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Show SUSC THE THUNDERBIRD THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1989 PAGE 3 Commencement exercises slated for June 2 and 3 SUSCs graduating students will participate in various activities SUSC will award 574 diplomas and certificates at commencement ceremonies June 2 and 3. A number of activities are planned in conjunction with graduation. First on the June 2 agenda is a White Ceremony in honor of the 28 graduates of the Weber State College SUSCDixie College Cooperative Nursing Program. Guest speakers for the traditional pinning and capping ceremony are Susan Smart Gardner; Max Rose, vice president for academic affairs at Dixie College; and Reed Stringham, dean of Allied Health Science at Weber State. The program starts at 1 p.m. in the Adams Memorial Theatre. SUSC President Gerald R. Sherratt will host a reception for 1989 graduates and their families at his residence from 3:30 to 5 p.m., also on June 2. The annual reception is a prelude to vocational baccalaureate services at 7 p.m. on the campus quad. An academic procession from the Music Building to The Quad precedes the services. Certificates of vocational competency and associate of applied science degrees will be awarded to 103 students at the outdoor ceremony. Lee Roderick, the Washington D.C., bureau chief for Scripps League Newspapers, is the baccalureate speaker. Child development graduate Amy Esplin will deliver the Outstanding Student Address. A baccalaureate buffet follows at 8:30 p.m. in the Great Hall. Tickets, $7, can be obtained through noon on May 31 by contacting the alumni office in the Administration Building, room 303C. The commencement starts at 8:45 a.m. with an academic procession from the Music Building to the Centrum led by the college ceremonial band, the Scarlet and Black. Commencement exercises begin at 9 a.m. to commemorate Bachelors degrees will be awarded to 433 SUSC graduates. The college will also confer four masters degrees through its masters of accountancy program, additional masters degrees in education Twenty-si- x will be jointly presented through SUSC and Utah State University. Jones is named 89 valedictorian K.C. Jones will give SUSCs June 3 valedictory address. Jones has earned his bachelors degree in accounting with a business administration minor, and is the outstanding scholar for the School of Business, Technology and Communication. He was honored Saturday at the Thunderbird Awards Night as the colleges scholar of the year. Jones starts work June 12 with the Grant Thornton accounting firm in Salt Lake City. The Alpha Chi Honor Society member is a recipient of the SUSC Institutional Council Scholarship. He was in student government and was a member of SUSCs national championship softball team. Jones was also awarded the 1988 R. Kenneth Benson Award based on his leadership abilities, academic achievements and college contributions. Jones is also a member of SUSCs awardwinning business club, Phi Beta Lambda. He will compete at the PBL nationals in June. COX In response to a growing continuing education department and a growth in the number of workshops and conferences held at SUSC, David Nyman has been appointed as the director of SUSCs workshops and conferences. The need for someone to be responsible for campus coordination of seminars, workshops and conferences prompted the appointment. It resolves need in that area, said a Michael D. Richards, vice president for college relations. Nyman, currently professor of music and the director of the Scarlet and Black Ceremonial Band, will assume the responsibilities of the position beginning July 1. Nyman said he will enjoy working in the new position. Although Nymans main responsibility involves coordinating conferences and workshops on campus, his job description also includes working with continuing education courses. During the summer quarter break, SUSC will hold a convention for the Future Farmers of America. Nyman is responsible for coordinating when and where the FFA members will meet and their activities. Creation of the new position coincides with plans to renovate SUSCs old student center. Richard M. Marcks, former president of Hershey a senior operations executive and 27 with lawyer years international experience in law, products sales and marketing, is management, the commencement speaker. Activities conclude with an ROTC Comissioning Ceremony at 2 p.m. in the Thorley Recital Hall. Eight cadets will be commissioned at SUSC, while three other graduates will receive their commissions this summer at Ft. Lewis, Wash. Gordon Ray Church and Doug Christensen will be awarded bachelors degrees posthumously. Church was to have graduated in June in theatre arts, with a technical emphasis. He had worked on several technical crews for SUSC productions and was also involved in the theatre departments Masque Club. Christensen, a communication major, is the author d of the Utah Shakespearean Sun. Like the served also He as editor of had Nothing The Thunderbird and Tailwind, SUSCs literary magazine, and had worked as media relations specialist for the Shakespearean Festival. Both Church and Christensen completed their bachelors degree requirements. Joan Woodbury, founder and artistic director of the Dance company, Roderick and Marcks will receive honorary doctorate degrees. Woodbury, a Cedar City native, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. The first Fulbright Scholar in dance, she has spent 37 years as a professor of modern dance at the University of International and Festival-commissione- Ririe-Woodbu- Utah. Its usually customary that individuals who give commencement addresses are considered for honorary degrees, said Sterling R. Church, vice president for student services. Cloward and Comp retire from SUSC Nyman moves to continuing ed BY HEATHER their accomplishments at college long-standin- g David Nyman will move to the continuing education department in July where he will be the coordinator of workshops and conferences. After decades of service, two of SUSCs faculty, McRay Cloward and Joseph L. Comp, will retire this spring. Clowards service to SUSC spans 42 years and extends back even longer if his college days in Cedar City are taken into account. He joined the college faculty in 1947 as a teacher of business and education and later moved into teaching psychology when he received his doctoral degree. Early in his career, he served as bookstore manager, housing manager and coordinator of student aid. As an administrator, Cloward served 12 years as dean of Continuing Education and Public Service. He also worked as a member of the National Training Laboratory staff for 13 years and in numerous projects related to group dynamics and community development. Comp, a professor of chemistry, joined the SUSC faculty in 1965. The School of Science faculty member earned a bachelors degree at Simpson College in 1959 and a doctoral degree in 1956 at the University of New Mexico. His research activities include numerous publications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Polymer Science. SUSCs highly successful water testing laboratory came into being under Comps direction in 1976, and he served as its director from its inception through 1988. Services of the certified lab include complete water analyses on everything from culinary and irrigation water to sewage treatment plants. The SUSC testing center was established for two major reasons, Comp said. First, to provide practical laboratory experience for SUSC physical science students, and second, to provide a much needed service to this part of the state. A retirement banquet will be held in their honor May 30 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $9.50. For more information call 586-777- 7. |