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Show Founder's Day fo honor alumni vor U service The annual Founders' Day banquet will be held Thursday in the Union Ballroom, honoring five citizens and alumni for distinguished service to the University, the community and their profession. Receiving the University Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Awards will be Dr. Lowell L. Bennion, associate dean of students and professor of sociology; Dr. Virginia F. Cutler, professor and chairman of the Department of Family Economics and Home Management at Bngham Young University; David W. Evans, head of David W. Evans and Associates Advertising Agency, and Elder Gordon B. Hinckley member of the Council of the Twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Non-Alumnus Awarded James E. Hogle, chairman of tire board of llogle Investment Company, will receive the Honorary Alumnus Award, which is given to a non-alumnus who-has contributed to the progress of the University. Dr. Burtis R. Evans, president of the Alumni Association, and Mrs. Stephen B. (June) Nebeker, vice president, will present the awards. Banquet Speakers Speaking at the banquet will be William R. Keast, president of Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich. Following his address he will present a personal diary of Brigham Young, valued at $10,000, to President James C. Fletcher and Dr. Everett L. Coolcy, professor of library science and curator of the Western Americana Collection. Then (he University will present a collection of original and microfilmed labor documents dating from 1870 to 1968 to President Keast to be given to the Wayne State Library. Similar Copy Sold According to Dr. Cooley, professor of library science and curator of the Western Americana Collection, there are only four known personal diaries of Brigham Young. A similar copy was sold at an auction in New York in 1968 for $2,600. It covers from May 27 to Sept. 21, 1H57, when federal troops moved into Utah and Brigham Young, then territorial governor, proclaimed martial law. Founders' Day, which in actuality is Sunday when the University will be 121 years old, at one time was a gigantic celebration, complete with a military gun salute. In recent years, it has consisted of an alumni luncheon and banquet. This year, due to lack of support, the luncheon was cancelled. |