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Show Political Science Profess0l Accepts Mortor Board Hono liwmvm, M -Ml 1 1 IIIMIJJiiil. iWMJ.il ijil iihw I .. . ' l " fJ L INJ Home Rule Committee of Salt Lake City, active member of the Democratic party including service serv-ice as its state Platform committee com-mittee chairman in 1956; moderator mod-erator of Viewpoint, and Utah Politically Speaking, roundtable community discussion programs; so-director of the Adult Education Educa-tion Discussion programs for the Extension Division; the University's Univers-ity's first director of the Bureau of Community Development, in which he guided personally the launching of community self-study self-study programs in Clearfield, Kearns, Monticello, and Nephi; md most recently named to a 5-man committee to redistrict Salt Lake City under reapportionment. Association; the iw Partment of the7 Pital; and an hoi stand-in for TM. Kl"g to 1500 nZH Union BalCm??,, 14 is in this W Ji as Mortar B0ard f honor to Dr Wnr onte Professor of a& all-tudentbody and one of the five A I fessors by the graduated" 5?" college of 4i Honor is not new to J. D. Williams. AS A Henry Newell Scholar at Stanford University, in only three years he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, Sci-ence, graduating Magna Cum Laude, while being named to Phi Beta -Kappa, and Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Science honorary. As a Lucius N. Littauer Fellow he went on to receive a Masters-of Masters-of Arts in Public Economy and Government from the same institution in-stitution in 1953. DR. WILLIAMS has in the brief twelve years that have followed used his scholarship for the benefit of many, including includ-ing his service as a Social Science Sci-ence Analyst with the Legislative Legislat-ive Reference Service, Library of Congress for four years; as J. D. WILLIAMS . . . Receives Mortar Board Acclaim an administrative otncer tor tne National Resources Task Force of the Hoover Commisison in 1948; as a staff member of the House of Representatives delegation del-egation to the N.A.T.O. 'Parliamentary 'Parl-iamentary Conference in Paris, 1956; and as a member of the National Council of the American Ameri-can Political Science Association 1961-62. In his state he has also contributed con-tributed significantly in his field, serving as a consultant to the Utah Local Government Survey Commission;, member of a research re-search team on the Utah State personnel system; a consultant on cold war policies at Hill Air Force base; secretary of the HIS COUNTRY and community commun-ity have recognized Dr. Williams' Will-iams' service, naming him the recipietn of the Eagleton Foundation Foun-dation Award as a National Democratic Convention Fellow in 1960; the B'Nai Brith award for Human Brotherhood, and the Liberty Bell Award of the Utah Bar Association for contributions to the preservation of a free society so-ciety under law in 1963. Respected by his peers, he has been named to the Faculty Council and its executive Committee Com-mittee fdr three terms, the Faculty Fac-ulty Regulations Committee as its Chairman, the Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee, and the Union Board. HE HAS also been elected as President of the campus chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; served as advisor to Pi Sigma Alpha two different years; as director of the honors program for the Political Pol-itical Science Department, largest larg-est enrollment of Honors students stu-dents on the campus; and as "spirit" of the Model U.N., serving serv-ing is its General Assembly Preisdent since 1955. He is the author of numerous numer-ous peridoical publications, including in-cluding "The Fabric of Liberty," "The Defeat of Home Rule," and "Mississippi, Utah, and Civil Rights;" and is now in the process pro-cess of writing a personnel administration ad-ministration text. His classes are ha J heavy demand for thJ1 legendary. y Challenge Week igj Barnett, as debater of J,1 i servatives, as sensitive lpant on Retrospect at M of John F. Kennedy's jK: j J as frequent contributor i i "Chrony," the -Pen." the to nus and "Letters to the E he has become an ittep $ of the University campus-lf 9 a full professor who stillt 31 undergraduate beginning i s as well as upper division, " 0 uate and honors coursa i( attempts to learn and rem students' names; who ishP books are in yet at the M1 Desk; who prints upbiblrf-' ies and class outlines; wm :A study jam sessions in far Den; who writes make-upP ' who keeps office hours; iF lieves in and tries to radF student, regardless of ipp 5 formation; who asks foil j tion of both curricula i., structors; who varies his of presentation; who orgr.j plans, prepares, and stia " whose foremost goals sra munication and underwit who doesn't call roll andt e not on authority but oip as a measure of respects i asks not true false m i false justify examiratab ions; who belives in, ii ccac ted to, and stands up train tr-ain ideals and ideas; whof up Political Science M Challenge Week; who lj DR. WILLIAMS fills from 50-75 50-75 speaking engagements per year to professional, civic, political polit-ical and religious audiences, major addresses including the Great Issues Forum; the combined combin-ed senior classes of four country high schools; Master of Ceremonies Cere-monies of the Jefferson-Jackson Day at which Lyndon Johnson was the featured speaker; at the AFLJCIO state convention; the League of Women Voters; the U. S. Air Force Academy Staff; the Executive Development Program; Pro-gram; Ford Motor Company personnel; per-sonnel; the UEA; the County Bar honors students to wa a quarter to see hw doing; and who with lectures, amazingly m quotes, enthusiastic zal wit, new, exciting oh of words, and a love ft his subjects and his J matter is the Univew? feuor at hii beitl h |