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Show Paul C. Richards Wen Director For 'Y' Public Communications coordinated the booking, promotion and travel arrangements for various BYU student performing C . 1 . i . : m A mm Paul C. Richards has been named director of the Office of Public Communications at Brigham Young University, it was announced today by President Dallin H. Oaks. Mr. Richards will assume the position from Edwin But-terworth, But-terworth, Jr., who will retire December 31 after serving the University for nearly 30 years. Mr. Richards is currently director of Performance Scheduling at the University. The Public Communications Com-munications Office is responsible respon-sible for developing materials for dissemination to local and national newspapers, wire services, syndicated publications, magazines, and radio and television stations, according to Bruce L. Olsen, Assistant to the President University Relations. In addition to his duties as director of Public Communications, Com-munications, Mr. Richards will serve as assistant director direc-tor of University Relations, Mr. Olsen said. As director of Performance Scheduling, Mr. Richards has United States, Canada and in 12 countries overseas. Mr. Richards received the bachelor of arts degree in journalism from BYU and holds a masters degree in religious history, also from BYU. The California native has worked as a writer for the Deseret News, the Salt Lake Tribune, and the San Diego Union. He has served as a technical editor with General DynamicsAstronautics in San Diego and as associate editor for a chain of building construction and industry magazines in the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain West. The new director worked four years under Mr. Butter-worth Butter-worth prior to assuming his position in Performance Scheduling. Before joining BYU's Public Communications Com-munications Department as a writer in 1971, Mr. Richards was a seminary teacher and editor at Provo High School Seminary for four years. Mr. Richards and his wife Nina have five children. They reside in Pleasant Grove. PAUL C.RICHARDS New Job at'Y' groups. Last school year, eight groups reached more than half a million people in live performances across the FIRST AID Earl D. Lowe, Robert M. Williams, Ann Topham, Bonnie Aucoin, Alvin Yocom, Don Aucoin, Paul Topham (baby, Evan Topham), were graduates of school for first aid. Story was carried in last week's paper, Picture arrived too late to publish |