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Show He also serves as teacher to the four-year-olds In the Sunday School of the Cedar City Seventh Ward. He Is pre. paring for a mission call from the LDS Church this fall. Paul's older brother, Douglas is currently serving an LDS mission in Brazil Paul Is one of ten children In the Black family. He is the second eldest of six boys and four girls. His father is man- i aging electrical engineer at the Blowhard Radar Station on Cedar Mountain. Education is a never ending thing with the Blacks. Two years ago Mr. Black completed complet-ed requirements to receive a bachelor's degree from. SUSC. He has now applied to enroll in the Brlgham Young University Uni-versity Law School. to S m I J PAUL E. BLACK Paul E. Black, 18 receives degree at S U S C excercises while In college. He achieved the rank of Eagle Scout at the age of 14. He participates in drama, plays the piano, and will dance in the LDS June Conference All-Church Dance Festival In Salt Lake City later this month. Southern Utah State College has its own 18-year-old gradu. ate. Paul E. Black, son of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Black of Cedar City, received a bachelor of Science degree in mathematics mathe-matics at SUSC commencement commence-ment exercises Friday, June 1, graduating with honors. He turned 18 last September. Paul took advanced place-ment place-ment courses at the college while still a student at Cedar City High School. He received some credit through special testing, and during the past year has attended college full time. His special Interest lies In computer science and he has already worked in this field tor th4 Southern Utah Computer Com-puter Service. He became Interested In-terested In computers while in junior high school, and has consistently worked toward his goal of becoming an Information Infor-mation ret rieval specialist since that time. "I would especially like to work in computer research," Paul said. "I am fascinated by the way computers can store fiuch a vast amount of information infor-mation and the speed with which they can dispense it." At SUSC, Paul has put his computer knowledge to practical prac-tical use for many departments, depart-ments, even computerizing the college yearbook. He likes his work so well that he volunteers volun-teers hl services whenever he can see a situation where computer skills can be used. One professor commented that Taul has computerized activities act-ivities that have never been computerized here before." Despite his Intense interest In science anl mathematics, Paul is a well-rounded Indi-vldual Indi-vldual and has not suffered Irora any social handicaps |