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Show 800 ATTEND Educator Praises Foresight in Dedication Rites Iron County School Board and citizens were congratulated on Wednesday evening for construction construc-tion of one of the "most dynamic dynam-ic school plants in the state of Utah." Dr. Terrell H. Bell, state superintendent super-intendent of public instruction, issued the congratulatory remarks re-marks in his address at the formal for-mal dedication of the New Cedar Ce-dar City High School. Dr. Bell stated that he believed that school plants of today must meet the demands of our drastically dras-tically changing world. To do this, buildings for education edu-cation must meet three basic concepts. con-cepts. He listed the three as first, flexibility; second, adaptability, and third, capability for independent inde-pendent teaching. The new Cedar City high school plant, he stated, meets these three criteria. "Your board of education ed-ucation has developed a forward look that In the years ahead you will be proud of," he asserted. It is significant, he said, that this building took longer to plan than to build and it Is truly one of the few buildings where the faculty members were Involved In the planning. "It is encouraging to find a departure from traditionally con-s?"-t!v trc"" v. ... vu. ed in school construction for the past 50 years," Dr. Bell noted. "It is discouraging to see, and 1 view with alarm, the number of school buildings now on the planning boards that are sticking with the conservative aspect and not looking look-ing to the future of education. Speaking of education in gen- (Continued on Page Three) H. S. DEDICATION (Continued from Front Page) eral the state superintendent in dicated that there is a need for an agonizing re-appraisal In our education program in the state. Utah has many firsts, he said, and cited the fact the Utah lead the nation in the number of students stu-dents who continue on to college; col-lege; that in the past years Utah had reduced the number of uncertified un-certified teachers in our schools from 33 to a low of 5. But, we still have problems, he said. "Utah has suffered from a teacher shortage for the past 22 years," he noted. "We have what I consider desperation employ ment, where each fall, just before be-fore the opening of our schools our school boards desperately sign teachers to fill existing vacancies." va-cancies." We should have the opportunity opportun-ity to be selective, in order that we get the best qualified teachers teach-ers for our specific needs, he said. Our dropout rate in high school is still way too high, he said. Twenty-one per cent of the students stu-dents who enter high school drop out. We need work in the field of retention of these students. i The building was dedicated as a shrine to the youth who attend at-tend this school," by James Sand-berg, Sand-berg, former president of the Iron County Foard of Education, and bishop of the Cedar Sixth Ward, Church of Jesus Cnrist of Latter-day Saints. Program was under the direction direc-tion of Eugene T. Woolf, president presi-dent of the board of education who extended a welcome to patrons pa-trons and friends, and who briefly brief-ly addressed the group concern ing the aims of the district, a recognition of controversy and the need for continued growth. Musical selections for the dedication ded-ication program were provided by the high school band, orchestra and chorus, and the nearly 800 in attendance participated in a tour of the complex following the program. |