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Show PROF. BOY HHfiR . r; OKIES 10 GEDAB f Was Appelated to ttio Prtacipalstrfp of the B. A. C. mi tko 19tk of April. MAIB A iOOD RECOUP IN NEPfil. By Hard Work and Persever- ancc the Professor Has Won Promotion. I Prof Roy P. Homer, who was I Mere recently on a visit, has ac- I cepted the pr'incipalship of the l: Branch Agricultural College at I tfiis placer He was selected to I fill the position on April 19 by ' the Utah Argicultural College I trustees. He has resigned his' I position ae principal of the East I Juab county High School and H will come to Cedar to assume V )m duties when the fall term t opens. i Concerning Mr. 'Homer The I) Nephi Times says that Nephi M losses one of her best citizens u and one who is a credit in the 1 educational Held. A short bio- K graphical sketch of Mr. Homer reads: $ ?Mr. Homer was born at Ox- W& fordfJdaho, his early childhood fc beingspent on his father's Bjjf; 3rmThe Homer family moved JB5 to. Logan, Utah in 1896 in order W tb procure greater 1 educational Ifi. ' opportunities. Young Roy. 'P. c '- ::-fJy1ai the' jfefy eighth grade the next spring. m y v In September 1898, he entered j " te preparatory of the Agri- l? cultural College of Utah. Upon fc completion of the high school K course,, he began the course in t General Science, graduating in f. ' 1904 with a degree of Bachelor V of Science in General Scfence. IJjt During the- last two years of J;fv the college work he studied several courses in biology and I chemistry in addition to the ; prescribed york. His summer J vacations during these years t ' were spent on the farm and in "- v various enterprises. In the fall v a i ' of 1904, Mr. Homer was engaged jf 1 . ) as a teacher in an Idaho school, 1 but upon request of the board and principal of the Nephi high school, he obtained a release and came to Nephi. The. first year he taught one subject hi the eighth grade and seven in the high school. He, went through the hard times of the high school in 1905, when even itsexistence was threatened. Ho was largely instrumental in establishing the Ja industrial courses that have f since put the school in the front rank of the high schools of Utah. I In April 1906, Mr. Homer was granted a ilfe high school di- ploma by the. Utah State Board ! of Education. He was appointed 1 principal of the high school and superintendent' of the Nephi public schools in April, 1907, and assumed these-duties in July of the same year. He- holds these positions at present and had signed up a contract for another year which would have made nine years in the schools of Nephi. . |