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Show SU to honor 3 with degrees the Pahute Indian Tribe, and he was allowed to write and publish their legends. Southern Utah State College will award three honorary doctorate degrees one of them posthumously at the college's 84th annual commencement activities ac-tivities June 5. Recipients of the honorary degrees will be southern Utah businessman Lanell N. Lunt, Navajo Tribal Council Chairman Peter MacDonald, Sr., and. posthumously, ' western historian William Kees Palmer. "Each of these three people have contributed significantly to society in quite different ways, but all three of their lives exemplify a very uncommon un-common service to society," Orville D. Carnahan, SUSC president stated in announcing an-nouncing the degree recipients. "Southern Utah State College is pleased to be able to recognize and honor the contributions of each of these distinguished men." Commencement exercises exer-cises will be held June 5 at 9 a.m., on the upper campus quadrangle. Lunt has served in several capacities to assist in the funding of college projects, including in-cluding the library, scholarship fund, Braith-waite Braith-waite Fine Arts Gallery, and the Utah Shakespearean Festival. He is currently a member of the Southern Utah State College Foundation Board. Among the many public service positions he has held are director of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce, president of the Cedar City Rotary Club and member of the office of Defense Transportation Tran-sportation lor Utah during World War II. He and his brother, Wilson, founded the Lunt Motor Company, which now has sales outlets in Cedar City, St. George, Kanab and Las Vegas. His church service in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints includes two luli-time luli-time missions, twelve years as a stake high counselor and five years as a member of a ward bishopric. He was born in Cedar City, Nov. 9, 1900. He attended the Branch Agricultural College (now SUSC), and in 1928 married Lucy Mitchell of Salt Lake City. They are the parents of live children; each has attended at-tended SUSC. MacDonald is now serving in the third year of an unprecedented third term as chairman of the Navajo Tribal Council. He began his first service to the Navajd Tribe in that capacity in 1970. He is also active in a large number of other varied service and civic pursuits, including being a regent for the Navajo Community College and Bacone (Oklahoma) College, a member of the Board of Advisors for the University of Oklahoma, chairman of the Council of Energy ' Resource Tribes and a member of President Ronald Reagan's National Energy Task Force. In 1970, he was cited as a "Distinquished American" by the National Institute for Economic Development; and in 1974 he was selected by "Time" magazine as one of 200 rising American leaders. He was born Dec. 16, 1928, in TeecNosPos, Ariz. At age 15, he entered en-tered the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a member of the legendary "Navajo Code Talkers" in the South Pacific during World War II. In 1946, at age 17, he was honorably discharged as a corporal, alter which he continued his high school education and graduated from Bacone High School in Muskogee, Okla. He attended Bacone Junior College, Bacone, Okla., and received a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Oklahoma. He has also done graduate study at the University of California Los Angeles. After starting a promising career in the aerospace industry, he returned to Arizona in 1963 and served in several positions before successfully suc-cessfully campaigning for the tribal chairmanship. chair-manship. He is married and the father of five children. Palmer was born in Cedar City in May of 1877 to Richard Palmer and Johanna Rees, participants par-ticipants in the original colonization of the Iron Mission. In May of 1925, Dr. Palmer was adopted into |