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Show Home Study Class At T Attracts Large Membership New records have been set Tor University of Utah Home Study Department registrations, just tabulated tab-ulated for the fiscal year 1955-56 ending June 30. More than 2,290 students, representing every Utah county, 45 states and the District of Columbia and 12 foreign countries coun-tries and U. S. possessions, enrolled en-rolled in 2,209 courses. Many students are taking cor-, respondence courses to earn uni- versity credit towards graduation, many are teachers renewing their certificates, but a large percentage are taking general interest courses for their own personal profit and satisfaction. A wide -variety of different occupations oc-cupations is listed by students more than 168 different occupations, occu-pations, with teachers, students and housewives heading the list. But also interested in continuing thei reducation while at home were people from such different walks of life as stenographers, dumpmen, elevator operators, a beef boner, engineers, cooks, coal miners, ministers, prisoners, a dental surgeon, farmers, hospitalized hospitaliz-ed patients, sheep herders and boilermakers. Many servicemen who have an .interest in self-improvement through Home Study are enrolled in university and high school I courses, with the United States Armed Forces Institute paying the bill. They too, are scattered a'l over the United States and throughout the world. Students from Duchesne Countv and surrounding territory register, ed in Home Study course- durin? the past year include Dicia Emm Glenn M. Fenn, Mrs. Vola J Hancock, Roosevelt; Mrs. Editri Burton, Mrs. Mary L. Tew, Talmage; Tal-mage; Zora Gardner, Mrs. Viola G. Horrocks,, Neola;. Josephine Hunt, Myton; Betty Jo Jacobyj Duchesne; and Mrs. Wilta D. Crumbo, Ft. Duchesne. )t |