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Show ii.. ,. r -v ... r t u . ') ; . i ' -r - - X' 1 ?. . " :. i , X I ' I i v J -M..v3. .' ..'.Jm. CiMMMdA fll im.l 11 .'v M Shoveling dirt onto the green ash tree planted at old high school to replace 53-year-old pine that blew down last year is Debbie Lyman. Approving are Mayor Clem Griffin, Head Start Teacher Barbara Jagger, and 4 and 5-year olds from her class New Ash Tree Replaces 53-Year-Old Pine At Old Escalante High School By Harriet Priska ESCALANTE Part of the planting taking place in Escalante with the advent of Spring was recently re-cently undertaken by youngsters in the community's Head Start program. pro-gram. Assisted by their teacher Barbara Bar-bara Jagger, Debbie Lyman and Mayor Clem Griffin, the 4 and 5-year-olds planted a green ash tree outside the old high school. The bright new little tree replaced the proud half -century-old pine that fell victim to heavy winds. The new tree was donated through a program sponsored by Southern Utah University. Local children will water the tree, learning learn-ing about ecology and the environment environ-ment as they do. Clella Spencer Woolsey was there to represent the class of '39 which planted the original pine tree as part of the activities of the first graduating class at the then-new high school." With her 1939 yearbook in hand, she pointed to pictures of four boys who had stolen several pies from the home ec room. Their punishment for the crime was to dig out the stump and roots of the old cottonwood tree that had stood where the new pine tree was to be i - planted. Mrs. Woolsey said the culprits were Jay Porter, Fielding Griffin, Bud Roundy and Wilford Griffin. Four other boys had been caught stealing chickens and their sentence was to go up into the mountains and dig up a pine tree and bring it back and plant it! Those four were Joe Covington, Hardy Woollsey, Bud Gates and Lois Christensen. Clella Spencer later married Hardy Woolsey; they were both in that 1939 graduating class.. Two of their grandchildren were in the last class that graduated from the school before the present new high school was completed just a few years ago. |
