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Show Lindon PTA Officers Meet to Discuss Program for Coming School Year Monday afternoon, Sept. 19, PTA President Pearl Fowlke and her several committee chairmen met with the Lindon Grade School Principal Thomas A. Larsen, to discuss the program for the coming com-ing year. Committee chairmen present included Cleora Maxfield, adult education; Betty Miller, room mother representative; Theone Blaine, magazine chairman; Irene Ostergaard, membership; and Evelyn Ev-elyn Blake, publicity. Hospitality chairman Marjorie Walker and Health chairman Afton Fryer were not in attendance. Mrs. Fowlke began the meeting by reading two paragraphs from the Utah Parent Teachers Bulletin the first of which was designed to stress the importance of the PTA "as a connecting bridge between the school and home" and as a means of creating mutual under- i standing an dcooperation. The second sec-ond paragraph, a message from Mrs. Cecil H. Baker, president of the Utah Congress of Parents and Teachers, advised officers to organize their time and their home to avoid disruption of the homes. "Enjoy the pleasant things which come with your office and know that perfection is a goal, that discouragement dis-couragement is felt by all and that the Golden Rule is a staff on which we can lea nheavily," counsels Mrs. Baker. Such problems as the time and fiequency of PTA meetings, who should participate in the PTA programs, pro-grams, and how they should be conducted were discussed by all present Mrs. Ostergaard offered to secure se-cure material for consideration to be used at the first PTA meeting to be held the first part of October. |