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Show Doctorate degrees to be award at SUSC commencement !- t I - $ i' ; I F 1 ; f J Bar in 1953 and immediately began practice in Iron County. His law career include service as assistant general council for The Anaconda Company, and as general attorney and general solicitor for the Union Pacific Railroad Company. He has also been deputy Salt Lake ounty Attorney, law Clerk for the U.S. District Judge in Salt Lake City, and a private practitioner of law. He was elected governor of the state of Utah after nearly 30 years of active participation in the Democratic Party. He currently serves as chairman of the Four Corners Regional Commission, the Western Governors' Policy Office, and the National Governors' Association Subcommittee on Water Management. Governor Matheson has been active in the American Bar Association and the Utah State Bar; he was the-youngest the-youngest president of the Utah State Bar in 1968-69. He is also a current member of the Utah Tennis Association Board and the Salt Lake City Rotary Club. He has received numerous : honors and awards including in-cluding the 1979 Water Statesman of the Year award and the Award for Excellence in Management Reform; both are national awards. Governor Matheson is married to Norma Warenski Matheson and the father of three sons and a daughter. Energy project Kumen S. Gardner Governor Scott M. Matheson Honorary doctorate degrees will be awarded to Governor Scott M. Matheson and to Kumen S. Gardner, former chairman of the Southern Utah State College Institutional Council. The degree presentations will be made by SUSC at the college's 83rd annual commencement exercises May 30 on the upper campus quadrangle. Ceremonies will begin at 9 a.m. with the. traditional processional. "Both of the award recipients have been very supportive of Southern Utah State College. Each has been a positive influence in the growth of SUSC, and each has been willing to give of himself for the good of the institution," Orville D. Carnahan, SUSC president, said in announcing the names of the recipients. "We are pleased to be able to recognize and honor such service to SUSC." A series of activities related to SUSC commencement began Friday when 135 certificates of vocational competence were presented to students who had completed one- and two-year programs. Upcoming events include Thun-derbird Thun-derbird Awards Night Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the SUSC Auditorium, baccalaureate services May 29 at 7 p.m. on the upper campus quadrangle, and commencement exercises May 30 at 9 a.m. on the upper campus quadrangle. "Governor Matheson and Mr. Gardner have both become personally per-sonally involved with the college, and each has expressed pride in his involvement in-volvement with SUSC. Theirs is the kind of support which will maintain the progress of the institution," President Carnahan said. Gardner was born in Grass Valley, Washington County. He graduated from the Branch Agricultural College . (Now SUSC) in 1918, and then attended at-tended Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University) for two years. He has spent over 60 years raising livestock in south-western south-western Utah. For over 14 years he served as a mers Home Administration, and the Iron County Cattlemen's Association. He is married to Naida Gillies Gardner. They are the parents of four sons and one daughter. Governor Matheson was born in Pa rowan; he grew up in southern Utah and Salt Lake City. His bachelor of science degree was earned at the University of Utah, and his J.D. was received from Stanford Law School. He was admitted to the Utah State member of either the board of trustees or institutional council of SUSC. He was appointed to the College of Southern Utah (now SUSC) Board of Trustees in 1965. After two years he was appointed chairman of the board. When the name was changed to Southern Utah State College and the board of trustees became the institutional council, he continued as the group's chairman until July, 1979. Among Gardner's other civic service are four years as Cedar City mayor, two years as a city councilman, coun-cilman, two terms in the Utah State House of Representatives, and years of active membership in Lions International. In-ternational. Gardner has been a bishop, member of a stake presidency, and a stake high councilman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As an agricultural leader, he has been a member of the state board of directors and on the national advisory board of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management; he has held numerous other positions with the BLM, Far- |