Show lost WH WHO 0 ian R ROOSEVELT 0 0 S E V E L T m at n ain i i i WALTER E ATWOOD alit 1 once overheard walt atwood t W r 1 I dont aspire to greatness 01 If ont dont crave power but in my ople way I 1 want to help and vise and guide and make hap sa s1 s the ties of the young boys nugh school strange I 1 thought at atsuchi such an individual still sur ae ta y ved ad the fame faine seeking power r ft itan eting it ln money grabbing wo woid id today but walt suffered sut suf feied a arx lahood exper experience lence that cut him the core and he made a becis T it n right at that time that ills his of t career would mould help to pr ii k int such mishaps walts yet young aff baji it I 1 it brother the finest fellow lie he er knew got into some atles at hig high li school left feb ol idt home and went on a tramp lp p to a from rom f bev ner r lie he fell unde baij or of a freight train and its killed hilled perhaps this is the agic event that has fashioned ral falts ts 1 rife 1 1 that has made him ahlm 3 t the f tine i things he has done ath th and tor for the boys of the cosevelt po sevelt high school i walt V alt was born in crescent ja lah h in salt lake county on ne e fa 1896 and though ills his bars lars are not many living ts is been crowded into them lie 1 as born in a large e fair family rily of x bos and two girls giris the chiren chilin ren of edward A atwood and Is wife who owned and I 1 a farm in crescent attending lie ke schools of the jordan district strict ti valt even as a boy became in crested in education and re Aln embers the jordan school dis tact tl ct going through the same development such a aj centralizing wand nd consolidation as the du besne county school district is sow going through the same donth june 1916 that walt radiated t e d from high school he itt ift tor for the central and southern tates tats to fulfill a mission for the f D S church he chose chii action of the country because ills Is mothers family prominent Ran tation owneta in atlanta te orgia had bad disowned his par apts ts when they joined the mo ain ton ion church and came west they ad d never heard from them since pd lid walt was eager to meet pern and know them all his ti time me lie he spent in and icare ipare round atlanta searching arching Be tor for pern hem ile he was just about to glive give ip when one night he was called ut in the country to attend a ing one kindly old lady yok pok him home to dinner with ter er and lier her family during the bourse of the evening walt learned lea med that this was a part dart of 0 she ie family for whom he be was boking oo king since his parents bad kieft the family had joined the hurch church and had bad endeavored to locate their daughter and her chaband Cua ausband band who were somewhere 3 vit ut in salt lake valley to tidier laier the last part of walts nl irIon jays bays were restless ones everyone ne around him was In listing in 6 war wa lie ile wanted to go but ith growing impatience he served out his mission and returned home lie was only home uong ong enough to marry nellie now of 0 draper his bid childhood sweetheart Owe we etheart enlist in the service bid his bride goodbye and 1 degart I egart once more moe tor for atlanta where ime me as a soldier not a mission liry ry in august of 1918 he left camp amp jessup in georgia for new jersey ersey where lie he sailed for over speas eats arriving at brebt france sipe e soon saw the front but not ator or long as lie he was gassed and continued on page eight chos who in roosevelt became an inmate of the new chateau hospital where he was treated for several months in february of 1919 he returned to the united states to a hospital I 1 in new jersey in september of that year he was allowed to leave the hospital and return to hla his home in crescent returns to school his first job after aate rig ahe home was in midvale at the united states smelter where he be and seven big austrians Aust lans rians unloaded ore it was only a short time before walt received a promotion and became employed in the sampling office and haq wa elected to be a member of the welfare e committee of the largo large plant walts health was fast tailing failing but he would not give up tip ile he had to be carried home on a stretched before the seriousness of his condition was realized through the red cross ills his case was brought to the attention or of the united states government who rewarded his services overseas with a pension which enabled invalid walt to take tak e nis his family and move to the mountains near jordan narrows they lived in a tent and walt spent his entire time out in the su sun 11 and ai ah of the hills in nine months time he returned home a new man it seemed to walt as it if the gods were with him for when lie he returned home he found a message which offered him vocational training a college education from uncle sam who was endeavoring to make up to the soldiers rives lives that had been so shattered at war entering the state agricultural al college at logan walt was to become a chemist then the fatal mishap his brothers death land and walt went back to t 0 school the next fall changed 1 his plans and studied smith hughes work with all the sincerity and hard work of 0 which he was wag capable makes dizh scholarship Schola nhip the record walt attained at college was outstanding ile he was rewarded membership in 1 pill phi kappa phi national scholastic fraternity in his junior year an honor never before and never since bestowed upon a junior lie was a member of numerous clubs and served on publications staffs and in his senior year was appointed a member of the cosmos club which lg is composed of the 13 outstanding seniors of the school fulfilling Ful Fulfill filline inz his boyhood promise foa a short time after graduation from college in 1924 walt worked at different jobs job but knew lie he would never be satisfied until he became a teacher or of young boys his opportunity came when he was offered a teaching position in the central school at bonata barleta which Is now located at mt aft emmons Ei nimons the first thing ha be did at donets boneta was to build a school in which to teach lie he with his boy pupils built two rooms on to the one room school house the next year he was asked to take over the smith hughes work at the roosevelt high school where he has been ever since ince the progress he has made in ag work at the high school has been phenomenal in 1930 his boys applied tor for a membership in the faun fatute o farmer organization and a charter creating the boyack chapter of the autu future ae farmers of america was granted the same year since that time the boyack chapter has won two state championships one national championship and has placed every year yea in the finals of the state oratorical contest walts achievement in this work are known throughout the country A friendly philosophy A credo of life worth applying and following was expressed by walt as he said he did not believe in quarreling g com batting and arguing which lead to destructiveness our ultimate destination ti the destination of a community a state or a nation depends upon whether or not mankind la is constructive and forward moving or whether he Is combative and antagonistic A man may find people who dislike dl him but he need never have enemies for that requires two people my roosevelt A natu natural al born booster bloste a loyal air citizen walt stands firm r ni on in iris feet and swears by his city his homeland his roosevelt redistribution of county lines is not in the too far distant future and when the time ilme cornas comes roosevelt with IU ita ideal geographic location will be the center of a great area with the aln tah mountains to the north the state line to the east the badlands to the south and the wasatch mountains to the west it is gur surrounded rounded by the finest lands the most accessible water and in it dwell the finest people |