We Salute SIDNEY L. WYATT _ Junior High School Principal Utah, Mr. Wyatt is working closely with Dr. J. Lloyd Po THE Two most significant challenges facing education today are the motivation of qualified young people to enter the teaching profession and the proper evaluation of the various phases of education,” says Sidney L. Wyatt, veteran educator of the Weber County School District. Mr. Wyatt, who is principal ior High School, is this year eighth year in the profession. English, he has taught in all twelve, was the English of the Wahlquist Juncompleting his thirtyWith a BA degree in grades from seven to department head at Weber High School and has his MA in secondary school administration. He has been active in upgrading the profession through his local and state education associations and the state and national secondary principals’ associations, in all of which he has held positions of leadership. At the close of this school year Mr. Wyatt will retire from his position at the Wahlquist Junior High School. He has accepted a position to teach English at the LDS College in New Zealand. He feels that great progress has been made during his administration in establishing the concept of junior high school. Students leaving junior high today are often as well equipped educationally as they were at one time upon completion of senior high school. In the fields of industrial arts, languages, home economics, music, typing, speech, and so forth, great advancements have been made in the junior high school. NDER SPECIAL GRANTS from the Ford Foundation, four experimental studies in education have been under way in various areas of our nation. These are the utilization of films in the teaching of science, the Trump of the University of Illinois and other key national figures in attempting to better utilize the time and efforts of the teacher in today’s schools. These have been major projects in areas such as Weber, where an exploding population creates many problems. Appreciating Mr. Wyatt’s wholehearted. dedication to education, one is not surprised to learn that his every waking moment, his summers, his Saturdays are freely spent to further these educational studies for the purpose of bettering the education of today’s youth. The progress of these studies has been reported by Mr. Wyatt in articles written and published in The Bulletin of the © Secondary School Principals Association. Mr. Wyatt with his wife, the former Velma Ball of Lewiston, Idaho, lives in North Ogden. They have four daughters, two of whom are former teachers and one of whom is now a son who professional educator, and one is also a teacher. His daughter, Antoinette, says, “Education has been Daddy’s whole life.” AKING Wyatt A FORWARD look is concerned at this with the crucial time, problems Mr. facing education today. The present “crash” program in the fields of science and mathematics which came as a direct result of Sputnik is a distinct concern, according to Mr. Wyatt, since it has created in the minds of the American people a distorted sense of values of the various phases of education. As a result, the humanities — English, social studies, philosophy, and so forth are neglected. “Surely,” thinks Mr. Wyatt, “we must consider the over-all picture and keep a more balanced proeram in education if we would progress in a civilized world.” Hundreds of young people in the Weber District, as well as the teachers themselves, have been influenced evaluation of the junior high school, the* core curric- by his philosophy; and many will, therefore, demand a Wyatt in a more rounded education. Some will do more by enter- ulum, and team teaching. Utah, witheMr. leading position, has been involved in all four of these studies. As director of the latter two experiments in ing the teaching profession, much to the delight of educator-extraordinary, Syd Wyatt. UTAH EDUCATIONAL REVIEW