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Show Five U alumni honored at anniversary banquet i BY CRAIG HANSEN Chronicle Staff While dinner conversation . ted about President James C. Fletcher's rumored appointment s head of the National Aero-niutics Aero-niutics and Space Administration, the Alumni Associaton honored : live community members while celebrating the 121st anniversary of the University. ! The dinner and presentations ! Kre held Thursday night in the j Won Ballroom. I Dr. Lowell L. Bennion, Dr. j Virginia F. Cutler, David W. Evans 'd Gordon B. Hinckley received tetinguished Alumnus Awards, - ; t highest honors the Alumni feociation can give a former stu- ; James E. Hogle, one of the ( foremost contributors to the Uni-' Uni-' wity Medical Center, was given " j k Honorary Alumnus Award. g ) Is award is given to a non- Uranus who has given significant se to the University. : A" impromptu editorial by L. "I Curtis urged President Fletcher Mr. Evans' philosophy was given by Mr. Nourse; "I aways do more for my clients than I'm paid to do." Mr. Evans was commended for starting a new advertising agency at age 49, and giving his employes a chance to become stockholders in their company. One of the Mormon Church's Council of the Twelve Apostles, Gordon B. Hinckley was awarded the night's fourth award by Allen Moll. Mr. Moll described Mr. Hinckley's work with Mormon missionaries and said "he's always honest-he always tells it the way it is." Described by Roy Gibson as a man who speaks little but "docs much, and what he does speaks eloquently," James E. Hogle received the Honorary Alumnus Award. First a partner in Hogle Investment In-vestment and later the director of the western U.S. division of Good-body, Good-body, Inc., Mr. Hogle is also an avid sportsman. v-"" """"""1 to stay at the University and to "make a dent in the parking problem." prob-lem." Mr. Curtis pointed out that there are problems with dissident students, carping faculty and legislators, legis-lators, but that there are awards within the academic community. Local television newsmen lauded the recipients' lives while audio tapes played and slides showing the distinguished people's lives flashed on projection screens. Dr. Bennion received the first award from Doug Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell praised the hard work and dedication to knowledge given by Dr. Bennion. Neal L. Maxwell, a former University Uni-versity vice president and now commissioner of education for the Mormon Church, said in a taped speech that Dr. Bennion "once kept a cow to milk morning and evening in order to be alone to think." After the awards were presented, pre-sented, Dr. William R. Keast, president of Wayne State University, Uni-versity, Detroit, presented the Marriott Library a diary written by Brigham Young. The diary dates from May through September Sep-tember of 1857. Dr. Fletcher presented Dr. Keast three copies of Joe Hill's biography, other labor papers, and books written in the Deseret Alphabet-a writing form originated origi-nated by Brigham Young. Wayne State is nationally known for its collection of labor movement writings. Dr. Bennion was quoted as saying "I have a feeling I know less and less about more and more." Virginia F. Cutler was cited by Terry Wood as being a devoted worker for horn e-living education. Dr. Cutler campaigned and finally built the Sill Home Living Center on the University campus. She has also been a U.S. envoy abroad, setting up home demonstration courses in Africa and Oceania. Dr. Cutler, after many years at the University, is now professor and department chairman of family economics and home management at Brigham Young University. Dick Nourse presented the third award to David W. Evans, chairman of the board of David W. Evans and Associates. ,.,,,, ,i Mimiini i I iiiiipii I II I I II III ! , . . . ' '"t: i J ' :H f ill".'. A " 1 'iHi.' I n? yr , r' . i -I" ! i Z Vrl " V v ; f t ' 'it ' i V ' - V. I p i . I. 4 , J It ! J JAMES E. HOGLE . . . Honorary Alumnus GORDON B. HINCKLEY Work with m issionaries DAVID W. EVANS Success at 49 t ELLL. BENNION -Prased for work VIRGINIA F. CUTLER . . . Built Sill Center |
