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Participation And Leadership In Voluntary Agencies At Plain City, Utah, 1947, Wade H. Andrews May 1948

Participation And Leadership In Voluntary Agencies At Plain City, Utah, 1947, Wade H. Andrews

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Plain City is a, rural village of 822 people (Sixteenth Census, United States, 1940) located on a fiat, plain area ten miles northwest of Olden, Utah, a city of 51,927 people (1946 survey of the Weber County-Ogden City Planning Commission).

Plain City was founded by Mormon pioneers in 1859 after the pattern followed in nearly all the early settlements of this area. The use of the square block on the basis of the four cardinal points of the compass was standard. Village living for all, farmers as well as non-farmers, was the accepted form of building new villages, towns or …


Family Problems In Brigham City, Utah, Dean M. Mcdonald May 1948

Family Problems In Brigham City, Utah, Dean M. Mcdonald

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Less than a century ago most primary functions of life centered in the family. One by one many of these functions have moved out of the home into the factory, the school, the church and the community. In the loss of functions which held the family together as a unit, disintegration set in and numerous evidences of family disorganization began to appear. Many people today, cognizant of the role which the family still plays in implementing personalities and in sustaining social stability, are nevertheless deeply concerned with increasing evidences of family disorganization.

Eight years ago the United States Office of …