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Show Lone-time BHS, DHS educator will step down Davis High School's assistant principal Vivian Stapley will wind up 30 years of dedicated service to public education next June when she retires. Eligible for retirement last year, she decided she wasn't ready and needed a year to get used to the idea. "I thought my life would end at retirement because I love being around kids so much," she confides. "1 even love what some people call 'the bad kids, not just the good ones everybody likes. After all these years in teaching and counseling, "I've learned you can find i good in all of them if you'll only take the trouble to look." Now in her ninth year as assistant principal at Davis High, she transferred there after 22 years at Bountiful High. "I'm afraid it took a long time before my blood turned to brown and gold," she admits. She was a counselor at Bountiful High from 1971 to 1978 after teaching college prep, AP and regular English classes there for 15 years. A native of Salt Lake, but after all these years "an honorary citizen of Davis County," Mrs. Stapley holds a B.A. degree in English from the University of Utah as well as an M. A. from the "U" in educational psychology. Following retirement she expects to stay busy. "My own three kids (all now college graduates) already have me programmed program-med for all kinds of projects." She expects to do volunteer work in drug and alcohol abuse, a field she is very interested in and where she sees much progress being made. "Adults are finally learning to deal with kids who have these problems with more understanding. Parents are learning that drug and alcohol problems prob-lems are not the end of the world but can be overcome. It is possible to pick up the pieces and go on." I |