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Show DIXIE SUN Friday, May 18, 1990 Page 5 . a Award Bound Program Coombs Finds Tallest Stinky Milkvetch Participants come from the ght high Freeland j, am wn :d local i, if Writer to il ' islatuv, includ Upward Bound is a funded by the federal Its purpose is to pjj-a- pernment. students campirl(lp qualifying es daik r5are for college, and to help i,em to secure scholarships, ibe eligible, students must academic need for this of program and they must (iet two other criterion. First, they must come tm a low income family. In of all students J s area 60 ' aid qualify in that category. Second, they must be ,e first in their immediate Wily to graduate from y.e an The governnlent lacklege leves that students, from where the parents inilies ' (C degrees, are more to finish college, erefore, it hopes that by itlping students to become college d ely generation college it will start a trend, st iduates hi will Iv 14 be self perpetuating. of area residents are tlege graduates, which ut the national average. is Selection of eligible and juniors begins September under the ection of Jonathan Morrell. to help ie program, funded ft students, was started on campus, eight years ago. sahomores DR. s I schools. Students in the program receive help with tutoring, workshops, seminars, and software that will help to prepare them for SAT and ACT. Other workshops, that are taught on cover campus Career Social Counciling, Responsibility, Teen Age ST. GEORGE It was a year ago that Dr. Robert E. Coombs, professor of plant taxonomy class on a field biology Stinking Milkvetch ever before recorded was about 36 inches tall. Coombs measured plants as tall as 56 inches in height. The new record was submitted along with plant specimens to Welsh who is a world expert in the genus Astragalus. nearly at Dixie College, discovered a new world record height for a native Utah plant. The new record has now been recorded in the revision of "A Utah Flora," by Dr. Stanley Welsh, curator of Brigham Young University Herbarium. trip to locate and identify plant varieties. The tallest identification On May 24, 1989, Sexuality, and How to Apply for College Admission and Coombs recorded the new "I wondered at the Financial Aid. height for a native Utah plant time if I had a different i I Morrell said there is a commonly called Stinking species, because the heighth ( was so unusually tall," stated great deal of scholarship Milkvetch Astragalus money "out there", the trick is praelongus Sheldon variety Coombs. "But Dr. Welch s i to find it. His department praelongus Welsh), a member affirmed that I had identified Jt J of the Pea or Legume Family. searches it out and encourages the species and variety the students to apply. He is The unusually correctly and seemed to be very excited about what is tall stemmed plant individuals quite pleased." were located near Leads, Utah Coombs said he gave happening in the program. Welch the exact location, soil Out of 25 seniors this year, all vdiereCoomblmdJajjjJji but two are getting financial aid or scholarships. "Sag" Kathryn THE NATIONAL AND Kamerath who works under WIDE TRAVEL WORLD Morrell as deals EXPERTS! more directly with the TRAVEL CENTER students and the high schools. (FORMERLY EARDLEY TRAVEL) Sug said she could see real growth, and a better self esteem developing in the participants. They are much more willing to tackle things that would have frightened Robert Coombs Georgs. -- Best of Luck in the Future them before beginning the program. SUIVJ TliViS AVIATION rrt ST. CEORCE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT 1.00 ).00 teinilll 2 t) Jm Hsfi m 3.00 Murdock TRAVEL MANAGEMENT cost only ti.M if you've attended Dixie College Fall, Winter, and Spring Quarters They Best Wishes Graduate! 1989-199- 0. A.B.C. AUTO PARTS 41 re ;ial foe Dixie other if Good Luck Graduates 1.00 and information necessary for an official register label. College Confederate is More Than You Think! Congratulations '90 Graduates |