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Show Velma Robbins elected to State Fire Aux. office 1 ; ; v - , ; - - V ' ' Velma Rt)bbins has been elected as a stiite officer in the firemen's auxiliary, it was revealed today. Velma has lived in Pleasant Grove thirty-nine years, coming here from Coffeyville, Kansas, where she was born and educated. She married William H. Robbins in 1947. They have four children: Hal, Grand Junction, Colo.; Gary, Salt Lake City; Karren, American Fork, Jay, Palaside, Colo.; and eight grandchildren. She was a school lunch" worker for Alpine School District for ten years. Her hobbies are cooking, quilting, and serving. She is active in the L.D.S. Church 11th Ward. She helped re-activate the fire auxiliary in 1958 and has been active in this organization holding one office or another several times. At present she is historian. She first became interested in the Fire Department in 1948 when they were hired by the city as dispatchers for the police and fire department, living in the apartment above the City Hall. Bill has been a fireman for thirty-five thirty-five years. The auxiliary is very supportive of the firemen, also taking great pride in the community, helping with civic projects where ever they feel it will do the most eood. "I am very proud to represent our city and fire department, by being elected as a member of the state auxiliary and will do my best to fulfill this position well," Velma said. She was president when the first firemans breakfast was held in 1960. VELMA ROBBINS shows one of the posters she used in her successful campaign for a state office in the Firemen's Auxiliary. She is also an officer in the Pleasant Grove Firemen's Auxiliary. |