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Show heat • UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOCUS ON: SUMMER • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1999 PAGE17 ! IS BY TERISUE SMITH JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Toquerville, Utah, competed against 58 other contestants at the Miss Utah Pageant for old favorites and some less frequently the right to wear the crown and represent Utah in the coming year. For the first time seen plays. Adams said that the ever, the young woman representing SUU received first place in a preliminary round. productions of the festival "promise to Summer life at SUU went on despite the lack of students. Sewell was also chosen in the top 10 contestants. move and surprise... patrons." Although bags were packed, cars were loaded, and the population of Cedar City The Miss SUU pageant is the last pageant in Utah before the Miss Utah competition Students interested in plummeted, excitement wasn't too hard to find on campus. which made it even more difficult for Sewell. saving a little money and enjoying Sewell and D'EI Beatty, SUU Entertainment Bureau coordinator and Sewell's pageant a play can receive half-off Utah Summer Games director, designed the swimsuit which sported a red trim. Sewell wanted a headband admission for any remaining that would match the red in her suit. Beatty said the headband was a crazy idea which seats through the · student As thousands watched during the opening ceremony of the 1999 Utah Summer became the rave of the contest. Rush" program. Games, SUUan Natalie Gibson ran the dedicatory first lab around the newly finished For her talent Sewell performed a humorous recitation from the Renee Taylor and Available at no cost are the track at Eccles Coliseum. Joseph Bologna Gibson is Southern Utah play It Had To Be University's first all-American You. trackster. · Sewell's platform lll(iiiiiiiiii Natalie Williams administered was the Athlete's Oath and Atlanta "Empowerment Falcons running back Jamal through Anderson ran from the north Education.· She end of the track, around the said ·She feels that south curve then up on stage education occurs carrying the Summer Games not only in the torch. Anderson commended the class room, but in athletes for participating in the every facet of life. games. He also credited his With a positive childhood coaches for teaching attitude, she him the honor of being and challenges every athlete. After Anderson tossed person to utilize all footballs to the crowd, he left available resources the stage to light the Utah and push through Summer Games Flame. The whatever barriers opening ceremony came to an they face to exciting close as fireworks lit the discover their night sky with a dazzling display infinite potential. of color. Miss Utah Participants from SUU fared participants also well during the games. Amateur focused on service - triathelete Colleen Olsen, a =J through a food an A cadre of shovel-wielders broke ground in ceremonial fashion June 23 and site preparation has now junior political science major z clothing drive to begun on Southern Utah University's new physical education facility. · from Cedar City, competed in benefit the the triathlon. Olsen finished the ~ underprivileged. race and won a silver medal ~ Greenshows. They are each night at 7:30 p.m. on with a time of 3:59.45. Gro und b roken for new P.E. B uilding the lawn outside the Adams Memorial Theatre. "My husband was so Crowd interaction is offered and theme nights include: supportive and that helped me !.!l On June 23, SUU Physical Education Department Chair C. Stephen Lunt, among Scottish night, Mystical night, and English night. succeed," Olsen said. "That A local competitor makes a splash during the diving others, spoke at the ground breaking of the new P.E. Building. Although the summer is now over, this premiere event made me want to do really well." competition of the 1999 Utah Summer Games. Literal groundbreaking activity by crews from Hogan and Associates Construction of continues through Sept. 4. Salt Lake City was well under way less than a week later for the $17.25 million facility. VVhile students probably weren't here for the first performance The Earty Childhood Conference Dignitaries attending the ground breaking event included SUU President Steven D. of the festiva1, they can catch the last one, The Uon in Winter Bennion, SUU President Emeritus Gerald R. Sharratt and Utah State Representative along with Troilus and Cressida, on Sept. 4 at 8:30 p.m. Kim Peek, the initial inspiration for the central character in the Academy AwardDemar "Bud" Bowman. winning movie Rainman, was one of two keynote speakers at the July 6-7 early Architects for the SUU PE facility are from the FFKR firm in Salt Lake City. FFKR has Creative Writing Workshop childhood conference at SUU. designed several other projects on the SUU Peek, with his father. Fran Peek, presented on "Learn to Recognize and Respect campus including the Randall L. Jones Theatre, Four award-winning presenters offered training in how to write and Differences.· the Centrum, the Gerald R. Sherratt Library, and how to teach writing during a five-day Creative VVriting Conference hosted The theme of this year's conference was "Children at Risk.· According to Jane Comp, the major remodeling of what is now the R. Haze by the University July 26-30. assisted director of conference services at SUU , the Hunter Conference Center. Presenters at the conference included Bill Holm, a faculty member at emphasis of the conference was on emotional, social, The building will house classrooms, a lecture Southwest State (Minnesota) University; Jeff Metcalf, co-founder of the intellectual and physical concepts of the whole child. hall, exercise physiology labs, a computer lab, Sawtooth writers Conference in Stanley, Idaho; Peggy Shumaker, who teaches weight room, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a in the master of fine arts program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks; and Girls State large gymnasium with three side-by-side Robert Hodgson Van wagoner, a fiction writer whose first novel was published basketball courts, several racquetball courts and in June. David Lee, Utah's poet laureate and head of SUU's language and Utah Girls State, which involved 356 high school a suspended indoor track. The building is literature department, directed the five-day conference. girls from cities and towns across the state, was expected to be completed by February, 2001 . hosted June 7-12 by Southern Utah University. Governor's Honor Academy The American Legion Auxiliary sponsored the Utah Shakespearean Festival, week of training in political procedures and in local A group of 50 high school juniors and seniors selected competitively from and state government functions. high schools across the state participated in the Governor's Honors Academy Weeks of preparation and anticipation held July 6-16 at SUU. Girls selected by local Legion Auxiliary posts from culminated with the opening night of the Utah various high schools were divided into mythical The two-week training course is the 11th yearly event since the academy Shakespearean Festival on June 28, 1999. As _ was instigated by then Utah Gov. NOrman Bangerter and then SUU political parties, counties, and cities. The girls the lights went down and the curtain went up, theatre-goers were treated to the performance of _, created the 'government structure and citizenry of a ~ President Gerald R Sl'\erratt. i state which included three counties and 12 cities. A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Adams § Participants were instructed by guest presenters including Gov. Michael 0 . Shakespearean Theatre. Actual elected and appointed city, county and ii Leavitt, former U.S. Sen. Jake Garn, SUU President Seven D. Bennion, ~ state officials spoke to the Girls State citizens during ~ Hyrum Smith, co-founder of Franklin Covey, Pamela Atkinson, a member of KSL Channel-5 news broadcasted live from the ~ the week. event, while KVBC out of Las Vegas, The Daily the State Board of Regents, and Fred C. Adams, founder and executive J u News, SUTV, several other newspapers, radio producer of the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Students discussed a variety shows, and news programs joined to cover the Miss SUU com petes at Miss Utah pageant !.!l of topics including homeless issues, freedom of speech, management styles, occasion. Kari Ann Sewell. a senior communication life skills, creative leadership and genetic engineering. Participants also visited "'-. Kim Peek addressed While mo.st students spent the summer wearing According to Fred Adams, founder of the Utah major from Toquerville, modeled her selfBryce Canyon and Zion national parks and attended productions at the Utah participants at the Early swimsuits, Miss SUU, Kari Ann Sewell, was winning Shakespearean Festival and the Tuacahn Performing Arts Center near Ivins in Shakespearean Festival , the summer's line-up designed swimsuit with matching head band Childhood Conference. spanned nearly 3,250 years and included both in them. Sewell, a senior communication major from during the 1999 Miss Utah Pageant. Washington County. 8 a 'i ! i a i Melinda Pfundstein, a senior from Las Vegas, Nev. , and Cameron McNary rehearse their part in the play 'Damn Yankees.· |