Show U F W C convention is Outstanding success The Sixty-sixth parley of the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs was concluded at Saturday afternoon after a three-day highly successful convention in Rosevelt Club women from all over the Beehive State convened here for the annual which has previously been held in Salt Lake City or Convention visitors were thrilled with the new Roosevelt Stake where all general sessions and some of the dinners were went away singing the praises for Roosevelt entertainment and good many expressing the opinion that the convention as a whole was one of the most outstanding ever Visitors William H. recording secretary for the General won the favor of the club women with her melodious as well as her capability as a Also representing the General Federation was Harold Conservation of Natural Resources Department She addressed the group at a pre-convention board dinner Thursday evening at the Frontier Grill Logan Presides Presiding over the convention was Lon A. Logan of Fort president of the with other state assisted Parley convention with plans and arrangements for the three-day Logan and Raw-Sec CONFAB Back CONVENTION from page lings expressed their appreciation to all Roosevelt the Chambers of Commerce of Roosevelt and and all others for their contributions 1 and help in making the first state convention held in a decided of committees appears elsewhere in the Indian Pageant The Indian under the supervision of Francis Fort was presented Friday evening at the Roosevelt Stake and held the over visitors The colorful dancing and singing made a spectacular with eighty Ute Indians Irma beautifully narrated the story to the audience as it unfolded during the Co-directors for the pageant were Norma Fort and Mattie i 1 l Awards Banquet At the awards banquet day evening preceding the pageant E. was named of the in the annual Oscars for Teachers state spon- by the He was presented a and key award by Lee general manager of radio station This award is sponsored by the National As-I of R. Erven I was named the Representative of 1959 and was presented the Salt Lake Tribune a silver by Hazel S. Tribune Club who was in Roosevelt to cover the convention A prize of cash was awarded H. A. Atwater of the Kanab Ladies Literary League in the fashion sewing sponsored by the general federation and Vogue Pattern Second place award of went to Gordon G. member of the Tre-monton Women's Civic District winners present modeled among which was Presley Roosevelt Culture who was named Uintah Basin District First place winner in the poetry competition was Camilla Woodbury Spring-ville second place winner was Paul Thompson of Winning short story contest entrants were George A. Salt Lake and Gladys H. first and second place and Don Roosevelt Culture third place The Hallmark Art award went to Miss Karen Smith of and the Penny Art a check for purchase of a was presented the Provo Women's Council for its outstanding pro- gram in art during the The first two awards of Reading pins to be made in the State of Utah were presented to John L. Journey of Tooele and Sterling M. of This represents a reading course completed that is sponsored by the Epsilon Sigma national sorority of the Federation of Women's Food Arrangements The Current Topics Club of Vernal was in charge of the board dinner at the Frontier Grill Thursday 1 highlighting Dinosaur Land with decorations and a shown by the Vernal Chamber of Arrangements for the Friday noon Junior Clubs luncheon were under the direction of the Fort Duchesne Women's who entertained at their club decorative with Indian handicraft and beaded Frontier Grill prepared the The Friday night prepared by the Roosevelt Third Ward Relief was under the direction of the and featured an Indian also in keeping with the program and Indian In charge of the breakfast Saturday morning at the Frontier Grill was the Uintah Basin headed by D. E. Roosevelt honey produced by the Yack was featured at the and honey favors were The Saturday noon luncheon was prepared by the Roosevelt Fourth Ward Relief A motif was followed for arranged by Roosevelt Culture assisted by Vernal Two lovely door prizes were contributed by local LenEl Gifts and Jessie's Dress The General Federation visitors and the state president were each presented with original Indian a gesture of Uintah Basin |