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Show GBAfiiTE WIIIS AVIATIOH FILM SETTING By CLAIRE MORRIS Granite high school's aviation students made national news this week when the school was informed in-formed it had been selected as the location for making a motion picture pic-ture and film strip for national use. Dr. Marvin K. Strickler, aviation educationalist for the Civil Air Patrol, Washington, D. C, notified William L. Hutchinson, Granite aviation education instructor, the The school I.ks a complete laboratory labora-tory plus classroom s-ace. Mr. Hutchinson recently instructed in-structed at the National Aviation Education Workshop held at Colorado Colo-rado University, Boulder, Colorado. A second Utah school will join in the program. Weber high school, Ogden, will take part in the filming film-ing of typical aviation education courses. These two schools, according to Mr. Hutchinson , are the only schools selected for the honor. school s course will be used as a model for other such courses throughout the nation. Mr. Hutchinson has been invited to Washington to attend, a two-day two-day conference to plan- for the movie-making on the high school campus. The films are to be used to show teachers and administrators administra-tors how a Civil Air Patrol program pro-gram is coordinated in a high school aviation education program, plus demonstrating the benefits derived de-rived by students participating.. Classes in aviation education at Granite high school have received recognition through competition in national CAP drill team exercises, the pioneering work of coordination coordina-tion of C A P plus high school classes at Granite and the high enrollment at the school. This year there are 243 students enrolled in the aviation education course, the largest single enrollment in the nation Classes teach preflight. training, rhe social and economic phases of fne airplane and aircrazt theory. |