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Show Rotary Hears Dr. A. R. Olpin At the regular luncheon meeting meet-ing Thursday, Nov. 21, at. Weasku We-asku Inn, members of the Sugar House Rotary club heard a talk by Dr. A. Ray Olpin, president of the University of Utah. The subject of President 01-pin's 01-pin's address was of a general nature. He discussed modern education demands as compared to those of the past; the significance signifi-cance of atomic power in the world today; the development projects being carried out at the university; and the contributions contribu-tions of Utah to the world of science. Despite the great numbers of students attending institutions of higher learning toda3', Dr. Olpin stressed the fact that individual in-dividual instruction must be used if the student is to get the maximum benefits from his studies. This, said Dr. Olpin, is one of the foremost problems facing educators today. Of the , university's plans to complete its records of all former for-mer students and graduates. Dr. Olpin explained that the program pro-gram is a large one. There are hundreds of former Utahns who are leaders in the world of science sci-ence and letters who are little known in Utah. One of the purposes pur-poses of the alumni-development fund is to search these people out and to give them the recognition recog-nition due them. Atomic energy in the hands of people of good will, aocording to Dr. Olpin, could civilize the whole world in a manner as yet undreamed of. In the hands of war-minded people or nations, however, atomic energy could easily be the instrument of the w"orld's destruction. Dr. Olpin was introduced by Horace B. Richards, chairman of the meeting. |