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Show SUSC to feature Upward Bound Vocational Day for High Schools the SUSC Valley Farm, and homes in the area built by SUSC industrial arts and technology students. The group will also have pienry of time to socialize, swim and become acquainted with SUSC, Parkinson noted Upward Bound is a Federally funded program for students from low income families who have the potential to attend post-secondary post-secondary educational institutions, in-stitutions, Parkinson explained. An Upward Bound Vocational Day program, designed to whet the appetites of potential college students, w ill be held January 30-31 30-31 at Southern Utah State College. An expected 60 high school preprofessional areas, women's physical education, drafting and commercial art, engineering, police science, secretarial and business careers, social work and psychology, home economics and nursery school assistant programs, agriculture, and college orientation. In addition, several field trips w ill be offered during the day to visit Rollo Publishing Company, dentist John E. Stephenson, veterinarian Wendell Brooksby, students from Beaver, Milford, Parowan, Cedar, Escalante, Bryce Valley, Panguitch, i Pahranagat Valley, Monument Valley, and Tuba City high schools will participate in the activities. "We've designed the program to allow students to become acquainted with many of the vocational, preprofessional and regular four-year degree programs available at SUSC," Yvonne Parkinson, SUSC Upward Up-ward Bound Director, said. She noted that the Upward Bound group will be visiting the SUSC campus for the first time this year. Earlier they traveled as a group down into Arizona. During the Vocational Day program, visiting students will have the opportunity to investigate in-vestigate several of the minors and majors offered at SUSC. The informal sessions will be directed by SUSC faculty y members. Offerings include sessions in vocational-technical careers, |