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Show Sherratt chosen as president CEDAR CITY - Kern Gardner, chairman of the Utah State Board of Regents, and Frank Petty, chairman of the Southern Utah State College Institutional Council, announced Sherratt is a native son, a descendant of some of Cedar City's original settlers. His great-grandmother, Christina Bulloch Sherratt, arrived in Cedar City in 1851 in the first wagon train. His great-grandfather came in 1854. His grandfather, James Sherratt, and several granduncles were among the group of men who were sent into the mountains above Cedar City in the winter of 1897-98 to fell logs for the construction of the first building to be erected on the SUSC campus, Sherratt is the son of Lowell H. Sherratt, who was born in Cedar City, and Genevieve Lamb Sherratt, a native of Toquerville. Sherratt will begin work at SUSC on Jan. 4. Tuesday morning that Gerald R. Sherratt has been selected as president of SUSC. Sherratt is currently vice president for university relations and director of summer school at Utah State University. The Board of Regents made its decision after interviewing the five candidates recommended by the SUSC Presidential Search Committee, a committee comprised of Cedar City residents, SUSC faculty, staff and alumni and representatives from the SUSC Institutional Council and the Board of Regents. The other four candidates for the job were Sterling Church, assistant to the president and dean of students at SUSC; Douglas Alder, professor of European history and director of the honors program at TUtah State University; Darrell Krueger, dean of instruction at Northeast Missouri State University; and Douglas Braithwaite, director of admissions for the Harvard graduate school of business. Of the Regents' decision, Chairman Gardner said, "It was not an easy one. We interviewed five able finalists, and it was only after several hours of discussion that a decision could be made. ... Dr. Sherratt will make an excellent president for SUSC." Sherratt is a graduate of SUSC and holds bachelor and masters degrees in educational administration from Utah State University and a Ph.D. degree in the administration of higher education from Michigan State University. Prior to his appointment as vice president, he served as assistant to the president for both President Daryl Chase and Glen L. Taggart. He has also served as director of development, director of alumnni relations and , director of high school relations. He directed USU's fund raising programs which obtained nearly $i07 million over the last several years for campus facilities including the three buildings which comprise the Kellogg Life Span Learning Complex, a new museum of art, the expansion of 10,000 ' seats to USU's Romney Stadium, and a new animal nutrition research building. M Gerald H. Sherratt |