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Show The Thunderbird Top students named Education, and outstanding scholar in the elementary education department. Other outstanding scholars in this school include: Douglas Lee Taysom of the secondary education department, and Anita Green of the physical education department. Brian Garry Graf received dual honors for being the overall outstanding scholar in the School of Science, and outstanding scholar in the biology department. Other outstanding scholars in this school include: Janice B. Hatch of the home economics department; Kimball D. Barlow of the mathematical science department, and Robert Sterling Tebbs of the physical science department. Additional honors received were the Awards. This is a relatively new honor that SUSC gives to those students who are struggling with families e and jobs, while attending school at the same time. David J. Merritt and Jeanine Baker Swapp were the recipients of this award, which President Gerald R. Sherratt presented. full-tim- Michael Leon Chidester will deliver the valedictory address June 1 at SUSC. Chidester, son of Leon and Irma Chidester, Cedar City, has earned a 4.00 (straight A) grade point average while attending SUSC. He will graduate with a double major in English and languages, Spanish emphasis. The 1981 Cedar City High School graduate has received numerous awards during his college career, most recently being named the Outstanding English Student and the Outstanding Language Student. He is also the Outstanding Scholar for the SUSC School of Arts and Letters, and was a nominee for additional awards this spring as Scholar of the Year and as candidate for the R. Kenneth Benson Award. The SUSC valedictorian received the prestigious Institutional Council Scholarship for 1984-8- 5 and has received three other academic scholarships. He was named Scholar of the Year in 1982, and other academic honors include recognition as the Outstanding Arts and Letters Student for winter quarter 1985. As a member of the SUSC forensic squad, Chidester has a long list of debate achievements to his credit, including the Junior National Debate Championship in 1982. He has represented SUSC at several national tournaments, including the Thomas Jefferson Classic, and has served as both captain of the debate squad and as president of the SUSC debate club. Winn to deliver commencement address Susan L. Winn will give the Outstanding Student Address Friday at SUSC Baccalaureate Vocational Commencement. Winn, daughter of Dali and Guin Winn, Cedar City, will graduate with an associate two-yedegree in secretarial science. She has earned a 3.90 grade point average. SUSCs combined baccalaureate and vocational commencement will start at 7 p.m. on the upper campus quadrangle. Gymnast and Olympic Gold Medal winner Peter Vidmar is the baccalaureate speaker. Winn is a 1983 graduate of Cedar City High School where she was a member of the honor society, the Country Fiddlers and was named a runner-u- p to the Business Education Sterling Scholar. She has attended SUSC both years on academic scholarships, and has worked as a communications department secretary this year. The SUSC honor student is a member of Phi Beta Lambda, a national business organization. She represented SUSC in Utah PBL competition, taking second place in business communications, third place in word processingmachine transcription, and an honorable mention in administrative assistant typist. Sonya Smith awarded Institutional Council scholarship Sonya Smith, a SUSC junior who plans a career in environmental law, has been awarded the colleges 1985-8- 6 Institutional Council Scholarship. Smith, daughter of M.L. and Pauline Smith, Cedar City, was nominated by the SUSC School Smith is currently serving as an intern in the office of United States Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. of Arts and Letters for the prestigious $1000 scholarship which is made through contributions of institutional council members. A nominee from each of the colleges four schools competes for the annual award. Smith is majoring in pre-laat SUSC seeking majors in English and political science. She is currently serving a political science internship in the Washington, D.C., office of Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, and was honored recently as a nominee for SUSCs annual Outstanding English Student award. The scholarship recipient is first alternate to Utahs 1985-8- 6 Truman Scholar. She is a 1983 graduate of Cedar City High School where she delivered the valedictory address. According to Institutional Council Chairman Dale Zabriskie, the prestigious scholarship is always awarded to an SUSC junior and is based on academic achievement, leadership abilities and extracurricular activities. We are very pleased to award this scholarship to Ms. Smith, Zabriskie said. We believe that she is an outstanding SUSC student, one representative of the type of student this scholarship was designed to honor. Judd receives Faculty Senate Scholarship The recipient of the 1985-8Faculty Senate Scholarship at SUSC is Elementary Education major Sharon Judd, Cedar City. She will use the $802 award during her senior year at SUSC. Faculty Senate President Jim Cotts indicates that the award includes full instate tuition plus an additional $100. Judd is the daughter of Harl E. and Anne A. Judd. She is a 1982 graduate of Cedar City High School where she was student body secretary, an Honor Medallion winner, a member of Country Fiddlers and the recipient of a Jostens National Scholarship. She was also named CHSs Girl of the Year. The award recipient has earned a 3.91 grade point average and has attended SU.SC all three years on academic scholarships. She will turn down a fourth academic scholarship to accept 6 Pcuje 7 Chidester to deliver valedictory address (continued, from page 3) al Wednesday May 29, 1985 the Faculty Senate Award. Judd was recently named Female Contributor of the Year at the annual Thunderbird Awards program where she was also nominated for the Sterling Silver Award. While attending SUSC, she has participated in a number of activities, from serving as an ASSUSC Senator to the colleges homecoming parade and performing with the SUSC Symphony Orchestra. Sharon is an outstanding example of what a student should be interested, energetic, curious and bright, Cotts said. The Faculty Senate is pleased to reward her for the leadership and academic abilities sht demonstrates, added Randall Christensen, chairman of the Faculty Senate Scholarship Committee. Michael Chidester, SUSCs valedictorian for 19Si-8- 5. Baker wins womens scholarship Madeline N. Baker is the recipient of the SUSC Faculty and Staff Associated Womens Scholarship for the 1985-8- 6 academic year. In earning the n award, Baker joins several other recipients of the scholarship, both past and present, who impressed the faculty-staf- f womens association with their scholarship. Since its organization, the n association has provided a scholarship to a female students demonstrating superior scholarship and financial need. A senior majoring in business education, Baker plans to teach high school following graduation. She was raised in Bellflower, Calif., and attended Cerritos College in Norwalk, Calif., where she was a student body officer during the 1972-7- 3 academic year. She earned an associate of arts degree in administrative secretarial studies from Fullerton College, Fullerton, Calif., in 1974. She has been named a lifetime member of Alpha Gamma Sigma scholarship society, and is currently a member of the Utah Business Education Association. After 12 years as a mother and homemaker, Baker returned to school last year to complete work for her bachelors degree. Apart from her studies, where shes earned a 3.49 grade point average, Baker works at the SUSC Library. In addition to awarding a yearly scholarship, the Faculty and Staff Associated Women is involved in several other campus projects, most notably the sponsorship of one of SUSCs major Christmas events, Fantasy in Frost. The association donates each years Christmas festival proceeds to a major project at the college. Its a double Daniels ceremony away at it until I earned it. Members of the family enjoyed the ocassional class or graduation ceremonies, even two they had together over the though Nancy will have to drive to Cedar City from years, Boydine noted. The education my family has California and Marty will have received here cant be beat, to make the trip from she said. We have all done Colorado. well at the other schools we education her Boydine began in 1972, when she was hired as have gone on to or out it the secretary for the SUSC Division professional world. An added benefit the family of Continuing Education. I went one quarter at a time has received by going to school and took one class or night together, said Boydine, is the class until I had my degree, money weve saved on textbooks. she said. I just kept plugging (continued from page 5) Thunderbird seeks staffers The Thunderbird, the SUSC student newspaper, is seeking staff writers and editors for the 1985-8- 6 year. No previous newspaper experience is necessary, according to editor Doug Christensen, because the newspaper is designed in part to give students writing and editing experience. Christensen said interested students can contact him during the summer at the newspaper offices by calling 586-775- 7. |