West High School - Panther Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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ea gulls Tzifute to .getvice and to Igioneeu ln July, I847, a small loand oT pioneers chose This valley Tor Their home. By May, I848, The newly arriving immigranT Trains looked over The beauTiTul valley and reioiced aT The green Tields which gave The knowledge ThaT Tood was assured. This, indeed, was The Land oT Promise. Early in June, reporTs came ThaT black crickeTs were aTTack- ing The wheaT-Tields ouTside The ciTy. WiThin a week, The hordes oT insecTs clouded The sky as They came To seTTle down on The young green planTs, which meanT The exisTence oT The seTTlers. ScouTs galloped easT- ward To warn The incoming seTTlers To save Their raTions as There would be no oTher Tood. Their only hope lay in Their TaiTh in The GreaT SpiriT. Then came The gulls. The people aT TirsT Teared TurTher desTrucTion. Then They sTared in amazemenT, Tor The gulls were gorging Themselves wiTh The crickeTs, giving Their place To oThers, and Then reTurning Tor more and more and more. This wenT on Tor six days unTil aT The end oT The sixTh day on Sunday evening, no more crickeTs To be devoured. The crops were saved. The gulls circled The Tields guieTly, swepT grace- Tully oTT Toward GreaT SalT Lake, and Took up permanenT residence on an island There. The graTeTul seTTlers unconsciously ioined The lndians in Their aTTiTude Toward The birdsg They were messengers oT God. The presence oT The gulls in The valley, The sound oT Their Go-over-go-oven oover-oover, and The erecTing oT The Sea Gull MonumenT will keep Tresh The ThoughT ThaT birds, Too, can Teach The meaning oT The word Service l 4 14

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FRED D. KEELER Anollwer Type of service is less obvious, more subfle, more evasive, more for reading. I+ consisls in inspiring manliness, loyaliy, honor. Because of irs inlangible qualify, if ofien be- comes apparenf only in reirospeclr. We pre- senr one who gives +l'1aJr lype of service almosf unconsciously-our principal, Fred D. Keeler. 8