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Show THE UNIVERSITYTOURNAL, • SOlJTIIERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1998 THE CAMPUS Senate closes term By RUSSELL KENNEDY OF THE JO URNAL STAFF With the uplift of 11 hands, the 199798 SUUSA Senate adjourned for its final time last night alter agreeing to two bills and approving the circle and posted line-item and agency requests debated last week. Academic Vice President Mary Hcybome presided over the open foruni and announcement portion of the meeting before turning over the remainder of the time to Sen. Robert Reynard who has served as president pro tern this year. The pro tern serves as the presiding officer of the senate in the absence of the academic vice president. Heyborne, who remained at the meeting, described her intentions saying, "I just want to give Rob the opportunity to do this ... he has done an excellent job and this is just one way to honor him for his service to the senate." Bill 034-98, sponsored by Sen. Chris Nielson (Education), easily swept through the senate on a unanimous vote. The bill allocates $290 for the purchase of Scantrons and Bluebooks to be distributed free to students on all three days of final examinations. Similar bills have been proposed and passed for the past two years. Bill 035-98 will funnel some S l, 700 to the child care organization on campus to help fund supplies and staff positions for the remainder of the calendar year. The bill, sponsored by Sen. David Adams (Science), exhausts the remainder of the year's budget and also achieved passage by a unanimous vote. Asked to summarize their senate careers, a nostalgic Sen. Jennifer Durcan (ALH) said, "Educational. My time and experience in senate has given me more of an education than my education." Her colleague, Sen. Amy Jo Tyler (ALH) echoed Durcan's sentiments, remarking, "The opportunity to have worked and associated with so many different people will be the experience I remember most. It has been awesome!" The 1998-99 senate is expected to be inaugurated on Wednesday at noon and will bold their first meeting next Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Conference Room. Staff Ass'n raises scholarship funds Nearly $6,000 has been added to a SUU Staff Association scholarship endowment fund during the last year. "Our goal of $30,000 to annually fund a full year, full tuition scholarship i~ the name of the SUU Staff Association is now well within reach," Pete Heilgeist, purchasing agent and president of the staff association, said. "The interest from that amount will currently fund that scholarship. If tuition increases, our intent is to increase the endowment to provide the scholarship in perpetuity." The endowment fund balance will be over $26,000 at the end of the current academic year. The latest project, donations to a raffle for two roundtrip airline tickets to anywhere in the continental United States, added nearly $1,300 to .the fund. Lynn White, assistant professor of psychology at SUU, was awarded the tickets after a recent drawing. It's lambing season Last week, students from East Elementary School visited the SUV Farm for a hands-on pro;ect in their animal unit. SUV student teacher Kathleen Petty accompanied the students to the farm, where they got to see several types of farm animals. Braden Webb and Rose Fryer get to put their hands on a new lamb, held by second-year ag student Bill Mowry. Four university stalwarts retire this year Four stalf members with a total of 80 years of service and a faculty member who began his career at Southern Utah University 35 years ago will be honored at a retirement banquet tomorrow night. Recognition will be given retiring staff members Clarissa Davis, a secretary in the nursing program; Trudy Jones, a health services secretary; Barbara Morgan, a technology department secretary; and Faith Reeves, a communication department secretary. Associate professor W. Craig Jones, who has taught political science at SUU since 1963, is the only retiring member of the faculty this year. A 5:30 p.m . reception is planned in the Whiting Room of the Hunter Conference Center, and a dinner will follow at 6 p.m. in the Great Hall. Cost of the dinner is $11.50 per plate, and reservations may be made by calling 586-7702. "This is a special evening planned to show appreciation for the great service these people have given to the university," Steven D. Bennion, SUU president, said. Craig Jones started his career at SUU immediately after completing a master's degree at Brigham Young Coach Cleo Petty during the 1952-53 and 1953-54 seasons. University. He also earned a bachelor's degree at BYU. He currently ranks "I remember the closeness of the second in seniority on the SUU faculty faculty and staff members during the roster. His service at the university is 1960s and ' 70s. Everyone knew uninterrupted except for a four-year everyone, and there was a great deal of interaction, Jones said. "It is more period while he attended graduate school and taught at the difficult to have that University of Arizona. degree of intimacy now. Our students today are "I have deep roots here, and a great love for the also more diverse, both school," Jones said. "My in where then come grandfather, Milton from and in their Bennion, was the first viewpoints." president-or the Jones is impressed with equivalent of what is the improved facilities now the president-of on campus, although he the university; and my remembers with some mother was a member of fondness the offices he the facu lty in the early had for 21 years in a 1920s. She taught home military-barracks-style economics. I am a t rue building which over the third generation faculty years served as a student member." common s, faculty Memories of the offices, and museum. university, for Jones, are That building was both as a student and a Craig !ones demolished to make faculty member. Wh ile - - -- - - -- - - - room for the current he did not graduate from SUU, the Science Center. · Cedar C ity native did attend for five "Whenever it rained, we would bring quarters and played basketball for out the buckets to catch the water coming through the roof One flood came through the south side of-the building and damaged many of my books which were stacked on the floor," Jones chuckled. "T here were several times that I had to chase mice and spiders from the office." Davis was working as a secretary in the college of science and volunteering her help in typing for nursing coordinator Faye Frahske Bums when a cooperative nursing program with Weber State University began on campus in 1974. Davis began full-time work with the nursing program, and she has continued in that capacity ever since. She has worked with a number of people in the program, both at SUU and at Weber State. Many "phone pals" have been established at WSU, since distance prevented becoming personally acquainted with those on the Ogden campus. Davis claims she has "lived through the 'dinosaur age,' having gone from typewriters to computers, purple ditto mach ines to copiers that sort and staple, and from pony express postal (con tin ued on p age 4) |