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Show Three Cedar Teachers Attend BYU Economic Workshop Ruth C Lamb and Lillian Chat-terley, Chat-terley, teachers in South Elementary; Elemen-tary; and Dorothy W. Stuckl ol North Elementary, are attending the 12th annual Workshop In Economic Ec-onomic Education at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The workshop runs from June 18 through 26. They received scholarships to the workshop which is sponsored at Brigham Young University by the Utah Council on Economic Education, the Joint Council on Economic Education, and the Utah State Department of Public Instruction. This is one of thj outstanding economic workshops in the nation. Purpose of the workshop Is to help teachers better understand American economy how it operates, op-erates, what it produces, and the problems It faces. With more understanding the teachers will be able to reduce the economic illiteracy now prevalent In our schools and communities. National and state leaders In business, labor and education are giving lectures on family security, securi-ty, resources, agriculture, labor, management, and world trade. Dr. Glen T. Nelson, professor of economics at BYU is workshop director, assisted by Dr. J. Kenneth Ken-neth Davies, professor of economics; econo-mics; Afton Forsgren, coordinator coordinat-or of secondary education in the state department of public instruction, in-struction, and June Berry, librarian librar-ian of the BYU laboratory school. Thirty selected teachers are participating and reside during the three-week program in the Amanda Knight Hall. |