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Show Valley View News 6 Page Todays Youth And Struggles new generation of Americans with more comA passion and less egotism is needed to avert internal destruction in this country, Dr. Jack II. Adamson declared Saturday at the convocation of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Utah. June 25, 1970 destroyed. This moral dilemma must be he said. removed, Society must adopt goals and the into which methods younger generation can wholeheartedly throw their imagination, their energies, their idealism. And the machinery of society must be so altered that the young may actually share in the processes of and fight, all of which had been necessary. But a new A merlcan was needed, one who knew how to give, to feel and especially how to yield, how to harness and tame all that vocation speaker, are lucky because they can look back and discover mistakes, rectify errors and write epetaphs. Then Dr. Adamson asld if he were a future historian of America, this is what he would like to be able to write: Americans of the midtwentieth century were large, loud and sensate; they had learned how to make and build power. If that cannot be done, we shall be doomed by our own inflexability. Dr. Adamson quited the lines of John Miltons LYCIDAS in which he asks Englands guardian angel, St. Michael, to Look homeward, Angel, now and melt with ruth, that is with pity, with compassion. Historians, added the con assertiveness, all that egotistic energy that strove to make the world over Into its own image. The Americans had subdued nature, conquered disease and slmlnlshed space. but there was something unlovely in their method, something that lacked gentleness and silence. They needed a new and softer music of the inner life. And that time there arose a new generation which turned away from the jungles of Asia and the deserts of the moon. It was a generation which looked homeward with compassion. Speaking in the Special Events Center, the English professor and former academic vice president told well-kno- 1,103 wn graduates, their families and friends about the frustration of todays youth in its struggle for power to effect change. The middle and older generations carry the elections, occupy the seats of power in corporations, in churches, in the universitltles and especially in government, Dr. The lives of Adamsonsaid. the younger generation are In escrow to men whose experiences they have not shared, whose orientations they cannot understand. Frustrated, many youth now attack the dress styles of their elders, he said, refuse to with customs and laws and seem to prefer to acquiescence in the larger destruction they see all around them. self-destruct- It is inconceivable that we could ever have believed that a good scolding and a haircut would somehow make it all right again, Dr. Adamson added. Yet that is what we thought, at first, and some, apparently, seluslon. still nourish that The youth, he continued, find themselves at a moral impasse. If they acquiesce in what they believe is wrong, their own moral integrity is Taylorsville Girl Elected Commissioner Jackque Barker, Taylorsville was elected commission er of Miller City at the 24th annual session of Girls State which was concluded Saterday, June 13 at Southern Utah State College in Cedar City. A total of 365 girls representing the top leadership in Utahs high schools met at SlSC for a weeks Instruction in city, county, and state government and the fundamentals of effective citizenship. The activity is sponsored the Utah Department of the American Legion Auxiliary to foster in the youth of the state a better understanding and greater enthusiasm for the American way of life. From Bellhop KENNECOTT IS PEOPLE... by Participating in Girls State this year were officials from Cedar City, Iron County, and LIKE PAUL TAYLER the State of Utah. Symposiums were on city, conducted county, and state levels so tha the girls might learn the organization and operations of each form of government. Elections were conducted on each level exactly as they would be held in actual government operations. Ten years ago Paul Tayler was a University of Utah freshman, carrying bags for tourists at a lodge in Grand Canyon. Today hes metallurgist in the process control and improvement department in Kennecott's Salt Lake City office. On his way up, Paul took advantage of our summer job opportunities given to university students who show promise in skills related to Kennecott operations. Summer of 64 he was a Kennecott public relations trainee. In 66 Paul spent another summer with us as an industrial engineer trainee. On June 2, 1969, nearing completion of his requirements for a Ph. D. in Physical Metallurgy at the University of Utah, he was e hired as a employee. a product full-tim- This sumrrler there are 250 other Paul Taylers working for us. Budding engineers, technicians, managers. Young men on their way up. We are glad we can contribute to their futures. For the entire week Girls State participants lived on the SlSC campus and conducted all activities within the confines of their mythical state. In additon tocitizenship training activities they produced participated mini-musica- to Metallurgist. Kennecott Copper Corporation Utah Copper Division ls, in a Utah Shadespearean Festival fashion show, and attended special teas and other social events. "An Equal Opportunity Employer" I 1 |
