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Show Charles Redd Award Given The Utah Academy of Sciences, Sci-ences, Arts and Letters announced an-nounced this week that it had selected a recipient for the Charles Redd Awar). The Award will go to Dr. Leonard J. Arrington, Pro. fessor of Economics at Utah State University, and President-elect of the Western History Association and the Agricultural History Association. Associ-ation. The Charles Redd prize in the humanities and social sciences is an award of fifteen fif-teen Hundred Dollars for a significant contribution for the betterment of mankind for the past five years. The award will be made to Dr. Arrington at the sched-. sched-. uled fall meeting of the Academy Ac-ademy to be held at Dixie College, St. George, Utah, September 13 and 14 of this year, immediately following the Utah Conference on Higher Education. This will be the first Charles Redd A-ward A-ward to be conferred by tht; Academy, and Mr. Charles Redd, who has made the A-ward A-ward possible has been in-, vited to attend the meeting' and make the presentation. Dr. Arrington has been recognized for his prize-winning work, "Great Basin Kingdom: an Economic History His-tory of the Latter-day Saints, 1830- 1900," published by Harvard University Press, and quickly recognized as a work of unusual excellence. Since joining the faculty of Utah State University in 1946, Dr. Arrington has produced pro-duced a bookshelf of publications publi-cations which number at recent re-cent . count 67 articles aiyl journals, 22 reviews, 10 pamphlets, pam-phlets, chapters in 4 books edited by others, 6 public aaaresses, aDsxractea articles, ar-ticles, 7 articles in popular journals, and 2 books in addition ad-dition to "Great Basin Kingdom." King-dom." Dr. Arrington was honored honor-ed with a Fulbright lectureship lecture-ship in Italy, 1958 to 1959, which, along with several grants from the Huntington Library, the National Science Sci-ence Foundation, Utah State University, and other agencies, agen-cies, attests to his professional profes-sional standing, as do the responsible re-sponsible positions he has held in the Western Economic Econ-omic Association, the Mormon Mor-mon History Association, the Economic History Association, Associa-tion, the two organizations which he will shortly head, and the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. His circle of acquaintances and influence is nationwide-even nationwide-even worldwide. Dr. Arrington Arring-ton has set in his personal and family life a high stand- ard. His wife and three children share fully in the Arrington contribution to community, church, and educational ed-ucational affairs. In recognition of accomplishments accom-plishments as scholar, teacher, teach-er, and educator leader, and achievements yet to be expected ex-pected from a career only in mid-course, the Utah Academy Acad-emy of Sciences Arts and Letters . announces w i th pleasuer the conf"-""-"e upon up-on Dr. Leonard J. A.r' --'- -' of its first Charles Redd A-ward. |