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Show Halversen, Bell to receive honorary doctorates at SUSC exercises He received a Bachelor of Arts ' degree from Southern Idaho College of Education and a Master of Science degree from the University of Idaho. His doctorate in Educational Administration Ad-ministration with allied field in Political Science was awarded by the University of Utah in 1961. He also took graduate study at Stanford University. He was valedictorian valedictor-ian of both his high school and college classes and was I elected to Phi Kappa Phi at the U of U. Among his notable contributions contri-butions to education in the state have been his efforts in behalf of an equitable system of merit pay and other incentives incen-tives for good teaching, greater great-er emphasis on vocational education, ed-ucation, and! movements toward to-ward improvement of school finance in the state. He has served on numerous commissions commis-sions and 'boards on a state, regional, and national level. The T. II. Bell Junior High School in Weber County is named in his honor. Dr. Bel is author of the book The Prodigal Pedagogue, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Utah Symphony, Sym-phony, is a member of Ki-wanis, Ki-wanis, and has been active in scouting. He and his wife, the j Coordinating Council. A native of Paradise, Utah, l'rof. Halversen received his 1 rimary education in Paradise i. net Park City, and was graduated grad-uated from South Cache High School. His wife, Maude Mac-larlano Mac-larlano Halversen, is a na-t na-t ve of Cedar City. Their children child-ren are Dr. R. Chad Halversen Salt Lake City, Mrs. Renee J ilne, El Monte, Calif., and ft 'rs. Marilyn Huntsman, Liverpool, Liv-erpool, N. Y. Prof. Halversen often performed per-formed with his musical gioup.s as well as serving as conductor and was well known as a soloist and ensemble en-semble member throughout the state. He promoted all types of musical activity and wis a foremost supporter of former Betty Ruth Fitzgerald, are the parents of three school age sons, Mark, Warren and Glenn. Roy Lemon Halversen has been responsible for much of the cultural development in the Cedar City area for the past four decades. He joined the faculty of Branch Agricultural Agricul-tural College forerunner of SUSC and College of Southern Utah, in 1927. He received a Bachelor's degree from Utah State University in 1925 and taught for one year at Box Elder El-der High School in Brigham City after attending the USU National Summer School. He studied advanced violin technique tech-nique at the Julliard School of Music in New York City in 1926 and again in 1937. In I 1 Doctor of Humanities decrees de-crees wiU be awarded, one posthumously, to two of the State's foremost educators at Southern Utah State College Commencement exercises Friday, Fri-day, June 5 at 2 p.m. in the SUSC Auditorium, it was announced! an-nounced! by Dr. Royden C. raithwaite, SUSC president. t In special ceremonies the degrees will be given to Dr. Terrel Howard Bell, Associate United States Commissioner 6f Education for Regional Offices, Of-fices, and to Mrs. Maude M. Halversen in the name of Professor Pro-fessor Hoy L. Halversen, who Was until his recent death, Chairman of the SUSC Music Department and teacher of music on the campus and in the community for 43 years. J Prior to assuming his present pre-sent position three months ago, Dr. Bell was Superintendent Superin-tendent of Public Instruction for the State of Utah. He was also executive officer for the Utah State Board of Education Educa-tion and the Utah State Board for Vocational Education. In 1-62-63 he served as chairman of the department and professor profes-sor of Education Administration Administra-tion at Utah State University. He had previously held the I 1 position of superintendent of schools in the Weber County School District, and1 in the Star Valley School District and served as high school principal princi-pal and science teacher. His career in education began as a science teacher and athletic Coach at Eden Rural High j School in Eden, Idaho. I ' Dr. Bell was born in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, and receiv. od ht; early education there. I f - ::-. .7 ,3 ", -Y-'v-!:: . i'V .-A-' ' . . ! V : '' : ' ' . ' . '': ; . 5 . i ' ' '-. 1 '( .-"I Y f' t y i ' - t ' ! I. ' . it." ' i -"?' -sr- -ijife, a a ' "it .....' .J ... , .: .1 A f . ' s !, i . t'.'Sr,' . ' -v.-,';. '. ; ' .r-..." ' J p;?v;.;A.KViv,fif i-.v;-.. ' v:. ": .' ' ". i itwtinitl. , r-i in. .. . lU-im-m ii - , tI th ; Utah Symphony Orchestra Orchest-ra Ballet West, and other sti'.te music groups. Following his death on March 16, 1970, Miicstro Maurice Abravanel sent the following message to the Halversen family: 'Roy Halversen was my fri :nd for close too a quarter of a century. He dedicated his : life to the highest calling, thct of a teacher and he tatght. the most, humane of all the arts which is music. He proved by his own example ex-ample th.jt. the great man car be fully productive even in a. comparatively small community, and he shared his lovi! of music with a whole gereration of students who weio fortunate to learn from hirr." The 1969-70 SUSC Symphony Orciestra, which Prof- Hal-vei Hal-vei cn helped to train, will pro1 ade music for the Commencement Com-mencement exercises. 1929 Professor Halvevrscn spent a year in study at the University of Berlin and at thc Hochshule. He also studied at Columbia University. Ho taught music on all education edu-cation levels, elementary, secondary, sec-ondary, and college in developing devel-oping the orchestra and ensembles en-sembles that performed in the the yearly presentation of Handel's ''Messiah" and. Iho numerous operas, concerts', recitals, re-citals, and other musical productions pro-ductions for which he was re-sponsible. re-sponsible. In his early years in Cedar City he was an active member of the Jaycce organization and received their Distinguished Service Award in 1940- He served as president of both the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and the Cedar Rotary Club. He was secretary of the Music Arts Committee for more than ten years and was a member of the Cedar City TERRELL II. SELL ROY L. HALVERSEN , 1 |