Team Picture

One of the basket ball teams coached by my Grandfather Wilkinson.

Grandpa Wilkinson is standing at the rear. The players are:
Front row - unidentified, Wood Urie, Vernon Lunt
Back row - Tom Thornley, Darwin Nelson, unidentified, Dan Webster

For those of you who know Ned Lunt, Vernon Lunt was an uncle of his, if I remember correctly what he told me. I don't know which school this was. Grandpa was a school teacher before he decided that it didn't pay enough and went into other things. I think he coached some at the BAC in Cedar City also. The school was established in 1897 as a branch of the state teacher training school, then became the following

1897-1913	Branch Normal School
1913-1953	Branch Agricultural College
1953-1969	College of Southern Utah
1969-1990	Southern Utah State College
1991-present	Southern Utah University

Grandpa Wilkinson and I believe Grandma Lawrence both graduated from there before becoming teachers. An interesting side note for our immediate family, our bishop in the Madison 1st Ward in Wisconsin, Steven D. Bennion, was president there from 1997-2006