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Show year, and on the district-wide council. VanWa goner is also on the planning committee for a National Na-tional Community Education workshop to be held at Snowbird Snow-bird in October. She believes these councils, especially if they endeavor to involve new members each year give people a sense of direct involvement and commitment. com-mitment. The district-wide council coun-cil is planning a monthly newsletter news-letter this year to inform and involve more parents. She believes be-lieves widespread distribution of a school calendar will help immensely im-mensely in giving people advance notice about school activities. Other concerns expressed by the candidate include improved communication between community, com-munity, faculty, administration and students, continued upgrading of curriculum, (including enrichment enrich-ment programs,) improvement in discipline, with emphasis on self discipline and respect for self and others, greater school spirit among students and community and operationally safe school buses. VanWagoner is originally from New England and has a Master of Arts degree in English literature lit-erature from the University of Michigan and worked as an editor ed-itor and technical writer previously. pre-viously. She and her husband Wayne, a consulting transportation transport-ation engineer, have one child at Park High and another in Marsac. Pat has also been a regional director for the state P.T.A. and a coordinator and leader of the Marsac Great Books program. The kinds of things VanWagoner VanWag-oner is interested in accomplishing accomplish-ing if elected include an upgrading upgrad-ing of the high school library and awareness of equipment needs in the schools generally, emphasis on teacher in-service training, ami a much stronger counseling program, which would 'include not only access to career ca-reer and college information, but a comprehensive schedule planning plan-ning procedure while students are are Park High. 'The School Board can't sit back and assume everything's okay until someone screams loudly enough. That's a kind of "band-aid" philosophy. The board's role isn't to interfere with the day-to-day workings of the schools, but members should certainly keep their ears to the ground and know what is going on." So says Pat Van Wagoner, Wag-oner, a Summit Park resident and one of four schoo board candidates Candidate Pat Van Wagoner She feels the Board of Eduction Edu-ction needs more aggressionand could help promote more harmony among the whole administration. ad-ministration. "So much whispering whis-pering goes on and its so blatant bla-tant and open that the administration admin-istration at the top doesn't get along." she states. But Pat says she has a good working relationship rela-tionship with the administrations and teachers and believes she can help. VanWagoner believes "just because be-cause Park City's small it doesn't does-n't mean we need second rate schools. Many teachers will still take a pay cut to live in a small town, but we have to be willing to try some new ideas and not just go along like for the past fifty years." Along organizational lines, she feels Park City areas should be removed from the South Summit Sum-mit school district, and that a need exists to reapportion school board membership so that her precinct, with about half the district's dis-trict's students, receives more than one representative on the board. Another concern is why 24 Park City children attend schools in Salt Lake, which costs the Park City District thousands of dollars doll-ars annually. As a board member, mem-ber, she would be willing to discuss dis-cuss concerns with parents per-sonnally per-sonnally and try to take steps to bring back the Salt Lake students. stu-dents. When asked how to generate more community interest in local lo-cal schools, VanWagoner stated that she thinks school community commun-ity councils help. She served as chairman of the active Marsac Mar-sac Community Council last |