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Show Westminster Gets Admittance To Inter-mtn. Assn. The Intermountain Colleges Association, comprising private, four-year, fully-accredited, degree-granting institutions through the states of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, has received re-ceived notification of its admittance ad-mittance to the Independent College Fund of America, Inc., it was announced by Dr. Frank E. Duddy, Jr., president of Westminster College, and president pres-ident of the Intermountain Association. Incorporation of the Intermountain Inter-mountain group was completed in November, and by-laws have been adopted by the organization. organ-ization. Other officers are Dr. Tom E. Shearer, president of the College of Idaho, Caldwell, vice president, and Dr. John E. Riley, president of Northwest North-west Nazarene College, Nampa, Idaho, Secretary-treasurer. Dr. Duddy is also serving as executive ex-ecutive secretary of the new association whose offices are at Westminster. Forty state and regional organizations of private colleges col-leges and universities are now affiliated with ICFA, the purpose of the parent organization organ-ization and of the individual groups being to foster the growth and development of non-tax supported institutions of higher learning and to enlist the financial aid of business and industry , within the respective areas. "Independence is a virtue we prize highly", says the ICFA in a brochure just published. pub-lished. The organization' emphasizes em-phasizes that higher education in our nation features both independent and tax-supported institutions, and states that "one of the great strengths of our nation resides in the diversity of private and public colleges and universities". The ISFA points out that business and industry supports independent inde-pendent institutions with gifts, and public institutions with taxes and ' that both kinds of support are essential to the continuance of our "American Way of Life". The ICFA statement says specifically: "Your voluntary support qt 'private colleges and universities is necessary if we are to continue. Should they decline and disappear because of inadequate jfinanc- . ing, their traditionally high quality and independence of approach to' learning would adversly affect our concepts of free enterprise in business, education, and literally every walk of life. Moreover, if they are allowed to wither on the vine, public colleges will have to take over and our tax situation will become more burdensome". The Intermountain Association Associ-ation was made possible by gifts from the Louis W. and Maud Hill Family Foundation, St. Paul, Minn., which has Underwritten orga n i z a t i o n costs and the first year's budget, bud-get, and the United 'Airlines Foundation, , Chicago. |