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Show Paragonah Students Visit Art Exhibit -Purchase Painting With all the dimes, penni s, and nickels they have been ab.e to save during the past months, tw.nty eight stud nts of the Paragonah 6. 7, and 8th grades came to Cedar City Frida:' to purchase a picture for th lr school frm th- Sixth Annual Cedar City Art Exhibit. The trip was the first visit to an art gallery that the pupils had made so they mad th? best o. their" time. They trrived at th3 high school gym. when th? ex hibit was housed, at 10 a.m.. and spent two hours (probably a re-' :ord for the lecal exhibit) looking at the pictures, att .mpting to mai a wL-e choice. When noon came hey wen guMs of the Cedar City schools at a hot lunch, and after lunch spent another hour viewing the exhibit. To hjp th5 boys and girls make their cholc?. L. C. Miles, chairman of the exhibit, asked Roscoe Gro- ver. to talk to th m on art, as th y wandered from plc'.ure to picture, rhelr final selection was a wat r color "Born In Wlnt.r" by Max Blaine. Upon counting up their hoarded money the pupils found th ythadn't enough to make the purchas:, however, how-ever, inter tlri individuals around the school, and th3 Cedar City schools gav same toward the purchase as the Paragonah school now has the beginning, of an art collection of their own. The upp r gracV? pupils of the two room school became lnteres'.ed in irt through their kacher Mrs. Idella Robinson and Mary Nelson, :ounty supervisor. They lU"fl been studying about art for the past f w months, and became so interested in-terested that thry deccld.d to have it collection of their own. Th? pur-cht3 pur-cht3 this year will fr? th? b3-rlnnlng b3-rlnnlng of that collection. The pupils are looking forward.to for?-jolng for?-jolng cinrly bars, gum and whatnot what-not so that they can buy another picture next yar for th lr school. |