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Show Athletic Program Highland High School will compete in Region . 3 athletics for the first time this year, principal W. F. Arbogast said this week. The Sugar House school will hold classes for 11th grade students beginning this week, and so will be eligible to compete with East, West, South High Schools in Salt Lake City, and Olympus, Granite, and other Salt Lake Valley schools. Larry Palmer is head coach, and he will guide the destinies of the varsity football and baseball (Contained on page 6) continued from pe; 1 teams. Nick Caputo, Weit High star of some years ago, will act as Palmer's assistant during the football season. Sophomore football will be under the capable direction of Joe Johnson, and Bill Fickenger, will ease the junior football team into high school competition. Winter schedules will see Johnson John-son blowing the whistle for the varsity basketball boys, assisted by John Pino.Jr. Palmer will take over sophomore basketball. Highland wrestlers will be trained by Caputo, and in the spring months, Fickenger will coach the track hopefuls. Pino will train golfers. An extensive intramural program pro-gram of sports will be carried on all year under the direction of Coach Pino. Completion of the school gymnasium gym-nasium will give Highland sports a big boost, with its excellent facilities for intramural and inter-school inter-school competition. High School. Edwin M. Bxonson will take the reins as principal after a number of years aa counselor. He reports an extensive remodeling re-modeling program has been accomplished ac-complished during the summer. New acoustic tile has been installed in-stalled in all classrooms, and also on the ceilings in each hall. New lighting has also been installed. The playground area, which was blacktopped, has a new coat of white sand, as has the Forest School. Mr. Bronson expects some 225 seventh graders to attend Irving for the first time this year. He issued a reminder to parents of these students that each youngster young-ster should have a physical examination exam-ination by a private physician. This is an innovation in city schools. In previous years a school physician has made these examinations, exam-inations, but that practice has been discontinued. The Lake City Board of Education has asked that parents take their children to he family physician for an examination prior to enrolling in the seventh grade. Mr. Bronson said that some 975 Irving students will notice new teachers in 16 classrooms this year. He also stated that the school has special classes in each grade for remedial work and also for students who can absorb classwork faster than most of their schoolmates. |