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Show Doctor Beck, Fine Arts Chairman Thanks All Who Helped Put Over Festival By Dr. D. Elden Beck It is my very pleasant task each year at about this time to extend my sincere gratitude to those who have helped with the activities concerned with the Fine Arts Festival. This year more than ever before be-fore I find it most difficult to decide where to draw the line in extending gratitude for favors given. The school and community cooperation has been so wholehearted whole-hearted and unfailing that if a list of people or organizations were to be made it would include almost everyone. Therefore, if any organization or person is overlooked over-looked it is not intended and my thanks and appreciation are, nevertheless, extended. The Festival transcended all expectations ex-pectations and is another feather of acheievement in the intellectual and artistic bonnet of the city of St. George and Washington county. Our exhibit was of the finest quality and well represented represent-ed the art temperament of the intermountain west as well as the coast. The special speakers that were brought in represented the finest in intellectual, spiritual and artistic offering. The programs given each day under the direction direc-tion of the cultural organizations complimented the offering of each speaker and indicated distinctly the rich artistic background of our Dixie and the present endeavor en-deavor of our people to know and feel the finest in living at the present day. The three cultural clubs in the Dixie college, Delta Phi Alpha, Lambda Beta Theta and Beaux Art Guild supervised respectively by Carlos Schmutz, Verde Washburn Wash-burn and Alice Lowe, worked faithfully as units to promote the (Continued on page five) Art Festival (Continued from first page) Festival, both in detail and more paramount offerings. The Facutly supervisors of the above organizations, Earl J. Bleak, Ralph Huntsman and Miss Linna Snow have done their part well, both by direction of work and actual participation in labor. Pres. B. Glen Smith gave graciously of his time and talents as occasion prevailed and his constant cons-tant encouragement and support, both as a citizen of the community and as head of the college, has helped to make the Festival a success. The cast that presented the annual an-nual Fine Arts Festival drama are to be congratulated for their earnest work in presenting "Lena Rivers". When one considers under what odds this play was given I further appreciation is evident. In this write-up I wish to extend ex-tend gratitude to these folks for the interest they took and their sincere attitude. I have never worked with a finer group and our few week's of association in this production will long remain a warm place in my memory. From the civic organizations in town whole-hearted support was given and elsewhere mention has been made of -this. May I add that the elementary schools of the county sent in small sums of money which helped measurably to meet the expenses of the Festival. Festi-val. The Athena club graciously donated a sum of money to help out, as did the Hurricane high school and the Dixie college student stu-dent body. I made public announcement of the following once before, but I wish to mention it again. "The linemen do good work on a football foot-ball team, but their efforts are not sensational". I had linesmen in the Festival who were always standing ready or in action at anytime any-time and all times during the Festival. These men worked many times into the wee small hours to see that the stage ' was set for the next day's activities. I am very grateful for the assistance and association of George Cannon and Oliver Stratton. In closing may I add a last word of thanks to Ralph Huntsman, my companion com-panion in this work and my teacher. A man very quiet and unassuming, un-assuming, but a man that is doing big things for our community. Let us not just be for a day "people in the finer aspect of life, but keep these artistic ideals alive and make St. George a Mecca for artists and for cultural promotion every day of the year. To state the words of Prof. Gail Plummer, one of our speakers, "there is no estimating the extent and importance of such an enterprise". enter-prise". May we develop our ideals to greater proportions. |