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Show Springville contractor contributes sizeable amount to alma mater ' ""X ; - i W. W. Clyde, Springville contractor and business leader, lead-er, donates $60,000 to the U of U School of Engineering A w e 1 1-known Springville contractor and business man, W. W. Clyde, this week made a . sizeable contribution to the School of Engineering, University Univer-sity of Utah, according to announcement an-nouncement from the school's president James C. Fletcher. The gift was made partially in recognition of the fact that Mr. Clyde graduated from the university and is an alumnni of the School of Engineering, which he desired to assist. He is presently serving on the University Uni-versity Board of Regents. Mr. Clyde made a $60,000 gift to the University for establishment es-tablishment of a professional chair in the College of Engineering. Engi-neering. It will be named the "Wilford W. Clyde Chair of Engineering." Announcement was made at the regular monthly meeting of the Board. President James C. Fletcher said Regent Clyde's endowment of a professorial chair is the latest in a series of gifts to the University. Mr. Clyde was appointed to the Board of Regents July 1, 1963; his term expires July 1, 1967. He is serving as chairman chair-man of the board's long-range planning committee, which recently re-cently turned basic data collected, col-lected, over to the Utah Coordinating Co-ordinating Council of Higher Education to be used in the University's long-range planning. plan-ning. He is chairman of the board of the W. W. Clyde Construction Company; president presi-dent and manager of the Knight Ideal Coal Company, Utah Service, Inc., Utah Valley Val-ley Industrial Supply Company; vice president of Geneva Rocks Products Company; and presi-(cont. presi-(cont. on back page col. 5) Springville contractor gives to alma mater (continued from page 1) dent of Ideal National Insurance Insur-ance Company. President Fletcher explained that as part of the professorial chair program, a portrait of Regent Clyde will be painted by Professor Alvin Gittins, and hung in the College of Engineering. Engi-neering. In making the contribution to the university, Mr. Clyde stated: "I've always been grateful I had the opportunity to go to this great school," as he noted that he began his U. of U. education 57 years ago. |