Show County PTA leaders honored 29 Teachers Are For Service DUCHESNE'S TEACHER MADSEN DUCHESNE Duchesne's faithful and school teacher was honored at a Founder's Day program of the Duchesne Area Council of Parent-Teacher Association Monday at the Myton Elementary She is Florence Bullock Madsen John P who has more than 36 years of teaching to her credit years of this service In All but one year of her teaching at Duchesne was In the elementary One year she changed into an instructor-ship in the Duchesne High home economics Madsen remembers still the sting of the cold wind as she walked 3 VA going and from her ranch home in to teach This went on for two then she to a two-wheel horse-drawn cart for The veteran teacher I could ford the Duchesne River without getting my feet She v kept at this job six and seven months a as an employee of the Wasatch County School later the Duchesne County School District for 20 Starting and for several years was a In the length of the school Mrs Madsen remember how happy we were when it was announced we would have an S-month school year Her classroom was in odd places about One of the favorite schools of her pupils was the big old saloon no longer in Mrs Madsen held classes in the rear of the old but her daughter Emily teases hei and tells her friends that taught the ABC's to the clink of glasses in a saloon Madsen says the old saloon was an attraction to the The girls primped in front of the huge mirror over the bat and the boys had loads of fun shooting marbles on the was a multipurpose room for them They used it for recreation and entertainments and as a gymnasium in bad Madsen Come 1932 and the big Madsen was with the other married women It was not until the critical World War n times in 1940 that she resumed her teaching In 1953 came retirement for the school teacher who had started her teaching career at Pleasant Grove Elementary School in 1906 to 1910 right after she graduated from the Brigham Young Her career included post graduate studies at Berkeley University in and at the University of Chicago She will observe her birthday Feb Mrs Madsen didn't let many things interfere with my career even my daughter Emily was born in I could resume teaching in the Duchesne's teacher is very active in community and church affairs in Duchesne where she has lived for several years with her who is a past mayor of Duchesne and a past member of the Utah State NEOLA'S TEACHER JENSEN Mrs Ruth Bleazard Neola teacher who was honored at the Duchesne Council meeting in Myton still does substitute teaching at Comments on Mrs Jensen were given by Mrs Fern Neola program Her teaching career started at Washington and she later moved to teaching for five consecutive She remembers first teaching all eight and stated that in 1919 a ninth grade was started and the grades then In history data she collected it was noted that the first school was established in the upper eastern part of Duchesne County at in two miles east of where Neola is now In 1912 the school house was moved from to Neola In addition to her school teaching Jensen has been an ardent civic and church A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Jen-Ben has served approximately forty years as an officer and teacher in the Sunday thirty years in the and over years in the Relief She served a two-year Indian Mission for the church from JM- xH TEACHING SERVICE RECOGNIZED Two John P. and Lionel accept book tokens from George and Fern for contributions to teaching HONORED BY PTA COUNCIL i C. presented with Utah State Life PTA honorary membership pin by Milton PTA Council anil past regional Howard and Mrs Cliff Roosevelt receive books- In appreciation of to PTA in the Basin 1953 to and filled a Hawaiian mission with her husband from 1956 to She also served as a guide at the Los Angeles Temple in and four winters at St. George doing Temple Included in her civic activities are Red Cross chairman for March of Dimes Bond Drive chairman War secretary and chairwoman of the Republican Party in her Neola Community Club president two club Neola health and news report-ter for the Roosevelt Standard two different For her contribution to the school and for her church and civic as well as Mrs Jensen was selected Uintah Basin District Mother of the Year in She is the mother of four At the Duchesne Area PTA Council meeting held Ian at the Myton two outstanding two past PTA regional ind Rowan C. Stutz were honored in varied THE PROGRAM and evening of tributes were arranged in of Founder's Day under the direction of the council Milton who presided over the meeting and Mrs Tal program Each community was asked to invite its oldest resident teacher to be in attendance only two were Florence Bullock Madsen of Duchesne and Ruth Bleazard Neola were as well as past regional directors of Region Cliff who served during the and Howard who served from 1955 to INTRODUCING Madsen and relating some of her teaching experiences was George Duchesne PTA Jensen was introduced by Fern past PTA president and present program chairman of the Neola Each hon-oree received a book from the council as a taken of appreciation for PTA Highlight of the meeting was a surprise to who was presented a Utah State Life Honorary Membership in the Parent-Teacher This award Is rarely given and is presented in recognition of an individual's contribution to the betterment of children and youth At present Supt Stutz is second vice-president of the Utah Congress of Parents and Teachers and is also vice-president of the Duchesne RESPONSES were made by the honored guests Three former Duchesne Council Jesse Lorena Iorg and Erie were to also have been but were unable to be present Musical entertainment arranged by Wardle was as follows a mixed quartet from composed of Sam Nora Bonnie Oman and Delwin who sang Land of and of Our accompanied by Mrs and a vocal A for by Mrs William accompanied bv Mrs A FOUNDER'S Day Magazine skit rounded out the meeting and was given under the direction of Refreshments were served by the Myton president of which Is Joe A Valentine theme was fea- 1 lured in decorations and the table A large group of officers and I chairmen from the various PTA t units in the county were pres- ent for the special There's a difference between a breezy man and a bag of |