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Show Don Knight Wins Rotary Award Backing I ) IWHI IHI.IIHIIIIW.. y I f Mr i ' it .1 . j i Don A. Knight, son of Mr. and Mrs. Royce Knight of Cedar City, and an outstanding education educa-tion student at the College of Southern Utah, is being sponsored sponsor-ed by the Cedar City Rotary Club as an applicant for a Rotary Foundation Fellowship Award for advanced study in a foreign country. The study would be during dur-ing the academic year of 1954-55. Young Knight will be in direct competition with several other applicants for the coveted Rotary Fellowship Award, Carl Was-muth, Was-muth, president of the Cedar City club states, as only one person is chosen every two years in Rotary Ro-tary district 165, which comprises 40 clubs in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Mr. Wasmuth reports that the local Rotary Club officials offi-cials feel that they have a very worthy candidate for the fellowship fellow-ship award in the C S U student and will do everything possible possi-ble to get the appointment for Mr. Knight. The advanced study under the Rotary Fellowship is for one year and the total cost, about $4000.00 for each student, is borne by the Rotary Foundation Fellowship Fellow-ship Fund, to which the local Rotary Club has been a generous contributor. The board of direc-ors direc-ors of Rotary International has awarded fellowships to 100 young men and women for the academic year 1953-54. The Fellowships Fel-lowships are sponsored by clubs in 31 different countries and geographicacl regions, and make a total of 402 fellowships granted grant-ed since the plan was established establish-ed in 1947, Mr. Wasmuth says. It is expected that more than 100 fellowships will be awarded for the 1954-55 academic' year. The entire idea of the Rotary Foundation Fellowship program is to promote better understanding understand-ing and good will among the countries of the world. Mr. Knight was chosen to compete com-pete for the fellowship by the director of the College of Southern South-ern Utah and the members of the faculty because of his outstanding outstand-ing scholastic record, and also because of his many campus activities. ac-tivities. He has served as president presi-dent of the Lambda Delta Sigma (Continued on Page Two) State National Guard Chief Addresses Cedar Civic Clubs Brig. General Rich, the Adjutant Adjut-ant General of the state of Utah, was guest speaker this week for three of Cedar City's civic clubs. General Rich addressed the Lions Club, the Kiwanis Club and the Rotary Club, outlining the important im-portant role played by the National Na-tional Guard as the nation's first line of defense. Centering his discussion around the theme of the National Guard as Big Business, the general called call-ed attention to the fact that more than three million dollars annually an-nually could be the guard payroll pay-roll of Utah. In Cedar City alone, the general pointed out, the guard payroll for a full strength unit would exceed $50,000 annually. an-nually. "And if anyone thinks this Is a waste of money," said General Rich, "I would like to point out that the same amount of protection protec-tion provided by regular army troops would cost the nation eight times the amount for which the National Guard can do the job." The general urged the clubs to support the guard program In their community, emphasizing that it was to the advantage of the community to maintain an active National Guard organization. DON KIIIGHT (Continued from Page One) fraternity, editor of the Bacian, officer in the Bacea Club, and chairman of this year's homecoming home-coming activities. He has also served as chairman of the college col-lege Varsity Show, student chairman chair-man of the first annual Southern Utah Educational Fair, and in numerous other capacities. He received re-ceived the honor "A" pin activity award for three consecutive years. |