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Show April 1987, page 3 ~aaRaet Weber State College Comment, During College’s June 12 Commencement Exercises Honorary Doctorate Degrees States.”’ His biography, ‘‘Adventures Life,’? was published in 1978. in Mrs. Brewer was born in Ogden. She graduated from Ogden High School, received a bachelor’s degree from the _ University of Michigan, and attended numerous summer sessions at Weber State. She married Joseph West Brewer in 1928 and helped him build the J.W. Brewer Tire Company. She has served as that company’s Chairman of the Board since her husband’s death in 1971. Mrs. Brewer is one of the original members of the Dee Hospital Volunteers as well as the McKay-Dee Foundation. She was one of its vice presidents. She served five years as a Republican National Committeewoman for Utah and has been an enthusiastic worker for the American Cancer Society on Weber County and state boards. | During World War If Mrs. Brewer was active with the American Red Cross, distributing clothing and help to the needy. She was a’ member of the Ogden Development Committee, where she served as vice chairman, and was vice chairman of the League for Better Government in Ogden. She also served her church as an LDS missionary to the Houston, Texas ‘area. Dr. Howard Tracy Hall, the first man to produce an artificial diamond, has world-wide acclaim ‘‘Science is an area in our society that must grow. If people don’t understand the fundamentals of science they have a more difficult time through life.’’ ‘“‘Dr. James was definitely the choice a received In Science School Dr. Helen J. James has been named acting dean of the School of Natural Sciences. She will replace Dr. Dennis Travis who is taking a leave of absence. Dr. James assumes her duties July 1 of this year. She will act in that capacity for one year while the college completes a national search for a permanent dean. That search does not preclude Dr. James from assuming that post, said Dr. Robert B. Smith, academic vice president. Dr. Helen J. James also for the development of a_ high pressure/high temperature apparatus. One of his latest machines, the Tetrahedral X-Ray Diffraction Press, produces pressures of 3 million pounds simultaneously with temperatures of 10,000 degrees. Simulating conditions inside the earth and stars, Dr. Hall and his associates have created dozens of new substances unknown in nature. He was born and raised in Ogden, the son of Howard and Florence Tracy Hall. He was educated in Ogden schools and began his college career at Weber College, graduating in 1939. Dr. Hall earned his B.S. degree from the University of Utah in 1942 and his M.S. degree in 1943. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1944-46 and returned to Utah to com- plete a doctorate program in physical chemistry at the U. of U. in 1948. He worked as a research associate at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York until 1955. After producing the first man-made diamond in 1954, Dr. Hall accepted the position of Director of Research and professor of chemistry at Brigham— Young University. Dr. Hall is on the editorial board of The Review of Scientific Instruments and /norganic Chemistry. He is past chairman of the Salt Lake section of the American Chemical Society and past president of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Dr. Hall was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow at BYU and has received numerous awards from various groups. He has been widely consulted by various industrial and governmental organzations, and is a member of a number of professional - societies. He has had numerous papers published and holds many scientific patents. The three will be honored during the college’s 99th commencement exercises on June 12. for the position,’’ Dr. Smith said. “She is well-respected and the sort of person one goes to for accomplishing hard jobs.”’ Dr. James is a_ professor of _ chemistry, and came to the college in 1971. She earned bachelor’s and doctoral degress from the University of Nebraska, spent a year at the Universi- getting Dr. Helen J. James ty of Arizona as a research associate and was a fellow in the Program for the Advancement of College Teaching of Science at Nebraska in 1979. the Unviersity of At WSC Dr. James has served on numerous committees, including chair of the college curriculum committee, chair of the athletic board, and chair of the School of Natural Sciences ranking and tenure committee. She earned the ‘‘Presidential Distinguished Professor’? award--the highest teaching recognition given by the college--in 1984. She is treasurer of the WSC Credit Union, director of Family Counseling Service, an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, and co-chair of the state P.E.O. convention for 1987, a sisterhood of women interested in education projects. Dr. James is the author of a number of publications dealing with chemistry and education, and is co-editor for a chemistry column appearing.in the Journal for Chemical Education. te Acting Dean Appointed H. Tracy Hall Herbert B. Maw Myrene R. Brewer ea time he was also a‘professor of public speaking and political science at the University of Utah. He was elected as governor of the state in 1940 and during his first term enacted legislation for reorganizing and streamlining Utah government. He also reorganized Utah’s major utility company to minimize external control of state business. Through his efforts U.S. Geneva Steel Works in Orem was also established. He was a member of the Council of State Governments, the Utah Bar Association, Sigma Chi and the National Committee Against Nazi Persecution and Extermination of the Jews. He has been called ‘‘one of the hest public speakers in the United Brewer, Hall To Receive ee In 1927 he was elected to the Utah State Senate and “@ > president of that bod'S’ During this same Maw, =—s okie nn senses Pee A former Utah governor, a } businesswoman, and a scientist will } receive honorary degrees from the col}lege during commencement exercises | this spring. Herbert B. Maw, former Utah : governor; Myrene Rich Brewer, Ogden businesswoman; and H. Tracy Hall, scientist at Brigham Young University, ‘were named by the WSC Institutional | Council to receive Honorary Doctorate of Humanities degrees. Maw was born March 11, 1893 in Ogden in the Territory of Deseret. He is three years older than the state of Utah. Maw attended public grade schools in Ogden and later in Salt Lake City where he enrolled at the Latter-day Saints High School. He continued his education at the University of Utah. He had wished to become a surgeon, but high laboratory fees forced him to give up that ambition and he turned to law. He received his LL.B. degree in 1916 from Northwestern University and in June of that year opened a private practice in Utah. During the year he also taught at the Latter-day Saints High School. With the advent of World War I, Maw entered military service as one of three .DS chaplains to serve in that war. Returning to Salt Lake City in 1919 he resumed his law practice and con tinued teaching. |