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Show Parent-Teachers Movement Under Way The initial steps toward the organization or-ganization of a live Parent-Teachers organization in American Fork were taken Wednesday night at the high school following the musical program pro-gram presented by the four high schools of the district- The students stud-ents were dismissed from the auditorium audi-torium to go into the gymnasium for a social and the parents remained re-mained to discuss the advisability of reviving an organization designed to bring the parents and teachers of this district into closer understanding under-standing of common problems affecting af-fecting the welfare of the children. Jesse M- Walker, principal of the Dr- G. S. Richards, city health physician, presented to the parents and patrons assembled a concise summary of the health condition of the students of American Fork schools- The four local physicians, Drs- Richards, J. F- Noyes, K. E. Noyes and V. F. Houston, have given physical examinations to all the students of both the elementary grades and high schools, with no remuneration. The condition of every child has been recorded and a card made for each one- Where defects exist in the physical makeup make-up of the student, the parents will be so notified and urged to make correction. It was a revelation to the parents par-ents assembled to note on the chart summary handed out by Dr- Richards Rich-ards the many students who are in need of physical corrections. Briefly Brief-ly the reports shows: Out of the 1,116 examined there were 216 underweight, un-derweight, 67 overweight, 7 with defective de-fective eyes, 11 with nose trouble, 515 with bad teeth, 156 with infected in-fected tonsils, 131 with cervical gland trouble, 121 who need thyroid correction, 104 with bad ears, 44 with defective hearts, 10 with crooked spines, 9 with posture defects, 184 with foot trouble, 34 with ankle ailments, and 50 with defective vision- Of the total of 1,116 students, the chart shows but 270 pronounced physically fit. Mrs. Jacobs, county supervisor of women's projects, was present and outlined briefly the project underway under-way whereby at least 2,000 children of Utah county who take lunches to school may be provided with a warm dish at noon time to offset the danger of malnutrition. The project is set up to provide employment employ-ment for women also- Under the plan, for every 50 children, one woman is given employment for four hours a day. It is proposed that not only will lunches be supplied, sup-plied, but an educational program will be conducted for mothers as well, whereby classes in nutrition will be organized where mothers will foe taught how to feed their families fam-ilies properly. Mrs- Jacobs pointed out the importance of children receiving re-ceiving not only enough food but more important still, the right kind, and the responsibility resting upon the homemakers. An expression was heard from several sev-eral of the parents favoring the Parent-Teachers organization whereby where-by these problems may be considered consider-ed and a nominating committee was named for the purpose of selecting a group of officers to head such an organization to be presented in the near future to the parents and teachers for approval- The committee com-mittee named was as follows: Reed Robinson, chairman; Dena S. Grant, William J. Chadwick, H. E- McNiel, Mrs- Hannah Ashby, West Hammond Ham-mond and George F- Shelley. Jesse M. Walker was named an advisory member. This committee was empowered em-powered to select any others to assist as-sist them. They will select a president, pres-ident, vice president, secretary, and an executive committee of five- o |
