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Show Five Alumns Honored At Founders Day Fete Five University alumni were presented Distinguished Alumni Awards Tuesday evening at the annual University Founder's Day Banquet". The dinner, held in the Union Panorama Room was in honor of the 116th birthday of the school. Accepting the awards were Frank S. Forsberg, vice president of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., publishing firm; Thomas S. Monson, member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints; Dean Olson, former mayor of Beverly Hills, Calif.; Joseph Jensen, chairman of the Southern California Water District; Dis-trict; and Governor Calvin L. Rampton. AFTER accepting his award, Governor Rampton gave the key address of the evening, focusing his attention on the recent report re-port of the Little Hoover Commission. Com-mission. The Governor said that the recent recommendations of the Commission were based on several sev-eral simple assumptions: First, the citizens are intelligent enough to elect the kind of public officials offic-ials they want to serve as long as they fulfill the trust vested in them, and that nothing these officials do should be hidden from the people. Secondly, that government should be returned to the people through their franchise. fran-chise. That the people should have a return to the principles of Jeffersonian Democracy where the people select men to run the government then let them run it, not tie the officials hands so that they cannot function efficiently, ef-ficiently, and that the amounts of money which can be taken from the taxpayers is limited regardless re-gardless of the needs of government, gov-ernment, so therefore effective use of each tax dollar is necessary. neces-sary. Rampton said that since the Commission's report was released, re-leased, representatives from every governmental agency have appeared before the legislature with the same story that the Hoover recommendations are wonderful and that they should be applied to every agency but theirs. People have placed severe demands de-mands upon their tax dollar, but the government has not shirked in providing services. But as the population continues to grow and shifts to urban centers, cen-ters, either the people must forego fore-go some services or the government govern-ment must make better use of the tax money it receives. Higher education in this state requires a change in thinking to stretch the dollars alloted there. Industry seeks centers of learning, learn-ing, and Utah has established herself as such. But this reputation reputa-tion must be maintained. Utah loses twice if her young people leave the state after graduation; she loses both the money she has invested in their education, and the value of educated citizens. One of the tools which Utah has used to build her present system of quality education is the Coordinating Council for Higher Education. But this council coun-cil has failed to live up to the high aspirations attending her establishment. The Council has not provided the adequate leadership lead-ership required in this area, i i -i nur iMT i r rr fn " "-' '" It' i" "V ' ' AT?' C" I ' .' ' f- Governor Calvin L. Rampton Tuesday addressed guests at annual Founder's Day Banquet marking birthday of school. Rampton said. The Hoover Commission has recommended enlarging the responsibilities re-sponsibilities of the Council and giving them commensurate authority. au-thority. Utah, Rampton said, cannot afford to subsidize non-resident students at the present rate. While we welcome student exchange, ex-change, the cost to the state is $7 million per biennium for students stu-dents above and beyond the number equal to the Utah students stu-dents who leave the state for their schooling. We cannot, he stated, satisfy our desire for bigger institutions by sacrificing the quality of education for our own young people. |
