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Show LydiaM Harter named BPW 'Woman of the Year' The members of the Cedar City Business & Professional Women's Club are proud to present LYDIA MATHESON MAHTKIt, their WOMAN OF THE YEAR. Lydia is a charter member of our Cedar City Club and a forty-year veteran of the business world. She is the eighth of a family of nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Matheson. She was always an ambitious person and began in the work-a-day world by earning her way through High School and the Branch Agricultural College, where she majored in nutrition and home making. This special' training led to positions in several medical clinics. She also worked in the Engineer's Office of the Union Pacific Railroad at LYDIAM. HARTER years. Her husband became very ill so they sold their business and she became affiliated with the USU Extension Service where she remained until her retirement. Retirement became a change of occupation rather than a rest. She is now working in the Senior Nutritional Aid Program (SNAP) in the five-county five-county area, where it is co-ordinted co-ordinted with the Cedar City Senior Citizen Program. As well as being busy in the business world, Lydia has always been active in her church and community. In the community, com-munity, she was Secretary for the time the three National Parks were being established. Later she worked for the Dixie Power Company which became the Southern Utah Power Co. Following that she was employed by the U.S. Forest Service, administering ad-ministering special funds for WPA work on the Forest Service. In 1935 she married Al Harter and two years later her son Alan Harter was born. At that time she contracted rheumatic fever and spent the next three years in California recuperating from it. Upon recovering her health, she returned to Cedar City to assist her husband in a business ven-ture-the Zion Candy Kitchen, which they operated for ten ten years for the Southern Utah Livestock Show. Nine years with the r-H Section of the Iron County Fair, for two years with the first County Mental Health Clinic and served as a representative of the BPW Club on the Executive Board of the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce one year. In her church, she served two years on the Stake MIA Board, and two years on the Stake Sunday School Board, many years teaching Sunday School, Primary, and two years Education Counselor in the Second Ward Relief Society. WJe salute you, Lydia, as an outstanding woman of our Community and are very proud to name you our "WOMAN OF THE YEAR". |