李元祥同志是大丰县白驹区团结初级小学(单班)的教师,青年团员,小时只读过八年书,在一九五一年十月份参加工作。由於党与政府的培养及主观的努力,文化、业务水平提高得很快,政治上也有了很大的进步,对工作一贯能积极负责。去年下半年他又在坚持灾区教育中表现了高度的负责精神,并取得了显著成绩,因此,县人民政府、县教育工会都给予奖励并通报表扬。团结初小原有在籍学生五十名,来自五个村,很分散。由於地势低洼,去年下半年开学时学校处在大水的包围中。群众因水灾关系,生活不安定,学生也无信心上学,事实上也无法上学。但李元祥同志抱着不向困难低头的决心,暑期接受了县教师大会上布置的坚 Comrade Li Yuanxiang is a teacher and a youth member of Unity Primary School (Bai Shui) in Baiju District, Dafeng County. He read only eight years’ time and took part in the work in October 1951. Due to the cultivation of the party and the government and its subjective efforts, the level of culture and business has risen rapidly, and great progress has been made politically. Therefore, it has always been responsible for the work. In the second half of last year, he demonstrated a high degree of responsibility in insisting on disaster-stricken areas education and achieved remarkable results. Therefore, the county people’s government and the county education unions have both given awards and commended them. In the early days of Solidarity, there were 50 originally enrolled students from five villages and were scattered. Due to low-lying areas, the school opened in the second half of last year, surrounded by floods. Because of the flood-related people’s lives, their lives are not stable, and students are not confident of going to school. In fact, they can not go to school. However, Comrade Li Yuanxiang held the determination not to bow to difficulties and accepted the arrangement of the county teachers’ assembly in the summer