Show Success Success' Attends Second Homecoming An Inspiration for the future and andA A 1 memorial of the past tills this plaque is unveiled that the Founders shall not be forgotten and that the Ule youth of today and tomorrow may have in ht it a source of ever living ever living In Inspiration In- In said Mrs M. M J J. J Macfarlane Macfarlane Macfarlane Macfar Macfar- lane at the unveiling services of a plaque honoring the Founders Friday Friday Fri Fri- Fri Fri- day the first day of a two-day two celebration at the Branch Dranch Agricultural Agricultural tural College Fridays Friday's program brought together many of the men men and women who pledged Pall all necessary necessary sary public and private resources resources' for the erection of the first buildIng building building build build- ing for higher education n In Southern South South- em ern n Utah which was constructed Inthe in inthe inthe the Fall and Winter of 1897 98 President Franklin 8 S. S Harris of the Brigham Young University ga e gaethe the principal address at the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon meeting President Harris Hl who was Introduced by Loran Hirschi chairman of the meeting and president prest- prest president dent of th the Alumni Association spoke on the Fruits of Education Th TN Thera are many levels i of culture and enjoyment he said I have traveled widely and I speak of one having authority when I say that the great spiritual intellectual and cultural civilization of the Intermountain intermountain intermountain inter- inter mountain states Is comparable to nothing else in the world President President dent Harris explained that Institutions such as as the B B. A. A C. C were founded by meri- meri men men- meriand and women of great vision and courage While acknowledging the gr great t accomplish accomplishments ments of men in the past President President dent Harris challenged d the students of today with the statement there are however great unsolved probe pro problems I lems which are waiting for this and future generations to solve One of these problems he said is war which today threatens threaten everything we the civilized have hare found best and most beautiful Other speakers included President PresidentE E E. G. G Peterson who paid homage to the Founders and said that the thing r to tobe Jn world is Li the spirit ot of we I those we honor to te- te day F F. F P P. Champ President of the Board of ot Trustees Trustee remarked that in the three forty-three yearn yeara y since the founding of ot the B. B A. A C. C great strides had been made Mrs Joseph Jensen and M. M J. J Urle Urie Board Meta Metri bers hers also spoke The general committee in charge of ot the activities activities' of founding the school were present and were introduced Introduced in introduced in- in by Mr HirschI Hirschl They were Lehl Lehi W W. Jones Chairman who spoke E E. J J. Palmer Secretary who offered the benediction and John S. S Woodbury A man who served the school for sixteen years ears as teacher teach teach- er and principal Honorable Geo Ceo W W. Decker was present and presented presented pre presented pre pre- the Ute first faculty of 1897 I Two one-act one plays and a slide history of the school concluded Fridays Friday's Fridays Fridays Friday's Fri Fri- Fri days day's program Saturday afternoon a Homecoming ing parade was held with approximately approximately twenty-five twenty school civic and commercial floats four bands the Homecoming Queen Mignon Smith of Cedar City the National Guard the faculty original founders and representatives of graduating classes class class- es s participating The Phi Sigma XI fraternity was awarded first prize for their float depicting a a scene in the mountains in 1897 Second prize was won by bythe bythe bythe the Cedar Lions Club with a float loat that characterized the building committee com com- Randle Handle Lunt and James Hunter two of the members of the first logging expedition into the mountains mountains mountains moun moun- drove an old time logging wagon representing that memorable trip into the hills and received a special prize for tor the float loat |