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Show Destroy Barriers .... Unity Stressed In School Dedication Several hundred patrons, present pres-ent and former board members from two counties, officials of the Union High School, teachers teach-ers and guests, were on hand last Saturday evening to parci-cipate parci-cipate in a very impressive dedication ded-ication program and tour of the new structure that is the first of its kind to be erected in Utah. The program was arranged by a special committee headed by Loman F. Hutchings, principal, and the dedicatory services were conducted by Russel Todd, Union High Board president. The principal address of the evening was given by Dr. E. Allen Al-len Bateman, state superintendent superinten-dent of public instruction, and Archie Johnson, president' of the Uintah Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, delivered the dedicatory prayer. Dr. Bateman called on the faculty, fac-ulty, students and patrons to join together in a bond of unity and fellowship to insure the success suc-cess of the new venture in Utah education. He cautioned parents that they could make it work if they will let it work. "The student body of Union High will be successful in maintining unity un-ity so far as parents will let it be done. Students, will forget for-get which side of the county (Continued on back page) Union High School (Continued from page 1) line they are from as rapidly as you parents will let them," Dr. Bateman said. Further developing, the thought of "county lines," Dr. Bateman said Union High was built where it was, not because it was the itangible line that separates the two counties of the Basin, but rather because it was near the largest city in the area it would serve, and because it was near a main highway that would help solve the transportation transporta-tion problems. "Union High and every other American high school should endeavor to instill a non-doctrinal religious attitude into the hearts of all students. This world will never emerge out of the chaotic condition it is in until un-til this is practiced in all of our schools," Dr. Bateman said in concluding his address. A stirring and eloquent plea was made by Reginald O. Curry, Cur-ry, chairman of the Ute Indian Tribal Committee, for abolishment abolish-ment of racial barriers that could exist. He told how his people were being influenced to send their children to the public pub-lic schools of the Basin where they could receive social and academic training , that would help them rise above the past standards of the Indian people. In expressing the appreciation of the Ute Indian people of the Basin for the new institution of learning, Mr. Curry said, "The uniqueness of the administrative control of the school, the cooperative cooper-ative effort that was put f orth to make this school possible, and the very time of 'its erection, leads me to believe that it is destined to play a great part in the fulfillment of a prophecy. A prophecy that one day the Indian people will become a cultured and favored people." (A full text of Mr. Curry's address ad-dress is found elsewhere in this issue.) The address of welcome was given by Marion Harrison, Duchesne Du-chesne School Board membei and vice chairman of the Union High School Board. Other speakers speak-ers heard on the program were Mr. Todd. Supt. Dean C. Chris-tensen Chris-tensen of the Duchesne School District; Supt. Harold M. Lun-dell, Lun-dell, Uintah School District; and Principal Hutchings. The invocation was offered by Rev.. Wm. Trow of the Roosevelt Baptist Bap-tist Church. . A tour of the building he-fore he-fore and after the exercises was-conducted was-conducted under the direction of the faculty, aided by girls of the school who were dressed in formal dress. . During Mr. Hutchings' address, ad-dress, he announced that the enrollment at the present time was 476 students, with 51 of them being from Indian families. fam-ilies. Contractors," architects, former form-er and present school board members of the two districts were introduced by Mr. Todd, and messages from others who aided in the project were read or recognized. A musical program pro-gram also added to the occasion Several beautiful floral bouquets bou-quets were donated by various clubs, individuals and business institutions from Roosevelt and surrounding area. |