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Show Phi Beta Lambda honors accorded SUSC Chapter Host Southern Utah State College received "Chapter of the Year" honors in state Phi Beta Lambda competition com-petition held recently on the SUSC campus. Some 250 students representing 12 post-secondary post-secondary Utah schools attended the State PBL . Leadership Conference to. compete in 34 individual team and chapter events, and to elect state PBL officers of-ficers for the coming year. . "All first place winners in individual events have now qualified to compete at the National Phi Beta Lambda Leadership . Conference which will be held July 5-8 in Washington D.C.," says Monica Bunker, Chi Alpha Chapter reporter. Contest areas, she said, range from chapter events such as community service projects and completion of the best chapter scrapbook to team events in parliamentary procedures and individual events in various areas of business administration, data processing, typewriting, shorthand and economics. Winners in each area were announced at an awards banquet held ' at the con-:, elusion of the two-day meet. Winners in each category received plaques and certificates cer-tificates of merit, Bunker said. In addition cash prizes were awarded to Mr. and Ms. ' Future Business Executives by the Bon- . neville Corporation represented by KSL's Jackie Nokes; to Mr. and Ms. Future Business Teachers by the Utah Business Education Association, represented b by Robert Stocker, president; and to Who's Who in PBL by the PBL Alumni Association Diane Bastian, president. New state PBL officers were elected in one of the two general sessions held at SUSC. They include Wayne Dymock, Utah State University, president; Gary Kuhlmann, Dixie College, vice president; Sheri Nixon,. Stevens Henager-Ogden, secretary-treasurer; Joan Christensen, SUSC, historian; and Corina Williams, Brigham Young University, reporter. Outgoing officers include Gary Williams, SUSC, president; Frank Misak, SUSC, vice president; Wendy P. Anderson, Snow . College, secretary-treasurer; secretary-treasurer; Jody Sestanovich, Stevens Henager-Provo, reporter; Wayne Dymock, USU, historian; and Marili Johnson, USU, parliamentarian. Along with general sessions and contests, a volleyball tournament and ice cream social was held along with a PBL president's reception prior to the awards banquet. SUSC's Chi Alpha Chapter received honors for having the largest chapter with 95 members, also winning 10 other first place awards, seven second place and six third place honors, respectively. The chapter gained additional recognition for having : selected a Businessperson of . ' the Year, James Hoyle, Jr., as a chapter project. Doris Williamson, assistant professor of business, is the Chi Alpha Chapter advisor. Preparations for the state contest were organized and directed by chapter president Alan Wood and other chapter officers. Schools represented at the state meet included Utah State University; Weber State College, Dixie College, Snow College, College of Eastern Utah, Utah Technical Colleges at Salt Lake and Provo-Orem, Stevens Henager Business Colleges at Ogden and Provo, SUSC, and new chapters from Brigham Young University and the LDS Business College. |