AlumNus “W" A ey one Mrs. Lucybeth Rampton with Laotian student Thao Phoui. MRS. RAMPTON SSS INTERNATIONAL ADDRESSES BANQUET Mrs. Lucybeth Rampton, wife of Utah Governor Calvin L. Rampton was the honored guest and featured speaker at the International Students Banquet held in the Union Ballroom on Friday, April 17th. The banquet, attended by some 300 people, was the climax of the first International students week presented at Weber State College. During the week an exhibit was presented in the Union Building which featured artifacts, clothing and furnishings from several different countries of the world. A high point of the weeks activities was the banquet itself, which offered food from eight different countries. Following the banquet Mrs. Rampton spoke and a talent show was presented. Mrs. Rampton, a charming and gracious woman easily held the attention of her audience with her appropriate and quite brief remarks. She spoke of her own experience with international students in her home and thanked the international students club for “an unusually delightful opportunity” to speak to them. Mrs. Rampton further applauded the efforts of the international students in promoting understanding among all people with programs of this type. She went on to say that we tend to think of ourselves as “the people” and those on the other side of the fence as the enemy, “but if we sit down with a foreign student and learn his ways, we learn how it enriches all of us to have this exchange’’. In speaking of the advantages of the exchange program Mrs. Rampton said, “You are young and being trained to be leaders. You will be the scientists, businessmen, workers of all kinds .. . “Our students who are studying in some of your countries will also carry back home what they have learned and will use it in the same way”’. All of the 300 guests went away well pleased with the events of the evening and of International Week in general. Wizarit Rizvi, president of the International Students Club at Weber State explained that the reason for the International Week activities was to allow the students to see and sample other cultures and added that he looked forward to this being an annual affair. ABOVE CAMPUS CHANGED After many months of planning and discussion among students, faculty and the administration it was agreed to change the nature and appearance of the W.S. on the hill. Dr. Orson Whitney Young, several months ago, proposed a plan whereby the old “‘W” laid out in painted rocks could be removed and a more appealing and _ beneficial designation in the form of a Sumac hedge row planted in its place. Over the past few years many complaints have come into various offices on campuses about the old white block W on the mountain. Dr. Young had pointed out that in the old condition, growth of any soil holding vegetation was nearly impossible and there was in fact a serious erosion problem. Dr. Young further observed that by planting some form of vegetation in the form of a W an unusual and attractive symbol could be effected and at the same time the erosion problem, at least in part, alleviated. The proposal went before the Student Senate and upon the production of further substantiation of Dr. Youngs erosion finding and a lot of leg work by faculty and students it was decided that the Sumac should be planted. A group of students under the leadership of Mike Eldridge climbed the mountain to remove the old letter and at a later date a crew of hearty students bearing cuttings of Sumac planted the strong native plants in the form of a “W on the mountain at the same location as the old letter. It will take at least two years for any appreciable amount of growth to be realized from the young plants, but all indications are that the planting was a great success and should provide an unusual and attractive symbol on the mountainside. EMERIT!I WELCOME CLASS OF ‘20 The Alumni Association’s Emeritus Chapter will welcome the class of nineteen-twenty into the chapter at the annual Emeritus Banquet to be held on June 3. Plans are presently underway to contact each of the members of the class of nineteen-twenty and invite them to be special guests of the Alumni Association at the banquet. The chairman of the Emeritus Chapter, Dale. Phillips of North Ogden has issued a plea for assistance from all members of the class of twenty or any of the classes now included in the emeritus chapter to help locate classmates who may be interested in attending the banquet. Assisting Mr. Phillips as officers of the chapter are Mr. Sieman Bowman First Vice Chairman and Mrs. Josephine Hadlock Seppich, secretary. Mr. Phillips advanced to the chairmanship just recently on the untimely death of Mr. Ernest Shreeve. A new second vice chairman will be elected at the banquet. Anyone interested in attending the banquet or having information about Weber graduates of the class of 1920 or beyond are encouraged to call the Alumni Office at the college, 399-5941, ext. 346. BANK FIRM NAMES EX-UTAHN Richmond, Va. A bank holding company based here has named Kenneth A. Randall president and chief executive officer of United Virginia Bankshares, Inc. It was announced at the firm’s annual meeting Friday that Randall would be nominated president and chief executive officer May 1. Randall recently retired as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), a position he had held since 1965. He had been appointed to the FDIC board by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Prior to this appointment, he was president of the State Bank of Provo, Provo, Utah. A native of Ogden, Utah, Randall attended Weber College and Brigham Young University. At BYU, he earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and banking and a master’s degree in economics. Cluster M. Nilsson WSC PROFESSOR PASSES AWAY Cluster M. Nilsson, 65, of 867 Franklin, associate professor of the English Department at Weber State College, died March 18, 1970, at the McKay Hospital of complications following surgery. Mr. Nilsson was born September 24, 1904, in Raymond, Alberta, Canada, a son of Christopher and Amanda Johnson Nilsson. ~ He was reared and educated in Alberta, Canada. He moved to Ephraim, Utah, to attend Snow College, where he received his associate of arts degree in 1927. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1930 and master of arts degree in 1933 from the University of Utah. Mr. Nilsson taught at Richfield High School from 1928 to 1929 and South Cache High School from 1931 to 1933. He moved to Ogden in 1933 when Weber College was changed from a church school to a state school and was a teacher of English and journalism. For eight years, under advisorship, the Signpost newspaper of the college eeored the “All American Highest Rank for Outstanding ournalism’’. eat been a director of the Men’s A Division in the Bes a College High School Debate Tournament for € Was a summer and part time reporter for the Salt Lake oe from 1944 to 1952, covering the Ogden area, and : _° been in charge of the Ogden bureau. m Engl : pouber of the National Association of Teachers Biles s : Utah Education Association, Weber State ction ie eto, National _ Education 0 Pi Debate zee ee National Organization, and Phi e Sec. former member of the Ogden Chamber of In an article circulated in the last issue of the Alumni News we identified a group of students on a field trip to the Grand Canyon. It has been brought to our attention that we made an error or two in identification so we present the same picture in this issue with what we hope is the correct identification. Back row, left to right; Grant McFarland, unknown, Maurice Johnson, Warren Miller, Wilson Jensen, Dwight Loosli, Eugene Lynch, Oliver Cliff, Jerard Klomp and Ira Dublois. Seated left to right; Fred Harris, Paul Harames, Ralph Nelson, Lamar Bennett, Spencer Klomp and Earl Worman. Prone; Alden Brewer.