Saga of the Sanpitch Vol 26

Daniel Rasmussen, A Man of intergrity

years old when he died had to speakpiece in Sunday School that day Our neighbor who wastailor had made menew suit to wear went to father bedside to thank him for the clothes and recite my piece to him saw him no more for he died that afternoon One Saturday took the horses to feed along the ditch banks and planned to stay several days but mother sent for me to come home for Stake Conference heard George Cannon bear his testimony and it impressed me very much attended Snow College the first year of its existence and graduated with the first class In 1896graduated from BYU withDegree of Pedagogy Laterreceived myA Degree from the same institution My first teaching assignment was in Cedar city schools andwas the only teacher was called to serve mission in the Eastern States from June 1899 to August 1901 The first summertraveled without purse or script and the last yearwas President of the mission When left mother told me she would not live to see me return She sent some good things for me to eat on the train with Jennie Jorgensen who delivered them to me at Thistle as she was on her way to Castle Dale She said later there wasdesign in her timing her trip because this was the beginning of our friendship Mother died 19 March 1900 at the age of 57 and it was not the same whenreturned home without her there School contracts had been made whencame home but the local board offered meclass made up ofa mixture of 3rd and 5th grade pupils from over-crowded classes in the Hamilton School Laterwas transferred to the High School and supervised the Jr High division This continued for several years and thenwas given the Social Science Department and this was my assignment until the time of my retirement in 1939