Calvin A. Walker
Born August 29, 1906
Died April 18, 1980
- Born in Pleasant Grove in parent’s home
- Seventh child out of 14
- Raised on a farm
- Went to Pleasant Grove elementary and high school
- Knew Lucille in his childhood
- Quit school at age 16 for a year, but went back
- Went to USAC and majored first in civil engineering and then education for junior high
- B.S. degree in 1929
- Worked in Yellowstone in 1928: boss trusted him to pick up drunken workers in the evening
- Was kicked by a mule—damaged his spleen and kidney
- Married Lucille August 29, 1929 in Salt Lake Temple
- Taught in Duchesne: everything from P. E. to shop to math and science
- Loved to hike
- Taught high school in Lehi for three years
- 1932 got elementary certificate and taught in Spence School in Orem
- Loved the mountains
- Knew how to name wild plants and knew which ones were edible or not
- Active and taught children how to play ski, tennis, and basketball
- Taught in Central School in Pleasant Grove—fifth and sixth grade
- Became principal in 1954—retired May 1972
- Took the sixth grade children up Grove Creek in the morning, crossing the falls and into the meadow for lunch, and down Battle Creek in the afternoon
- Received his master’s degree in 1949 from BYU.
- 1918: Registered for Boy Scout, involved in scouting all his life. Eagle Scout
- Sliver Beaver in 1942
- Called Gus in scouting
- Bishop of the Pleasant Grove Third Ward, the same ward where he grew up
- Told Legend of Timpanogos
- Traveled to Statue of Liberty, Boston, Nauvoo, Haun’s Mill, Adam-ondi-ahman, Carthage, Liberty Jail, and Hill Cumorah Pageant, and Israel
- Temple worker in Provo Temple
- Liked art and pottery
(From information elsewhere on this site and conversation. Pictures from the Henson Walker book.)