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Show Centennial SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY JANUARY 17, 1996 Utah Centennial travelers, Dont forget your passport A program of travel, fun and prizes awaits residents and visitors who participate in a new Statehood Centennial program. The Utah Statehood Centennial Commission and the Utah Travel Council announced this week details of the Utah Centennial Passport program which will run the entire Centennial year from January 1, 1996 to December 31, 1996. available only to program par- ticipants. Every Passport participant can enter a drawing for Utah vacation and recreation prizes to be given away each week beginning in June, 1996. The 29 weekly prizes will include vacation packages to Utahs counties. Final drawing will be Saturday, January 4, 1997. Entries for the final drawing must Travelers can take their Passports to designated locations of historical, cultural or recreational interest in each county and have their Passport stamped with a unique, specially designed rubber stamp representing that county. In addition to having a great souvenir of the Centennial, when the traveler has been to fifteen different counties they can select one of six scenic posters by noted Utah photographer Tom Till. After visiting all 29 Utah counties, they can receive a centennial video called, Celebration of the Century, which is be postmarked by December 2 1 , 1996. Anyone 18 years of age or older who completes and mails an official Centennial Passport entry card may enter. One entry per person. The only way to get a Passport is to pick one up at any of more than 40 Best Western hotels in Utah, the Utah Travel Council, or any of the five inbound state welcome centers. Validation sites for each county are listed in the Passports. You may contact Meredith Moss, Vanguard Media or Dave Porter, Utah Travel Council 100 Years 100 women Wanted: 100 candidates to run for public office. Experience the thrill of democracy. Mentors, personal trainers and strategists provided free of charge. Only women need apply. It is a plan that would have made the suffragists proud. elect 100 Utah women to public 801-531-02- 44 801-538-1377. office in 1996. The 1996 election offers an abundance of political opportunities. Half the Utah State Senate and the entire House of Representatives will be up for election, as well as congressional, state, Eight Utah women have county and school board seats. launched a statewide campaign Currently, Utah is ranked 39th to find 100 more to run for office among the 50 states for female in 1996 in honor of Utahs cen- representation in elected office. tennial. Filing deadline is March diYears-10local mass meetings are and 0 100 women is a March 25. For additional inforverse group of 17 Could SLC have handled the UU BYU rivalry within its borders? posed academy became part of History Blazer of the bitter contest over Youngs Brigham Young Academy Salt Lake City, later known as estate. The academy was also Young University and the opposed by his successor as Church University, had a brief LDS church president, John and troubled life. One of three Taylor, who preferred the esinstitutions of higher learning tablishment of a Salt Lake built on property endowed by State Academy, possibly because a stake academy would Young, the Academy-Universit- y was meant to serve as the cen- have no connection with tral and highest school operated Youngs heirs nor bear his by the LDS church. Although name. After Taylors death in 1887, the school was eventually doomed by the panic of 1893 and Wilford Woodruff, the new opposition from rival institu- church leader, favored carrying tions, its demise helped the Uni- out and expanding upon versity of Utah, the LDS Busi- Brigham Youngs original plans. ness College, and Brigham Accordingly, in 1890 he asked Young University achieve their Brighams son Willard to serve success. Best of all perhaps, the as the president of a new univerU and the flagship Mormon uni- sity that would offer a higher versity ended up in different level of education than any curcounties? rently available in church schools. Young University, as it deeded had Brigham Young for the land the Academy in was to be known, would receive 1876, the year before his death, LDS church donations and but various disputes kept the would firmly establish Salt Lake institution hanging fire for City as the educational capital years. The land for the pro- - of Utah. Willard Y oung worked hard to create this university, commisn architect sioning a to design buildings and hiring James E. Talmage,1 ah English convert to Mormonism and an experienced Utah educator, to oversee academics. In 1892 Willard Young successfully prowell-know- iCENTENNI. Middle age is the time of life when your narrow waist and broad mind change places! 8, posed that the nent status among church schools. The financial panic of 1893 hit Utah hard. In its wake the LDS church decided to retrench its educational commitments, closing 20 church schools and curtailing the Church Universitys offerings. The University of Utah, which was also struggling to keep afloat in those uncertain economic times, protested the establishment of the Church University and requested that it be closed; in turn, the U promised to appoint Talmage as its president. Perhaps as a gesture toward settling decades of Gentile-conflict over education in the territory, the church agreed to abandon its competing university and subsidized the U with a $60,000 endowment. LDS College (later the LDS Business College) benefitted from the closure as well, receiving much of the Church Universitys property. Perhaps the biggest beneficiary was the Brigham Young Academy at Provo. The abandonment of the Church University in Salt Lake ' City eventually led LDS leaders to develop the Provo academy into the churchs leading educaMormon tional institution, Brigham Young University. school be offi- cially founded by the church and renamed the University of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or Church University), signifying its preemi The History Blazer is produced by the Utah State Historical Society and funded in part by a grant from the Utah Statehood Centennial Commission. an women encouraging all Utahns mation, write to: Genevieve to celebrate their grandmothers Atwood, 30 U. Street, Salt Lake and their granddaughters and City, Utah 84103; or call Utahs Centennial by helping &2D SQSsE NO.Wi 'tutjb m ihn iiiwIHiibii UimOntv iptwmr, & Ij Dr. Anderson-Orthope-dic Dr. Dr. Olson-Podia- tric Dr. Peterson-Ea- r, Dr. Phillips-RadioloGreen-Orthoped- ic jfi- -i M 4 gist ' Ik !!- - Jf mil EEliBE) 8iB! QOEGl. 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