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Show CLEO LUND Appointed Appointed 1939 1949 JENSEN to 1941 to 1951 in Mt. Pleasant, Utah on June 16, 1893, Cleo was the seventh of eight children in the family of Hans L. and Margaret Juul Lund. Most families were poor but only in material things. Life was rich in sharing and the spiritual values. There were no girls her age in their neighborhood so she grew up playing with and competing with Born boys, an experience which gave her a self sufficiency throughout life. Cleo attended Mt. Pleasant elementary thirteen students in the second class to built North Sanpete High School. History of one and was from the newly her favorite subject bright corner of the school graduate was and she spent many happy hours curled up in a attic reading from her meager cache of books. Politics entered her life early. She walked more than a mile each with her father to hear every speaker sho came to town. She we 1 remembered si t ting on her father's knee and lis tening to William H. King, Sr. She wasn't too sure what it was all about, but loved the excitement of it all. On the way home she and her father discussed what had been said and done that evening. war Cleo attended Snow College and the University of Utah and got her first job teaching in Honeyville, Boxeleder County in a three room school house. She taught the third, fourth and fifth grades. She was very petite, and many of the male students were bigger than she. For coping with a huge black stove that belched black smoke, and teaching, she was paid $50.00 per month. Back teaching in her home town, C. she met and married Albert had a masters degree in science and taught at Jordan High School. They bui I t a home in Sandy and here thei r three children were born. Margaret, Keith and Richard. Keith died at age thirty five. Jensen. He In Sandy, Cleo served as district chairwoman and later as precinct cbairwoman. In 1939 she was asked to submit her name along with t1ve others for appointment to the Senate seat vacated by Cornelia Lund, who had left the seat to become County Recorder. Her name approved, and she was appointed by Governor Henry H. Blood. She served on the Education, Welfare, Judiciaary, Banking, Health and S. was Labor committees. Education was the field where she felt most qualified. She was one of the sponsors of the Teachers Retirement Act; sponsor of the bill establishing the Salt Lake Trade Technical School and worked hard for appropriations to run it. 38 |
