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Show I Mmtit.;.-&At.;.-&.AJ.:&.. . .. .. . . , ... I IB-SI MAXINE FUGAL CONNIE A. TUCKER ELWOOI) FOOTE Three Pleasant Grove teachers to retire this year Maxine Fugal Manila School teacher, Maxine Fugal, will erase her last blackboard black-board this month when she retires after 16 years of teaching in Pleasant Grove. Maxine is the daughter of Lot and Lucille Robinson. Maxine was born and raised in American Fork. After graduation from American Fork High School, she enrolled in Utah State Agricultural College in Logan. In September 1939 she married Jean A. Fugal and shortly after they moved to Milford, Beaver County, where Jean would be teaching vocational agriculture. After two years they moved back to Pleasant Grove where Jean had a contract to teach at Pleasant Grove High School. For the next 20 years, Maxine spent her time caring for her home, her husband and five children. When her two youngest children were in high school, Maxine decided that it was now time to get on with her lifelong dream. She enrolled in the field of education at BYU. The night that her youngest graduated from high school, Maxine received her degree from BYU. Her first teaching was at Grovecrest Elementary in the fourth grade. Here she spent the next 15 years until 1982 when she was assigned to teach fourth grade at the new Manila Elementary School. Connie A. Tucker Connie Adams Tucker is retiring after 22 years of teaching, seventeen seven-teen of which have been for the Alpine School District. An open house will be given in her honor on May 13 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Lindon Elementary School Media Center. She has taught kindergarten, first grade, and has been a resource teacher for the elementary grades, as well as for the junior high school. She has taught at Westmore Elementary, BYU, Pleasant Grove Junior High and Lindon schools. Connie married Ernest Tucker in 1938 and is the mother of four sons and one daughter and has 16 grandchildren. She grew up at 445 North University Avenue in Provo and attended Provo schools. She graduated from BYU, as did her four sisters. One of her greatest pleasures ,is when students she has taught in the past, come back and talk to her about their successes in life. The words that best describe Connie Tucker are, accountable, responsible, giving, and her sense of humor. She loves a play on words. Her philosophy in life is "Help everyone you can, everytime you can, everywhere you can." When Connie retires at the end of May, she plans to continue working with children, travel, walk, garden and build a new home. We at Lindon Elementary School wish Connie the best in this new phase of her life and send our love with her for the years of service she has given to so many children and faculty members. Elwood Foote Elwood Foote, Pleasant Grove, will retire this month after 32 years as a secondary school teacher. Elwood was born in Provo and grew up on a dairy and fruit farm in north Provo. He received his early .education in Alpine District schools and graduated from the old Lincoln High School in Orem. He received a B.S. degree from Utah State in Logan with a major in vocational agriculture in 1951, and began his teaching career in Star Valley High School in Afton, Wyoming. Later he taught in Altamont, and in 1955 moved to Utah County and began teaching math at American Fork Junior High School, where he has continued to teach until the present time. In 1960 he took a leave of absence and obtained a M.S. degree from the University of Utah. Since then he has done graduate work at BYU and University of San Francisco. He is married to the former Nelda Johnson of Provo and they live in Pleasant Grove. They are the parents of three children and have eight grandchildren. |