Show I GETS CITATION Henry Ah native of receives Industrial Arts Teacher of the Year award for He teaches at West Junior High Henry Ah Sam given Teacher of Year honor Henry Ah faculty mem-t ber at the West Junior High I was recently selected the Industrial Arts Teacher of the Year for the State of Utah and will receive a citation for this outstanding honor at the National Industrial Arts Convention to be held in in A NATIVE of Ah Sam has been affiliated with schools in the Uintah School district since Principal Norman Long of West Junior High School said he felt that had not only brought recognition to but to his school and the Whole Uintah Basin in being chosen from all high schools in the state to be accorded this THE TEACHER receiving the award was selected on the basis of his ability in the classroom in teaching industrial with the following criteria Rapport with Ability to motivate student terest in industrial success in upgrading industrial arts in the total school ability to use his own ingenuity in organizing the a well-grounded philosophy in Industrial arts The recipient be an industrial arts classroom teacher below the college level and should be active in educational associations on the state and national Ah Sam was born May in on the Island of Hawaii to and All You Ah He attended both elementary and secondary public schools and graduated from High School in I WHILE ATTENDING high he enrolled in all the industrial arts classes as he was very interested In this type of From August 1955 to May he attended the Church College of a junior where he took industrial See HENRY AH page 10 Henry Ah Sam from page technical courses under Professor Ernest C. who is presently at the BYU in Provo and dean of the General Ah Sam finished the junior college with an Associate of Science IN he left the Islands and came to where he enrolled at Utah State University for one In he enrolled at the graduating in with a Bachelor of Science majoring in industrial Ah Sam teaches 6 periods of General Shop at West High with 11 students enrolled in his He gives instruction in metal crafts and and mechanical The various units are generally 10 weeks in length and each student takes complete school year of the He is presently teaching a woodwork class for HE IS MARRIED to the for mer Judity Ching and the couple has two five years and Ah Sam's hobbies are flying and building model electronics and all phases of the Industrial Arts HE IS active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is a member of the Dry Gulch Bowmen Utah Industrial Arts American Industrial Arts Uintah Educational Association and the Utah Education He is currently serving as president of Region of the Industrial Arts representing Duchesne and Uintah |