Show Mfan-Ja-BB- g Class valedictorians and salutatorian named by Sundi Decker staff writer College of Eastern Utah graduation will highlight three unique individuals chosen as valedictorian and salutatorian this year Breaking with supposed tradition two S McKay Price and Pete Deffcndol — have been selected Tor honors due to their pair of perfect 40 averages Charlene Chiaretta with a 399 average will serve as salutatorian for commencement activities Price age 2 1 is the from Murray I le is the son of Steven and Kristen K Price I le will receive an A A degree in business at graduation having attended CEU on scholarship Alter graduating from Murray High School he began college studies at CEll in 1993 Prom January 994 to January 9 he served an LDS mission in Korea lie commented that (lie Korean culture is "a different world hut a fun one" lie returned to CEU this year for winter and spring quarters Because of numerous advanced placement credits attained in high school he has been able to 1 1 complete his degree in less than two years Price plans to major in business and minor in business information systems on scholarship at the University of Utah next year Deffcndol is the son of Ted and Susan Deffcndol of Spring Glen and an alumnus of Carbon High School lie is 9 and has completed an AS degree in general education on scholarship during one year at CEU I le was also able to do this because of AP and concurrent enrollment classes he completed in high school He plans to attend Utah State University where he has also been awarded a scholarship and where lie intends to major in computer science I le commented that he likes live “atmosphere" at CEU with its small classes Chiaretta is a student and (he mother of three children who will receive an associate 1 degree in nursing ( ADN ) at commencement After graduating from Emery High School she earned her LPN 23 years ago at what is now Utah Valley State College She went on front there to work as a nurse at the State Training School in American Fork and at the Child care Ctmmued frtm page ( final goal in this program is in educating the public about child care issues and making them aware of the choices available in child care The new office is giving Anderson an opportunity tocontrihute to tlic world of child care She tuts traveled to several National Association ofChildCarc Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) symposiums “Many of the conferences we have in Washington DC when we go up to the state offices a lot of the meetings that we have with state officials arc to support child care and encourage them to direct the funds that arc available to child care services or promol i ng qual it y care for children" Andeison said She is attends monthly directors mcctines in Salt take City and is involved in getting a lending library started It will house hooks on child care nutrition games and even various toys that will he able to be lent out for the providers Anderson is excited about her position Fifteen years ago site moved to Price as a single parent of two children “There has never been this sort of resource in this area to the extent of this office” she says Something like this could have been beneficial to licr then and will benefit many now Her educational background includes ahachelor's and master's degree inclcmcntary education She taught elementary school at Price and Reeves Elementary Schools four years When slie remarried her husband had two children from a prcvi- N M N N N N N M N M N N N N N M M M N N N M M M M N N M N N N All N shirts 1 0 oft N M N N 1 996 3-- 6 June colors Remember all the N N great M M M and styles available in the N N N N M N CEU N N Hi M Located In the M Student Activity Center Open from 9 am to 4:30 pm N N wHwhWKBM1 I N N N N N Bookstore M M gency room nurse at Castleview Columbia Hospital and she will continue working their after graduation Chiaretta is a native of Ferron where she currently resides She explained that it lakes “a lot of time and planning" to handle a job a family and a college education at the same time She told that CEU's strength comes from the dedication of its teachers “Everybody was willing to help she said As graduation approaches we welcome these three scholars into their positions of high honors that arc prove their incredible dedication to learning and Salutatorian titles are grunted to individuals who receive the highest grade point averages after attending CEU long enough to obtain a degree Congratulations to Pete Deffcndol and Price McKay Charlene Chiaretta for outstanding excellence at CEU we wish them futures in continuance of academic and career Valedictorian two-ye- ar successes steel and glass sculpture in her Artist Karen Jobe Templeton created a of instructor with John Cloward and her classthe class assistance welding mates Up to this time her largest sculpture she had created was 18 inches 10-to- ot The sculpture is exhibited in Grand Junction Colo for a year in the Art on the Comer project She plans to sell the petrogiyph sculpture for $15000 Photo hv N N N At CEU she has worked as an emer- Ml N N Emery Nursing I Ionic in Ferron When her children were old enough she returned to the work force and to college i V i ous marriage added to her (wo and the two they had together she quit teaching to care for their family As they got older she attained a job at the CEU preschool where she worked five years She loved her job as the preschool head teacher however she feels that rather than having an impact on several children she can indirectly affect children's lives now The child thou-sands- of care issue is a personal one for Anderson she was a single parent for seven years two of those she was going to AHmi school and working part time jobs and was always concerned about her children On Nov S 1996 from 9 pm an open house for the new CCR&R office is planned If you are interested in the program the office numbers are 637-- 2 6 and hours 20 ext 36 9 or arc from 0 am to 4 pm “The biggest thing is to help the public become aware g of the difference between and quality child care We are promoting professionalism in the child care 7-- 1 1 637-478- 1 baby-sittin- DeFriez area" she stresses Anderson would like to have the wages of ccrtificd-car- c givers raised 'Child care in some areas throughout Utah is as little as 40 cents an hour That is a crime against children as well as the people who are caring for them In our area the standard rate is about $173 an hour way below minimum wage and these people are providing a service that is way above any other kind of service that pays minimum wage because they are future" curing for children-ou- r PhilosophyEuropean history teacher leaves CEU to pursue PhD El like lie was not accomplishing anything a student would slop by and say "I look your class and it showed me that said (hat a couple of weeks ago a hag of fudge with a card was tied to his door It was from a former student who Kxik his classes and was inspired to stay in school and gel a degree Pcpus said he will miss the friends that he made on this campus I le would like to thank Sara Ewert Jim Schampel for their friendship and Larry and Darlene Sevcrcid for their hospitality However he is looking forward to leaving Price lie said he probably would have enjoyed it better if he were an outdoors person "My first questions (wlicn outdoors) are first how cun I get room service and second where can I sec the Notre Dame game?" After finals he will head hack East to prepare for schooling I le has received a fellowship through tlic University of Washington in St Louis He will he studying Modern amid learn (this)" or students would tell him (hat taking his classes inspired them to stay in school European history specializing in British history under Richard W Davis Davis is said to be The most distin by Danl Wtigand editor Alter two years of teaching European history and Philosophy Chris PCpus is venturing to Washington University at St Louis for graduate work towards receiving his PhD Pc pus was working on his Masters degree at the University of Virginia when lie learned of the leaching position available at the College of Eastern Utah He was looking in (he Chronicle of Higher Education for a position that would allow him to teach philosophy and History Some of the most memorable things he experienced while leaching at CEU was the positive feedback he received from his students I I le said that when lie I le guished mid nineteenth century British political historian working on this side of the Atlantic" Pcpus was offered the I Idler fellowship which provides him with stable income four years tuition waiver and one year of overseas research He will be applying for a grant which will allow hi m another year of overseas study As far as giving advice to students and faculty he said "Philosophy begins with a gape" By this he means that people should know the limits of their knowledge I le remembers an example of someone who did not know their limits of knowledge last year during a grade appeal that was upheld "During the meeting the father amid not even grasp grade school ainccpts" He said "We need to be more Socratic" Socrates was said to he the wisest man in Greece and this was because he knew the boundaries of his own ignorance |