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Show State to name new USTS head Selection of a new superintendent for the Utah State Training School may come as early as .today, according ac-cording to Dr. Gary Nakao, acting superintendent and Director of the State Division of Services to the Handicapped. The new superintendent will also be associate director of the Division of Services to the Handicapped. The eight finalists for the position were interviewed Thursday ' by members of the DSH Board, and were at the training school Friday where they met with administrators of the school and were taken on a tour of the facility. During interviews, the finalists were questioned as to what they see as the role of the training school in light of the national trend towards de institutionalization; the type of organizational structure they would endorse (unit concept, team concept, con-cept, department, professional discipline or combination); their program ideas regarding the multiply handicapped (severely and profoundly retarded); their program ideas for the mentally retarded offender; and methods they would use in monitoring programs at the training school. Later in the day, the finalists were interviewed by Dr. Nakao and by Norman G. Angus, executive director of the Utah Department of Social Services. Dr. Nakao and Mr. Angus will make the final selection. The position has been vacant since November when Supt. Leonard W. Lavis resigned. Dr. Nakao has served as acting superintendent since that time. Finalists for the position were chosen from a field of 16 candidates, according to Adrien F. Taylor, chairman of the state DSH board. The selection committee was made up of representatives of the Mental Retardation Association of Utah, the Association for Retarded Citizens-Utah, the State Office of Education, the Training School, the Governor's Committee on Employment Em-ployment of the Handicapped and l the Social Services' Bureau of Personnel, Staff Development and Training. Mrs. Taylor said DSH board members were "excited about the caliber of the people who applied for the position." j Finalists for the position were: William R. Long, Orem, a social ! worker at the training school; Allen i G. Evans, associate director, j Division of Services to the Han- j dicapped; Adrienne McKenna, superintendent, Marshall Habitation Center, Marshal, Mo.; j David A. Isom, assistant state ad- j ministrator for Mental Retardation- ij i Developmental Disabled j Programs, State of Oregon, Mental 1 Health Division. i Also Jeremiah Dandoy, assistant : director, Arizona State Department 1 of Economic Security (Develop- ; mental Disabilities programs); Dr. j Samir Salib, quality assurance officer, Bellefontaine Habilitation Center, St. Louis, Mo. (a MR Residential facility); Paul L. Erny, director of Education and Training, Pinecrest State School, Pineville, i1 La.; and Richard Mickaelson, Idaho j; j State Hospital unit manager, f ; Department of Health and Welfare. j The position had been advertised as having a yearly salary range of from $37,500 to $54,768. I j jj I |