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Show Sterling W. Sill addresses SUSC graduates I honorary degrees bestowed Bell, fialversen i use your product and whom your business Is expected to serve, having a good sot of procedures, and knowing how to manage yourself. "The greatest waste that there is in the world is not the devastation that goes with war," Elder Sill said. "It isn't the cost of crime. It isn't Ihe erosion of our worlds, or the depletion of our raw materials, materi-als, or the loss of our gold supply. Tile greatest waste there is in the world is that human beings, you and I, live so far below the level of our possibilities. That is, compared com-pared with what we might bo, we are just partly alive." r ! "Commencement Is a time whem wo pauae briefly between be-tween preparation and accomplishment," ac-complishment," Elder Sterling W. SHI, Assistant to the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day ' Saints, told 257 Southern Utah State College graduates at commencement exercises Friday, Fri-day, June 5 in the SUSC auditorium. aud-itorium. He said-that it is hoped that the graduates may help to build' the kind of an America lnvlsionod, by our founding forefathers when they wrote an inspired Constitution for our land. "The purpose aimed at in the preamble of the Con stitution are among the pur poses for which this college was established," he said. Elder Sill told the graduates gradu-ates that one business of life is to succeed. "God did not go to all of the trouble of creating creat-ing this beautiful earth for our benefit with all of its laws and possibilities, nor did he give us these magnificent magnifi-cent brains, and these potentially poten-tially great personalities, and then expect Us to waste our lives in failure," he stated. He outlined four things an individual can do to gain success. suc-cess. One is to know your business. Others include knowing the people who will I if wo always did the thing that we know we ought to do," Elder Sill concluded. In remarks prior to Elder Sill's address, Dr. Royden C. liraithwaito, SUSC president, told the graduates that they must never forgot that the basic reason for existence is the maximum development of talent. He added that the "development "de-velopment of human talent is the essence of teaching." He said that "Operation Must" will he launched at t ho college during the coming year. He explained MUST as moaning "Mobilization and Utilization of Student Talent." Ellon DeMille, Rockville, valedictorian, said "We must be individuals who take a I stand. Knowledge w-rrnout moral responsibility hurts rather than helps our nation." Honorary doctorates were awarded to Dr. Terrel II. Bell, former Utah superintendent i of Public Instruction, and to 1 Mrs. Maude Halversen, widow of Prof. Hoy L. Halversen, former chairman of the SUSC Music Department. Prof. Halversen Hal-versen died on March 16, 1970 in his last year of teaching at the college following a 43-year 43-year career. Attending the ceremonies in which the degrees de-grees wore awarded wore Prof. Halversen's children, Dr. Chad Halversen, Salt Lake City, Mrs. P.enee Milne, El Monte, Calif, and Mrs. Marilyn Huntsman, Liverpool, N. Y. "Just think what tremendous tremend-ous people all of us would be W'- ",li'.v .! v.. ,'fi;r::-yi-i ' ;: .. -, : link i ,' i , 'H, ?ftL J J OUTSTANDING GRADUATES. Dr. Morris A. Shirts, dean of the SUSC School of Education, congratulates Mrs. Blaine Barton Allred and John G. Pensis as recipients of Johana Pes-talozzi Pes-talozzi awards given annually to outstanding out-standing graduates in education. Mrs. Allred is wife of Dixie College basket ball coach, Douglas Allred. She received re-ceived BS degree in elementary education. edu-cation. Pensis received BS in secondary second-ary education with physical education major and art minor. He will teach art at Cedar High School beginning in the fall. r HONORARY DEGREE. Dr. Blaine Johnson reads citation for doctoral degree awarded to Mrs. Maude Halversen Hal-versen and family in memoriam to Prof. Roy L. Halversen, former head of SUSC music department, who died on March 16- Family members are, left to right: Mrs. Halversen, Dr. Chad Halversen, Mrs. Renee Milne and Mrs. Marilyn Huntsman. IW I JIII I It. umnpitln.WI'MIIIUH .Wl) MPWWWWm !iiiju..hiiihjiu.,. uni. .in '.v . '' '.' "... .. ...... ' '.-'''.'. .l.;v.l': ...... , ." if f " M ' i . i - f ' v - ,' ; '. ' " ; 1 RECEIVES DEGREE. Dr. Terry Bell receives honorary doctorate from SUSC. Pictured left to right are: Dr. Lyman F. Smart, SUSC director of development; Dr. Bell, Dr. Reed W. Farnsworth, vice chairman of SUSC Institutional Council. |