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Show . ill i CONTINUES CONTRIBUTION. Prof. Parley Dalley, seated, is surrounded here by Jim Bowns, Mont Turner, Dave Yardley, Ken Button, Rulon Oliekan, Nick Lundstrom and Dewey Topham. Parley Dalley Grass Collection in Use At College oiS. Utah Parley Dalley, College of Southern Utah professor emeritus em-eritus who retired in 1952, con-tinues con-tinues to make a significant contribution to the college through work he accomplished more than 30 years ago. During the 1930's, Prof. Dalley Dal-ley collected and mounted some 170 species of grass found in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Ari-zona, Wyoming, and Oregon. The collection was recently turned over to CSU and is now one of the most valuable study items used by the botany bot-any and agrostology classes. According to Prof. Jim Bowns of the CSU School of Science and other authorities, the collection col-lection is the best of its type In the area. Although Prof. Dalley's areas ar-eas of teaching were geology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics, math-ematics, his interests have always al-ways encompassed a wide variety var-iety of subjects. His decision to make a study of grasses arose from the fact that he could not identify the many grasses growing on his farm near Cedar City. He began a study of grasses and collected specimens wherever his travels trav-els took him. Since completing his collection collec-tion of grasses, Prof.' Dalley has amassed several other significant collections and is now engrossed in a study of shells. He has published , a number of articles on geology and history and lists among his hobbies mineralogy, petrology; pet-rology; paleontology, agrostology, agrostol-ogy, malacology and archeology.. archeol-ogy.. Prof. Dalley is a native of Summit, Iron County. He began be-gan his affiliation with CSU, then Branch -Norma-l- School, in 1909 as head of the Physical Science Department and teacher teach-er of chemistry, physics, and mathematics. In 1935, geology was added to his teaching duties. He remained head of the Physical Science Department Depart-ment until his retirement to emeritus status in 1952. During Dur-ing the summer of 1945 he was acting director of the school, then known as Branch Agricultural College. After be-coming be-coming an emeritus professor he continued to teach on a part time basis until final retirement re-tirement in 1962. One of his last services to CSU was the arrangement of the mineral fossil display in the new Science Sci-ence Center which was completed com-pleted that year. He has a Bachelor of Science Sci-ence degree in Chemical Engineering En-gineering obtained from the University of Utah in 1909( a Master of Science degree in ' Chemistry from University of California at Berkeley in 1925, and an honorary Doctor of Science degree awarded to him by BAC in 1952. Prof. Dalley's long list of accomplishments include a term as superintendent of Iron County Schools, mayor of Cedar Ce-dar City, member of the City Council, vice president of Utah Municipal League, board member of Cedar City Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce, member of Cedar City Library Board, first president of the Cedar City Chapter of Sons of Utah Pioneers, Pio-neers, and president of the BNS-BAC Alumni Association. He was president of the BNS-BAC-CSU Fifty Year Club and author of its constitution as well as that of the BNS-BAC-CSU Alumni Association. Prof. Dalley holds membership member-ship in 10 clubs and societies for professional people including includ-ing Phi Lambda Upsilon, chemical society, Utah Academy Acad-emy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Let-ters, Utah Mineralogical Society, So-ciety, Utah Federation of Gem and mineralogical Societies, Woodmen of the World, and others. He and Mrs. Dalley have traveled extensively throughout through-out the United States, Canada, Cana-da, and Mexico. |