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Show Former Cedar City Teacher Gets National Honors Koma Jarvis Knight, a form-or form-or Cedar City teacher and sis-tor sis-tor of Lillian Chattorly of this city, has received "ilie instructor's" ins-tructor's" "For Excellence in Teaching" award. Tlu Instructor Ins-tructor is a national teacher's magazine. Mrs. Knight, an instructor in Las Vegas, Nevada, was honored on April 26 at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas where she received a bronze medal and fifty dollars. On hand to present the award to Mrs. Knight and to Paradise School, where she teaches, was Miss Elizabeth ! K Noon, editor of "The Instructor." Ins-tructor." The magazine has been engaged in a five year program to honor teachers from each of the fifty states. The May issue of 'The' Instructor" Instruc-tor" carried a two-page picture pic-ture story of Mrs. Knight. "Life on the Circle K ranch with her husband Newell provides pro-vides the balance Roma needs and the opportunity to recharge re-charge energy batteries," it I was pointed out in "The Ins-! Ins-! truetor." "Here again a concern con-cern for the young occupies much of her time and talent. The training of horses and dogs is an avocation which she enjoys and which she feels provides insights that help her guide young children with the firmness and gentle- ness they quickly learn to respect. i ". . .The excellence of Roma j Knight is evidenced by the way she functions efficiently and effectively at school and in the community while enjoying en-joying to the full her triple status as wife, mother, and grandmother of five," the story concluded, i |