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Show Fifteen Iron County Public School Teachers Decline Contract Renewal Fifteen teachers employed in the schools of Iron Coun-1 ty will not return to their positions next year, it was announced an-nounced by Superintendent Ianthus Wright, when contracts con-tracts for the 1955-56 school year were returned to the superintendent's office on April 1. Contracts had been mailed two weeks earlier. I Some of the teachers who will not return had been employed em-ployed for only one year to replace staff members on leaves of absence, others will leave the profession to enter other fields of employment, some to take up home-making I duties, while others have accepted teaching positions in other parts of the state. Five of the fifteen are members mem-bers of the Cedar City High School staff, including Mrs. Joan Clifton Carpenter, girls physical education instructor; Fay Jacob-sen, Jacob-sen, biological and physical science; Maurine Gassman, commercial com-mercial instructor; Mrs. Neta Thompson Secgmiller, Home Economics, Ec-onomics, and Mrs. LaJune Bogh Leishman, librarian. Become Home-makers Mrs. Carpenter, Mrs. Seegmiller and Mrs. Leishman, who have married while teaching In Cedar City, are leaving the school for that reason. Mrs. Carpenter will go to Logan next fall to be with her husband, Boyd Carpenter, who will study at the Utah State Agricultural College, while the other two will devote their time to home-making. Miss Gassman plans to accept employment in business as a means of gaining additional experience, and Mr. Jacobsen, will return to Delta, presumably to teach. Edward Schoenfeld, art Instructor In-structor at the junior and senior high schools In Cedar City, is leaving the profession in order to devote his entire time to painting. paint-ing. Harold Atkin, English Instructor, In-structor, and Mrs. Boyd Smith, librarian at the junior high school, were employed for only one year and will not return. Atkln v as employed to replace Mrs. Florence Tlppetts who has been on leave from the school to spend a year studying, and Mrs. Smith replaced Mrs. Jenny Whitby, while she filled a mission mis-sion for the LDS church. Both Mrs. Tippet ts and Mrs. Whitby are expected to return this fall. Parovan high school will have two vacancies. Miss Phyllis Hall, Home Economics instructor, leaving leav-ing iho school to enter the mission mis-sion field, rnd LcRoy Laws, commercial com-mercial instructor, who Indicates that he will not return to the school ioom, but has not announced an-nounced his plans for the future. Elementary Vacancies Five elementary school teach-ers teach-ers have not returned their contracts, con-tracts, but only one from each school. Victor Frei, fifth grade teacher In the Cedar North Elementary, Ele-mentary, will accept a teaching position in St. George. Mrs. Harold Har-old Atkin, second, grade teacher in the Cedar East Elementary, will leave with her husband, who is teaching in the junior high school. It is expected that bothi will teach in a northern Utah district next year. Bertha Tayne, second grade' teacher in the Cedar West Ele-1 mentary school, will leave the profession to return to home-making. home-making. Mary Jo Justesen, third grade teacher at Parowan, will not return, but has not announe-i ed her p!c.ns. Mrs. Margaret Carl-1 son, primary grade teacher In the Escalane Valley school, will' leave to take another position In northern Utah. |