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Show Millard County -Teachers Meet " Scissions Allen West executive secretary of the Utah Education association was guest of honor of the Millard county teachers 'association as they held their leadership school at Delta high school Wednesday, Jan. 19. Teachers from both sides pf the county met to discuss problems vital to their schools, with the primary pri-mary objectives being to make each teacher aware of their problems prob-lems so that better teaching will be the ultimate result. Oscar Soderquist, president of the local association called the group together to inform them of the reuslts of the conference held at Vernal at which all presidents of local associations in the state were present. , To plan the local conference, Mr. Soderquist had appointed Roger D. Honeyman as chairman, his two assistants being Thomas Whatcott and Ruth Hansen both past presidents. presi-dents. The conference opened at 1 p.m. when Golden P. Wright Millard high school principal, reported on the Life-Education conference he attended in Washington, D. C. last October. Nine discussion groups were held with each group discussing dis-cussing different problems. Reports of the proceedings in each of these groups were made to the entire group by each discussion leader. Fields of discussion and the leader were Legislation, Glen W. Seegmiller; School Finance Goals for Utah, Violet Snow; Implement of the Code of Ethics, Gertrude Western; Role of the Teacher in Overall Planning of the Program, Delbert Young; Public Relations, Harriett Spendlove; Education and World Problems Richard Hanseen. Working Conditions and Teacher Load Carl W. Verhaiaren; Organization Organi-zation and Function of the Effective Effect-ive Local Education Association, Ruth Hansen; Problems of Teacher Retirement and Utah Teachers Welfare Association Thomas What natt. Definite suggestions were made by each group las to what should be recommended as their program of action. More detailed accounts of the field and suggestion will be given in coming issues. The summary of the conference was given by Mr. West, who praised prais-ed the teachers of Millard county for their obvious desire to become a better teacher group. He stated "You have shown your big problem prob-lem of the day was how can we increase our service. And for this you are to be praised for you are already one of the best teacher groups of the state." He added that better professional profession-al relations would be developed by having such discussion as the group had held that day. |