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Show Ceremonies Observing The Semi-Centennial Anniversary Of Founding Of Utah's State College RESEALING OF ORIGINAL CORNERSTONE Able Speakers on Program Announced by Chairman Joel E. Ricks Details of Commencement Program. Observance of the semi-centennial - anniversary of the lounding of the Utah State ' Agricultural college col-lege in 1888 will reach its climax with the resealing of the original campus cornerstone in the south wing of the administration building build-ing at noon, June ,7 according to Dr. Joel E. Ricks, chairman of the semi-centennial committee. I Final fiftieth anniversary cere-monies cere-monies will be conducted concur-jrent concur-jrent with commencement week to be opened Sunday, May 29, with the annual symphony concert by the augmented college symphony 'orchestra in the Logan tabernacle. This concert and the annual Sun-jset Sun-jset festival presentation of Hay-'dn's Hay-'dn's sacred oratorio, "The Crea-taon," Crea-taon," in the college amphitheater Friday, June 3, will be in honor of the graduating class, j The annual alumni banquet will I be held Saturday, June 4, at 6:30 p. m. in the college library. Sun- day morning at 9:30 Dr. John A. Widtsoe, member of - the council of the twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and former president of the Utah State Agricultural college and the University of Utah, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon in the amphitheater. Dr. E. G. Peterson, president of the college, and Mrs. Peterson I will hold a reception for grad-uates, grad-uates, parents, delegates to the j semi-oenterinial ceremonies, alum-;ni, alum-;ni, and faculty Sunday from 4 to 7 p. m. in the reception hall of jthe Commons building on the campus. At 7:30 p. m. "The Home j (Continued on Page Four) tennial address at final commencement commen-cement exercises in the amphitheater amphithea-ter Tuesday at 9 a. m. The cornerstone, which will tx reseated at 12 noon as the (Una event, was opened during the fiftieth fif-tieth founders' day ceremonies helc on the campus March 8. The contents con-tents are now on display at itiie college library. Special exhibits from, the various departments of the college will be on display from! May 31 tc June 7. An art exhibit of Utah paintings is now open in the new Women's Residence hall. Anne Carroll Moore of the New York public library will conduct a clinic on literature for children Monday and Tuesday in the children's child-ren's room of the library. Re - Sealing Of Original Cornerstone (Continued from Page One) in our Civiliaation" will be the topic of discussion in the college auditorium. Elder Stephen L. Richards of the LDS council of the twelve and Dr. Paul Popenoe, director of the institute of family relations, Los Angeles will be the speakers. Dr. Philo N. Buck, professor of comparative literature at the University Uni-versity of Wisconsin, will deliver an address on literature Monday at 11 a. m. Dr. Buck will be a merrjber of the visiting summer school staff at the college. Dr. Popenoe, who will also be a member of the visiting summer school staff, will discuss the problems pro-blems of family relationships in the auditorium of the LDS institute insti-tute on the campus Monday at one p. m. Special alumni features in the college auditorium will follow fol-low at 2 p. m., and at 5 p. m Dr. Popenoe will direct a round-table round-table discussion on the home at a banquet in the Commons building. build-ing. The final presentation of "Abraham Lincoln," special little theatre-semiHcentennial play, will be in the college auditorium at 8:30 p. m. Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president pre-sident of the University of California, Cali-fornia, will deliver the semi-cen- |