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Show SUSC commencement events get underway ft , - 4 ' , -j i' . : f S'. , . ' , 1 The first event on a two-week schedule of commencment activities at Southern Utah State College will be held Friday night when 132 certificates cer-tificates of vocational achievement will be presented. The 83rd annual commencement activities at SUSC will conclude May 29 and 30 with baccalaureate services and commencement exercises. Other major activities include Thunderbird Awards Night, which honors students who have achieved during the year, and an exhibit of the permanent collection of the Cedar City Art Committee. Thunderbird Awards Night will be May 22; Greg Glazier, Kanab, is the . student chairman of the event. The art exhibit will open May 29 at the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery and will run through June 27. The presentation of vocational certificates will begin at 7 p.m. in the SUSC Auditorium. Awards will be made in the areas of business education, family life, industrial education and agriculture. Dr. Joan R. McFadden, dean of the College of Family Life at Utah State University will be the speaker for the vocational awards program. Emma Lou Thayne, Utah author and poet, will present the baccalaureate bac-calaureate sermon; and Rolfe Kerr, president of Dixie College, will be the commencement speaker. Baccalaureate services will be held at 7 p.m., May 29, and commencement com-mencement exercises are scheduled for 9 a.m. the next morning. Both will be held on the upper campus quadrangle, unless weather forces the EMMA THAYNE r s , 4 7 ROLFE KERR activities into the SUSC auditorium. A total of 247 students will receive bachelors degrees; an additional 11 students have completed requirements for the master's degree through a program administered jointly by SUSC and Utah State University. Mrs. Thayne has published several books of poetry and prose and two novels. She received a BA in English and a an MA degree in creative writing from . the University of Utah. She taught for 30 years in the U of Utah Divison of Continuing Education, and served form 1965 to 1972 as the university's women's intercollegiate tennis team coach. Currently "Mrs. Thayne serves on the board of directors of the Deseret News Publishing Company. She is also serving on the Utah Endowment for the Humanities Committee and the Utah Arts Council, Literary Arts Program. Her baccalaureate sermon is titled "Sunrise, Sunset". Dr. Kerr has been president of Dixie College since 1976. He has served . in numberous administrative positons at various institutions including in-cluding Utah State University, Weber State University and the Latter-day Saint Student Association. He was awarded a BS degree in general agriculture and an MS degree in marriage and family relations from USU. He received a PhD from University of Utah with a major in educational administration-higher education. |