Elizabeth Huish

Elizabeth Huish

Educator & Founding Member of Nebo Credit Union

PHS Class of 1925

Elizabeth Huish was born September 27, 1907 in Payson, Utah, a daughter of Adelbert Karl and Ida Anderberg Huish. She received her two year teaching certificate from Brigham Young University and started her career in Paragonah. She soon earned her four year degree from BYU and taught for 45 years, retiring in 1972. She taught for forty-four years in several schools in the Nebo School District, with most of that time in the Peteetneet and Taylor schools. She was also the principal for a year at the Spring Lake elementary school.

In 1951 she traveled to Wales where she was the first exchange teacher from the Nebo School District. She served as a trustee on the Board of the Utah Education Association for 10 years. While serving as vice-president of the Nebo Education Association she helped create the Nebo School Teacher's Credit Union (now known as Nebo Credit Union) and was the second teacher to open an account there. She will be remembered, as she is surely loved, because of the special attention that she gave to each of her students. Her sister, Patrice Davis, tells of Elizabeth beginning a school year with seventeen students who were unable to read. After saving pennies for extra primers and spending countless hours tutoring these children, she succeeded in bringing all but three up to a fourth or fifth grade reading level by the end of the year.

There was rarely a time when she ran into a former student that they didn't have some special memory of what she had done for them. Elizabeth holds a special place in the hearts of many. Her love, support, and interest that she showed in her family and friends is an example to us all. Always teaching, she has blessed the lives of generations upon generations.

Inducted 1983