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Show Old Library To Be MusJ0' ing specific exhibit piam " ,A summer of 1966 s "i : Several exhibits have t been or will soon bc These include Minerals J: Tl of Their Uses; The Bea?S; Bab ture's Lumberjack; Mier Changing Seasons; Clastit H day Birds. iassmcati:, Exhibit construction has t slow because of lack ot hire enough skilled person.,'' T ing the summer of last J '' ' ever, Merril Hamilton an daP enced exhibit preparato'r joj!;' ot museum staff. Three Neighiy in Youth Corps boys helped s' workshop as part of an ot'l training program, in which ttr ! versity participated through J. partment of Anthropology. jT Financial support for the devt ment of the museum comes In! private backing and state k- 1 Wallace R. Bennett, associate fc ' of the University law school, was' r strumental in drafting the' cfc for the Associates of the U- V Museum of Natural History. Junior, individual, family ; sustaining memberships win available to interested pj: These will continue for a year ! the date on which dues are; b( Patron and benefactor catejri in will be lifetime memberships, (j porate memberships will als: available. l P By SUZANNE BOYNTON Chronicle Staff Writer The George Thomas Library, which housed the University Libraries Li-braries from 935 to 1967, wilj house the Utah Museum of Natural History next year. Repairs and remodeling of the old building are expected to take about nine months. An appropriation appropria-tion of $90,000 in state funds has been designated in part for painting paint-ing the whole interior of the building build-ing and updating its obsolete electrical elec-trical system. The museum and graduate research re-search facilities for the botany, geology and zoology departments will be moved in late this year and early 1969. The museum will open formally next spring. Director Jennings Dr. Jesse D. Jennings, professor of anthropology, is museum director. direc-tor. According to Dr. Jennings, the educational role of the museum is "an integral part of the educational program of the University, for the benefit and enjoyment of the people peo-ple of Utah." The museum's function is "to interpret in-terpret the natural history of Utah in an integrated scheme from earliest earli-est geological times up to the present pres-ent with reduced emphasis on recent re-cent history," Dr. Jennings states. Donald V. Hague, the museum's curator of exhibits, began draft- |