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Show Utah School Board Assn. Convention Is Successful Iron County School Board played host to over 200 del-egatcs del-egatcs and their wives at the .th Annual convention of the Utah School Boards Association Associa-tion convention held at the j I Cedar City High School Thurs-day Thurs-day and Friday of last week. ! An outstanding convention was staged for the state-wide organization in one of their first major breaks from met- ropolitan Salt Lake City. Well attended the convene tinn also featured an outstanding outstand-ing array of displays in the interest of school boards and maintenance and operation of facilities. Convention was conducted by Don M. Simmons, Manti, , president of the organization and at the closing session Friday Fri-day afternoon the reigns of,, the organization was turned over to John Van Drimmelen, Ogdwn, who also served as, convention chairman. Elect Officers In elections held at the convention con-vention Kenneth Woolsten-" hulme of Morgan was elected , second vice president of the. USBA, and he will begin a progression through the of-"., fices to assume the presidency . at the 1969 convention. Moving from second vice president to first vice presi,, dent was Mrs. Howard M. ummerhays of the Granite . School District in Salt Lake , City. In elections conducted at the convention for the organiza- tions Board of Directors, Royce Chamberlain of the Iron County Coun-ty School Board was elected., to represent Region V of the USBA. Another highlight of the convention banquet held Thursday evening was the prq. mentation of the USBA Distinguished Distin-guished Service Award. In def-' ference to past policy of a single recipient seven school board members were honored w'th the Service Award. The recipients were chosen on the basis of over 25 years of service on their respective school boards. Win Honors The seven men honored included in-cluded Carl W. Peterson, Car-bon; Car-bon; Bernard A. Jacoby, Duchesne; Duch-esne; Theodore Haynes, Tintic; Royal Harward, Wayne; E. Alton Al-ton Ellerton, Juab; Theron At-, At-, kinson, South Summit and Dr. Milton K. Merrill, Logan. In making the presentation President Simmons indicated that the total years of service amounted to 172 years. Dr. Kenneth H. Hanson, director di-rector program developement Education Commission of the States, kevnoted the bannuet and emphasized the need for lone-ran?e planning for educational ed-ucational needs. Dr. Hanon commpndJiiiV, Utsih for its forthright attitude and heritage in te fie'd of priiifatinn ft"1 advneated a continued participation in the lo-ip'-ranu'e plaininpr needs. Educational nhilosnnhies are determined bv local conditions, condi-tions, needs and obiectives, but those ob'ectives should be nelle out and planning shoulr) he concentrated to meet hp obiectives if educational rv"em re poino- to kpeo narp with technology advancements. ad-vancements. Small Inroads You don't make chanees in educational systems in giant leaps but rather through a series of small inroads and changes to bring about an effective ef-fective educational system based on determined objectives objec-tives of the system, he said.' j In other sessions of the convention con-vention the school board mem- i bers were advised to gear themselves to meet the needs of a negotiating body. "Although "Al-though the relationship between be-tween boards of educations and teacher organizations are better than ever before and there are currents at work to a degree never experienced before," be-fore," the retiring President, Simmons, told the delegates. "The new teacher militancy is developing in Utah," he noted. "The National Education Assn. has set a goal of a 17 per cent increase in teacher salaries in the next two vcars and an increased involvement in setting school policies." Simmons further advised that board members should receive all the information they can uet bv taking seminars, participating par-ticipating in workshops and studving information available avail-able to them to meet their needs in a growing comnlexity of s hool board administration. |