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Show Coordinating Council Gains National Prominence for Family Living Plan The Cedar City Coordinating Council received national recognition recog-nition again with the recent publication pub-lication of an important Vocational Voca-tional Division bulletin frm the United States Office of Education. Educa-tion. Written by Dr. Murial W. Brown, consultant in Family Life Education, the bulletin is primarily pri-marily designed to be a report of four educational experiments begun in 1938 in four states Utah, Tennessee, Ohio, and Kansas. Kan-sas. Two counties and two cities were selected for these experiments. experi-ments. They were Box Elder County, Utah; Obion County, Tennessee, and the two cities were Toledo, Ohio, and Wichita, Kansas. Following the detailed stories of these outstanding programs the bulletin describes other community com-munity programs that have grown up in several states and become examples of "a concerted approach to better family living in a community". Describing the Cedar City program pro-gram Dr. Brown has written: "The most dramatic story in this connection comes from Cedar City, Utah ... On the theory that the best education for family fam-ily living is life in a good community, com-munity, Cedar City organized not a Family Life Education Council, but a Community Planning Council Coun-cil which would focus on the tasks of creating and maintaining maintain-ing the best possible conditions for good family living in the community." In describing the activities of the working committees the bui- letin states that each committee has been "outstandingly successful success-ful In it work". Regarding the Art Exhibit committee the article reads: "The number of good pictures pic-tures sold at each exhibit to Cedar Ce-dar City families increases from year to year . . . Here in this little desert city, is an art event comparable in sales and in quality to many of the best exhibits ex-hibits in the East." Among the original documents recommended for study material on community organization are the reports of the Cedar City Coordinating Co-ordinating Council printed biennially. bien-nially. The local Coordinating Council Coun-cil has been organized since Oct. 1939, and is sponsored by the Iron County school district in cooperation with the State Department De-partment of Education. It, too, began as an experiment and has frequently drawn high praise from the United States Office of Education and other educational organizations particularly for its unique pattern of development in citizen cooperation. Mr. Albert Albertson is the present chairman, with Mrs. John M. Brown, vice chairman; A. W. Stephenson, secretary and Ian-thus Ian-thus Wright, ex-officio. |