| Show Former U Two Faculty Wives Fill Important Posts in Utah Legislature By Ada Lou Walker With two additional women members now in the state Utah is slowly giving way to the feminine even in matters of In the fall election Julius B. wife of Professor Bearnson of the economics was made a member of the House of Representatives and Miss Maud May former head of the a chaplain of the E. E. wife of Dean E. E. Ericksen of the School of Arts and Sciences is serving her second term as state Bearnson has had two years of normal school and four years of college at the where she majored in history and political science and was a member of Chi Delta national honorary literary She is a former member of the university Women's club and is now a member of the Utah Daughters of the Maud May Babcock Originally from the Bearnson attended the University of Virginia last becoming interested in the life of Thomas This interest she has instilled into a book on which she is now in Bearnson is a noted fiction with a book soon to be Since Pearl Beam-son has been teaching sixth grade at the Lincoln school in the Granite where she is also Miss who is the first woman in the United States to hold such a position in the has many other to her To her goes the credit for the first speech department and the first education both of which she founded on this Miss Babcock was a member of the board of the state school for the deaf and blind for 20 12 years of which she served as J. B. Bearnson the only woman to have this She is an honorary member of Theta Alpha the national dramatic a member of Delta Kappa the national honorary teachers' an honorary member of Phi Delta the Physical Education and was the only woman president of the National Speech for teachers of Miss Babcock came from New York to where she directed more than Most of the present speech teachers are former students of Ericksen was elected to the House of Representatives in Four years ago Governor Herbert B. Maw appointed her to the to which she was reelected on the Democratic of the senate education Ericksen is also on the appropriations E. E. Ericksen |
