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Show ' Review -- Thursday, November 7, 1985 -- Page 3 pGHb counselor finds fulfillment in dual career from high school to college. Mark noted that kids are very intimidated by a very competitive world. Many of their problems are offshoots of this worry. While he was in college, Mark took classes in horticulture and land-scape design. One reason he did this is because he loves classy, neat and beautiful things and hates weeds and things of that sort. After his mission, Mark worked with Milo Baughman, a famous furniture designer. Baughman owned the Knight Mangum home in Provo and also one in Edgemont. Baugham encouaged Mark to drop his education studies and work fulltime as a landscape designer. Of course, Mark didn't do this, but being able to work for Mr. Baugh-man and create some beauutiful gardens really appealed to Mark. Since then he has worked for Rose Marie Reid in Provo and he worked for Dr. Arden Kitchen in Pleasant Grove. He has had the opportunity to create and design beautiful yards and landscapes for many famous people. He would not give the names of all of them because he knew they would prefer he didn't. Mark said it is great to associate with some of these super people because they appreciate fine quality things and so does he. He indulges himself with the landscape work about eight months of the year, depending on the weather. He begins in March usually and continues through November. He said he is more of a professional landscape gardener than a landscaper. He likes the aspects of doing design and doing creative things. Mark is married to the former Colleen Bevan of Tooele. They have five children and one due in December. They also have a foster Indian child. Politics is Mark's hobby. For Mark, he is doing the two things he likes best in the world to do. He can have his cake and eat it, too. Economics with a He minor in Debate has since earned his Educational Phsrology Certificate from BYU has done graduate work in economics and law Bezant Mark graduated from Pleasant Grove High School in 1967 where he served as the school's first Key Club president. He was Seminary president, Regional Seminary president, and played varsity tennis, basketball and ran the mile in track. After college, Mark taught economics, law and debate at Pleasant Grove High School for ten years. He has been a counselor for the past three vears By MARCELLA WALKER cometimes, if you work things just m you can really have your cake nrf eat it, too. it you don't believe it, ask E. Mark opzzant. By day Mark is a counselor pleasant Grove High School. By m and summers, Mark is a J ds'cape designer. He likes both jobs and he does them well. uThere is very little, if any, relationship between the two Lfessions. The one nice thing is Lt the hours of being a counselor Le time for the hours of being a landscape designer. Mark began cutting lawns for ;; neighbors when he was just a little i: w about six. He continued doing (his as he grew up and when he was " high school he began doing the in ? ,ardwork for Dr. Doyle Barrett, v He said that Marcella Barrett was I' Very interested in gardening and ' iandscape. She would take Mark with her to Salt Lake City where they would look at beautiful yards and get ideas He was also encouraged by his (. grandmother who kept a meticulous yard. After high school, Mark served in 'I the Eastern States LDS Mission for Then he attended BYU t two years. u where he graduated with a B.A. in As a debate coach, his teams won several state championships and the school's law program was named by the Utah State Bar Association as the best in the state. Mark was also named as one of the Outstanding Young Men in America a few years ago. As a counselor, he focuses on vocational counseling. He likes working with all the students, but he especially enjoys working with the senior kids and helping them prepare for college choices. He said he likes to try to get them to find their own special interests and help them make the transition Sl! f , I f ) . 1 t . , . ? ? - l f i ; k ,' ' E x , 'J .... - '"V rr ' 4 ' - fe, ' & M' ,. i' - ... ! w" T v utr ' , nafc f T " - - ri . ' ' UR I , . i - and I . rap s , p Ky ''fcJfcfc... 'MMC - 'y flirt iiVifniiii'fewiiiiinir ultiftrtft n''T-E. Mark Bezzant carries pieces of sod as he works in landscaping the Brimley Well grounds in Pleasant Grove. sit- Student volunteers benefit all 1 px , t 0 If j - - ,l A, If,, v ' : ' - 'i - . ' school and said their efforts will be missed. All of the high school students agreed that "Helping these kids, you get to understand their problems better." Jody Christensen said "It's been a great experience; I want to be a doctor and this will help me un-derstand and to be able to get along with these kinds of problems." He said while at the school he had helped with the older students, with reading and in the gym. Sam Draney, helping one little boy with shapes, said he has felt it is a worthwhile program, and said he has enjoyed being in the class. "It's fun to work with these kids. You get real satisfaction in seeing any progress, no matter how little, they make," said another. Jackman said the students have spent their classtime for first term at the Peterson School and will now go back to the classroom. He said he may bring another class back - students who have had the textbook studies and can now see the problems first hand. Students in the past have also gone to the Utah State Training School, to the hospital, to the veterinary clinic, to rest homes, etc., he noted. "We have a concrete program," he said, with the students getting hands-o- n experience not only with the mentally and physically han-dicapped but also by working in labs, with the elderly in rest homes, and in other situations. "In order to understand what a disease is, you have to see it," he said. He said Scott McKay, who works with community education programs in the school district, has helped set up the program. Jackman said all of the students in the Health Occupations class plan to go into some type of health related field, and the class gives them an opportunity to learn first hand if this is really what they want or not. Students in Health Occupation classes at American Fork and Pleasant Grove High Schools have been spending part of their classroom day gaining first-han- d knowledge of the severely han-dicapped and the problems they face. Since school began in September, 27 students from American Fork High School and about 14 from Pleasant Grove High School have been working with the students at the, Dan W Peterson School in American Fork. And, according to Rod Jackman, class instructor, the experience has not only aided the students by giving them a better background for their classroom studies, but has given them a better insight into the problems of the multiply han-dicapped. "Instead of them receiving a cold, clinical explanation of the workings of the central nervous system (for example) from a book, they have learned by actual seeing," Jackman said. "Now when they have a lesson on the central nervous system, they will know what we are talking about," he said. The students have been coming to the school for one and one-ha- lf hours every other day, the teacher noted, saying they finished last Friday with the ending of the first term. Dr. David Adamson, principal at Peterson School, said although one or two students have come to the school as volunteers at a time before as volunteers, this is the first time an entire class has come at once. "I think everyone has benefited by it," he said, adding, "they have come in and worked directly with the children, doing tutoring work in reading and math skills, helping them with motor skills, helping with speech activities, and even helping them to train in gymnastics for the Special Olympics." "They (the students) have helped Tori Page works with student at Peterson School. our students in everything from learning to walk to reading to physical therapy and even with learning the computer - providing one-on-o- help ' that otherwise wouldn't have been possible," he said. "This gives more one-to-o-contact and allows them to look at the problems they read about in their textbooks. They are better able to relate to what they are studying." 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