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Show ?v J i H J FIRST CONTRIBUTION. Susan Lorraine Rowley, first "Telethon" c ontribution from Royden c. Miss Iron County, a student volunteer, solicits Braithwaite, SUSC president., SUSC to stage scholarship 'Telethon The Southern Utah State College fund raising telethon sponsored by the Student Executive Ex-ecutive Council Feb. 6 through 8 has the enthusiastic and unanimous support of the SUSC Alumni Council, it was announced by Gordon George public relations chairman for the ASSUSC. The program, designated as the 'Margin for Excellence and Opportunity," has been organized to help raise funds for scholarships and other college programs, Mr. George said. The telethon will enlist the aid of SUSC student volunteers volun-teers in calling 800 or more Iron County residents to so. licit their support for the fund drive. David Fotheringham, Cedar City, is telethon chairman. chair-man. A letter of explanation is currently being sent to all prospective donors. Included is an outline of specific needs for which contributions will be utilized. Among these are funding for more effective re-c re-c r u i t m ent programs, and money to purchase equipment and establish currlculums beyond be-yond the state budget limitations. limita-tions. Mr. George said that SUSC also wants to continue to sponsor quality high school lead ership conferences at high schools throughout the state. He said, also that the stu-dent stu-dent executives feel that high quality traveling assemblies, academic lecturers, and con-cert con-cert presentations provided for s c h o ols and organizations throughout Utah and adjacent states will help to project the favorable image the college has aquired through the years and which has brought a sense of pride to its students and alumni. In pledging its full support to the telethon, the Alumni Council expressed Its eonfl-dence eonfl-dence to the student officers and administration of the college in the goals they have set for promoting college development. de-velopment. Dr. Paul Lunt, council member has been appointed ap-pointed as a liaison between the council and student executives ex-ecutives to promote the fund-raising fund-raising program. Alumni Council president is Rex Harris, Cedar City. Ex-eoutive Ex-eoutive secretary Is Sandy Gillies, SUSC graduate and assistant as-sistant in the college Public Relations Department. Council Coun-cil members are Blaine Beten-son, Beten-son, Tom Brown, Dick Winter-rose, Winter-rose, Dr. Paul Lunt, Mrs. Howard How-ard Thorley, Ernie Riedelbach Mrs. Clair Morris, Garth Jones and Frank Petty. Newly elected elect-ed council members include Mrs. Byron K. Anderson, Mrs. Howard Nelson, Antone Hun-ter Hun-ter and Llndy Nielson. The new fund raising plan is coordinated through the SUSC Development Office under un-der the direction of Dennis Agle, Director of Development at the college. However, all expenditures of money obtained ob-tained through the telethon program will he supervised by the SUSC Student Executive Council. |