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Show UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, MARRIOTT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Anna K. Craig. extend the kindergarten work throughout the state. Among the new organization’s aims was to establish a kindergarten training school at the University of Utah which would provide qualified teachers, expand the number of kindergartens in public schools, and circulate kindergarten literature among parents and teachers. Until the founding of the Utah State Kindergarten Association, the kindergarten movement was focused primarily on the Salt Lake City area. The new Association immediately turned its attention to establishing branches throughout Utah, and sought to organize summer kindergartens and mother classes in every county. As a result of the Association’s campaign, 11,164 children attended kindergarten throughout Utah during the 1910-11 school year.47 Utah political, educational, and religious leaders signed an endorsement in support of the goals and work of the Utah State Kindergarten Association. These leaders included Heber M. Wells, Governor of Utah, John R. Park, President of the State Board of Education; James E. Talmage, President of the University of Utah; J. F. Millspaugh, Superintendent of the Salt Lake City schools; R. J. Caskey, Superintendent of the Collegiate Institute; R. G. McNiece, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church; Dr T. C. Illiff, Superintendent of the Methodist Mission; Reverend Clarence T. Brown, Pastor of the First Congregational Church; Reverend Lawrance B. Ridgley, Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church; Reverend B. F. Clay, Pastor of the Central Christian Church; H. B. Steelman, Pastor of the first Baptist Church; and Heber J. Grant, Apostle of the LDS Church.48 Augusta M. Grant, wife of Mormon Apostle Heber J. Grant, became president of the 47 John Clifton Moffit, The History of Public Education in Utah, (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1946), 353. 48 “Kindergarten Association to Honor Charter Members on Fortieth Anniversary,” Anne Marie Fox Felt papers, box 1, fd. 1, 144 |
