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Show t s'" j 'r ' . . : : X - - .-' ' " 1 V t, . i ( MOTHER OF THE YEAR Mrs. Donna Ash Brock was selected select-ed as Pleasant Grove Mother of the Year for 1970 this week. Donna Ash Brock Named P.G. Mother of the Year for 1970 Nominated as candidate for Utah State Mother of the Year, is Donna Olpin Ash Brock, 189 East First North, Pleasant Grove, Utah. Mrs. Brock is a lifetime resident of Pleasant Grove, the daughter of the late Edwin Dee and Inez Robison Olpin. Her husband, Leonard Owen Ash, was frozen to death on a hunting trip on Mt. Timpanogos Timpan-ogos in 1943. Following the death of her husband she resumed re-sumed her studies at the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young University, teaching teach-ing in the elementary school in the daytime and completing her formal educaton in the evenings even-ings and at summer school. She received her Bachelors Degree in 1947 and the Masters Degree in 1953. Since that time she has done additional graduate grad-uate study at Brigham Young University, University of Utah and Utah State University. Mrs. Brock served in the Alpine Al-pine School District for thirteen thir-teen years as a teacher, principal prin-cipal and supervisor. She was employed 1959-1960 by the Unit ed States government to teach reading to children of the military mil-itary personnel in Yokohoma, Japan. In addition to her day-school day-school teaching, Mrs. Brock taught English in two evening classes to adults from all economic eco-nomic and social levels, including includ-ing Japanese teachers, doctors, policemen and students from Tokoyo University. For the past nine years she has been employed as an educational edu-cational consultant by the Allyn and Bacon Publishing Company, Com-pany, a position which includes working with educators in Utah and all of the western states. She fulfilled a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the East Central States, and has been active in Stake and Ward Auxiliary Aux-iliary organizations since early childhood. She has filled many speaking assignments for both church and civic affairs. With her marriage to Walter Robert Brock, Nov. 16, 1962, an eight-year-old son, James, increased in-creased her proud family to (Continued on page 4) Mother of Year (Continued from page 1) four. She has eleven grandchildren. grand-children. The oldest son, Kenneth Owen Ash, received his Dr. Degree in bio-chemistry at the age of 24. He has recently been appointed technical director of Honeywell's Honey-well's new clinical laboratory in Denver, Colorado. He is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has served in the bishopric in Minneapolis and is at present a member of the High Council in the Minneapolis Stake. Pauline Ash Muller attended college at Utah State University Univer-sity and at the BYU. She is the mother of six children and is an active member of the LDS Church, having been a teacher and officer in the auxiliary organizations or-ganizations in Bangor, Maine, Hardford, Connecticut, Ashland Oregon and Provo, Utah. She is at present teaching in the MIA organization in Powell, Wyoming. Len Gene Ash graduated from Brigham Young University Univer-sity and taught school in Buhl, Idaho and in Greensboro, N. Carolina. He filled a mission for the LDS Church in the Great Lakes Mission and is presently employed by Montgomery Mont-gomery Ward as a departmental departmen-tal manager in a department store in Orlando, Florida. He is a member of the High Council Coun-cil in that Stake. James Walter Brock is a junior jun-ior at Pleasant Grove High School. He is active in athletics and is an accomplished pianist. His church activities include positions of leadership in priesthood, priest-hood, seminary and Sunday School. He is at present serving serv-ing as organist for the MIA and priesthood groups. All three sons have received Eagle Scout awards. Mrs. Brock expresses her sincere sin-cere appreciation to the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Kiwanis Club for sponsoring her nomination as candidate for Mother of the Year. |
