tA SOR OR TERRES AHR OOO BE Campus Clips Dr. Jean T. Kunz receives WSCAA’s Dr. Boyd K. Packer has been selected as the speaker for the 1983 Commencement Program. He will be awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities degree together with Wm. H. Child, John B. Goddard and Dee Glen Smith. Commencement is scheduled for June 10. highest award The practical nursing program at WSC received academic accreditation from the National League for Nursing. The accreditation is recognized through 1990. Dr. Kunz has been chair of the department of child and family studies for ten years. Prior to coming to WSC she was director of the nursery school and a professor of psychology at Scripps College, department of child and family studies, has been named by the alumni board of directors as this year's winner of the H. Aldous Dixon Award. "This is the highest honor the association bestows anyone,” said igwith ked it ng, Nn or ng, Le Edith Hester, alumni director. Claremont, important com- mittees and for providing a role model to women students on campus. In 1979 she toured Mainland China to observe programs for children; and in 1977-78 Dr. Kunz took sabbatical leave to study care facilities and educational programs for children and women in Denmark, Poland, the Soviet Union, Australia, New Zealand Hawaii. rc and and an assistant professor at Brigham Young University. She has also taught in the public schools in Idaho and Utah. She said this award was especially meaningful to her because President Dixon had been a great influence in her life. "I remember him coming in to a class and telling us the story of Ferdinand the Bull, then inferring that women who went to college had, like Ferdinand in the story, broken the pattern of the traditional role of women. "I valued that very highly,” she said, adding that he also told her "if you are going to be a career person, do it all the way. Keep going to col- lege.” 3 After her graduation from WSC she earned a B.S. from University of Idaho, an M.A. from George Peabody College and a Ph.D. from University of Maryland. Dr. Kunz is a widow and has two children: Dr. W. Douglas Kunz who is a veterinarian and a father of four, lives in Palm Springs, Calif., and Mrs. Robert D. (Christy) Monson, a professional Riverside, Calif. Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, director of at the University of Maryland; She said she was especially pleased with the selection because Dr. Kunz is the first woman to be honored in the award's 14-year history. Eighteen nominations were received, citing outstanding faculty and staff of the college for their contributions to students as well as the community and their professions. Dr. Kunz was the initiator and has been chair of the annual Families Alive National Conference at WSC for the past three years. She is secretary of the governing board of the United States National Committee of the World Organization For Early Childhood Education; and is the immediate past president of the ., board of directors of the Ogden Family Support Center. Her nominees also wished to honor Dr. Kunz for service to the college on numerous California; the nursery school and an instructor mother of six, of The award will be presented at the annual Founder's Day Luncheon in the WSC Ballroom, Friday, May 6. Reservations to attend may be made by contacting the alumni office, 626-6564. The WSC Theatre production of “The Abdication” took top honors in district competition of the American College Theatre Assn. Dr. T. Leonard Rowley directed the play. It was written by Ruth Wolff, a New York playwright. Finalists in the district included plays from BYU, Idaho State and Montana State. Former WSC coaches, Dick Motta English student, Therese A. Nelson, painter; Ellen Land Weber, a photographer from State California; and Peter Nine WSC marketing students placed in local Delta Epsilon Chicom- _ petitions and will be competing at the National Career Development Conference in Houston later this month. William H. Child and Farrell R. Collett donated a painting of a wildcat valued at $10,000 to the college. Child commissioned Collett to do the painting which will become a permanent part of the college's art collection and will be on display in the Rich Memorial Lounge in the Dee Events Center. Robert Henderson, former Utah Symphony assistant conductor and present conductor and music director of the Little Rock Symphony Orchestra, conducted approximately 70 high school students at the WSC Orchestra Invitational on campus last month. The Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, world renowned chamber orchestra, performed at the Dee Events Center last month. j My old address was: Address in the critical The WSC Rodeo Club took first place honors at the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Assn. competition held at the Golden Spike Coliseum in Ogden in February. WSC hosted the Rocky Mountain Regional NIRA competition, which included colleges and universities from Utah, Idaho and Nevada. My new address is: City first place Frank, art editor and critic. COMMENT Weber State College Alumni Assn. — 1011 3750 Harrison Ogden, UT 84408 Zip also won The art department has initiated a visiting artist program which includes visits by June Kaneko, a ceramist from Michigan; Rachel Rosenthal, a performance artist from California; Harry Holland, a computer artist from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania; Jack Ox, a New York To change or to correct your address please send this form to: City honored review division for "The Abdication.” Her critique has been entered in national competition to be held in Washington, D.C. this spring. — Alumnevws Address_ were WSC Theatre students Robert Vaughan and Randy Barker placed first and second in stage design competition at the five-state Regional . Festivention Theatre Arts Festival of the American College Theatre Assn. Please let us know as soon as possible. State Phil Johnson, The School of Technology received $9,800 in equipment, scholarships and books from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). MOVIN’? Name and by the Alumni Assn. at a reception at the Salt Palace prior to a Utah Jazz vs. the Dallas Mavericks game in Jan. Johnson is now assistant Jazz coach; Motta coaches the Mavericks. Zip Thank you for your help, and please allow four weeks for the change to be completed. item: