Show School Board Says No To Name Change A group of Farmington made a valiant effort to persuade the Davis County School Board to rename the new Farmington Elementary School in honor of the late George BOARD Chairman Morris Hansen we named Farmington it wasn't because we didn't love George He explained that it is the modern trend to name schools after locations for easier Newell spokesman for the said that out of the 51 schools in our eleven have names honoring He heritage is one of the least guarded of our we seem to let the past slip away too KNOWLTON labored 42 years in behalf of his He taught four generations and has many successful among his The group had taken a survey of the townspeople and found many in favor of the Margaret Hess and Irene Olsen of the Daughters of the Utah along with other citizens in Farmington expressed their tributes to THEY USED the argument that if the school was to be named after a it should be named the Lagoon School because that is how people know Superintendent Bernell Wrigley said there had been long deliberations before the school was more than two years Schools are named at the time of their conception and not after he BOARD member Henry Peterson explained that name changes are very running several thousand dollars and involving printing changes and records at the state Kimball expressed regret that he didn't know of it before the solidification of the Wrigley said that with the growth in the future may see another school and the desires of the group could be taken into consideration at that THE which is scheduled to open this will be it will be the first school in Davis County to be fully carpeted and air lb |