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Show Starr named Teacher of Year I V x -, i A Pleasant Grove High School teacher was honored with The Teacher of the Year Award for the 1986-87 school year. Jim Starr, a Pleasant Grove resident, was awarded the title by Alpine Education Association (AEA) President, Rial Allen, on May 4. Starr was honored for his work with the Pleasant Grove High School radio station, ,KPGR, and his outstanding play by play announcing an-nouncing of Pleasant Grove sporting spor-ting events on that station. Starr was also praised for reorganizing the student council at PGHS, and equipping it with a viable Supreme Court, Senate and ' House of Representatives. The election process for the Student Council was also vastly improved by Starr. He is currently the chairman of the social studies department at PGHS, and teaches world history, US history, and American government. govern-ment. Starr, a graduate of California State University in Fullerton, taught in California for three years before coming to Pleasant Grove. He has taught at Pleasant Grove High School for 14 years. Starr is married to the former Coleen Fugal, of Pleasant Grove and has three children, Nick, 19; Jeana, 17 and Zack, 9. Jim Starr |