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Show Three adult will receive diplomas along with otherPanguitch High School seniors, and two have children also graduating. Sybel Taylor, lert, with her daughter, Suzanne; Anna G. Pollock, center and Vict Owens, right with her son, Gary Owens. Rites are slated May 28. Garfield Teachers to Retire Five teachers from Garfield County School District will retire at the end of the school year with a total of 155 teaching years. pMgssjsA-nsai.aa Edson Alvey Retiring from Pangultch Middle School is Joseph Foy, 40 years; Bryce Valley, Mrs. Ella Adair, 38 years; Margaret M. Mecham, 21 years and Marian Shakespear, 23 years; Escalante, Edson Alvey, 33 years. Last week members of the Garfield Education Association and their partners under the direction of Mrs. Shanna Goulding, GEA president, held a dinner party in honor of these five teachers. During the business meeting Caryl Hatch, Panguitch became the new president .with Larry Holmari, Tropic president-elect for the coming year. Each retiring teacher was presented with a traveling bag from the association to show Mrs. Ella Adair will retire at the end of school next week after teaching many years at Bryce Valley High School. h. bbbbbbsw bbbbwik&9PH BK,t bbbbbBk BBKrSBvlSfW V Margaret Meacham, left and Marian W. Shakespear will end service as teachers by retiring next week from posts at Bryce ' Valley High School. .their appreciation to these people. Edson Alvey is the first teacher ever to retire from the Escalante High School, he has 35 years teaching behind him. This year he has been involved in a special outdoors program taking the students of Garfield County School District on different educational tours in the back country of Garfield County. Even before 'being over this program he use to take his students out many Saturdays in the hills In quest of Indian dwellings, artifacts and arrowheads. Because of this great hobby he has discovered and named many hidden beauties of the .area around (Continued on Page 4) Garfield Teachers to Retire (Centloued from Page 1) Escalante, among which arc Spooky Gulch, Broken Bow Arch, Devil's Garden, Matade Arch and Sunset Valley, After conversing with Mr. Alvey one soon learns his knowledge of our country, historically, geologically and archeologically is unique and unequaled. Mr. Alvey has accumulated relics of bygone days and built a private museum to house them. Stepping through its doors Is like stepping into a page of the past and cannot help but promote respect and pride in our pioneer ancestry. He was born September 23, 1911 to William and Llllis Barney Alvey, He graduated, from Escalante High School, May 1930. He spent the next eight years helping his father with his sheep. Mr. Alvey married a Boulder miss, lona Peterson in the Logan LDS Temple. In 1941, he graduated with an elementary teaching degree, in 19 JO, he received his B.S. degree and in 1958, his secondary teaching certificate with a composite major in history and science and a minor in English. I ie has been active in the LDS church. He is a member of the Utah Historical Scoiety and the National Geographic Society, "Everyone should hear him strum that banjo of his!" a fellow'teachcr stated. "I will feel an emptiness that comes from breaking my daily relations with young people," Mr. Alvey stated, but he looks forward to having time for hobbies that has had to be placed on the shelf. Marian Shakespear graduated from the University of Wyoming with a degree in elementary education. She began teaching in Tropic Elementary School in 1953. Due to a teacher shortage, she was "drafted" into the high school the following year. During her high school teaching she taught English, Spanish, type, bookkeeping, geometry, music. Her first love was English as she felt she was best qualified for that. Some of the highlights during lier teaching career were her involvement In the Ford Foundation and Rocky Mountain Education Laboratory Projects, being involved in the National Council of Teachers of English study, resulting from her efforts in the individualization of the English curriculum, serving on the committee for the revision of the state course of study in English, taking a group of Spanish students to. Mexico helping the students to compile a book of being involved in organizing and preparing traveling assemblies, music festivals, etc. At the present time she is the director of the senior citizens in the Bryce Valley Area, is a member of the Relief Society Chorus and with her husband. Vernal Shakespear, is a ward teacher trainer. She has recently been called as president of the young ladies APA program in Garfield Stake. Margaret M. Mecham graduated from University of Utah in 1939. She taught school in Box Elder, Granite and Garfield counties. She was married to David Mecham of Tropic and is the mother of four daughters and one son. She also has four grandchildren. She started teaching in the Bryce Valley Elementary School 21 years ago, with most of her experience being in the third grade. During the year she has been teaching in the Title I Program- In the school. |