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Show College Exercises To Confer Degreeslhursday Degrees will be conferred on 218 candidates at the Commencement Commence-ment Exercises of the College of Southern Utah this evening. Thursday, at the CSU Auditorium. Auditori-um. Fifty-six bachelor of science degrees in the upper division of study will be conferred and a total of 162 associate of science degrees will be issued to students stu-dents completing two years of formal study at the Institution, according to Dr. Royden C. Braithwaite, director. Address to the graduating students stu-dents will be made by Dr. Boyd K. Packer, assistant to the Quorum Quo-rum of the Twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day -Saints. '. Directing the activities will be Dr. Braithwaite and reports on the Institution will be made by Dr. Daryl Chase, president of the Utah State University, parent institution, in-stitution, and by Dr. Braithwaite. Special musical selection will be rendered by the CSU Symphony Sympho-ny Orchestra playing the Egmont Overture by Beethoven. The orchestra, or-chestra, under the direction of Prof. Roy L. Halversen, will also provide processional and recessional reces-sional music. Also performing at the exercises exer-cises will be the CSU Chorale with Brass and Percussion Choirs directed by Dr. Blaine Johnson. They will perform a special arrangement ar-rangement of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." Candidates for the bachelor's (Continued on Page Ten) CSU Commencement (Continued from Front Page) degree will be presented by Dr. Joseph Flllerup, chairman of the CSU education department. De-n of Students Richard Gillies will present the candidates for the association degrees. The academic precession from , Old Main to the Auditorium will begin at 6:30 p. m. and following the exercises a reception for graduates and their families, members of the USU Board of Trustees and other special guests will be held on the patio east of the Student Center. Commencement activities began be-gan Sunday with the Annual ' Awards and Honors Convocation and Alumni Reception for graduates. gradu-ates. Sunday evening the joint Baccalaureate services and graduation grad-uation rites of the LDS Institute of Religion were held with Dr. Robert Thomas, director of the Honors program at BYU, appearing appear-ing as guest speaker. Wednesday the annual reunion of the BNS-BACCSU Fifty-Year Club was held and the last graduating grad-uating class of the BNS, original institution, was welcomed as members. |