| Show THE CARNEGIE MANTI Ruth Manti UT PUBLIC LIBRARY Scow 84642 Senior Citizen Division Second Place Historical Essay Aschild attended the first three grades of elementary school in Manti in the old white high school building that stood on the corner of the block where the Utah National Guard Ammory building now stands This building of white brick withsandstone foundation wasthree-story affair and my first years of school were spent on the ground floor in the southeast room withMiss Lowry as my teacher My second grade classroom was in the southwest corner and Miss Minerva Munk was my teacher My third grade was spent in the northwest corner room with Miss Cordella Anderson as teacher The high school domestic science classes held forth in the northeast corner of this first floor and the principaloffice was saniwiched in between the two east rooms Tying all these rooms together waswide and spacious hall With many wooden steps leading to the classrooms above Each day after had finished my lessons the teacher hand would deposit red green and yellow wooden pegs each about an inch long on my desk This with the pegscould outline houses various other ideas was my seatwork and corrals flowers and But it was recess time to whichlooked forward for it was then that my classmates andwere free to choose our own entertairment We had learned that we could climb onto the sills on the new Manti Public Library building and from there withgreat deal of pushing and pulling we could attain the heights of the rock-embedded foundation Clutching the walls for support in order to stand on that narrow foundation was frightening as we began to walk follow-jack style around the building until we came to the next window opening Then one by one we descended from our precarious walk to step nimbly across another sill and then again to climb back to the dizzy height of the foundation Woe be to the child who was left on the heights when the recess bell rang for it took considerable manipulation to getbody down to ground level so he could race toward the classroom 103 |
