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Show 400 Training School Students Will Be in Christmas Pageant More than 400 students at the Utah State Training School at American Fork will participate partici-pate in the annual Christmas Pageant December 18, 19, and 20 at 1:30 and 7 p.m. each day. Bill Kirkpatrick, an art teacher teach-er at the training school where some 900 retarded children and adults are instructed, said this year's pageant will have as its theme "Santa Claus Superstar" "Most of the participants in the pageant this year will be children, from three years old up with only a few adults taking tak-ing part," said Kirkpatrick. ! 'The entire pageant lasts i about an hour and is in two parts. First there is a play about Santa Claus and then a Nativity story," said Kirkpatrick. Kirkpat-rick. Taking part will be a chorus from the training school and a rhythm band, with piano and organ accompaniment by Mrs. Lydia Kirkpatrick, head of the music department and Loran Jex, director of professional services, respectively. Costumes for the pageant are being constructed by the ap-proximtely ap-proximtely 25 teachers at the training school. Parents of the retarded are encouraged to attend the evening even-ing performance December 20. The public is especially invited December 18 and 19 at 7 p.m. |