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Show Teachers Given Youth Problems To Be Solved Health, vocational trainini,', . and international undcrstand-inu undcrstand-inu were the problems presented . to the Alpine District teachers by Dr. E. Allen Bateman at the institute held in American Fork canyon Saturday. Using the percentage of high school graduates rejected as physically unfit lor military service the speaker said that educators must have the records of causes of rejections if health standards are to be raised. He compared favorably Utah with 26.1 per cent rejections to the nation as a whole with 40 per cent. In stressing the iyed for vocational voca-tional training Dr. h.itcman said that children living in a democracy de-mocracy should have the benefit of a full and rounded high school course of study. International understanding and the abolition of racial prejudice and international interna-tional intolerance must be an objective of the new school program, pro-gram, he said. Dr. Howard McDonald, president presi-dent of the Brigham Young Uni- versify, wno aiso auoiesseu uie group, said that si talents must be taught to live hi a new and rapidly changing world, and stressed the need of vocational training in the high schools. Teachers, he asserted, above all else, must have a deep understanding under-standing and sympathy for youth and their problems. The meeting was presided over by Superintendent' David R. Mitchell. At the annual business meeting meet-ing of the Alpine Teachers Association As-sociation held the same day, Lyean Johnson, Pleasant' Grove, was elected president of the body for the coming year. Boyd Davis, Lincoln high school, is the first vice president and Frank Newman, New-man, retiring preside; :t, becomes second vice '-resit1'", "."-officio. New board members'are Basil J. Dorton, Lehi elementary; Thor-val Thor-val Rigby, Lincoln high; Alvin Teuscher, American Fork high; the hold-over directors being E. A. Beck, principal of the Union elementary, Vineyard; and Calvin Cal-vin Walker, Central elementary school, Pleasant Grove. The board will appoint the new secretary. |