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Show 86TH YEAR; NUMBER 56 SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY • CEDAR CITY, UTAH A\Vards Convo to cite academics Academic excellence is recognized for students from the various colleges of SUU at the annual Academic Awards CoDYOCation today at ll a. m. in the Auditorium. The awards arc presented in a number of areas. College Scholar Awards go to students from SUU's various colleges who have the highest grade point average, proven excellence as scholars and arc members of the graduating class. Outstanding Student Awards arc departmental awards that are presented to students who have demonstrated superior scholarship and potential in a particular academic discipline. Students receiving the awards are elected by department faculty. Special awards arc also presented at the Convocation, including Pestalozzi Awards to graduating seniors in both elementary and secondary education; the C PA Key Award, presented by the Utah Association of CPA's to the graduate considered to have the most potential for success as a CPA; the Wall Street Journal Award, for the outstanding graduate in business administration; the Alpha Chi Award, for the outstanding first year scholar; and the Non!fraditional Academic Award, presented to a student outside the typical 18-22 age range of college and university students. In the College of Ara, Letters and Humanities the nominees for art arc Debra Drake, Stephen Jones, Michael Udall and Lora Wilson. For Behavioral Science, the nomincca arc Barbara Cocacns, Connie Dixon, Jancil Esplin and Emalynn Heath; and for Social Science the nominees arc Shane Allgood, Derek Ekker and J . Michael Pipkin. Nomincca from the English area include Glen Bcaoncttc, Karen Lowe, Lenore Schweitzer and Nicole Thomas. From the foreign language area the nominees arc David Bayless, Jeffrey Hamm, Laurent Motte and Elizabeth Ralph. Music department nominees include Geoffrey Anderson, Glen Bcssonctte, Newell Chappell and Latanna Randall. Nominees from the theatre arts and dance department include Brett Bassett, Robyn BishopWarner, Melanie Morgan and Christopher Nelson. In the College of Business, Technology and Communication, nominees for accounting arc Ward Coombs, Chery Hulet, Donya Taylor and Chris Whetman. Business information management and education nominees include Retta Gale, Terry Seegmiller, Kimberli Tholen and lavish 1hnnan. Nominees for the CPA Key Award arc David Dix, Glade 'Icw and Darren Woolsey; and nominees for the Wall Street Journal Award include Natalie Coombs, Gregory Manuele and Keith Robinson. Nomincca from the communication department include Michael McCandless, Paul Meade, Paul Speirs and John Willjams. From the technology department the nomincca arc Kenley Brinkerhoff, Monte Christensen, David Jessen and Brent Stratton. In the College of Education nominees for the Pestalozzi Award for secondary education arc Paul Kreyling, Stephen McDowell, Terry Seegmiller and Kimberli Tholen; for elementary education, Pcstalozzi Award nominees arc Jennifer Baker, K. Marcel Beutler, Deborah Murdock and Sonja Stokes. Nominees from the physical education department (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) THURSDAY MAY 28, 1992 CEOsto speak to '92grads Commenummt is an opportunity to, amtmg otlttr things, haue a I.a.st ~h with SUV Presidmt Gerald R. Sherrau . The university's haaalaureo.Je and co111111e1UemenJ exercises begin June 5 and run through JuM 6 with a number of mjftrenJ. tUtioities for the graduates and tlznr f amilus and .frinid.s to aUend. Actioiti.ts include a presidmt 's reception for gradJJales, their families and friends, the Stau Board of RegmJs and the SUV &ard of Trustees membtrs and fa&u/Jy }UN 5 . Graduation S6rJius on tlUJL same dJJ.y begin wiUr a proussional from the Music Building to the Uf>Ptr Quad, followed by a Baualaureo.Je Buffet in the Studmt CenJer Thunderbird Circu mning area. On }UN 6, the traditwnal commencement proussiDMJ INgins again at the Music Building at 8 p.m. and moues inJo the Centrum far commencmatnl exercises. A fried chicken tun.ch is scluduud on the Cmtrum 's sou.Jli lawn following commenument. Ticlctts for the Baaalaureo.Je Bufftt are 18 per person, and the picnic box lunch is 15.25 per person. Ticlctts may~ purchased prior to noon, June 4, at the Centrum &x Offiu, open w«lcdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Five lwMrary d«toro.Je degrees will ~ flrtmtled during the }UN 6 commencement to distinguished contributors to society including Wmddl Ashton, Jon Hunuman, Gary Michael, Awa Snow and Jay Taggart. Distinguished SmJice Awards will~ . conferred upon Homer and &lie Jon.es, NtoM F. Jon.es and Eytlit Katz. BachelDr's degrees will~ awardtd to 584 graduates tll tJu commmcmunJ exercises, witJi 23 Master 's degrtes in accounting, and 28 Master 's dtgrtts in e.rhu:ation. The number of baditlor's dtgrus i.s up suhstanJi4lfJ from 527 degrees in 1991. During J uM 5 gradualion stroius, OM and lwo-ytar ctrtijicaits will also ~ presented to 103 studmls. Huntsman, (top left), will dtliotr the btUcalaurto.Je address whiu Michael, (bouom left), will dtliuer the commnu:tmtnt address. Gary G . Michael, chairman of the board and CEO of Albertson's, and Jon M . Huntsman, chairman of the board and CEO of the Huntsman group, will speak at SUU commencement activities June 5 and 6. Michael, who was elected to his position in February of 1992, will deliver SUU's 93rd annual commencement address. The ceremony will begin at 9 a .m . in the SUU Centrum Saturday, June 6. Huntsman, who is recognized both for his industrial accomplishments and bis philanthropic activities, will speak during the combined baccalaureate and vocational graduation Friday, June 5. The service begins at 7 p .m . on the upper campus quad. This year, 584- students will receive bachelor's degrees, up substantially from 527 in 1991, and 23 students will be awarded master's degrees at commencement. Seventyfour SUU students will receive certificates at vocational exercises. Born and raised in Laurel, Mont., Michael attended the U nivcrsity of Idaho on a scholarship, graduating in 1962. After serving in the U .S. Army as an officer and working for the international accounting firm of Ernst & Whinney for two years, he joined Albertson• s in 1966 as an accountant. A native of Blackfoot , Idaho, Huntsman is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance at the Univenity of Pennsylvania. The Huntsman group of companies he directs includes Huntsman Chemical Corporation, the largest privately-held chemical company in the nation. Huntsman also serves on numerous boards. |