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Show The Tftunderbird Retiring SUSC employees to be honored May 25 are (I to r) Stewart L. M. Alger, Inez Cooper and J. Vic Davis. Batty,-Zelm- Monday, May 21, 1984 Page 7 I a fv '1 College to honor four retiring faculty, staff members A banquet honoring retiring SUSC personnel Zelma M. Alger, Stewart L. Batty, Inez Cooper and J. Vic Davis will be held May 25 at SUSC. Festivities honoring the four retirees will start at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall. Between them, these men and women have been at SUSC for over 90 years, and between them they have a multitude of memories to share, said Michael D. Richards, vice president for Friends, families, fellow faculty and college relations. staff, and the many, many students these individuals have influenced are invited to attend. SUSC President Gerald R. Sherratt will welcome guests and friends of the retirees. The retirees will each receive a framed citation and a gift of appreciation from the college. MCC awards presented SUSC students Matilda B. White and Stuart B. Riley were named the outstanding Indian and Black students Center banquet Thursday. at the Multi-CulturBoth received scholarships to SUSC; with Riley also receiving further recognition as an Outstanding Arts and Letters Student. Cedar City Paiutes Clifford and Yetta Jake were honored at the banquet, among the hosted by the Multi-CulturCenter to provide special recognition for Native Americans and Blacks. They were presented awards for Outstanding Service by the Native American organization. Scholarships were also awarded to Outstanding Senior Renae Yellowhorse; Outstanding Junior Thomas T. Little; Outstanding Sophomore Claudia M. Pikyavit; and to Outstanding Freshman Ella M. Farrell. al non-studen- ts Student injured in Saturday mishap SUSC gymnast Teri Judd was hospitalized Saturday with multiple fractures and lacerations after falling approximately 50 feet in a rapelling accident at Red Hills Recreation area. Judd, 19, of Sandy, was with a group of students practicing rapelling when the rope which cliff suspended her halfway down a 100-fosnapped, stranding Judd on a ledge about 200 feet above the canyon floor. Cheryl Paystrup, a student with the group, ran to a nearby campground after witnessing the fall and summoned help. Search and rescue crews worked for five hours, rapelling down the 200 foot cliff with Judd strapped in a basket, to bring her to safety. According to search and rescue crew member Tom Kuhlmann, the cotton blend rope the group was using was not suitable for rapelling and snapped because there was no stretch. Judd was taken to Dixie Medical Center in nearby St. George at approximately 9:55 Saturday evening suffering from fractures to her arm, ankle, wrist and fingers along with multiple lacerations. She was listed in stable condition Sunday. ot Zelma Alger says about her 1 1 years as development secretary: This has been an interesting job, Ive enjoyed every minute of it. Alger joined the SUSC staff in 1973. A graduate of Milford High School where she was honored as one of three outstanding seniors, she lived in Nevada and the San Francisco area for several years before in southern Utah. Stewart L. Batty joined the SUSC staff in 1967 as a maintenance technician, specializing in painting. If theres anything that Ive noticed most or that has affected me personally, its the success stories of kids Ive had on my crews, Batty says in regard to his years at SUSC. Having the opportunity to work with students will be what hell miss most about retiring. Cooper joined the SUSC faculty as a freshman English teacher in 1958, serving in that position and in college public relations for three years. She began basis with SUSC President working on a part-tim- e Royden C. Braithwaite on a history of the college and e then went as SUSC Special Collections Librarian in 1962. Until that time, she said, most of the primary historical materials were being lost to libraries in California and northern Utah. J. Vic Davis joined the SUSC faculty in 1941. His teaching career has spanned the administrations of six SUSC directors and presidents including those of directors Henry Oberhansley, Wayne Driggs and Daryl Chase and presidents Royden C. Braithwaite, Orville Carnahan and now Gerald R. Sherratt. Inez full-tim- 43-ye- Academic Awards Convocation set The SUSC faculty will bestow the colleges highest academic honors upon outstanding scholars during the Academic Awards Convocation, scheduled for 1 1 a.m. Thursday in the Auditorium. The ceremony will feature jazz numbers by Opus II, a violin solo by Joye Hahne, Fire and Rain, sung by Paul Gates, and a vocal duet from the finale of The Marriage of Figaro. Ronald D. Aden, director of Opus II, will be the Master of Ceremonies. n President Gerald Sherratt will host an reception in the auditorium foyer after the open-invitatio- convocation. Sherratt will present the Student Award to the student who maintains academic excellence while coping with newly-establishe- d al such as family barriers to scholastic achievement and job responsibilities or being out of school for a number of years. The graduating senior with the best grade point average in each school will receive the Outstanding School Scholar Award. This years recipients are John Waters, Arts and Letters; Linda Scothern Gubler, Education; Neil Giles, Science; and Theron N. Jensen and H. Scott Johnson, Business, Technology and Communication. The school deans also selected Gubler as the 1984 class Valedictorian. Each department will present its own Outstanding Student Award to students demonstrating superior scholarship and remarkable potential in their the faculty disciplines. Nominees are faculty-electealso selects the top student from the nominees. In art, the outstanding students are Jolene Fisher, Margaret Foley, Deborah Grimshaw, Shauna Leslie and LaRae Williams. Behavioral and social sciences nominees include Thomas R. Darton, Ralph Ewing, Brent J. Lewis, Thomas R. Vaughn and Sandra J. Zontek. Tom Darton and Ken Grimes share the English Departments nomination. Language nominees are Danette Bauer, David Feller, Tracy Frehner, Maria Gracieh Goncalves, Adam Lamoreeux and Conrad Naeglt Music nominees are Greg Child, Natalie Frehner, Barbara Lowder, Laura Searcy and McKay Shields. Physical Education nominees are Lisa Bowhuis, Scott Brown, Gloria G'over, Jeff Gustin, Janice Jensen, Brenda Shaw, Kevin Singleton, Joni Taft and Ron Winegar. Biology nominees are Brad Bauer, Rebecca Ganowsky, Kimberly Lawrence and Kendall Ray. Family Life nominees are Debbie Donofrio, Cristy Gardner and Jolynne Hafen. Troy Stratton is the single engineering nominee. Mathematics nominees are Mark Cottle, Steven Craw, Peter Dotson, Kohnie Jensen and Kurt Lewandowski. Physical Science nominees are David Black, Brian Graf, Gary Gregerson, Steve Hicken and Troy Stratton. Theatre Arts and dance nominees are John Waters, Giles P. Gohier and Mitzi McKay. Communication nominees are Joe Giles, Michelle Harrison, and Mark Rowle1 Industrial Education nominees arc Brent Dix, Wayne Hartley, Kevin Johnson, Dana Karren and Kent Osborne. Business Education nominees are Jolyn Morgan Feller, Phoebe Bowler Ludlow, Nancy Robinson and Jan Jolley Thorley. Business Administration nominees are Linda Eames, Jerry Gubler, Paul Hatch, Theron Jensen and Conrad Naegle. Accounting nominees are Stephen J. Chesnut, Linda Eames, George B. Graff, Theron Jensen, H. Scott Johnson, Jeff Maxwell and Chris Wilcox. The outstanding graduating business administration student will receive the Wall Street Journal Award. The winner will receive a one-yea- r subscription to the Wall Street Journal and his or her name will be engraved on a plaque for permanent display in the Business Department. The Education Department will present its own Pestaiozzi Award to graduating seniors in elementary and secondary education judged by the faculty to have the greatest potential as teachers. The award is named after Henry Pestaiozzi, upon whose concepts and ideals many present educational practices are based. Pestaiozzi nominnees include Paula Burgoyne, Linda Gubler, Cindy Leslie, Derek McCracken, Connie Pitt, Jeri Sandberg, Terri Forsyth, Rebecca Ganowski, Janice Jensen, Phoebe Ludlow and Jan Jolley Thorley. |