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Show Institutional Council Scholarship awarded Earl Butts f , , k i PV4 I I ': " ' Jc? H' '-7 j Earl A. Butts, a chemistry major beginning his senior year, has been named the recipient of the first annual Southern Utah State College Institutional Council Scholarship. Earl is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harlan E. Butts, 11034 Inglewood Avenue, Inglewood, Calif. The scholarship, an award of $500 is the most prestigious award made by SUSC. Funds for the scholarship came from current and former members of the SUSC Institutional Council' (formerly Board of Trustees). Although only 19 years old, Butts will be an SUSC senior this fall. He earned the maximum amount of credit allowable through the CLEP (College Level Examination Program) testing program to advance his class standing. While in high school, he won the sweepstakes award at the Southern Utah regional science fair and a trip to the San Diego Inter-Science Fair competition. His parents are part-time Cedar City residents, so Earl finished high school at Cedar City High School. He entered SUSC on a science scholarship. He was just elected a member of the student senate, representing the SUSC School of Sciences. Future plans call for completing his education at medical school and a career in medicine. Earl currently serves as a student tutor for other students and assists Dr. Joe Comp in the chemistry department. His major is mathematics; he is carryinga4.0 (A-4.0) grade point average at SUSC. "We had a number of outstanding out-standing students from which to choose the Institutional Council award winner," Dennis E. Agle, SUSC director of development, said. "We feel that Earl typifies the quality of student that the Institutional Council desires to redognize." SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT. Earl A. Butts is congratulated by KumenS. Gardner, chairman of the SUSC Institutional Council, as the recipient of the Institutional Council Scholarship. |