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Show as a vocational college UVSC began eeral months before the on Pearl H.:.rvir. all atlaek Japanese vocational training in the aru was moed to one central location in Civilian old the Proso Conservation Corps at the L'tah Counts Fairgrounds The school, which was funded h both the state and federal governments and came under the financial supervision of the Provo School District, was called Central ltah the institution- Vocational College By MARK EDDINGTON T-- e Da 'y In Hed ihe pester of w ar loomed eer man local in the tall of and women were u!read in the r.'i-of heeominc the killed p. w who would he needed to the Allied elfon in the vu5 , Se.v:,J World War Hrum E. Johnson wa- - appointed in N"i. a supervisor of uvatiorul training for L'tah and Heber allew A -- W. 1 94 1. "I would perceive that, within the next five vears. with what is going to happen with our school academically that some things will need to be done with our NJCA A membership." Jacohsen said. As NJCAA rules now stand, athletes have two vears of eligibility in each sport Tin.) could enter a tour-yea- r program, - ich as those IVSC offers, an l vomrv'.c in two different sports dun!L' the uu.-- c of their education "When that happening i w ith i. .i.'nls in the t ny regularity '.eagae would start get. ng t. wn on vou." Jacohsen said. So. schiol officials. incWiis J icol sen. are examining L'VSi t the i options. Changes appear to be 01. UVSC: i Continued from Fu'je n5i offer " '. tah State is the ncaa of trie Big West, a league w'un made up primanlv of comn iter schools in California. "Division II would be an optn ". I guess."" Jacohsen said. "But the .v we had then would not be as good as the athletes we have nov ." I'VSC graduates have gone on o make major contributions to Div I programs in vollevball. basketball, baseball and softball. In fact. BYL's -leading scorer in men's baskets-ilBrvon Ruffner from graduated I'VSC last vear And Scott Benson, the Wolverines leading scorer this season, is headed to Colorado State. mu'v .. l -- honon. ti c is What form thev ultimate-I- v anvNvlv's cuess richt now. CONTRIBUTING TO UTAH VALLEYS UNIQUE DIVERSITY SINCE 1987 Christian Programming 9f PROVO-TIMPANOGO- & Music college s enrollment neared 1.000 students and mushroomed further to nearly 2.000 eight years later. In 1963. the name of the collese was changed to the Utah Trade Technical Institute and renamed once to the Utah Technical again in College. That same year the college's authority was expanded to include the offering of two-yedecrees. As the population of Utah Valley and neighboring areas continued to grow, the college soon outgrew its Provo campus. A new location was found on 185 acres of farmland in southwest Orem near Interstate 15. State funds were used to purchase the land and build the Student Center. Business and Auto Trades buildings. A S1.5 million federal grant was used to landscape the grounds. In March 1977, the new buildings were dedicated. And as more state funds became available, a number of new buildings sprouted up on the Orem campus, including the Resource Center and Uearning Trades Buildings. After almost four decades of presiding over the college. Sorensen. who by then was known as its "founding father." retired as president in May 1982. He was replaced by J. Man in Higbee. former president of Snow College. 17 ar (See COLLEGE. Page S MEETINGS: 7 AM WED., SHONEY'S RESTAURANT. MEMBERSHIP INQUIRIES WELCOME: in ft 3 6 " I oeve-c- sc 6L. Yeas Continuous f (urG.Js To 86 - UJiO-193- 6 Ce-E- ( OFFICERS FOR OF PROV reatvTv re canrnjrtfy Kgthene Thatcfier BrcmhaB oe President First Vice President 2nd Vice President Treasurer Corresponding Secretary Recording Secretary Parliamentarian Susanne Hams Am 11 Bisss Amy Armstrong Kj Ballard Donna Jensen Carma Anderson Xam Peiy BKS--- VIM (lU..s As XWCJ. Ccw yy S5. r 5..V ..UcU Auditor, V---- .& ar-i- CMC tO OCMi ft . 87 "WE BUILD" On Programming LMail NRBB63AePRODIGY.COM 10 1940s KIWANIS CLUB for Information 374-52- as 1 fJZ) (801; forerunner of what is now known L tah Valley State College. W ith the end of World War II in 1945. the fledgling institution faced the loss of percent of its budget with the cancellation of war production training funds. In 1947. the Utah Legislature belatedly approved fundstate ing the school as a permanent institution Another change in 1945 occurred when Johnson took a leave of absence. One year later, after a short Wilson W. transitional period. Sorensen was named director. For the net 11 years, it was Sorensen who oversaw the growth of the institution into a major player in L'tah higher education. In 1952. three years after a spark from a corroded stove pipe burned down the electrical building at the campus then located at 1101 S. University Avenue, the state appropriated $400.()X) for the construction of the first phase of what was to become the Provo campus. Land for the school on 1300 N. University Avenue was paid for by the city, county and Provo. Nebo. Alpine, and Wasatch School districts after the state agreed to pay for the construction of the building. Construction of the three-phas- e which was designed to facility, accommodate 1.200 students, was not finished until 1963. Bv 1961 the al in Dr. Robert Park Mr. Eric D. Huntsman Dr. Willard Loveridge Mr. David Olpin 377-452- 0 1995-9- 6 President Vice-Preside- nt Secretary President Past DIRECTORS ONE YEAR TERM Ralph Benson lohn R. Murdock Phillip A. Plothow Steven A. Barsuhn TWO YEAR TERM lohnE. Beal Roger Plothow Ted Hindmarsh Kathryn Spencer |