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Show ennett, fanner to receive honorary degrees at SUSC ; . V . ; I 1 ' - v i ,y v ; ' si Wallace F. Bennett, retired Utah Senator who served through six administrations, from Truman to Ford, and Grace Adams Tanner, Southern Utah State College alumna and college benefactress, will receive honorary degrees June 5 at SUSC. . The honorary doctorates in arts and letters will be conferred upon the two recipients during commencement exercises honoring 256 SUSC graduates. Graduation exercises will begin at 9 a.m. outdoors on the SUSC upper campus quadrangle. Mr. Bennett, Utah senator from 1950 until his retirement in December 1974, will be commencement com-mencement speaker. A Utah native, Bennett hails from a pioneer Mormon family which settled in the Salt Lake Valley in 1808. In 1920, after serving as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in World War I and as principal of an LDS Church Academy in Manassa, Colorado, Bennett began working in the family business, Bennett Paint and Glass Company. He became president and general manager of the company in 1938 and in 1949 was elected president of the National Association of Manufacturers. In 1950 he ran for the U.S. Senate, a position he held until his retirement. In Congress he was the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee and of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee; and at his' retirement was third ranking Republican in overall GRACE ADAMS TANNER SUSC, she performed the lead in "Monsieur Beaucaire." She also traveled with the well known Adams Stock Company, a traveling acting troupe. In 19:U she graduated and married Obert C. Tanner. The Tanners are parents of six children. Mrs. Tanner is currently a member of the Women's Assistance League of Salt Lake City and a member of the Women's Advisory Council at the University of Utah. She has worked many years as both a member and an officer of " all the auxiliary organizations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a Utah Shakespearean WALLACE F. BENNETT Festival patroness, she has been in contact with the Festival since its inception, and she has supported sup-ported it financially on numerous occasions. The outdoor Elizabethan Theatre on the SUSC campus was named-in honor of Mrs. Tanner's parents and her uncle. Will L.-the Adams Memorial Theatre. She has traveled extensively with her husband in support of their philanthropies, sponsored by the Tanner Foundation, and in connection with their business and civic affairs. Mrs. Tanner received the Distinguished Service Award, the SUSC Alumni Association's most prestigious honor, in 1971, for her contributions to the success of the college. Senate seniority. In addition he served as secretary to the Senate Republican Conference; as vice-chairman vice-chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee; and as a member of the Joint Committees on Atomic Energy, Defense Production and Internal Revenue Taxation. Married to the former Frances Grant, the Bennett's have five children. 27 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Grace Adams Tanner was born in Parowan. Utah, to Thomas Davenport and Luella Redd Adams, pioneer southern Utah dramatists. After attending the University of Utah for two years, she continued con-tinued her academic training in theater at Southern Utah State College i then named Branch Agricultural College). While at |