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Show Board of Education Members Hear Conference Report, Study Gains Ila Sherratt, member of the West Elementary school faculty, and one of six Iron County School District teachers to attend at-tend the National Council of Teachers of English at Los Angeles An-geles last week gave a very comprehensive report of the conference con-ference at the meeting of the Board of Education Monday. Mrs. Sherratt pointed out the excellent excel-lent instruction given the participating parti-cipating teachers, and told of plans of the group to carry the message to all teachers in the county through discussions in meetings of teacher groups. Attending the conference besides be-sides Mrs. Sherratt, were Mrs. Virgie Frame, Mrs. Florence Tip-petts, Tip-petts, Jordan L. Larsen, Bernell Evans, teachers, and Miss Mary McMillan, primary supervisor. Also attending were Mrs. Gwyn Clark and Twain Tippetts of the College of Southern Utah English Eng-lish department. Mrs. Sherratt reported re-ported that of 39 Utah teachers in attendance, eight of them were from Iron County schools. Superintendent Ianthus Wright also reported at the meeting on Monday that the Iron County School District has been selected by the University of Utah as one of two districts for a survey under un-der the Kellogg Foundation. Un- der the foundation program uni versities throughout the country have been asked to made detailed de-tailed surveys of the administrative administra-tive pin of education in various fields of districts in widely scattered scat-tered areas. The district selected will choose the field in which the survey is to be made. The board approved the local schools participation in the program, and Supt. Wright and Miss Mary McMillan, Mc-Millan, primary supervisor, will confer with university authorities authori-ties this week to help formulate plans for the survey. Mr. Wright read a letter from Allen West, executive secretary of the Utah Education Association, Associa-tion, in which the cooperation of the Iron County Board of Education Edu-cation in U E A leadership schools held in recent years throughout the country was highly high-ly praised. The board members spent some time in discussing a proposed plan of recruitment of young people peo-ple to the field of education. The board favored a program under which high school and college students would be encouraged to enter the field, but made no specific spe-cific recommendations as to how it should bo carried out. A resolution was passed calling for a public hearing on the expenditure ex-penditure of reserve building funds during the coming year. The law provides that such hearings hear-ings must be held before reserve fund can be expended. The hearing will be held at the next meeting of the board on Jan. 11. The board approved employing Mrs. Mary Hall Scott of Vernal as a girls' physical education and speech instructor in the Parowan high school. Mrs. Stott will replace re-place Mrs. Mary Lawrence, who has asked to be released. She will replace Mrs. Lawrence at the beginning of school following the Christmas holidays. Recognizing the need for additional addi-tional shop space at the school bus depot in Cedar, the board authorized Supt. Wright to have plans prepared for an expansion of the present shop. With the increase in-crease in the number and sizes of the buses used by the school district, the present shop has become be-come entirely inadequate. The new plans will include especially especial-ly space for lubricating, washing and repairing the buses. The board authorized the purchase pur-chase of an old automobile, at a very nominal price, to be used in the auio mechanics classes at the Cedar City high school for practical prac-tical experience in auto repairing repair-ing and motor overhauling. The bid of Samuel Halterman I of Parowan to furnish potatoes j for the school lunch program was accepted at the meeting. His bid, the lowest submitted, was for $2.25 per 100 pounds of No. 2 potatoes. The PTA officers of Paragon-ah Paragon-ah reported that they had arranged ar-ranged for the purchase of stage curtain material at a substantial reduction from Leigh Furniture Company, and that the company had agreed to loan the P TA members sewing machines with which to prepare the curtain for hanging. The annual meeting of the State School Board Association will be held in Salt Lake City on Dec. 11 and 12, it was reported, and all members of the local boa id except Boyd Smith, who recently re-cently underwent surgery, will attend. Attending also will be Supt. Wright, and Howard N. Dalley, clerk of the board. |
