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Show Campus Clip Job competition in the 1980’s will become greater and will impact especially upon the black family and women. Ms. Bettie Gillespie, Equal Employment Opportunity Officer at Hill Air Force Base, said at a noon meeting of the WSC Association for the Status of Women. When times are bad, people become more competitive about jobs and placement of blacks becomes more difficult, putting a strain on the equal opportunity FF i f guests at those pre-game receptions included administrators from school districts, student high schools, the chamber of commerce and leaders, bankers, advisory councils from the of the college, volunteer members legislators, leaders from other industrial various schools of the alumni board, development board. One reception was a special “Honor Jim Foulger Night” to honor retiring WSC vice president Foulger, where his family and friends were the special guests of the evening. All guests at the pre-game reception were given tickets to sit in the President’s Section in the Dee Events Center for the exciting WSC basketball games. WSC Alumni also held a “Meet President Brady Night” reception at the University of Southern California. There are approximately 600 alumni in the Los Angeles area. Joining President Brady was Alan Hall, alumni director, and Dwight Stevenson, class of ’48 reception chairman. Mr. Hall hosted a pre-theatre reception in San Francisco, held in conjunction with the annual WSC Alumni Fine Arts tour, for approximately 450 alumni in the Bay Area. us Ni Vardis Fisher is gaining a place as one of the more important writers of the 1930’s, Dr. Joseph Martin Flora, professor of English at the Univerity of North Carolina declared at a WSC lecture series sponsored in the Special Collections Room of the Stewart Library. Fisher had deep roots in Utah, where he was educated and started his literary work, and in Idaho, where he spent a considerable part of his life. Dr. Flora, considered a leading authority on Fisher, discussed the literary friendships between Fisher and Thomas Wolfe, famed - southern writer, and Frederich Manfred, another writer who specialized in western material. Fisher considered himself a father figure to Wolfe, but the two had many personality characteristics in common, Dr. Flora said. Both Wolfe and Fisher had childhoods that were tortured, they were lonely introverts, had an unusual distrust of human motives, and were full of self-pity. Fisher and Wolfe were at the University of New York together during the early 1930’s and their friendship lasted only while they were in close proximity. They never corresponded with each other, in contrast to the friendship of Fisher with Manfred, which was conducted primarily by letter. Fisher’s friendship with the 6 foot 9 inch Manfred was described as brotherly. ar People going into business for themselves shouldn’t be afraid of }. starting small and doing the menial work themselves, Jay Call, Brigham City, president of Flying J, Inc., told WSC business students during an Executive Series sponsored by the WSC School of Business and Benoni A a say Dr. Rodney H. Brady, president of Weber State College and a national leader of the Boy Scouts of America headed the official scout delegation Wednesday Feb. 6 during its annual report-to-the-nation visit with President Carter in the Oval office of the White House. Dr. Brady was in Washington in connection with a meeting of the national executive board of the BSA, and in that capacity was elected to make the official presentation to the President. Dr. Brady also had a chance to visit with the President privately on other matters of local and regional interest after the report session. Dr. Brady has been active in the scouting movement for 30 years at the local, district, council, regional and national levels and currently serves as a member of the national executive board of the BSA and as chairman of the National Cub Scout Committee. Locally he also serves as a member of the executive board of the Lake Bonneville Council of the Boy Scouts. He has been honored for his service to the scouting movement by receiving two of scouting’s highest awards, the Silver Beaver and the Silver Baleione: The Weber State College rodeo team beat out nine other colleges and universities to take first place in a National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association rodeo sponsored by Snow College and held in the Golden Spike Coliseum. The men’s team scored more than 600 points to take first place and the women’s team took third place in its division. Senior Lance Robinson was named “All-Round Cowboy.” samacsemsti we | s games from December 1 through February 23. Special-invited , commitment. Few black women are in the labor force for personal fulfillment, they work because of necessity. Many are prime contributors or the sole supporters of families. Work is a matter of survival. Nt President and Mrs. Rodney H. Brady, the College’s Vice Presidents and their wives and the Office of College Relations student leaders hosted 14 receptions prior to the basketball The experimental Christmas season shutdown at Weber State College saved at least $47,153, Dr. D. Parry Wilson, vice president for administrative services said. Dr. Wilson said the largest saving was in the area of salaries, with hourly and contracted salary savings coming to $19,194. Other areas of major savings included power and light, $8,133 less outlay than for the comparable period during the 1978 Christmas season, and snow removal, where $7,329 was saved over the previous year. Smaller savings came in heating gas, telephone service, plant supplies, and use of gasoline by college cars and other equipment. Additional savings included vacation time used, postage, printing, supplies and water. The WSC Institutional Council called the savings significant. us Business is all about money, not people nor production, John Broadhead, president of Service Stations Supply Co., Salt Lake City, another Executive Lecture Series speaker said. Many “liberals” want to talk about the personal and civic responsibilities of business first, but an enterprise must be making an ethical profit because “if a business is not healthy, it’s not good for much of anything.” When a business is on a sound footing, it can then start to do other things in the area of cultural or civic affairs. He counseled students to work hard and willingly because the margin between success and failure in most lines of endeavor often is very small. The intermountain area, he said, is the fastest growing area in the country, even } though it is not the largest. Page:l1 ; |