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Show The Tftmuferfiinf Monday March 31, 1986 Page 3 Convo has variety (continued from page 1) famous Amos," Wally Amos, will visit SUSC May 22 for a Convocation program by the SUSC Utah Small Business Development Center. Making It! is the title of Amos speech, the story of the face that launched a thousand chocolate chips. SUSCs finest scholars will he honored at the May 29 SUSC Academic Awards Convocation. Awards presented at the excitement-packeassembly range from departmental awards and the announcement of outstanding scholars for each of SUSCs four academic schools to the presentation of the 1985-8valedictorian. This particular slate of speakers is one of the most varied and most thought-provokinthat weve ever assembled, said Convocation Coordinator Lana Johnson. We encourage students and community members to attend all nine programs. Convocation programs are held Thursday morning1, at 11 a.m. in the SUSC Auditorium. The series is free to the public. SUSC credit is available for students who attend. d 6 g Induction ceremonies were recently held for the 66 SUSC students who were accepted into the national honor society Alpha Chi. Alpha Chi chapter opens on campus A chapter of the Alpha Chi honor society has been established at SUSC. The national group has chosen 66 SUSC students for membership. We are delighted to have Alpha Chi as SUSCs first national honor society, said SUSC President Gerald R. Sherratt. An important part of this colleges committment to academic excellence is the recognition of its outstanding scholars. Induct.on ceremonies were recently held in Cedar City. Bob Gilliam, a western regional Alpha Chi president and SUSC Associate English Professor Sarah Solberg, chapter sponsor, officiated at the ceremony. SUSCs Alpha Chi President Kon Kontogiannis will direct the activities of the charter SUSC chapter. Other Alpha Chi officers include Vice President John Rex, Secretary Sonya Smith and Treasurer Howard Hepworth. The SUSC chapter will be represented at the national convention by Kenneth J. Harvey. To be invited for chapter membership, Solberg said that students must meet six stringent admission e SUSC requirements. A student must be a student, have earned at least 36 credits, have an overall grade point average of at least 3.50 (including transfer senior and be in credit), be a junior or n in his or her the top 10 percent of the academic major. SUSCs Alpha Chi members are Mitch Alger, Chad full-tim- upper-divisio- W. Anderson, Kevin Astle, Sherri Astle, Alan Bailey, Ami Jo Barney, Nancy Barr, Nichole Barton, LeeAnn Smith Behunin, Mark R. Blake, Mary Diane Blass, Bart R. Brown, Allan C. Buethe, Terry D. Clark, Vickey Woolsey Coleman, Suzanne Corry, Marian Decker, Jolene Fisher, Scot Fitzgerald, Cindy Jensen Goulding, Curt Graf, F. Danette Hamliton, Murry D. Hansen, Kenneth F. Harvey, Jeffery David Hayes, Janell Heaton, Howard Hepworth, Robert D. Hillstead, Yvonne A. Hughes, Kari Jantz, Donna D. Johnson, Steve Johnson, Sharon Judd, Konstantinos Kontogiannis, Adam Lamoreaux, Connie Ann Layton, Myrna Mace, R. Todd Macfarlane, Leslie M. Magnuson, Michael J. Mauger, Michael Michie, Mark T. Morman, Amanda M. Mortensen, Jack E. Moyle, Josefine Navarrete, Curtis A. Orton, Eulail Pickering, Mark Douglas Pierce, Raelynn Potts, Jamie D. Pugh, John D. Rex, Sonya Smith, Phyllis J. Soto, Brent Stapley, Chastic A. Stratton, Nicky Susjnar, Jeanine Swapp, David R. Tait, Margie Anne Taylor, Marianne Tobler, Robert W. Turk, Mary Jane Twitchell, Paul Ward, David K. Westfall, Linda Wood, Alan Young and Mary H. Young. Alpha Chi has more than 200 chapters in 44 states. According to Solberg, it represents the highest academic honor on any member campus. Cedar Citys Leavitt and Rex honored Michael O. Leavitt is the recipient of the 1986 Outstanding Business Alumnus Award from the SUSC School of Business, Technology and Communication. Leavitt, president and chief executive officer of the Leavitt Group, a regional propertycasualty insurance ' agency group, was honored at a recent banquet sponsored by SUSCs Chi Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Lambda, a national business organization. Also honored at the SUSC banquet was Jay Rex, partner manager of the Cedar City Golden Corral Family Restaurant, who was named Chi Alphas Entrepreneur of the Year. Rex is a member of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Rex was born and raised abroad, primarily in South America, while his father worked for the U.S. State Department. He graduated from American School, LaPaz, Bolivia, and from Brigham Young University with a degree in physical education and youth leadership. He became a partner manager of the stint in Golden Corral in 1983, following a three-yea- r Greenville, S.C., as manager of Quincys Family Steak House. Each year the SUSC business department faculty selects an outstanding business graduate to receive the outstanding alumnus award. We form a committee, then we survey our graduates and make the award selection based on their success in business and on their contributions to community affairs, said the award presenter Dean Harold H. Hiskey. Michaels name surfaced on every ballot this year. Leavitt graduated from SUSC in 1978 with a bachelors degree in business administration. His wife Jacalyn also attended SUSC. As president and chief executive officer of the Leavitt Group, the award recipient oversees activities of the organization which is listed as the nations 40th largest such institution. Leavitt is also a member of the Agency Markets Task Force for the Independent Insurance Agents of America, and is a past member of the Insurance Recodification Commission which was established by the Utah Legislature to draft proposed revisions of the Utah insurance code. Leavitt is a partner in the Public Affairs Advisory Group, a political consulting firm which provides advice and services to public officials and candidates for public office. Leavitt chairs the SUSC Institutional Council. In addition, he is a member of the Utah Commission on Efficiency in Government, chairing the education subcommittee, and was recently appointed a member of the Higher Education Master Plan Board of Advisors. Leavitt, who also serves as a member of the executive committee for the Utah Opera Company, lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and four children. |