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Show Theron Ashcroft, Grand Marshall of SUSC Parade s V - ' ! only two faculty members in the science department. Each faculty member was required to attend and participate in every student dance. During his teaching career at the college he became a licensed tour director and led many student tours to surrounding historical sights and natural wonders. He was also active in many college productions, two of the most prominent being "I Remember Mama" and "Our Town". Service has been a theme of Mr. Ashcroft's life. In addition to serving as a mission president and in the temple presidency, he served as a Bishop in the Cedar City Second Ward from 1961-64, and as Stake President in the Cedar West Stake from 1964-67. While serving as a scoutmaster in Cache County in 1935, he took his troop to the first national scout jamboree ever held. He is also a past member of the Utah State Park and Recreation Commission. On October 10, 1977, groundbreaking was held west of Cedar City for the new "Ashcroft Observatory," Ob-servatory," being built by the SUSC building construction con-struction classes in honor of the contributions Mr. Ashcroft Ash-croft made to SUSC. An anthem of appreciation is sounded for a great man and , the great work he has done for college and community. THERON ASHCROFT Theron Ashcroft, professor emeritus in physics and engineering from Southern Utah State College, has been chosen as Grand Marshall for the 1977 edition of the SUSC homecoming parade. Mr. Ashcroft was born in Hyde Park, Cache County on September 28, 1906, and married Lucretia Parsons on May 29, 1929. They became the parents of seven children. He graduated from Utah State University with a civil engineering degree in 1936, and they consequently moved to Cedar City in 1939. When they first moved to Cedar City, Mr. Ashcroft worked for half a day as the city engineer and taught the engineering classes at what was then BAC (Branch Agricultural College) for half a day. Mr. Ashcroft taught at SUSC for 28 years until 1967, when he was called to serve as the mission president of the Irish Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Upon completion of their mission assignment, the Ashcroft's came back to Cedar City, where he taught school for one more quarter, and then he was called to serve as a counselor in the St. George Temple Presidency, where he served for five years. Mr. Ashcroft has seen a great amount of progress in the college since their arrival in 1939, and he has been instrumental in that progress. When he first arrived there were five buildings on campus and ' |