Show FORMER JUNCTION BU ny recies HIGH HONORS county agent C A hy mas ot of tooele thoele recently recently Y sent us a clipping from the transcript bulletin oto of thoele tooele oele which will be of interest to all piute diute county people as 4 t concerns a boy born in junction jun action and whose parents were among the earliest pioneers of our city eugene L morrill of tooele thoele relieved reci eved a degree of master of science at the recent commencement exercises at the utah state agricultural college according to word frow houi the presidents tr office mr morrill who graduated from the college with a B S degree in 1925 had for the subject of his thesis cumulative records for elementary and secondary schools of utah while an under graduate mr morrill set et a new tate state record in the shot hot put it was necessary for fer him to work his hii way through school and he did this by picking apples and potatoes receiving apples and potatoes in return for his work and selling them and delivering deliver ig them about glogau in a wheelbarrow mr morrill had a very high lastic record making a straight A aarde for many years while attending school the grandfather of mr morrill was a cousia to justin smith morrill who secured it a bill in the united states senate in 1862 providing the donating of land to colleges for the benefits ol of agriculture and mechanic arts to further education it was through his act known as the morrill act that land grant colleges were established ablis hed in the utah state agricultural college along with other land grant institutions in the U S receives receive annually an appropriation from this annd by virtue of this bill there had been estimated by 1915 67 institutions giving instruction to students eugene or gene as u we knew him biro when he lived lid here it a son of horace and alice and a nephew of jobu and ccarles MerriU now Bw 91 junction |