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Show Summer Games Hall of Honor to induct five (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4) starting the university's first women's gymnastics team. She currently provides leadership to BYU's nine women's intercollegiate sports. She has served as president of the Intermountain Athletic Conference and the Utah Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation . She has chaired the Women Athletic Directors section of the High Country Athletic Association, the national DGWS Gymnastics Guide Committee, the AIA W Gymnastics Committee and the USGF Certification Committee; and she has served six years on the NCAA Division I Volleyball committee. Wallace is a recipient of the honor award from the Utah HPER Association, and she has been recognized by the Utah Network of Girls' and Women's Sports and the Mountain-Pacific Sports Federation. Tom Welch is serves as president and chief executive officer of the Salt Lake City Bid Committee for the Olympic Winter Games. In that capacity he orchestrated the recent lobbying effort at the Olympics in Norway to have Salt Lake City selected as a winter Olympics site. He was also a key leader in the statewide public referendum which voted overwhelmingly to seek the Olympic bid and commit $56 million to the building of winter sports facilities. He served on the governor's task force on amateur athletics which created a widely distributed and nationally recognized amateur sports program for Utah. It has served as a model for the development of similar programs in other states. Welch also developed the concept of an annual winter sports festival which draws participants from throughout the western U.S., Canada, and foreign countries. Before devoting full time to sports development, Welch served as executive vice president and corporate counsel to Smith's Food and Drug Centers, Inc., Salt Lake City. He has received many awards and honors for his widely varied civic service activities. Steve Young, playing for the San Francisco 49ers, has established himself as one the NFL's premier quarterbacks. During his career with the 49ers, he has received many prestigious awards including the 1992 NFL most valuable player and Sporting News Player of the Year. He has led the league in several categories including touchdown passes and completion percentage. He became the first player in NFL history to lead the league two consecutive seasons with a passer rating over 100. His professional football career began with the USFL Los Angeles Express after an outstanding collegiate experience at Brigham Young University. He was a consensus all-American and Heisman Trophy runner-up his senior year at BYU. As a senior he completed 71.3 percent of his passes for 3,902 yards and 33 touchdowns. At that time his completion percentage was the highest in NCAA history. Young, a great-great-great grandson of Brigham Young, was born in Salt Lake City, but he attended high school in Greenwich, Conn. During off seasons, he has completed a law degree at BYU. His San Francisco teammates selected him the winner of the Len Eshmont Award as the team's most inspirational and courageous player. In 1993, he established the Forever Young Foundation. "Starmaker," by Utah artist Nolan fohnson, is located northeast of the new Science Center. New statuary graces campu~ BY JOHN McCLOSKEY he SU campus welcomed a new piece of artwork in early June-a stone garden and a statue-between the Science Center and the Home and Health Sciences Building (Home Economics Building). The artwork, entitled Starmaker and constructed by Utah artist Nolan Johnson, was funded by the Percent-for-Art Act for the construction of the state-of-the-art Science Center and the remodeling of the Home Ee Building. The Percent-for-Art Act requires that a small percentage of the building fund must go to the art that surrounds the new public building. For the SUU campus, only one percent of the construction costs are required to go toward artwork. T Classes in the Science Center were held for the first time in the winter quarter of 1993, and by fall of '93 the first piece of artwork associated with the Science Center construction was revealed-a 25-foot, three dimensional mosaic constructed by Allen Bishop of Granite, Utah. "The work is symbolically related to each of the various areas of study within the College of Science," said Al Tait, dean of the College of Science. According to Vice President for University Affairs Michael D . Richards, Bishop's piece, which is hanging in the atrium of the Science _ Center, made up two-thirds of the one percent. The newly completed stone garden and statue, estimated at $20,000, comprise the other onethird of the art funds. Games get under way here (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4) Darlene Brinkerhoff as a gift to the Utah Summer Games Foundation, a patriotic salute presented by popular southern Utah vocalist Jack Miller, and the traditional Grand Entry of the Utah Summer Games Athletes. Other musical performances to be found on a full ceremonies slate include numbers by Nashville recording artists The Tingeys and another over-the-top appearance by the Velvet Knights marching band. Rounding out the entertainment offerings will be a dose of center-stage fury in the form of the Globe of Death, a circular metal cage that will try the skills and courage of three Las Vegas motorcyclists, and the largest laser and fireworks show to ever open a Utah Summer Games week a spectacle sponsored by Joe Burgess Construction. Athletes and volunteers may whet their own competitive appetites at the U.S. West athletes' dinner, to be held Monday from 5 to 8 p.m. west of the Coliseum. "Fireworks and lasers lighting up the Cedar City sky, Steve Young presenting the Charge to the Athletes, motorcycles and singers and Velvet Knights - we're looking at some kind of show," Wilson added of the event. Tickets for the festivities are $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under. Tickets for the US West dinner are $3 for adults and $2 for children 12 and under. A combo ticket to both is $7 for adults and $4 for children 12 and under. |