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Show top BYU teaching award By CHERIE HUBER A Davis High School graduate, Charles P. Adams, has received the Excellence in Teaching Award from Brigham Young University. This is the fourth year that the Brigham Young University Alumni Alum-ni Association in conjunction with the 1987 Student Alumni Board have been involved in a program to honor excellence in teaching. The award was based on a poll in which BYU students were canvassed canvas-sed by telephone and asked to name the three high school teachers who had the greatest impact im-pact on their education. Charles Adams grew up on a farm in Davis County and enlisted in the Air Force after graduation from Davis High School. He was named Airman of the Year for the ,945 Material Group. After he completed com-pleted his active duty, he did undergraduate work at the University Univer-sity of Utah and at Weber State. In his senior year he was named to Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. Universi-ties. He received his master's degree from Brigham Young University in American Western History. He has been teaching at Skyline High School in the Granite School District Dis-trict for the past twelve years. 1 |