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Show SIGNPOST May 18, 1982 Page 2 ASWSC presents awards to students in annual honors banquet The winners of the ASWSC awards and honors were announced last Friday at the annual banquet held in the Union Building Ballroom. The awards were created to give recognition to outstanding students in various areas, to the outstanding campus organization and to the outstanding WSC professor. The top honor of the evening, the Wildcat Achievement Award, went to Jill Niederhauser. Niederhauser will graduate this spring with a double major in Communication and Political Science and a cumulative GPA of 4.0. She will attend Yale Law School next fall. WSC Intramurals was named Organization of the Year. The awards for Male Athlete of the Year and Female Athlete of the Year went to Todd Harper and Carmen Gar-duno respectively. Harper, a senior and member of the WSC basketball team was the second leading scorer in the Big Sky Conference this past year. Gar-duno, a member of the WSC track team is an "All American." David Goff , chemistry major and winner of the 1982 Cortez Award, was nam ed the male scholar of the year with Lori Memmott, an elementary education major winning the award for top female scholar. Gary Toyn of the WSC musical performing group "Good Company" won the award for talent of the year. Dr. W. James Smith of the WSC economics department won the award of "Outstanding Professor of the Year." Smith was chosen on the basis of student evaluation scores, publications and the amount of time dedicated to helping students outside of the classroom. Smith has consistently received near- perfect ratings on student evaluations. The Association of Women Students also awarded the annual Silver Chalice Award during the banquet. This award is meant to recognize the Outstanding Woman Student on campus each year. Jill Niederhauser was also the recipient of this award. This year, in addition to the traditional winner of the Silver Chalice, AWS also recognized a non-traditional re-entry woman for her accomplishments. The winner of this special award was Karryn D. Chipman. Black Scholars present awards The Black Scholars United of Weber Stme College gave recognition and achievement awards in seven categories to students and community members May 13. The awards were given during the annual awards and recognition banquet held in the Weber State Union Building. Awards include: Academic Achievement-Betty Moore, Christina Brown and Timothy Green; Athletic, Football - Eric Allen, Track-Anthony Smith, Basketball - Royal Edwards; Male Outstanding Black Scholar - Steve Bell; Outstanding Black Female Scholar-Charollate Starks; Who's Who Among Students of American College's and Universities - Betty Moore; Senior Graduates - Betty Moore, Kevin Beard, Bobbie Daniels, Lorenzo Reid, Walter Waits, James Wee, Daniel Renoyalds and Willie F. Martin. The community participation awards went to Envry Chaple AME Church and Clearfield Job Corps with the Alumni Award going to Percy Devine who works with the State Division of Social Service as a gerontologist in the Department of Aging. Forest Crawford, advisor to BSU, also received a special recognition award. Keynote speaker for the banquet was Wilford Bocague, vice president of the Salt Lake City Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). WSC business students receive awards and honors Weber State College business students were honored with scholarships and other awards during the annual School of Business and Economics awards program. The banquet was held May 12 in the WSC Union Building Skyroom. Outstanding graduating students were: Accounting, Martin Denny; Business Education, Lynnell Grant; Economics, Christopher Fawson; Finance, David Mon-tierth; Management, Sherry Moultrie; Marketing, Susanna Dalponte. Office Administra tion, Dianne Wheelwright; Real Estate, Ronald Gary; Secretarial Science, Sherilyn Harris and Denise Thurston. Other organizations also gave awards to the WSC business students. They include: Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key, Ronald Wheelwright; National Business Education Award of Merit, Bruce Atkinson; Phi Beta Lambda Achievement Award, Jeffry Sillito; Phi Gamma Nu Scholarship Key, Dianne Wheelwright; Utah Associa-tionof Certified Public Accountants, Paula George; Wall Street Journal Award, Steven Bateman and Mojdeh Saadati. A total of 30 scholarships ranging from $600 to $1200 were given to students from various organizations. Scholarship recipients include; Kevin Carmony, Robert Hall, Gilbert Vaillancourt, Lee Carter, Matt Sorensen, John Cassell, Terrie Griffith, Joan Loffredo. Janice Gebben, Royce Eves, Bridget Suski, Janet Wager. Ben Winchester, Patricia McEntee. Suzanne Elwood, Rilla Hansen, Mark Storey, Randy Parkin, Glenda Covey, George Ulrich, Barbara Seak, Pamela Neumann, Kelly Lee, Michael Meloni, Laurie Bonnell, Sherilyn Harris, and David Knowles. Festival of the American West planned for summer By Stephanie DeGraw The tenth annual Festival of the American West will be July 30, 31 and August 2-7 in Logan, Utah on the Utah State University campus. Ron Jones, associate producer said, "The Festival of the American West will acquaint people with the 'Old West' and provide entertaining and wholesome experience for people of all ages." & mm if I " j "The West: America's Odyssey" will highlight the Festival each evening in the USU Special Events Center. A cast of 200, plus horse drawn covered wagons, train replicas, multi-media sight and sound systems and famed performers will tell the story of western expansion in the pageant. The crafts and entertainment of pioneer times will be featured in the Great West Fair, a second major feature of the Festival. Other attractions will include: Frontier Street, a western cook-out; a quilt show and the Heritage Home Tour. Tickets are available at all ZCMI stores or Utah State University by phoning 750-1143. The admission cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children under 12. Group rates are $4.50 per person. o Km Thursdays, 9:30-12pm TOTAL ADULT PROGRAM 18 and older CLASSIC SKATING 4181 Riverdale Rd. Ogden, Utah 394-0822 n, auibow saloon DRAFT PITCHER $2.00 Every Wednesday 11:00 a.m. until closing 5590 S 1900 W, Roy 773-0178 JEANS LEVI, LEE, WRANGLER All of our top name, 100 cotton denim jeans in straight leg or boot cut styles. ptedS 16.98 Aiv PAWL. 2246 Washington Blvd. "Utah's most complete and exciting western store." Phone 394-5773 |