Forever," is featured on the front and back covers of more than 25,000 of these books. The poem with the same title has been set to music by Harts brother, Mickey, and will soon be available to the public. Hart has also written a book of poetry entitled Apples of Gold, and Apple Blossom Daze, which is about the first 20 years of his life. He married the former Clara Walburger of Leth- bridge, Alberta, Canada. They have nine children and 28 grandchildren. Rodeo. Saturday the Ust day of the Famous Preston Night visitors Ust at the of year's shows part This photo 5 p.m. after homecoming. The picture was Uken about many of the 400 had left. Anderson Photo . |
