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Show A Living Monument fulness, courage, honesty, and integrity of purpose, a friend to whom we owe much and for whom we can justly have the highest esteem and admiration. With his courageous and de-voted de-voted wife and family we mourn his loss. But with them we find some consolation in the nobility of his character and in the enduring effects of his life and work. Statement of Sterling M. McMurrin at the dedication of the Salt Lake Public Library Li-brary Oct. 30, 1964. Ladies and Gentlemen: It is my sad duty to speak for the people of this city in giving tribute to Professor Gail Plum-mer Plum-mer whose tragic death has taken from us a great and good man and deprived us of a courageous cour-ageous leader whose memory will always stir our pride and incite our admiration. This magnificent library is a lasting memorial for Gail Plummer, for more than anything else his vision vi-sion and energy and commitment commit-ment provided the strength of leadership that made this day possible. For nine years as a member of the Library Board and for six years as its chairman, Professor Profes-sor Plummer was unrelenting in his determination to create for the people of this city a library worthy of their highest intellectual intellec-tual aspiration. This beautiful building, certainly one of the finest public edifices in the entire en-tire region, the new Rose Park Library, and the Planetarium that is now in process are the result of his untiring labors in cooperation with his Board colleagues col-leagues and civic associates under conditions that were often difficult and discouraging and where only courage, resolution, resolu-tion, and an undaunted commit-mitment commit-mitment to purpose could win. The public debt to this man's leadership is very great. The Library, as everyone knows, was not Gail Plummer's first venture in the interest of the cultural life of the community commu-nity and state. He was the major force in the development of the theatre at the University of Utah over many years and was instrumental in bringing to the state leading artists and lecturers lec-turers from throughout the nation na-tion and the world. His imprint is permanent on the intellectual, artistic, and spiritual life of the University and the entire community. com-munity. But among all his achievements achieve-ments in public life, the most impressive were as a teacher who had a quite remarkable devotion de-votion to his students and who never failed to affect their lives importantly and in ways that made life for them more meaningful mean-ingful and more joyful. It can be honestly said of Gail Plummer Plum-mer that no person was ever a more authentically human human hu-man being, that no teacher was ever more genuinely concerned for his students as real live persons per-sons with hopes and aspirations and frustrations and failures, and that no teacher was ever responsible for inducing more lasting friendships among his students or for eliciting greater affection from them. iere certainly was a man of great achievement whose high abilities were matched by faith- |