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Show First One Presented . . 'Midge' Nlemmott, Paul Murphy Gain Auxiliary Service A wards Kenneth Nickell, Renae Eldredge Awarded Prizes In Essay Contest Mrs. Cliff Memmott and Paul Murphy were honored last night when they were presented the first Community Service awards 4. I ever conceived by the American 1 Legion Auxiliary, Basin Post j No. 64, for outstanding service rendered their community during dur-ing the past year. According to Mrs. Robert Andrews, An-drews, Americanism chairman for the unit, the presentation of awards to Mrs. Memmott and Mr. Murphy came as a climax to "Americanism Month," which, has been observed during Feb. by all Auxiliary 'units, and were made at the Legion Barracks Bar-racks during a special program Wednesday evening. To arrive at the two choices various service and civic clubs in the city of Roosevelt were asked to nominate one of their members, or suggest someone whom they felt had contributed most to the progress and development devel-opment of the city during the ' past year. The Americanism committee composed of Mrs. Andrews, An-drews, Mrs. Homer Edwards, Mrs. Ted Olpin and Mrs. Albert Harris, compiled the nominations nomina-tions and made the final selections. selec-tions. Mrs. Memmott's selection came as the result of her activity acti-vity as president of the Roos. -velt Parent-Teachers Assn., secretary sec-retary of the Community Garden Gar-den Club; Finance and project chairman, BPW club; Charter " president of Kiwani-Anns; Counselor Coun-selor in the Roosevelt LDS ward Primary; 1951 chairman and 1952 vice-chairman of the Miss Duchesne County contest; officer in the Junior Culture club, and assistance given various other activities such as polio, Red Cross, blood donating, etc. Mr. Murphy's activities included in-cluded being a member of the City Council; president of the Roosevelt Chamber of Com-tmerce Com-tmerce for 1953. and past treasurer; trea-surer; vice-president National Parks Council, Boy Scouts of America, and recipient of the Silver Beaver award, highest citation in scouting to a scouter; board member, Roosevelt Community Com-munity Christmas committee, and in religious affairs he is serving as a member of the Roosevelt stake high council, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The following program featured fea-tured the final Americanism program last night: Community singing, National Anthem, led by Mrs. Farrell Wilkins and Mrs. Irvin Schelen; invocation, Gertrude Moysh, unit chaplain; pledge of allegiance to the flag after the Legion color guard had presented the colors; vocal solo, "Flag Without a Stain," Evan Schelen, accompanied by his mother; talk, "Etiquette of the Flag," Carl Holley; Indian dance, Alterra 4th grade; a patriotic address, by George Stewart. Mrs. Bill Sutteer reviewed re-viewed "The Key To Peace," by Clarence Manon. Two other awards were made last night to Kenneth Nickell and Miss Renae Eldredge for ' first and second respectively in the Americanism essay contest. Ken received a $6.00 cash award and Renae, $4.00. Honorable mention went to Miss Phyllis Quitchapoo. This is the first time the local lo-cal Auxiliary has gone all-out to comply , with the suggested program outlined during Americanism Amer-icanism week, but reported they will make selection of two people in the area for the community com-munity service citations each year. |