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Show i i a ii i i 4 . J HAROLD W. SIMPSON To head fund-raising Harold Simpson Named Mental Health Chairman Harold W. Simpson, public relations re-lations director- of Mountain Fuel Supply Co. has been named as chairman of the 1962 fund drive for the Utah Association for Mental Health. Announcement of his appointment was made by Richard L- Bird, Jr., state president pres-ident of the Association. Mr. Simpson is a native of Logan Lo-gan and a 1941 graduate of Utah State University. He served with the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theatre during World War II and was honorably discharged as a Major in 1946. He has remained active in the Army Reserve and is a Lt. Colonel in Artillery at the present time. 1 From 1946 to 1947 he worked in Ogden as a reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune. From 1947 to 1918 he attended the University of Wisconsin where he obtained a Master's degree in journalism. Returning to Utah, he again was employed as a reporter by the Salt Lake Tribune and worked work-ed in that capacity until June, 1949, when he was named administrative ad-ministrative assistant to former Governor J. Bracken Lee, a position pos-ition he held for the next 7 years. He joined Mountain Fuel Supply Co. in 1957. Mr. Simpson recently was elected elec-ted president of the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Chapter, Public Relations Society of America. He also is president of the Salt Lake County Coun-ty Chapter, Utah State University Univer-sity Alumni Associataion; a member mem-ber of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, Salt Lake Advertising Adver-tising Club and the Pacific Coast Gas Association. He is married and has one son-and son-and three daughters. |