Edith Bowen Laboratory School, the laboratory school in the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, joined thousands of other schools across the nation Sept. 12 to celebrate National Anthem Day. 

National Anthem Day is sponsored by the National Association for Music Education to encourage students to learn the words to The Star Spangled Banner. The day coincided with the anniversary of the penning of The Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key on Sept. 13, 1814.

 

The commemoration began with the raising of the school’s new flag by EBLS Student Council President Savannah Knight, assisted by Cub Scouts Derek Tsing and Nathan Boudrero, PTA President Terryl Warner and Governing Board Chair and Associate Dean Martha Dever.

 

Vilma Valle, school custodian and Edith Bowen’s newest American citizen, then led the school in the Pledge of Allegiance, and Dr. Craig Jessop, head of the USU Music Department, conducted the school in singing the National Anthem.

 

EBLS students were joined by the Sound Beginnings group, EBLS parents and several members of the college faculty and dean’s office.

 

The National Anthem Project was created by the National Association for Music Education (MENC) to re-teach Americans The Star-Spangled Banner after a Harris Interactive Survey showed that two out of three Americans don’t know the words to the national anthem.

 

Jessop is former director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Under his direction, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir recorded a video performance of The Star-Spangled Banner for the initiative’s Web site. (http://www.thenationalanthemproject.org/videos/mormontabernacle.mpg)

 

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