| Show The Grantsville GAZETTE He loves the mountains and decided to build his home on the west side of Grantsville where he has an excellent "I’ve been view He says able to view the fire coming towards my home (last summer) for seven miles and I'm in a good situation to watch the great Salt Lake filling up" Don likes Like most teachers he is obviously not in it for the money He likes the kids He feels they keep the teachers young His Don Halladay teaching main goal is to have students an develop appreciation of literature He would like students to get comfortable enough with their own language to really enjoy it and to be able to express their thoughts ACT above A person who lifts weights builds his own home and loves the outdoors would not be considered a typical English teacher But typical is not in Don Halladay's vocabulary Don was born in Murray and raised in Grantsville He attended BYU and graduated rom the University of Utah with a degree in English and Educational Administration He has spent 25 years in education He was a principal in Wendover for four years §He taught at Tooele Junior and Grants- ville He has been teaching in Grantsville for nine years and is currently teaching English and Spanish He is married to Hildi of Hildi's Boutiques and has three Clifford children — Kevin and Diane He loves the outdoors and anything associated with it He will hunt and ffish when he can He also loves art sculpturing poetry He and language literature had collected student limericks for nine years but his excellent collection was lost in :he school fire High Dugway average The Tooele School District is above statewide and national Wednesday been traditionally area in Utah is working the English March 28 1984 a pae 7 problem and the District hard to test scores increase Thanks Oasis The Grantsville High School like to give special would Oasis thanks to the band for their desire to help the school by sponsoring a dance for the community on March 17 The Middle School was packed and $875 was given to the GHS Band to help in their efforts to raise $3000 for the St George competition to be held April 13 th and 14th Lariet Review The Lariett Review will March 29 be held Thursday at 7:30 pm at the Middle ACT for testing School There will be a 500 charge for the fifth consecutive year for students $100 for adults The ACT tests are administered averages by high schools as achievement students tests for college-boun- d In the Tooele School District around 250 students took the test Their average was 192 compared to the Utah average of 184 and the national average of 183 O Walden Superintendent Gurney credits the high test scores to excellent teachers higher graduation requirements and board of education goals The District has pushed "going back to the basics" Superin"We tendent says Gurney were ahead of the State in raising our graduation requirements and we have excellent teachers in the district students Tooele County scored very well in the science and social studies areas The above was math category state and national averages but the English category was on a par with the state average The English scores have Come out for an enjoyable our and support evening Larietts GHS Calendar March 28 - Baseball game here w Intermountain at 3:30 pm Review March 29 - Larietts at the 7:30 pm Middle School March 30 - Regional Commercial Competition at April 2 -- April 3 - April 4 - Web- er State College Baseball Game at Lehi at 2:00 pm GHS Community Council Meeting 7:30 pm at the Middle School Baseball here with 1:00 Wasatch pm Baseball |
