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Utah State Alumni Quarterly, Vol 18 No 4, May 1941
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Trang 2Utalt State Alumni Quart en
President and Mrs E G Peterson
To So Love the Trudi
The debt uf h11Dl811 kind IO the scholu lhe patient, often persecu d, blQel' of n
trails, the diaco of aew truth, mounts higher and yet
higher 88 the frui of learning and all hon t thought b the world
To 80 love the truth that you can be Joyal to nothing else is,
after all, the end and the glory
of life
-Pruident E G Peter&0n
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AT THE
UTAH STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
In addition to a full schedule of regular courses in under graduate and graduate work, three important conferences will
be held during the session
June 9 - June 27
CURRICULUM CONFERENCE IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
Jennie Campbell, State Director of Elementary Education, Director
Dr John L Childs, Teachers College
Dr Paul Misner, Northwestern University, and many others will participate
June 16- June 20
ENGLISH TEACHERS' CONFERENCE
Dr R C Pooley, University of Wisconsin, Director
June 25, 26, and 27
Dr Mark L Entorf, Family Life Specialist of the Cornell University Exten, tension Service, Director
SUMMER SESSION FACULTY AND VISITING LECTURERS:
26 Visiting Faculty Members and Special Lecturers 80 Resident Faculty Members
June 9 - June 13
Forrest Cox-Basketball-Colorado University
Daily Lectures Beginning June 10-11 o'clock
REGULARLY SCHEDULED POST SESSION
July 21 to August 15
Write for catalogue and additional information
UTAH STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
LOGAN, UTAH
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of
requests your presence
at the Forty-eighth Annual Commencement Ceremonies
1941
ORDER OF EXERCISES Sunday, May 25-
4:00 P M.-Symphony Concert directed by Charles J Steen-College Chapel
Saturday, May
31-10:00 A M.-Commencement Exercises, Senator Elbert D Thomas, speaker-Field House 3:30 to 5:30 P M.-President and Mrs Peterson's Reception and Alumni Buffet Supper, honoring the Graduates, their parents, former students, and the faculty-Commons 7:30 P M.-Alumni Sunset Festival featuring the U.S A C Mixed Chorus, with Catherine Childs, soprano, Claudius Doty, tenor, and Morris Cannegieter, baritone, in Gounod's
"St Cecilia Mass," directed by Walter Welti-Logan Tabernacle
Sunday, June
1-10:00 A M.-Baccalaureate Services, President David 0 McKay, speaker
Class Reunions
The class of 1916 will celebrate
its twenty-fifth anniversary at this
year's Commencement
Other classes to reunite include
'06, '11, '21, '26, '31, and '36
Scene from the 1940 Alumni Buffet
Supper on the College Quadrangle
Three
Trang 5Everything in advertising from art work, copy writing,
to a complete advertising campaign
[PRINTING
Book publishers; also printers of catalogs, advertising
literature, school annuals, house organs, office forms,
and miscellaneous work
IB>OOKBINDING
Including Sewed, Plastic, Swing-0-Ring and other
loose leaf styles; also ruling
(OVERMAKING
Manufacturers of cloth, leather and fabricoid covers
of all types and for all purposes Serving the West
�STEYENS & WUUS, •
"Advertising That Hits the Mark"
36 RICHARDS STREET SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Telephone 5-5311
Trang 6THE UTAH STATE ALUMNI QUARTERLY
Published quarterly by the Utah State Agricultural College Alumni Association
Entered as second,class matter at the post office in Logan, Utah, under the act of
March 3, 1897
Leonard W McDonald, '39, Managing Editor
MAY CONTENTS
Your Presence is Requested Page 3
-Commencement
Program-Children of Utah State Alumni Page 6
-Photos of sons and
daughters-Twenty-five Years of Service Page 7
-An interview with President E G
Peterson-Thorpe Invited to Make Exhibit Page 9
-Photographs of
Paintings-In the Year 1941 Page 10
-Senior
Students-On the Campus.� Page 12
-News and Doings of
Undergraduates-With the Faculty Page 13
-High
Honors-News Arrivals Page 14
-A new generation is
born-The Score Board Page 15
-Review of Aggie
Sports-From Year to Y ear Page 16
-What the Alumni are
Doing-Recent Marriages Page 19
-Graduates and former
students-COVER: President and Mrs E G Peterson
OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Alumni Council Members June White, '32
Angus M Maughan, '21 Byron Alder, '12
Lloyd R Hunsaker, '35
C Orval Stott, '16
Ernest R Lee, '27
Dr George R Hill, '08 Lucille Owens Petty, '26 Charles D Kapple, '17 Roy Halverson, '2 5
LEVEM·s CLOTHES FOR ALL OCCASIONS
Distinctive College Styles
C Elmo Smith of Salt Lake City They will replace Asa Bullen and L
R Humpherys of Logan, David H Calder of Vernal, D A Skeen of Salt Lake City, and J W Thornton of Provo, whose terms expire Biograph ical sketches of the new members were published m the December QWlrterly.
* * *
,' ,, Membership of the Alumni Asso ciation will exceed 6,000 members when this year's graduating class is inducted into the organization
* * *
• Alumni members are urged to keep the Association informed of their latest addresses, as a measure
of economy, for each QWlrterly which is forwarded results in a charge being made against the Alum
ni Office.
* * *
• The Alumni Buffet Supper is being repeated this year due to the over whelming endorsement it received from returning graduates last Com mencement It will be held in con jynction with President and Mrs P.eterson's reception, Saturday after noon, May 31.
-!), * *
• If any or' the QWlrterl y readers have questions regarding Commence ment, a letter to the Alumni office will bring prompt reply.
* * *
• The Salt Lake City Alumni chapter
is planning a spring party for the last week in May Alumni members in that area may look for a rollicking good time, according to Con Harri son, chapter president Details as to time and place will be announced later, by Rulon Walker and Frank Fister, who are in charge of arrange ments
Five
Trang 7SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF UTAH STATE ALUMNI AND ALUMNAE
Six
SHIRLEY ANN SONNE
age nine months Daughter of Norma Hanson Sonne and Richard R Sonne, '34, of Logan, Utah
GARY DEAN HENDERSON age four months Son of Marjorie Burrup Henderson, '36, and Dean Henderson, '36, of Pocatello, Idaho
MICHAEL KARL FERRIN age eleven months Son of Lucille Murphy Ferrin, '38, and Karl Ferrin, '38, of Evanston, Wyoming
J MARK WARNER age six months Son of Gwen Johnson War ner, '37, and Meldon N Warner, B.Y.U '38,
of Afton, Wyoming
SANDRA TURLEY age two years, and
KAREN TURLEY •
age four years Daughters of Erma Hawkins Turley, a former Aggie, and Louis 0 Turley, '37, of Carlsbad, California
ALBERT A JACOBS age two years, and SUZAN JACOBS
age one year Daughters of Margaret Swen son Jacobs and James L Jacobs, '32, of Idaho Falls, Idaho
RUSSELL MUIR
age two years Son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Muir of Panguitch, Utah Joe graduated in
1934
Trang 8President Peterson Completes 25tlt Vear
of
Service-High Ideals Lauded
in Interview
-By Wilford D Porter, '22
IN his unpretentious but dignified
office, which characterizes the ex
ecutive who inhabits it, I met him
quite without appointment-Dr E
G Peterson, president of the Utah
State Agricultural College
He was the interviewee, I, the in
terviewer I had called to inquire
about the philo ophy of this execu
tive who, for the past 25 years, has
guided the destinies of one of the
major Land-Grant colleges in the
west-an executive who has watched
an institution of higher learning
grow from its adolescence into adult
hood
From my previous associations
with him, I had been impressed with
his determined will to succeed and
to make the College in the midst of
the great western empire worthy of
the name it bears
Many times I had been impressed
with the way this man took over the
reins when the going was tough, or
the "horses " would get balky, tired
or frightened Now I came to hear
from his own lips what was behind
that driving force - the something
that made its possessor hurdle rules,
yawning crevasses, obstructions and
seemingingly unsurmountable obsta
cles, natural or man-made, to acquire
his objectives
From my observations, I had gath
ered that one of his chief admira
tions seems to lie in men and women
who excel-who go beyond them
selves-the winner of a fight against
odds in life, in the common day
struggles, in College, on the field of
play, any fight for that matter
Certainly the rapid climb of 875
in 1916, when he took the presiden
tial chair at the age of 34, to 3,39 3
students in 1940, was motivated by a
dynamic personality and didn't "just
happen."
"This College has a great future,
Wilford," he was saying, as he look
ed at me over a miniature bronze
statue of an athlete straining every
· muscle to hit the tape first
High Ideals, Great Service- - - - - - : -•
"Located as it is in this great typi
cally American area-probably the most typically American area in the United States-it is in an admirable position to serve the people of our state and the nation
"This is an area where American ideals are preserved and nurtured
human freedom - human dignity
The pioneer memory is still alive here Hardship has strengthened and cleansed the people This is the cen
ter of a great religious movement that expresses the noblest ideals of the race, I refer to the fundamentals
of all true religions-ideals of thought, personal cleanliness-regard for moral and spiritual ideals
ideals of Christian civilization
"The College, in the heart of this empire, holds a unique position to express these ideals I have mentioned -social, educational, and religious."
"-and your chief aim over allthese years, Mister President ?"
I inquired
"The building of men and women,"
he said unhesitatingly "Men and women with character-scholarship
Apply character and scholarship to agriculture, forestry, engineering, arts, sciences and homemaking, ar,d you have a strong and sustaining industry and an enduring culture
"The Land.Grant College ideal is
a magnificent expression of desire and determination to give freedom
of educational opportunity to everybody, to put into life as a practical thing, the principles of democracy
in other words, to make America truly American We have taken in this great plan educational opportunity into the fields and the forests, out on the range, into the dairy barn, the nursery, the kitchen; into business and engineering enterprise, and into the shop The application of science and art to rural life and to human industry, is the foundation on which our institution is founded Our democracy cannot exist unless the citizens are broad minded, disciplined, and well trained for the work they are to do-culturally strong and powerful."
(Continued on page 8)
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Trang 9Interview with President E.G Peterson
There was a short pause in the
conversation I broke the silence
with, "To what factors do you attrib
ute the success of this College?"
In answer, President Peterson
flashed back to his original idealogy:
"The reason the College has ac
complished what it has, is due to the
fact that it represents the great ideals
and emotions of the people This
College is more than just another
educational institution-it embodies
the spiritual conception and the mor
al ideals of our race To the extent
that we live up to these ideals, to
that extent we succeed
"You can never kill that sort of
thing, Wilford, never It was present
at the first and last battles of Ther·
and it will be at the battle of Bntam,
as it was at Valley Forge These
ideals represent the most powerful
thing in life-even greater than life
itself."
Because of my question regarding
the type of men and women with
whom he has worked since his presi
dential connection with the College,
Dr Peterson struck another note in
our conversation
"This College has had wonderful
builders," he continued, "from the
time the Land-Grant idea was con
ceived, throughout its entire history."
With a deep feeling of reverence,
he paid tribute to Lincoln, who
signed the bill in 1862 which made
such institutions possible; to Anton
H Lund, who introduced the bill in
to the territorial legislature which
resulted in the founding of the Col
lege; to President Sanborn, who out
lined the foundation platform; to
A W Ivins, who served as president
of the Board of Trustees for 17
years; to Frank B Stephens and oth
ers now gone, whose names are as·
sociated with College progress, and
to the remarkable members who now
constitute the Governing Board In
his list of powerful teachers who
have sat on the other end of the
educational log, the President in
cluded Sanborn, Miss Marlatt, who
founded the home economics depart
ment here, Fortier, Widtsoe, Kerr,
Brewer, Ball, Langton, MacEwan,
Upham, the Jardines, Caine, Farrell,
Brossard, the Wests, McLaughlin,
Harris, and many others, and the
present brilliant array of teachers
and investigators.
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Then I turned my inquisition to a more personal theme Surely this illustrious record of progress must have been punctuated with disap
pointments, discouragements, even retreats-so I asked my interviewee
to cite some of the major struggles
of the past quarter-century that he had taken part in or launched After thinking for a few moments, he be
gan in a reminiscent sort of way
"One of the chief battles, which ended many yer1 ago, was waged to maintain the o·bJectives expressed in the original charter - a well-bal
anced, comprehensive, adequate cur
riculum which provides 'a liberal and practical education to the indus
trial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life,' to quote the founding act; an adequate plant to house necessary activities of the in
stitution; adequate revenue to main
tain such a curriculum and such a plant; and most of all,adequate funds for a strong faculty and enough to support them in their work
J., FE' s value, the golden values, are
in the old and simple things which relate to the cleanliness, the virtue and the nobility which is in a man's heart
-DR E G PETERSON
"We have always sought to ex
press the ideals of our people in the life of the College-ideals that are dearer to them than any academic distinction: honesty, cleanliness, so
briety, reverence, industry, and, first
of all, because it supports all else, the ancient faith of our race If you haven't these qualities in a college and in its personnel, then you have
n't anything worth fighting for But when you find these qualities, then you can build the kind of leadership
so much needed in the world today
"The greatest strength of the Col
lege comes from the youth who come here They reflect the kind of homes
we have here in the west-homes, however humble, where people be
lieve in God and in work
"Students who come here have the voltage-the College just steps it up and he! ps it to function in leader
ship."
Naturally enough, this last state
ment led me to ask the President about the attitude he has taken re
garding the continually shifting
stu-dent body I knew full well that in
my case he had gone out of his way
to help me over student hurdles I know many others who have received needed boosts along the way In
reply, he said in part:
"As the Great Teacher once said
of the Sabbath, we can say of a col lege-the College is made for the students, not the students for the College
"This institution is not an inorgan
ic substance, a dead crystal-it's or ganic, alive, it's a tree-a living or ganism that is always changing, growing, meeting, each year, new in dividual and social needs The in dividual takes precedence over rule of-thumb edicts over conventional practices."
Many is the time that the practice
of this philosophy has made it pos sible for young men and women at the College to progress when the way seemed blocked to them
It was only a natural step then, for me to ask the chief executive what qualities he looks for in choos ing his faculty members-to what pattern they should conform
"A great teacher must be a great person,'' he began after considering
my question, during which time he seemed somewhat touched by a sub ject so vital to the success of his organization "A great teacher can't
be an automaton-get a man first, then look for the scholar; put the two together in the same person and you have a teacher of power He is neither small nor parsimonious, but generous in thought and deed, open minded, with poise and fortitude- with the companionship of such an individual, the student is taught faith, fidelity, and endurance, as well
as the substance of learning How desperately we need such teachers Fortunately, we have had, over the years, a surprisingly large number
of such richly endowed men and women on our faculty."
The office was silent for a time The only audible sound was coming from the outer office where several persons waited to solicit counsel and advice from their leader I realized that, hut I didn't want to end the interview until I had asked another intimate question The President broke the silence-
"Education is not a closed-in sys tem, but is as broad as the universe and human experience Endow a col lege with that basic philosophy, plus
a faculty with character and scholar ship, and the college will be great
(Continued on page 14)
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-((8v jj C:ltorpe !1tvited to 8xltibit Pai1tti1tps at
Utah Art ee1tter
"Tumbleweeds," left, and "Two Democrats," right,
widespread recognition
Below: Two photographs showing original inspiration for
the paintings
THORPE EXPLAINS SHIFT FROM CARTOONING TO PAINTING
-By Lane Palni'er, '43
ALTHOUGH perhaps better known throughout the state
as a sports cartoonist than as a painter, Everett
Thorpe, art instructor at the college, is fast becoming
known as one of Utah's most prominent artists
Evidence of his growing popularity was the invitation
which he received last week to sponsor a one-man exhibit
of his paintings at the Utah State Art Center in Salt Lake
City, July 1 to 29 In extending the invitation, Donald
B Goodal, director of the art center, indicated that one
complete gallery would be reserved for Mr Thorpe's
exhibit.
Among the 17 paintings which "Ev" will show, will
be "Tumbleweeds" and "Two Democrats" (pictured above), both of which have won honors at Utah shows
"Tumbleweeds" at the 1940 Utah State Institute of Fine Arts show, and "Two Democrats" at the University of Utah 1941 Invitational show "Tumbleweeds" was one of the three paintings chosen to represent Utah Art at the
1940 National Art week show in Washington, D C
During the past five years, "Ev" has devoted most of his time to cartooning for newspapers, and commercial art work for local merchants Both of these fields offered
(Continued on page 14)
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