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History Of Leroy Cannon Metcalf
by niece Ruth Metcalf Green
as told to Vauna Marie Green
Grandma Metcalf [Catherine Dahling Metcalf] had a fruit ripening room in the upstairs of her house in Manti. As a child I loved to go up to that room because of the trapeze swing that was in there. I suspect that the trapeze swing was left from the old days when that fruit ripening room might have been Uncle Roy's and my father's bedroom. The Uncle Roy I knew was the kind of man who would have been the kind of kid to hang a trapeze in his bedroom. He was fun - sparkle in the eye kind of fun. Uncle Roy was the other half of the Halloween prank when the wagon ended up on the roof as told in Lund's history.
LeRoy Cannon Metcalf was born 19 September 1897 in Gunnison, Utah. The family moved to Manti when he was about four years old. When he was in High School both he and Lund played basketball; we have a picture of both lean brothers in their basketball uniforms. During World War I the brothers served together in the army in France.
After the war, LeRoy and Lund went together to a Utah Education Association Meeting where they met Superintendant of Schools Rex Skidmore. They were both interviewed and assigned teaching positions in Box Elder County, on the understanding that they would go to school during the summers to get their teaching degrees.
During his long teaching career, Roy served as Principle of North Ogden High School in Ogden, Utah, and as President of the Utah Education Association.
On 1 September, 1920 Roy married Margaret Judd who was also from Manti. They lived most of their married life in North Ogden.
I loved to go to visit my Uncle Roy and Aunt Margaret because they were both loving and kind and fun to be with. While he was a fun-loving man, he was also an intellectual. The conversations between my Grandfather Goodliffe, my father, Uncle Roy, and my Uncle Floyd Jensen were exciting and intellectual, fun and full of life. I couldn't wait to finish the dishes so I could go in and listen to them talk.
After Roy retired he and Margaret lived in the Teachers Retirement Home on South Temple just south of State Street in Salt Lake City. He died 11 July, 1985 in Ogden. Margaret died 31 December, 1989.
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