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Show Alez Ashmead Honored By Epsilon Chapter Of Delta Kappa Gamma Truly a pioneer in a significant sig-nificant area of service to mankind, Dr. Allez Morrill Ashmead was honored Monday Mon-day evening as a woman of distinction by Epsilon Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma. AS AN elementary teacher in Idaho, Allez Ashmead was concerned over the emotional traumas which develop in young children who cannot communicate because of physiological handicaps tike cleft palate and hair lip. That concern has continued over the lifetime of this remarkable woman and has culminated in a professional career which has touched the lives and health of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. DR. ASHMEAD was the first person in the world to research through hair analysis the metabolism of trace elements as related to stuttering, the first woman in Utah to become certified in oral myology (study of muscles related to speech), the third woman in Utah to receive a Ph.D. degree in speech pathology, the first woman in Utah to offer professional teaching for children or adults who do not qualify for in-sch(xil help with speech problems. The educator and scientist returned only last week from the Far Fast where she and her husband. Dr. Harvey Ashmead. conducted conferences with governmental governmen-tal and industrial leaders in Tokyo, Japan; Taipei. Taiwan; Manila, Philippines; Kuaia Lampur. Malasia; and Sydney. Australia, relating to research data they have developed on the absorption and metabolism of micro-nutrients. THE ASHMEADS have participated in seminars in England. Italy, Hungary. Mexico, Chile. Peru. Columbia Colum-bia and New Zealand. In June 1977 they were participants in a United Nations Food and Agriculture Meeting in Rome where they discussed agricultural research in micro-nutrients for developing develop-ing nations and measurement of same by hair analysis. Beginning as a high school teacher in Bancroft. Idaho. Dr. Ashmead combined the worlds of teacher, speech clinician, researcher, home maker and student. SHE TAUGHT K-12 in Utah and Idaho, served as a speech clinician at Business General Hospital, for Utah State Department of Health, Davis School District, University of Utah, BYU Ogden Center. Box Elder School District, Primary Medical Center and Head Start in Box Eider in Ogden and in private practice at Harrison Professipnal Center in Ogden. Her consuming purpose, to discover causes of and treatment treat-ment for speech difficulties, . led her to research on the relationship between metabolism me-tabolism of trace minerals in the body and stuttering. In order to use hair analysis (the most stable method yet devised), it was necessary to develop reliable methods of hair analysis and establish standard norms for trace minerals in the hair. APPROPRIATELY, her dissertation for a Ph.D. a! the University of Utah ir. 1970 was entitled "Trace Mineral Differences in Hair Cells of Stutterers and Non Stutterers." Stut-terers." Dozens of papers followed detailing the study she was doing in this field. Her family's involvement by this time in Albion Laboratories was fortunate because it provided her with the facilities for research. Albion Al-bion laboratories is a family owned corporation providing world-wide service in micro-nutrients. micro-nutrients. ALL ALONG Dr. Allez was working to persuade school districts and the State Department of Health to practice "preventive" speech and language therapy, working with young children before they developed severe emotional problems as a result of their speech handicaps. han-dicaps. She worked to encourage student trainees from the universities to practice in the public schools and wrote guides for student trainees which were adopted by BYU and University of Utah. Under her direction Davis District offered the most complete program in speech and hearing hear-ing in public schools of any district in Utah. THROUGH THE years. Dr. Jh ALE ASHMEAD Ashmead held dozens of leadership positions in church and community: Charter member and president of Davis County Soroptimist Club, American Association of University Women. I'.psilon Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma. American Field Service. Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Women's Slate Legislative Council. Utah Council for Except iona I Children. Utah Speech unci Hearing Association. Utah Stale Standards Committee for Speech and Hearing Certification, Cer-tification, National Committee Commit-tee on Research in Public School Speech and Hearing Programs. She worked actively on count y a n d com nm n i t y projects for a park in Cenier-ville. Cenier-ville. a branch library in Bountiful and the I.eConte Stewart Art Gallcrv in Kavs-ville. Kavs-ville. THE ASHMEADS have a son and three daughters, all successful in their fields. DeWayne Ashmead is a biochemist bio-chemist working with his father in the Albion Laboratories Labora-tories in Clearfield. Geniel (Mrs. David) Henderson Hen-derson lives in Logan with her family and teaches personal growth and development classes in the adult education program. Sheryl (Mrs. John Paul) Harames and family live in Tulsa, Okla. Sheryl teaches obedience training tor championship dog. Fmma Ashmead is on a scholarship at Utah State University in horticulture. She will be working full time for the Utah State Extension Service. DR. ASHMLAD'S vita will be presented in nomination for the Alpha Theta State for Utah for Delta Kappa Gamma Achievement Award for 197S. |
