landic government. The pres¬entation was made on behalf of the President of Iceland by Mr. Eggerz, who is minister of the Legation of Iceland at Washington. He was the offi¬cial representative of the Ice-land government at the cen¬tennial. Both Mr. Bearnson and Mrs. Carter are former residents of Spanish Fork." —Spanish Fork Press "Historian Links Work to Her Iceland Blood. One of the most active women historians of the west, Kate B. Carter, attributes her interest in the past to her father's Icelandic heritage. " ' I come from a people who are history minded,' she says, 'and from a people who make up a very literary country.' Mrs. Carter just finished her seventeenth book of western history for publication by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. "Visiting Sacramento for the D.U.P. county convention, she told of various prizes her history volumes have brought her, in¬cluding an award of merit last year from the American Associa¬tion for State and Local History. " 'But the one that means the most to me,' she admits, 'is the Falcon of Iceland. It means the most to me because it's from the land of my father.' "The award, a medal, was presented to her at the centennial celebration in Utah which paid tribute to the first Icelandic set¬tlement in the United States. It must be returned to Iceland upon her death." —Sacramento Bee On May 7, 1960, she was awarded an honorary life member¬ship in the Utah State Historical Society for distinguished service to Utah. "Dr. John W. Caughey, professor of American history at the University of California at Los Angeles and managing editor of the Pacific Historical Review, addressed about 200 members and guests of the Utah State Historical Society in the Panorama Room, University of Utah Union Building. "Dr. Caughey's address highlighted a recognition dinner at which the society honored five Utahns with life memberships and three historians as 'fellows' in the society for their contribu¬tions to the accumulation and preservation of western history. "Those receiving honorary life memberships were Kate B. Carter, Charles Kelly, N. G. Morgan, Sr., Dr. Joel E. Ricks and Horace A. Sorensen. "Honored as 'fellows' were Dr. Leonard J. Arlington, Dr. LeRoy R. Hafen and Dale Morgan." -Deseret News In 1952 plans for a proposed memorial statue of the Pony Express, to be sculptured by Dr. Avard Fairbanks and presented to the United States Postal Service as a gift from the people of Utah, were announced by Governor J. Bracken Lee. The gov¬ernor appointed six persons to the central planning committee. Ernest R. McKay, national president of the Sons of Utah Pio¬neers, was named chairman. Members of the committee were Mrs. Kate B. Carter, Nicholas G. Morgan, Sr., C. Richard Evans, John M. Silver and Alvin G. Pack. For many years Mrs. Carter was a member of the American Association for the Preservation of State and Local History and in 1955 received their annual award of merit given in recognition of her work in preservation of pioneer history and the erection of the Pioneer Memorial Museum. She attended many of the West¬ern Folklore Conferences and in 1947 represented Utah at this conference. Her subject at this time was "Utah's Traditions." Because of her knowledge of history, she was called to serve on different commissions, such as the Pony Express Commission. Her sixty-page pamphlet on this subject was reprinted and ten thousand copies distributed by that commission named by Gov-ernor J. Bracken Lee. In 1960, a larger booklet dealing with the part Utah played in the Pony Express was published and ac¬cepted by the Pony Express Commission as its official centennial book. Mrs. Carter was also a member of the group named by Governor Herbert B. Maw to plan the re-building of the Henefer Road over Big Mountain, over which the pioneers traveled into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. The centennial celebration of the driving of the Golden Spike commemorating the completion of the transcontinental railroad, May 10, 1869, was observed during 1969 commencing the first week of January. Salt Lake City, Ogden and Brigham City, in cooperation with historical societies and educational in¬stitutions, officially opened historical, art and pictorial displays related to the completion of the railroad. Significant events included symphony programs by the Golden Spike Empire Youth Symphony Orchestra at Weber State College in Ogden, a Golden Spike Centennial Ball held in the newly completed Salt Lake City Salt Palace and the re- enactment ceremony conducted at Promontory, Utah.