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Show South Elementary school completes successful project II I I I, I,., ? f l -I- I .. Ill I I.I.I.I-. II Ill ,.U.II.,M., II, i A) rtllit.O.-W.i Mr. Kent Mulct and Mr. Blaine Johnson Jr. Scandanavian friends were discussed on Tuesday by Mrs. Ingrid Moffitt of Denmark and Mrs. Maude Johnson of Sweden. Wednesday's displays featured the South Pacific Islands. Mr. M. Bert Langford, who recently returned from Tonga showed interesting artifacts from the South Sea Islands. Henry Molifua, a native of Samoa spoke to the children and shared some of his beautiful items and Gary Roper, a teacher at South Elementary related his visit to the Samoan Islands. Highlighting Thursday's display on Africa were visits from native Nigerians who are attending SUSC. Johnny Ekanem appeared before the students in native with information about Africa was Mr. Wilford Clark who spent 22 years in Africa organizing a teacher education program at the University at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Africa. He, too, shared many of his artifacts from that country. Friday's display on South America was explained by Mrs. Merril Jones who has lived with her family in Brazil and Mrs. Darrel Matthews whose family has spent some time in Bolivia. Both women brought with them many beautiful and interesting articles from these countries. In conjunction with the displays and resource people, a daily contest was held entitled "What country am I from?" The s children were given a set of clues, often requiring library research, to help them discover friends from other lands. Thirty- DISCUSS ORIENT. Blaine Johnson, Jr. discusses items from the Orient, where he served an LDS Mission, with students at the South Elementary as part of a special PTA "Emphasis Library" project. dress and shared some of his native artifacts. Mr. and Mrs. Peter (Affiong) Akpan also spoke to the children with Mrs. Akpan wearing her native costume. Also enlightening the children two students correctly identified the contest's four countries with fifteen of these students answering an-swering a special bonus question on Friday. Prizes will be awarded to the winning students. "Meeting World Wide Friends Through The Library" was the theme of the annual project at South Elementary School, sponsored by the PTA. Chairman of the project was Mrs. Joseph Jarvis with Mrs. Jack Stokes, Mrs. Rex Michie and Mrs. Leslie Burbidge serving on the committee. This program is part of the PTA's "Emphasis Library" which also includes library volunteers (using mothers), student birthday book donations, and PTA project money being directed toward the library. The children were introduced to the program with an assembly on Friday March 22 which in; eluded the folowing numbers: Bob and Helen Lindford danced the "Cha Cha" to represent South America; Heidie Moffitt sang a Danish tolk song; Chene Porter danced the Poi ball dance from New Zealand; and Jim Mills and Howard Thorley from the French Department at SUSC sang several French songs and taught the children some French words. A special treat for the children was the appearance of the Art Walenus family who manage the Swiss Village Restaurant in Parowan. They yodeled and sang Swiss Alpine numbers. Each day of the following week (March 25-29) the library featured a special display of artifacts, books, maps, and flags from a different country. Special visitors came to the school to discuss the artifacts, books, maps, and flags from a different country. Monday's display of "The Orient" was discussed by visitors |