OCR Text |
Show Three receive Pestalozzi Award v , ... ' z' X ml -: to? yd o I Pestalozzi Awards at Southern Utah State College have been awarded this year to three individuals instead of two. Graduating seniors Kim Brinton, Sandy, and James C. Callison.Jr., Cedar City, received the awards for elementary and secondary education, respectively. CleoM. Petty, retiring SUSC baseball coach, received the third award. "Henry Pestalozzi is often recognized as the 'father' of modern education." James M. Miller, dean of the SUSC School of Education, said. "He believed in a three-fold program of education-education education-education of the heart, education of the head, and education of the hand." "Awards made in honor of this famous educator have been presented annually at SUSC since the end of the 1966-67 school year, one to the outstanding elementary education graduate, the other to the student who has the potential for being an outstanding secondary teacher," Miller explained. The award recipients are selected each year by the teacher education faculty. Coach Petty was selected this year to receive a special Pestalozzi Award. He is one of only four persons selected to receive the special award since the program begin at SUSC. "The Pestalozzi Awards are given for excellence in teaching. Based on his long years of teaching excellence at SUSC, Coach Petty was considered to be a most worthy recipient of this ,award, and an educator who has long exemplified Pestalozzi's teaching ideals," Dean Miller said. Petty coached Thun-derbird Thun-derbird baseball for 28 years and also served a number of years as head basketball coach at SUSC. Brinton graduated from SUSC winter quarter and is currently teaching kindergarten kin-dergarten at Edgemont Elementary School, Jordan School District. The 1975 graduate of Hillcrest High Pestalozzi Award winners Kim Brinton from Sandy for elementary education and James C. Callison, Jr. from Cedar City for secondary secon-dary education. School is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Brinton, '1218 East 8725 South, Sandy. She will receive a BA in elementary education June 1 with minors in reading, child development and instructional in-structional media. Brinton attended SUSC for four years on a State Normal Scholarship. Callison will graduate with a biological science composite com-posite major and will teach biology and chemistry at Alta High School, Jordan School District, this fall. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Callison, Cedar Cityj and is a 1973 graduate of Cedar High School. |