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Show Browns in Cleveland Attending I Voc-Ag. Convention Over 400 teachers of Vocational Voca-tional Agriculture are meeting in Cleveland, Ohio during the week of Dec. 2 to 8 and Thales C. Brown, Vocational Agriculture Agricul-ture teacher at Parowan High School, who is serving as the president of the Utah Vocational Voca-tional Agricultural Teachers' Association is one of the official offi-cial delegates to the Cleveland Cleve-land meet, which is the 1967 national convention of the Vocational Vo-cational Agricultural Teach-j Teach-j ers' Association. Mr. Brown and his wife I Edna, left last week by car for I Salt Lake City where trey boarded a plane for Cleveland, Cleve-land, and are spending this week in the Ohio City in the convention activities. Their daughter Mrs. Wesley (Phyllis) (Phyl-lis) Blake, and baby of Las Vegas came to Parowan to look after her brother, Jim-loowk Jim-loowk after her brother, Jim-Browns. Jim-Browns. The organization has a membership of 10,000 teachers or over 95 of the voc.-ag. teachers in the United States. Officers of the NVATA are El-vin El-vin Walker, president, Norman Park, Ga.; James Wall, execu-' I tive secretary, Lincoln, Neb; 1 Sam Stenzel, treasurer, Russell, Rus-sell, Kan.; Jim Durkee, Laramie, Lara-mie, Wyo., past president and six regional vice presidents of which Mr. Brown is one. ,..Mr. Brown will be accompanied accom-panied to Cleveland for the week long convention by his wife. "Agricultural Education for the Seventies" is the conven-vention conven-vention theme. Teachers attending at-tending will consult with leaders lea-ders in Agricultural business and industry, teacher educators, educa-tors, state supervisors and staff members of the U. S. Office of Education on such problems as teacher recruit- ! ment, curriculum develop- j ment, young farmer organiza- i tions, area vocational schools, new innovations in agricul- tural education and profes- sional leadership. |