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Show Adult Education Program Discuss-edatP.T.A. Discuss-edatP.T.A. Meet Members of the Alpine District P.-T. A executive council and presidents pres-idents of the local P.-T. A. organizations organ-izations of the district, met at 4:30 Wednesday evening to discuss the past season's work and the adult education program for the coming winter. Mrs. Mabel M. Nelson, president of the district council, was in charge of the meeting. Reports on the activities of the various committees commit-tees in the different communities were given. Ross NleLson, chairman of the recreation committee, re-ixirted re-ixirted on the work accomplished by that committee during the summer months. A recreation center was set up in both Lehi and American Fork. In Lehi four individuals were active as recreational leaders in that city. In American Fork the work was under the direction of Grant Ingersoll, who had several helpers, Mr. Nielson reported. He also stated stat-ed that if the P.-T. A. was interested inter-ested in a recreation program for the winter months that the school buildings and equipment would be available. Ernest Clayton, chairman of the membership committee, gave a brief report and suggested several methods meth-ods by which the membership funds for the local P.-T. A. associations might be raised. The state association asso-ciation aim, "Every Parent a Member Mem-ber of the P.-T. A." was also discussed dis-cussed briefly by Mr. Clayton. Mrs. Lottie Hammond, chairman of the room-mothers, presented the purposes and aims of the room-mothers. room-mothers. This is a new phase of P.-T. A. work which has just been inaugurated in this district. The purpose of the room-mother is to act as an arbitrator between the teacher, the child and the parent. The room-mother is to be chosen from the mothers of the children in the particular room. She is to help solve any problems or difficulties diffi-culties which might arise in her particular room. The Summer Round-Up and Health program was reported by Mrs. Doss and Mrs. Jones, school nurses. Mrs. Doss reported that in Pleasant Grove 71 pre-school examinations exam-inations were made and that 69 such examinations were made in Orem. Practically 100 per cent of those children examined were innoculated tor diptneria and vaccinated for small-pox. In the northern end of the district, Mrs. Jones reported that some 108 children were examined in American Fork, 90 of these being innoculated for diptheria and 75 had their tonsils removed during the summer. Two crippled children were given hospitalization. A set of W P A art paintings will be available to the schools of this district if application is made for them by the various local Parent-Teacher Parent-Teacher Association units before December, De-cember, Mrs, Nelson reported. |