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Show School-Year Plans Mapped Out At Highly Successful Teacher Institute Duchesne's new school superintendent, super-intendent, Dean C. Christensen, 1 presided over one of the most outstanding teacher institutes I ever held in the district, as' principals, teachers, bus driv-1 ers, custodians, lunch room supervisors su-pervisors and other school employees em-ployees met at the Duchesne high school auditorium, Satur-day, Satur-day, Sept. 2, to receive instruc- tion as to their respective duties prior to the opening of school the following week. Representatives of the city, county, and school board were on hand to extend welcome to Supt. Christensen and his 1950-51 1950-51 corps of teachers, who will instruct the children in the district dis-trict during the school year just ahead. Edward W. Payne, principal prin-cipal of the South Cache high school, delivered the main ad-1 ad-1 dress, after E. L. Murphy, school board president, and Ma-or Ma-or Otto Johnsen had extended their welcome addresses. An interesting program was presented pre-sented at the joint session. Supt. Christensen sounded the keynote of the institute when he presented the theme, "How A Teacher, School Lunch Worker, Work-er, Custodian, Bus Driver and Parent Contributes Toward Making A Better Student," to the secondary principals and teachers over which he presided. Edward W. Payne was consultant consul-tant in this department. The elementary department was presided over by Arlotta Williams, supervisor, and was assisted by Sue E. Groosbeck, supervisor of the Weber county coun-ty elementary schools. Theme of the lower groups was, "Cooperating "Co-operating Through Activities Toward Building Better Centered Cen-tered Schools." Another speaker at the general gen-eral meeting of the group was Louis A. Jensen, Duchesne county coun-ty agricultural agent, who explained ex-plained the position of the department de-partment he supervises in aiding aid-ing the schools. Others heard were Mrs. Remington,- district superintendent of Utah health in the schools, and Mrs. Clyde Johnson, Duchesne county public pub-lic health nurse. Each discussed their positions in the school program. Heading the Whiterpcks Indian In-dian school was its principal, Ray Adams, who explained the responsibility of the public school teacher and student to the Indian children. All teachers teach-ers in the Whiterocks school were in attendance at the institute. insti-tute. The county board of education educa-tion entertained the entire group at lunch, served and prepared pre-pared by the Duchesne city lunch room workers. At the conclusion of the work-shop institute, the county teacher organizations selected Robert Paulsen, Altamont high school principal, their new president, pres-ident, with Viola Hancock as vice president. |