Se ee ee a eS ee ee Weber State College Comment, April 1986, page3 1986 Honorary Degree recipients named former WSC. president, an astro-physicist, and a ospital administrator -will receive Honoraty Doctoate of Humanities degrees from the college. Dr. Rodney H. Brady, former president of the college and currently president of Bonneville International, Sister Francis Forster, president of St. Benedict’s Hospital Board of Trustees, and R. Gilbert Moore, principal investigator and program manager for Gossamer Space Structures at Morton Thiokol and the person responsible for starting the NUSAT satellite at the college, were selected to receive the award. - The three were selected for the distinction by a committee of community members and WSC administration, faculty, staff and students based on their service to the state, the community and the college. Dr. Brady received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and his Ph.D. in business administration from Harvard University in 1959. He taught at both those schools and served - as an officer in the U.S. Air Force from 1959 to 1962. He was vice president of Management Systems Corporation, and served as vice president for administration for Hughes Tool Company, now Suma Corporation. He was vice president of Bergen Brunswig Corporation, one of the nation’s major pharmaceutical and health care products companies and continues to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of that company. - From 1970 to 1972 he served as assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare. Dr. Brady served as president of Weber State from 1978 to 1985. He served in national leadership positions with the Boy Scouts of America as well as on local, council and regional levels. He was vice president of the Ogden Area Chamber of Commerce, the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, the Ogden Symphony-Ballet Association, the Harvard University Advisory Council on Health Systems Management, the UCLA Graduate School of, R. Gilbert Moore Sister Francis Forster Dr. Rodney H. Brady Moore is the director of external afManagement Dean’s Round Table and fairs at Morton Thiokol’s Wasatch many other organizations. > He has received numerous awards Operations. He was born and educated in New and other honors. Sister Francis is president of St. Mexico, graduating from New Mexico State University with a B.S. degree in Benedict’s Hospital Board of Trustees chemical engineering. He pursued postand is vice president for mission effectiveness of St. Benedict's Health graduate studies in physics and mathematics. . System. In 1949 he took a position at the She is a founder of the Utah Society university in the field of upper atfor Hospital Public Relations and was heavily involved in the formation of. mospheric research. He worked on the Hospice of Northern Utah and Bir- meteor project for Harvard College. Observatory and was a consultant to thright. Lockheed Missiles and Space Company Sister Francis served at St. Benedict's as director of public relations, as the while doing research at the university. He also worked under noted scientist acting deartment head in the medical Dr. Werner Von Braun. records department in that hospital, He holds an appointment as adjunct and as director of the radiology departprofessor of physics at Utah State ment and School of Radiologic Technology at St. Cloud Hospital in. University and serves as a trustee of the USU Foundation. Minnesota. He is a member of the College of She is a member of the American Engineering Advisory Boards of both College of Hospital Administrators, USU and U of U, and is chairman-elect the American Society of Hospital of the Advisory Council for Science Public Relations Directors, the Utah Society for Hospital Public Relations, and Technology of the State of Utah. Moore joined Thiokol as a director the Academy of Hospital Public Relaof the Rocket Operations Center at the tions, Utah’s Right to Life OrganizaOgden Center in 1962 and served tion, the Utah Arthritis Foundation, Hospice of Northern Utah and Bir-. as general manager of the Astro-Met Division until 1981. He was active in thright of Ogden. the field of astronomical, atmospheric In addition, she is a member of the and hydrological measurement in the St. Benedict’s Executive Council, a trustee in the St. Benedict’s Foundation and a St. Benedict’s Act trustee. U.S., Canada, Norway, Greenland, Puerto Rico, Brazil, French Guiana, Africa, India and the South Pacific. He was the first customer to sign with NASA for the purchase of a payload space aboard the space shuttle He also and donated it to USU. donated a ‘“Get-Away Special’’ package to Weber State College for the student-built NUSAT satellite which was successfully launched in April of 1985. As a result of this highly successful and visible project, WSC gained — international attention and is developing other such satellites to be launched in the future. He has lectured extensively in the U.S., Canada and Europe on the benefits of student experimentation in the space shuttle. : Moore is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a founder Space Foundation, of the World and a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, Ogden Astronomical Society, Sigma Tau, the Society of Sigma Xi, and the Utah State Old Main Society. He has received the Distinguished Service Award from USU and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and received the NASA ‘Public Service Medal. ; The three will receive their degrees during graduation exercises on June 13 of this year. Automotive students place Ist in international competition The Kingdom may be in Detroit; but automotive students have shown that for this year, at least, the king lives west of the car capital. Students in the automotive engineering technology department captured first place in an international competition of student exhibits held recently in Michigan. John K. Nelson, an assistant professor in the AET program and advisor to the student chapter of the Society of and a show case of new products. The student competition consisted of booths where the college students displayed what they’ve learned and what they’ve done with that knowledge. Nelson said that Weber State featured their mini-baja dune buggy that students designed and built as well as work they did on the NUSAT (Northern Utah Satellite) project. He said, “The students got one heck Automotive Engineers (SAE) at the col- of an education. lege, said that WSC was the only nonMichigan school entered in the com- about petition. . many They things learned more in that trip than they could in a quarter in school.” “It gave the students a chance to see Nelson said, “It was a chance for us to see what other schools are doing — to see how we stack up against the best.” The competition was part of the SAE International Congress and Exhibition held Feb. 24-28 in Detroit, and included exhibits by automotive organiza-— what's happening in the heart of the’ demonstrations of tions, seminars, lectures technology, state-of-the-art gave them a chance to see what's available in the automotive industry.” automotive capital,” he said. Nelson said that close to 30,000 people stopped at the students’ booth, many of whom were head engineers for major companies. He said, “Not only did the students make some important contacts, but it