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New technology bolsters education

Two side-by-side photos in a history of West Point Elementary tell a story.

On the left, students from Mr. Albert Wright’s class in the late 1930s write with pencils at desks made of wood and wrought iron. Behind them are lessons written in chalk on a blackboard.

On the right is a 1995 photo of fourth-graders, each at a personal computer typing on keyboards. To their left is a dry erase board.

Such is the rise of technology in the Davis School District.

Davis County Read-A-Thon a celebration of literacy

The first day of February will be the 100th day of the 100th year for the Davis School District.

Thus, on Feb. 1, students, faculty and staff will set aside one hour to celebrate not only the centennial of the second largest school district in the state, but also what is arguably the foundation of all learning — the ability to read.

At approximately 10 a.m., according to Vickie Jessen, chair of the events committee for the Davis School District Centennial, everyone in Davis County is invited to participate in a districtwide Read-A-Thon, to spend 60 minutes reading a book, with the goal of 60 pages per person.

Finding time for harvest, education in early school day schedules

Delsa Barber was 15 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941. A little more than two years later she was among a dwindling class of 1944 at Davis High School in Kaysville.

There were mostly girls, she said. The senior boys had gone to war.

“As soon as they turned 17, they joined (the military). They were patriotic,” she said, sitting in her Syracuse home neighboring the house where she and her father had been born.

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