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Show I Former resident, USU educator, dies at Logan Funeral services were held in Logan Monday, for Mrs. Gladys Loynd Harrison, 64, associate as-sociate professor at the Utah State University, who died Feb. 12, 1965, in a Logan hospital hos-pital of a long illness. Burial was at Springville. Mrs. Harrison was born in Springville, Jan. 5, 1901, to Joseph and Sarah Briggs Loynd. She spent her early life here, attended Springville schools and graduated from the BYU, where she was valedictorian valedic-torian of her class. She was a teacher at Snow-flake Snow-flake Academy, Dixie College and Springville High School before eroiner to the USU. Her husband, J. W. Harrison Harri-son to whom she was married Aug. 29, 1923, in the Salt Lake Temple, died Dec. 30, 1932. Mrs. Harrison established and edited Utah Science and served as editor for the Faculty Fac-ulty Honor lectures and the Utah Academy of Science Proceedings Pro-ceedings in her role as Agricultural Agri-cultural Experiment Station editor, a position she held from 1936 to the time of her death. She was president of the American Association of University Uni-versity Women (1958) ; international inter-national relations chairman, state BPW; vice president, USU American Association of University Professors; secretary, secre-tary, Utah Library Assn.; gen-f gen-f eral secretary, Utah Academy ; of Science, Arts and Letters, j and regional director, Ameri-j Ameri-j can Association of Agriculture College Editors. Survivors include a daughter, ; Mrs. George (Joan) Kersey, Millington, N.J.; stepdaughters, Mrs. Karl (Joyce) Condie, St. George; Mrs. Reed (Mary) Larsen. Salt Lake City; Mrs. Earl (Hilda) Crookston, American Amer-ican Fork; four grandchildren; sisters, Mrs. George Kendall, Heber City; Mrs. William Brown, Copperton and Mrs. (Beth) Prothero, Springville. |