| Show U. S. Senator Thomas to Deliver Commencement Address Senator Elbert D. Thomas today had been selected as the speaker at the annual commencement program of the university scheduled for June 5 in Kingsbury President LeRoy E. Cowles Senator former professor of history and political science at the will come from D. C. to make the He is at present chairman of the senate committee on military A native of Senator Thomas was born in Salt Lake City on June In 1907 he went to Japan with his wife and there became secretary and later president of the Japanese mission of the They were released in and returned to the United States after a tour through northern Africa and Under his many of the works of the church were translated into Returns from Mission Returning from his mission he was appointed instructor in Latin and Greek at the He had already had a connection with the university after finishing the grade schools in he went directly to the university as a preparatory While in college he was a leader in student activities and became the first president the Associated Students of the University of Utah in He served for six years as the university administrative having charge of the secretary's and the registrar's As secretary of the board of he administered the university's financial After receiving his D. he served as professor in the history and political science In 1920 he was nominated by the state Democratic convention for the office of secretary of Asiatic Interests Senator Thomas's life in the far east had given him Asiatic interests and his Political is one of the results of his' He recently published a Four He was elected to the United States Senate in and was author of the 1936 Neutrality No selection of a speaker to deliver the baccalaureate sermon has been Former Speakers Speakers for the special commencement held in was Thomas surgeon general of the United States Public Health service in D. C. Commencement speaker for the commencement was Harvey director of physical research of the Bell Telephone in New Baccalaureate speaker at the June commencement was Most Reverend Duane G. Hunt of the Salt Lake There was no baccalaureate speaker at the special September commencement last Members of the commencement exercises committee responsible for the selection of the commencement include Thomas J. Dean i John L. H. L. Llewelyn R. |
