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Show Educaton the district purchased over a million and half dollars worth of land for school sites. Some of this has since been sold for twenty to "When we moved to the new building on Pioneer Street in 1955 the faculty was pleased by the large accous tically treated, well lighted and well equipped classrooms. Each was especially. designed for its function. Many of the fine teachers from the old junior high building on Center Street were transferred with teachers from the old Union Junior High and other schools within the Jordan , District.' thirty times what it cost to departIent help build new schools. The Midvale Junior High at 138 Pioneer Street was a cost of $1,85p,OOO. Ralph Keeler principal and under his leadership the school thrived and developed some unusual programs. Evelyn Wood developed speed reading classes and Rhoda Coyte developed and taught classes in phonics and word analysis. In service classes for all teachers in the district were held in the school in these subjects. completed was in 1955 at Principals of Midvale Junior HIgh School: 1955, Ralph B. Keeler; 1963, Merritt L. Poulsen; 1964, D. Richard Gourley; 1971, Donald F. Ragsdale; Opened 1978 as a middle school with Herminio Trujillo, Jr., Assistant Principal. The following teachers have had ten years or more tenure at Midvale Junior High: Gweneth Adams, W. G. "Sunny" Allsop, Catherine Andrew, Raymond Baker, the first William Belliston, Rita Benson, Jerome Brown, Belva Cline, Jane Compton, Rhoda Coyte, Allan Crews, Shirley Crookston, Hulda Crossgrove, Lloyd Dimond, Robert Dunn, Patricia Edwards, Kent Forbush, Roy Friend, Michael Gourley, Donna Mickelsen, Clyde Nichols, Don Poulsen, James Quilter, Darrell Roundy, Sorensen, Joseph Spencer, Robert Sumbot, Myron Thompson, Elved Wright. Enrollment of all 6th, 7th and 8th grade students in the Donna Midvale Middle School in 1979 is 1301. MCJ Midvale Junior High completed in 1955 on Pioneer Street. to Midvale Middle School in 1978. Steady growth Changed courtesy Alta Miller In a MIDVALE eOMMUNITY SCHOOL of 1970, the Jordan School District fall established the Midvale Community School, thus opening the doors of the Midvale Junior High School for public use, recreation, and education after regular school hours. Joel P. Jensen, District Administrator, D. Richard Gourley, P.rincipal, and Donald P. Poulsen, Director of the Community School, were responsible for necessitated the addition of nine ad ditional classrooms and in 1970 the Media Center and swimming pool were added. The first faculty consisted of: Ralph Keeler, Elsie Dee Adams, Warren G. Allsop, Jeanne Maxine Amott, Florence Anderson, Frederic J. Anderson, Raymond A. Baker, Mary Beth Benson, Jerome J. Brown, Louis R. Brown, Dorothy Burns, Leo A. Dean, Lloyd C. Dimond, Dorothy Ellis, Darlene Erickson, Ray F. Gilbert, Charles M. Hansen, Lorraine Harker, Josephine Haugan, Donna Keister, Paul Kuhni, Arvid Larson, Sarah T. Lester, Lloyd C. Lind, Lillian Lins ford, James M. Macfarlane, Arlene Mickelsen, LaRue Vincent Myers, Orval Nelson, Dorothy Osborn, Cannon Thomson, Helen Jean Tingey, LuDeen J. Vrances, Austin Walker, Claire Wells Cannon Thomson, who later became Jordan Music Supervisor, reflects on moving to the new building. beginning this program in Midvale. The first session of the school included four different classes and had sixty participants. The classes were: decorating, ceramics, oil painting, and sewing. Principal Gourley was replaced by Donald Ragsdale and Mr. Poulsen was succeeded by Marvin Reid, Jerry Durrant and Clyde Nichols as Midvale Community cake School Directors. Each year the program has grown developed. In the Fall of 1978, over sixty classes and offered, ranging from art and dancing to self defense and the academics. Over seven hundred patrons participated in these classes. The school is open three quarters each year, and, in addition, there is a were .. year-round swimming program which contains variety of lessons and community pool use. "Leaving the old is nostalgic and looking ahead is ex citing. The old Midvale Junior High lacked some of the modern conveniences, but for the time it was a model school with large play areas and well kept ground's, thanks to William Orton. The closeness of the faculty was in spired by two dedicated principals, Ernest E. Greenwood and Harold Ashman. They created an atmosphere of happy cooperation that created a good climate for learn ing. Students reflected this friendliness with a desire to excel. a broad LaMar Swenson has been Jordan School District Director of Adult Programs since 1973. He reports that the eldest member of the Adult School is a sweet lady 82 years old. It is gratifying to see the Midvale Middle building used so extensively and constructively by such a large segment of the community. School 86 |
