Calvin Walker

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.)

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