: selected to receive Fred S. Ball, former studentbody president and Signpost editor, has been selected for the Alumni “Distinguished Alumni” award to be presented during the Homecoming Banquet, Oct. 27. | Alumni |award Richard Myers, president of = 7 a Myers Mortuaries, active in civic, community and college affairs, has been chosen to receive the "Distinguished Service” award by Weber State College Alumni at the Homecoming Banquet Oct. 27. Mr. Myers was an honor graduate from Weber College and received highest honors from the California College of Mortuary Science. He served several years in the U.S. Army. Currently vice president of the National Funeral Directors Association, Mr. Myers has also served two terms as president of the Utah Funeral Directors | Association and as chairman of the Utah State Funeral Directors and Embalmers Examining Board. He was among the first twenty-five funeral directors in the United States to be accredited and accepted as a member of the Academy of » Professional Funeral Service Practice, the only Utahn. The author of a novel, thirty articles and stories published in national and international publications, Mr. Myers has also averaged sixty public addresses a year during the past seven years, speaking to groups in 7 twenty-seven states and Canada. A long-time supporter of Weber State College, Mr. Myers served as president of the WSC Richard Myers Alumni Association in 1966 and as a member of the college Board of Trustees. He was organizer and first chairman of the WSC Development Fund and is still a member. The Development Fund has raised over $19,000,000. in gifts and grants from private sources either in cash and/or deferred gifts as well as other valuable items. He received a “Presidential Citation” in recognition of his efforts. He has been active in coordinating seminars at WSC on dying, death and bereavement. He has served as chairman of | Greater Ogden Week, dedication of Ogden Union Station and served in a number of leadership positions in civic and community activities and organizations. He is married to the former Gloria Jorgenson and they are the parents of three children. Fred Ball Mr. Ball was instrumental in having the sign over the river bridge on Washington Boulevard proclaiming “Home of Weber State College” and helped in the efforts to give Weber State four-year status. He had the privilege of turnin the first shovel of dirt, along with President Henry Aldous Dixon, at the ground-breaking ceremony for the present campus and has served several terms as a member of the Weber College Foundation Board. Mr. Ball has been Executive vice president and general manager for the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce since 1971. For eighteen years prior to that he was associated with the trucking industry as a general sales manager of IML Freight Incorporation. Since joining the Chamber of Commerce, he has been retained by the American Trucking Association to conduct hundreds of training sessions _ throughout the United States. He has also written, produced and appeared in many best-selling videotape training and motivation series. He was recently named as “one of the ten outstanding speakers in America,” by the Platform Speakers Association. Since heading the Chamber of Commerce, membership and income has doubled and recently the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce was “accredited” by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Only two chambers in the Mountain West are accredited. Mr. Ball graduated from Weber College with an Associate of Science degree in 1952 and continued his education at the University of Utah and the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. A resident of San Francisco, California for many years, Mr. Ball was active in church and civic affairs. Mrs. Ball is the former Joyce Worsencroft of Salt Lake City and they are the parents of four daughters. Class Notes DWIGHT D. BUTT, class of ’70, has been named director of the Oregon State Fair and Exposition Center. He has served for three years as the deputy director of the fair and prior to that he was a fiscal manger with the Oregon Department of Revenue, and an accounting supervisor for the Salem School District. He has held various accounting positions in California and Utah. Following graduation from WSC, Mr. Butt earned a m masters degree from Utah State University in f Business Administration and Finance. _ JEFFERY S. CARREL, ’76, is a B-52H Stratofortress navigator at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, with the 77th Bombardment Squadron. He received a B.S. degree in ’76 from WSC where he was commissioned through the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps program. His wife is the former Vicki Pack of Salt Lake City. JUDY K. ROOMSBURG, class of ’78, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the US. Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. She graduated with a B.S. in psychology and history. Her husband is Captain Thomas E. Roomsburg. CLARENCE E. SMITH JR.,’74, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force following graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. In addition to his B.S. from WSC Lt. Smith received and M.A. degree in 1977 from Central Michigan University. His wife is the former Charmia Jenkins. presented the C.V. Mosby Award for outstanding achievement in basic and clinical sciences. He is married to the former Marsha Dawson, Roy. They will make their home in Portland, Oregon where he plans to accept a general practice residency at Veterans Hospital. RANDY MALAN, ’74, is supervisor for Bailey’s Allied Moving and Storage, San Diego Office. He managed a ski school. His wife is the former Christine Rasmussed of Kaysville. They have two daughters. EARL J. SLACK has been elected senior vice president of a public relations and advertising firm, Underwood Jordan Yulish Associates, New York. Mr. Slack is a specialist in communications programs involving national issues such as energy, environment, technolory and product liability, as well as supporting public affairs and legislative action programs. He joined the agency in 1974 after 12 years with Edison Electric Institute and Electric Energy Association. An Ogden native, he is a graduate of WSC and the University of Utah and resides in New York City and New Milford, Connecticut. STEPHEN C. ROSE, class of ’76, received the doctor of dental surgery degree from the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry in San Francisco. He was elected to Omicron Kappa Upsilon, national dental honorary fraternity, and Tau Kappa Omega, the school’s dental honor society, and was HOWARD M. COLLETT has accepted the position of Regional Marketing Manager with Rocky Mountain Helicopters, Inc., a Provo, Utah company. He is responsible for market research and new market development. He graduated from WSC in 1969 with a degree in Business Administration and served five ROBERT REX WALTON was awarded the degree of Master of International Management from American Graduate School of International Management, Glendale, Arizona. He is a WSC graduate with a French major. years in the U.S. Navy as a rescue helicopter pilot, and has worked with Real Estate Exchange, Ogden, and Evergreen Helicopters, Inc., Oregon. ROBERT B. ‘degree from Lauderdale, in 1972 and director for BURNS has earned his masters Nova University, Fort Florida. He graduated from WSC is currently assistant finance the city of Miami. LEWIS V. NORD, class of ’50, is president of Nord Advertising Associates and has recently met requirements of the Business / Professional Advertising Association’s professional certification program and was designated a certified business communicator. He is currently national president of Advertising Agencies Associations with headquarters in New York and Phoenix, Arizona. STEPHEN C. ROSE, Clearfield, has been awarded a doctor of dental surgery degree from the University of the Pacific school of dentistry in San Francisco. He earned his B.S. degree in Zoology from WSC. He plans to accept a general practice residency at the Veterans Hospital in Portland, Ore. He is married to the former Marsha Dawson of Roy. Page 5 ; ' oe "Distinguished Alumn Richard Myers