Bingham High School teacher Chris Black was honored recently as Teacher of the Year by Utah's Distributive Education Clubs of America. Black received a plaque and a $1,000 cash award from J.C. Penney
Co. in honor of his service to students and to the DECA program.The award was presented during a DECA convention in the Red Lion Hotel.
Winners in the local competition will go to San Jose, Calif., for a national DECA conference.
A number of local businesses provided cash awards for the student competitions, as well as judges for contests, said Dale M. Stephens, vocational education specialist with the State Office of Education. Involvement of the local companies has greatly expanded the quality of Utah's DECA program, he said.
The Utah sponsors and the events they underwrote are: Utah Advertising Federation, advertising; Sears, apparel and accessories; CitiBank, finance and credit; Smith's Foods, food marketing; Northwest Pipeline, general marketing; J.C. Penney, general merchandise; Gastronomy Inc., full service restaurants; NICE/Apex, entrepreneurship; Nordstrom, fashion merchandising; 7-Up, civic consciousness; Hardee's, quick-service restaurants; Phillips 66, free enterprise; Muzak, creative marketing; Pepsi, learn and earn project; and Coca Cola, chapter public relations.