Some things you might not know about your Dad

Dad was told he could not check my blog, so don't worry about him finding out about the school surprise.

This is one of my very favorite pictures of your Dad....I can't tell you how many times he has looked at me just like this. The principal of the elem school asked me for some information and pictures about your Dad for a presentation at the assembly the last day of school. I am including here what I sent her, just in case you didn't know these things.

1) Rubik’s Cube: In 1981 Brent came across the Rubik’s Cube. He spent months figuring it out, then wrote a small book on his solution which was published in 1982. He was interviewed on Channel 4 News with one of his 3^th grade students who maneuvered the cube really fast. Brent has since learned how to solve the cube in a different, faster way and can solve it blind folded. Many of his classes have also learned to solve the Rubik’s cube. Brent can manipulate the cube in under a minute.

2) Brent taught himself to program computers back in 1985 -86. He wrote a Mathematics management program for San Juan School District. Sanpete School District saw his program and paid him to write a similar program for them. They then recruited him to move to Mt Pleasant to work for them. That is how our family moved to Mt Pleasant in 1987. He decided to teach rather than do computers. He has loved being a teacher.

3) Brent has been assigned to 5 of the classrooms in the Mt Pleasant Elementary School. He has taught all grades, except Kindergarten. He taught 8 years in Montezuma Creek on the Navajo Reservation, 3 years in Blanding and 24 years in Mt Pleasant.

4) Brent has had all 6 of his children in his classes, and 5 of his nieces and nephews. This year Brent has a student who is the child of one of his former students. (Chris Larsen)