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Show Pledges exceed goal in SUSC Telethon fund raising campaign student-parent telethon and an alumni telethon. Beth Allred, Ogden, class of '74, chaired the alumni portion; the student-parent student-parent portion was co-chaired by DeAnn Worwood, Nephi; Todd Wagstaff, Orem, and Lyn Udall, Newport Beach, Calif. Champion "Bell Ringers" ("pledge gainers") for the alumni campaign included Clayton Frehner, Steve Harmon, Susan Seegmiller, Joseph Felix, Eldon Schmutz and Richard Dotson. Top student fund raisers included in-cluded Ronald Hanson, Debbie McBeth, Pauline Washburn, Kevin Brox, Jill Wilks and Mike Anderson. 1 Funds pledged exceeded the established goal by over 40 percent during the just completed com-pleted Southern Utah State College Telethon III fund raising campaign. , A total of $7,034 has been pledged by students, parents, faculty, staff and alumni of SUSC and by the southern Utah Community, according to Dennis Agle, director of the sponsoring SUSC Development Office. Gaol of the campaign was $5,000. During Telethon III, 5,760 phone calls were placed, and 974 individuals pledged donations to SUSC. "While the dollars raised are important, it is the working together of over 100 phone callers and an additional 100 students and senior citizens who prepared lists and envelopes and looked up phone numbers and the willingness of the whole college community of parents, students, faculty, staff and alumni that is the most exciting and in the long run the most important," Agle said. Funds from last year's Telethon II were used to help 23 students through full and partial scholarships and to sponsor two high school leadership conferences. con-ferences. "We should be able to do much more this year," Agle pointed out. Student contributions this year are more than 1000 percent over last year's pledges. The two-phase two-phase campaign included a |