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Show Commencement at SUSC Concludes The 83rd annual commencement com-mencement activities at Southern Utah State College will conclude this week with baccalaureate services Thursday and commencement com-mencement exercises Friday. Bachelors degrees will be awarded 247 graduates; an additional 11 students have completed requirements for the masters degree through a program ad- I ministered jointly by SUSC. and Utah State University. The baccalaureate services ser-vices will begin at 7 p.m. on the upper campus : quadrangle. Emma . Lou Thayne, Utah author and poet, will deliver the bac--calaureate sermon. Commencement exercises are scheduled to begin , Friday at 9 a . m. on the upper campus quadrangle. Rolfe Kerr, president of Dixie.. College will present the commencement address. . , The valedictory address will be given by Jill Cummings Shipp, an elementary t education major from Heber.. City. l' Honorary degrees will be conferred upon Utah Governor Scott M. Matheson and Kumen S. Gardner, former chairman of the SUSC Institutional Council. This is only the second year that the cooperative-program cooperative-program masters degrees will be awarded. Last year, one masters recipient participated in SUSC: commencement exercises. The number of bachelor's '.degrees to be awarded is up 13 over last year and up 36 from 1978. The largest EadUating class since SUSC icame an independent four-year college in 1965 was ' In 1973 when 306 degrees - were awarded. Among the 1980 graduates are five students from a newly initiated outreach "program which permits students to complete . degrees without leaving their hometown areas. This is . the first year that graduates have come from that program. In additon to the commencement com-mencement exercises Friday, five faculty and staff members of SUSC will be , recognized - for meritorious service and will be presented cash awards. Three "Distinguished Educator" awards will be ,, made to faculty members, Aand "Outstanding : Educator" and "Out-' "Out-' standing Staff Member" recognition 1 will be given V; to one faculty member and S one member of the non-. non-. : teaching staff. A cash award of $100 will go to each distinguished educator; the . outstanding educator and outstanding staff member will each receive $400. The faculty and staff recognition program was ""established last year to 'j- recognize and encourage outstanding service to SUSC. |