laa al ed WEBER STATE COLLEGE ses ee ie ees pt r, class it Lake ighland dcr U.S. test and titled iaietadaragiettage rene le f “55, COMMENT s to sroads | spring. June ined sed roducts ied to vill be 1981 Three leaders receive honorary degrees Elliot L. Richardson Mrs. Wilda Glasmann George S. Eccles Hatch i by Ray Wight } Three leaders in government, bebe hy. (i y > pee public 1ed ears | the -served ms and pore J banking and communications on Vintenational, national and regional Vhvels received honorary doctoral ‘degrees during the 93rd annual ‘commencement exercises for Weber | TState College the evening of June 5 Vinthe Dee Events Center. *k isa One of the honorary degree Felections, Elliot L. Richardson, ector of ¥also delivered the commencement it J address. he Receiving the honorary degrees ion ill also also were Mrs. Wilda Gene VGlasmann Hatch, president of the ijunct : Standard Corporation, and George ical WStoddard Eccles, chairman and W chief executive officer of the First nter. 4 Security Corporation. ppa ® Mr. Richardson has had a rees ry Kirk — distinguished career in government service, starting with being | Fiieutenant governor and attorney _ } general of Massachusetts. He was undersecretary of state 1969-70: Secretary of Health, } Education and Welfare, 1970-73; 7 Secretary of Defense, May 1973, Vand U.S. Attorney General May to “¥ October, 1973, when he resigned in the famed ‘‘Saturday Night Massacre,’’ one of the key events in ood, the development of the Watergate scandal. Later he was ambassador to the United Kingdom 1975-76, and Secretary of Commerce in 1976. A distinguished student of law at Harvard, he later clerked for Judge Learned Hand and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Frankfurter was so impressed with his abilities that he proposed Richardson for the presidency of Harvard at the age of 33. A descendant of early New England settlers, he was born July 20, 1920, to Edward P. Richardson, doctor and-professor at Harvard Medical School, and Clara Shattuck Richardson. He is related to many prominent Boston families. He served with distinction in World War II. Born and raised in Ogden, Utah, Mrs. Hatch has successfully combined a career as a newspaper executive with an ardent love of the unspoiled lands of her native state -- and a desire to conserve those lands. Serving as president of the Standard Corporation, she oversees the Ogden Standard-Examiner as well as other companies in the ‘Standard group. Since 1892, the Standard Corporation has been involved in communications, and today operates one daily paper, one weekly in Davis County, two weeklies in Idaho and three in Colorado. In addition, the Standard operates KUTV-TV in Salt Lake City and the Kansas State Network, a group of five television stations in the Midwest. Mrs. Hatch is a co-founder and board member of Communications Investment Corporation, which owns and operates KALL AM and FM in Salt Lake City and several other radio stations throughout the Intermountain West. A past president of the Women’s State Legislative Council of Utah, Mrs. Hatch is deeply involved in the state’s civic affairs. She served for two years on Gov. Calvin Rampton’s Blue Ribbon Task Force for a Land Use Planning Program for Utah, which proposed legislation later enacted by the state legislature. When the United Nations was created following World War II, Mrs. Hatch was one of the first Utahns to push for creation of a United Nations Association, and < helped found the Utah chapter. A deeply committed environmentalist, Mrs. Hatch is currently on that board of the Utah Environment Center, serving as — treasurer for that organization. For years, she actively supported legislation creating Capital Reef National Park and the Glen Canyon Recreation Area in Southern Utah. That legislation passed and those areas are now protected. She also successfully lobbied to set aside additional lands as part of Canyonlands National Park and Arches National Monument. Mr. Eccles, known throughout the west for his achievements in the fields of banking and finance, in 1928 consolidated Eccles and Browning interests into the First Security Corporation. He has guided its development into a multi-state corporation, one of the strongest in the west. ; He became involved in international financial problems in the years after World War II when he was economic and financial consultant to the Economic Cooperation Administration (Marshall Plan), helping to implement the restructuring of war-torn Europe. In 1963 he served as general chairman of the 11th International Monetary Conference in Vienna and (Continued on page 2)