OCR Text |
Show College of Southern Utah Hosts Annual Group Development Confab Twenty-six executive leaders from four western states and Washington, D. C representing governmental agencies, military establishments, volunteer community com-munity groups, industry and business have begun an Intensive Inten-sive week of Group Dvelopment training on the campus of College Col-lege of Southern Utah. Dr. Royden C Braithwaite, director dir-ector of CSU, welcomed the delegates dele-gates to the Fifth Annual Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Laboratory for Group Development and indicated how pleased the college was to once again host this important activity. activ-ity. Sponsoring institutions in addition ad-dition to CSU are: Arizona State, Brigham Young University, Montana Mon-tana Sta'e, University of Colorado, Colo-rado, University of Nevada, University Uni-versity of Utah, University of Wyoming and Utah State Univer-slty. Univer-slty. Laboratory Coordinator is Dr. Don A. Orton, Dean of the College Col-lege of Education at the University Univer-sity of Utah. Other members of the training staff from the U. of Utah include Dr. Marie Hughes, Dr. Victor B. Cline and Dr. Burns Crookston. Additional leaders are Dr. H. Curtis Mial, private consultant con-sultant in community development, develop-ment, Syracuse, N. Y.; Dr. Wel-don Wel-don Moffitt, Brigham Young University, Un-iversity, assistant professor in phsychology; Donald Wolfe, graduate research assistant, Cen-tei Cen-tei tfor Group Dynamics, University Univer-sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Orton indicated that Group Development a c 1 1 v 1 ties now spread across the nation were undertaken un-dertaken in 1947 at Bethel, Maine. "Social scientists are attempting at-tempting to bring the results of social science research to the attention at-tention of executive leaders in all areas of human Interaction," said Dr. Orton. He Indicated that delegates del-egates will be directly involved involv-ed in leadership behavior situations. situa-tions. "We will be training these people to return to their different organizations and become more effective In helping their organization organ-ization with planned changes," he said. The laboratory will be completed com-pleted Saturday, Aug. 8. |