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Show Alpine Council To Be Host To P.-T. A. Meeting Parent-Teacher association officers and members of Utah, Millard and Juab counties will gather here Wednesday, Wed-nesday, October 16, for a regional convention of the fourth region, sponsored by the Alpine Parent-Teacher Parent-Teacher association council. Meetings will be held all day, at the Utah State Training School. More than 125 persons are expected to attend the convention sessions, departmental meetings, school clinic and tour, and other special features of the gathering, according to Mrs. Leo G. Meredith, president of the Alpine P.-T. A. council, who will be in charge. The convention will carry out the theme, "The Pursuit of Happiness", this being the last part of a three-year three-year theme: "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness". Problems of program planning, membership, cooperation co-operation between the school and the home, and other topics will be taken up at the general and departmental de-partmental meetings. Following registration from 9 to 9:30 a. m., the first session will be held. It will be called to order by Mrs. Meredith, with a roll call. Mrs. David Bigler of Payson, director of Region 4, and Dr. H. H. Ramsay, superintendent at the Utah State Training School, will deliver welcoming wel-coming addresses. Superintendent D. R. Mitchell of Alpine district will offer the invocation. A special feature of this session will be numbers by the Harrington school orchestra, under direction of Rulon Brimhall. Among the visitors who will be introduced in-troduced at this session are Mrs. Charles Rowe of Denver, national field secretary of the P.-T. A.; Mrs. L. K. Nicholson, state president; Mrs. C. L. Walker, state secretary; Mrs. Roskelly, Miss Winifred Hafen, and Mrs. Mumford, state officers. At 11:10 a short musical program will be presented by the music department de-partment of the Utah State Training Train-ing School. At 12:30 a turkey dinner will be served. During this "Friendship Hour," music will be furnished under direction of Kenneth J. Bird, American Fork high school music director. Visitors will be given an opportunity opportu-nity to see the school buildings and the displays of articles made by the children, during a conducted tour at 1:30 p. m. Following the tour, a general assembly will be held at 2:30, with Mrs. Rowe conducting the session. ses-sion. At 3:30 a clinic will be conducted by Dr: Ramsay, to show the various types of children at the school, and to point out the problems of mental health. The convention will adjourn at 4:30 in the afternoon. The Alpine P.-T. A. council is preparing pre-paring for at least 125 convention-goers, convention-goers, Mrs. Meredith said. All P.-T. A. officers and members are being invited to attend. Reservations for the banquet must be made no later than Monday, October 14, with Mrs. Meredith or with Miss Helen Haslam at the district school board office. o |
