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Show WRITINGS TO BE PUBLISHED Arch Thurman Memorial Fund Established Residents of rural areas in Utah now have an opportunity to express their appreciation for the services to them and their child-ren child-ren offered over the past twenty years by the late Arch M. Thur-man, Thur-man, who died in Salt Lake City on May 3, 1959, at 74 years of age. Contributions for the publication publica-tion of a volume of his writings and speeches are invited by the Arch M. Thurman Memorial Committee, it was recently announced an-nounced by C Glenn Conover, Chairman and past President of the Utah Chapter, National Association As-sociation 'of Social Workers and Dr. Lloyd Whitelock, Provo, Schools Director of Pupil Personnel, Person-nel, representing the Utah Education Edu-cation Association on the Memorial Memor-ial Committee. Many civic leaders, parents, school superintendents, principals princi-pals and teachers in Utah communities com-munities will recall benefits from their contacts with Mr. Thurman, especially when he was the first Director of Mental Health Services Ser-vices of the State Department of Public Health from 1953 to 1957, after he retired from some 35 years as teacher, principal and head of the Department of Pupil Pu-pil Personnel, Salt Lake City Schools. During these years, Mr. Thurman traveled hundreds of miles to talk to parents, teachers, public health nurses and others In his dedicated efforts to promote pro-mote better understanding of children and ways of meeting the:r needs and problems. He organized and accompanied the first team of guidance experts, ex-perts, (psychiatrists, social workers work-ers and psychologists) to visit rural areas for the purpose of providing diagnostic and treatment treat-ment services to children having trouble at school. Analysis revealed re-vealed parents were often having problems at home, as well as teachers experiencing difficulties in the classroom. It would be Impossible to estimate esti-mate the number of Utah children child-ren who gained in their lessons, remained in school for graduation, gradua-tion, were "rescued" from delinquency delin-quency or personality disturbance disturb-ance through the services pioneered pion-eered by Mr. Thurman. Publication of his national and local speeches and other writings will be a great value to parents, teachers and others concerned about children and youth, the committee believes. Contributions to the Arch M. Thurman Memorial Fund may be J forwarded to Mr. Marvin L. Pugh, Assistant Treasurer and Director of the Department of Pupil Personnel, Per-sonnel, Salt Lake City Board of Education, 440 East First South, Salt Lake City, Utah. |