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Show LYNN POULSON DELEGATE FOR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM Lynn Poulson, a junior student stu-dent at the Duchesne High School, was this school's delegate dele-gate to the fourth annual Junior Jun-ior Science and Humanities Symposium of the University of Utah and the U. S. Army this past weekend. Lynn, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Poulson, Duchesne, is president of the Duchesne Science Club. The symposium brought students stu-dents from five of the western states, March 10, 11, 12 at Camp W. G. Williams. Forty-nine specialist in science sci-ence and the humanities, were put through an exhaustive and exhausting question-and-ans-wer session Friday. The "grillers" were the 171 high school students and 35 teachers, participating in the symposium. Most of the specialists were from the University of Utah and Dugway Proving Grounds. The headquarters building and four others at the camp were used for the 10 groups meeting with teams of specialists. special-ists. Friday's morning session was conducted on the University Univer-sity of Utah campus. The three major speakers were Dr. Mortimer A. Rothen- berg, scientific director of Dugway Proving Ground, on I "Military Research"; Dr. Richard W. Van Norman, U. of U. professor of molecular and genetic biology, on "Selecting a Research Project", and Dr. C. H. Hardin Branch, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Medi-cine, U. of U. , on "Importance "Import-ance of the Humanities to a Scientist. " After lunch, the high school students from Utah, Idaho, Nevada,. Colorado and Wyoming, Wyo-ming, divided into seven groups to visit the LDS Hospital, Hospi-tal, Edo Western Corp. (makers (mak-ers of underwater devices), American Oil Refining Co. , the Kennecott mine at Bingham Bing-ham and research laboratory at the U. of U. , Veterans Administration Hospital, Litton Industries (makers of missile components), and Hercules Powder Co. (aerospace plant at Bacchus). |