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Show To Observe 60th Anniversary Margot Meyer Remembered As Demanding Teacher Messenger - Enterprise, Thursday, Nov. 11, 1976 Is Homecoming Queen Attendant as Little did Marguerite Stevens and LaVor Taylor (circled) realize when they stood side by side for their fifth grade picture, that they would still be side by side for a 60th wedding anniversary. ; The four children of LaVor Snow College with a certificate and Marguerite Taylor will to teach school in May, 1918, honor their parents at dinner in but chose to become a late November in observance of beautician because this work would interfere less with her their 60th wedding anniversary. other careers as wife and LaVor and Marguerite's love affair apparently began in the mother. She operated with fifth grades for they . are , LaVor the shop in Ephraim, but pictured standing side by side also for special occasions traveled to other towns to give in the class picture, taken in marcels and permanents. front of the old Ephraim South She also had other interests, Ward church. Miss Carrie Larsen was the teacher. including hunting. In 1936 she the first lady most than more got her deer Perhaps and gained known to do so couples the Taylors followed recognition for this exploit. closely related careers for much She has held numerous of their working lives. LaVor has had a barber's license and church positions, including Marguerite a beauty license for Relief Society offices in the more than 55 years of continEphraim North Ward and the uous registration in Utah. Butte, Mont., Ward, and in the ImThey together operated a Young Womens Mutual Assn. for in many provement Ephraim shop For several years, LaVor years. dual careers: co- Governor Calvin L. Rampton followed his wife of the with invited them to attend the operator and Governors Appreciation Dinsheepshearer. shop He learned the barber trade ner at the Salt Lake Hilton last February in recognition of their in a school in Salt Lake City and sheepshearing from his father. years of professional service. For 12 years he was president from Marguerite graduated of the Sheep Shearers Union of North America, with headquarters in Butte. The union has recognized him for 61 years of continuous membership. In addition, the Guinness Book of Records has named him the worlds champion shearer, with a lifetime record of more than 225,000 fleeces. LaVor has also been active in church and civic functions. He was a YMMIA president, has been an Ephraim City councilman and was chairman of the city beautification program for two years. He is a charter member of the Ephraim Fire Dept, and of the Ephraim Lions Gub. He belongs to the Lions Million Member Gub. In 1944 he was presented a citation for meritorious service to the United War Fund of Utah by Earl J. Glade. So many shared interests in home, family, church, civic activities, work and hobbies have undoubtedly all played their part in our 60 years of Marhappy married life, guerite says. The. Taylors four children are Donald L. Taylor, a professor at the University of Southern Illinois; Mrs. Norma T. Lawrence, Fontana, Calif.; Zane Taylor, an engineer at Geneva Steel Co., and Mrs. Margene T. Campbell, Hacienda Heights, Calif. , was younger. She was very Remembered people back? looks strict, but the children came to youth Sometimes grandparents, an understand her and werent aunt or uncle, a neighbor, a afraid of her. They realized that teacher. A special person for she truly wanted them to various reasons. She taught the progress. One of the remembered fundamentals because she said teachers is Margot Meyer, they must be mastered, and almost five feet high and portly, slowly built upon them. She was old country in her who came to Ephraim 15 years or so ago to teach piano, voice, ways, Sue Ann Ockey recalls. children Several of our guitar. In the years that she destudied with her. She was a stayed, she drilled, she she cajoled, she demanding, manded, persuaded. She insisted on a teacher. She built character along with musical skills. They mastery of the fundamentals, she required hours of practice, still speak of her with approval she demanded performance. and a kind of awe. After a few years teaching She praised, she rapped the heads of the lazy, she dismissed students, who came from towns as distant as Fairview and the idlers. And hundreds of students, Centerfield, Mrs. Meyer left some teachers now, remember Ephraim for California for reasons of health and to be near her for her good works. One of her piano students her son Peter and other was Mrs. Nancy Oliver, a relatives. A Southern Utah State College coed from Manti has been named second attendant to the She lives now, in the Ralston composer and teacher now in 1976 Homecoming Queen. Lucretia Gray (right) is reigning over homecoming activities I in and liked her, her own right. Tower, Modesto, Calif., Mrs. Oliver says. She didnt still takes a few voice, students'. with Lori Lambros (left), first attendant, and Ferol Ann White (center), queen. If I have left a tiny little-marwant us to waste money and in the heart of one human she was sent to live with time. She insisted we practice. She drilled us in the funda- being, I think I have lived, she wealthy relatives in Germany, mentals. leaving her father behind. "I says. No one Three of the Bruce Bown except perhaps cried my eyes out for my dad, children studied with Mrs. Margot Meyer knows why she she says. She lived in Germany for 42 Scott and Brad, the came to Ephraim in the first Meyer guitar; Deena, the piano. place. But she brought with her years. Those 42 years encomManti High School parent-teachments. to Ephraim a background of passed two world wars; a career Scott is teaching guitar now, will be held Parents should plan to conferences on the concert and opera stage; Myrle Dean Bown, his mother experience that few possess. school on November attend in order to become at the high to a Nazi; the She was born in Chicago. At .marriage says, and he can appreciate 17 under sponsorship of the acquainted with the teachers, her more than he did when he seven, after her mother died, destruction of three homes; the death of her old high school faculty and the high gain an understanding of the school PTA. goals of the classes their daughter in an Allied bombing. children take and discover any The recital of ; experience The conferences will be held problems their children are continues: escape from the from 1:00 to 4:00 that afternoon having, Mrs. Dora Lynn d eastern and again from 7:00 to 9:00 that Richardson, PTA president, zone; long separations from her evening. Parents may attend at said. twQ sons; divorce; and finally time during those hours. The conferences will be held the visa that enabled her to any The PTA will serve refresh in the teachers classrooms. return to America. I tell you very little, Margot Meyer says, although MYSTERIOUS I have much to remember, too. EOriSTERS Among the things she had lost, says Mrs. Norma Olson, who sometimes, accompanied her, were all but the remnants of a once great vojce. But she had also great gained strengths. Among those strengths was a commitment to work, to effort, to the development of talent, to discipline as a shaping force. And it is for this commitment that Margot Meyer, 74 now, ' who came for a few years made ' 17 her imprint and then left, is remembered in young hearts. 7:15 :C3 k MHS Parents, Teachers Plan Conferences er ar Russian-dominate- tta & OPEN THE DOOR TO Perform a death-defyi- ng NEW act. BUSINESS Advertise! Margot Meyer at her piano' Give Heart Ftind. fcf fc! - - cs.ncjssfT Tcra Thcctro Iphrtia, CheSi mJSSSSSmLmSmmSSlXm I10VJ OPEN! LaFoyo'o Confoctionofy Hot Sandwiches Milk Pizzas Bread - Eggs Soda Pop Candy Magazines Beer Cigarettes Convenience Foods Pheasant Permits HOURS: Weekdays Sundays 8 a.m. to 10 p.nt. I p.m. to 10 p.nt. 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