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A ballot is enclosed . The deadline for voting is March 31, at which tim e the bal­ lots will be tabulated and the five successful candidates announced . Select Five - Vote Immediately 1. Watlace 0. Bickmore, who took a master's degree from 9. Ernest 0. Lar son, '18, is constr ucti on engineer on the the College in 1938, is superintendent of the Emery $16,000,000 Provo River project. He has been in the County school district at Huntington, Utah. He was employ of the Bureau of Reclamation for nineteen reared in Paradise, Utah, graduated from the South years during which time he has been in charge of the Cache high school at Hyrum, and from the College . H e investigation and planning of numerous Utah reclama­ has also done graduate work at the University of Cali­ tion projects, including the present responsibility . He fornia. Mr . Bickmore began his teaching career at also serves as the government's contacting representa­ Green River, where he served first as the high school tive with water us ers associations on completed recla­ coach and then as the high school princjpal. After mation projects and is active in state and federal work twelve yea rs there, he accepted his present position. lead ing to the deve lopment of the state's land and water 2. S. Robert Bjorkman, '23, nominee now residing in Pres­ resources. Mr. Lar son served as part-time instructor ton, Idaho, where he_is superintendent of schools, came at the College between 1918 and 1923, when he was to the USAC in 1918 when inducted int o the Students granted a master's degree . He is married and has two Army training corps at Logan. He served as battalion children , one of whom, Dick, attended the USAC from adjutant in 1921-22. He began his teaching career on 1939 to 1941. the North Sevier high school faculty in 1923 and ha s 10. torm McDonald , '16, is the owner and manager of a served in Idaho's public schools since 1924. He ha s large dairy farm and the Heber Motor Company in taught at Burley and was superintendent at Sugar City Heber City. After graduation from the College, Mr . for eleven yea rs. He was also president of 6th district McDonald taught school approximately 20 years in the Idaho Education Association in 1939-40. He has a mas ­ Wasatch, Tooele, and Bingham high schools . He is past ter's degree from the University of Idaho and has done president of the Heb er Lions Club and ha s served as post-graduate work at Stanford. He is married and Wasatch County repr esentative for the Utah Legisla­ has three children. ture in 1941. 3. William J. Bond, '17, is superintendent of schools at the 11. William P. Miller , '36, present superintendent of schools Duchesne County school district and has been ther e in the Web er school district, taught school in Davis since 1937, when he transferred from a similar position County from 1929 to 1935, served as chief probation in Wasatch County . Beginning his teaching career at officer, juvenile court , second judicial district, from Jan ­ Richmond, Mr . Bond also has taught at Coalville and uar y to June of 1935, and as coordinator for the Weber Heber City. He is married and has four children. Allen , school district from 1935 to 1937, when he was mad e the oldest, is a senior attending the USAC. assistant superintendent for the same district. He has 4. Lucile Roger s Chambers, '19, student body vice presi­ also served for a brief period as business manager of dent back in 1918-19, is now living in Ogden . She the Utah Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Mr. Miller is mar­ taught, after graduation, at American Fork, Devil's ried and ha s four daught ers. He was granted his M.S. Slide and in Ogden. Married Alma D. Chambers . Mrs. degree in education at the University of Utah last Chambers was very active as a student in extra-curric­ spring . ular affairs, and besides serv ing as st udent body execu­ tive, was a member of the Pan Hellenic Council, Alpha 12. Leslie Nelson, '30, is vocational agricultural teacher at · igma Nu, Sigma Theta Phi, and the Book Lovers Club. Box Elder high school at Brigham, a position he ac­ 5. Alfred Rus se ll Croft, '20, editor of Student Life in 1920, cepted after he had served in a similar position for six is now conservationist at the Int er- Mountain For est years at Cyrus high school. In 1940 Mr. Nelson at­ and Range Experiment Station in Ogden, where he ha s tend ed the Ohio State Universit y on a fellowship, where spent most of his time since graduation. Mr. Croft, h e did graduate work in the field of agricultural edu­ very active in college student affairs from 1915 to 1920, cation guidance and general education. He has been is married and ha s four children. He taught school at made vice-prinicipa l of the Box Elder school, in addi­ the old Murdo ck Academy at Beaver, Montpelier high tion to his regular t eaching duti s. While att ending th e school, Idaho, Ogden high school and Weber college, and College, he participated in athletics, debating , dra ­ has done graduate wor k at the USAC and Cornell. A matics, and Ag Club activities. He was awarded an "Be-No," Alpha Sigma Nu, and Pi Zeta Pi (now Pi M.S. degree from the USAC in 1931. Kappa Alpha), and a private of the first world war. 13. Junius F. Ogden, '13, is a prominent agriculturalist 6. Frank G. Fister, '38, a second generation Aggie (son living at Richfi eld, who has held and is holding several of Dr. George M. Fist er, '13) and one of Utah State's civic and church positions . At present, he is bishop of greatest cheer leaders , is personnel assistant in th e the Richfield First Ward , and secretary-treasurer of a Industrial Relations department wit h Columbia Steel reservoir and an irrigation company. Mr. Ogden has Company, in the defense plant division, where he trans­ his own farm. In the past he has taught school for ferred in September from the civilian personnel office ten years in the Richfield high school; served a three­ at Hill Fi eld. Frank w ill be remembered as one of th e year mission. He has also been active in the Richfield "campus big-shots" during his collegiate career. and Sevier County farm bureau organizations. 7. Milton F. Hartvigsen, '30, principal of the Grace high 14. Phyllis Kirkham Owen. '33, was one of the "honor" school at Grace, Idaho, this year is serving as president g rads of 1933, her list of activities including : president of the Fifth District Idaho Education Association and of A.W.S., sophmore class, and Sorosis sorority (now also as president of the Fifth District Idaho Athletic Alpha Chi Omega) . She was a member of Spurs, Beaux Association, in addition to being bishop's counselor in Art, Empyrean and Buzzer staff and upon graduation his ward. Mr. Hartvigsen received a master of educa­ was awarded a scholarshio to th e Merrill-Palmer School tion degree from the USAC in 1939. He is married at Detroit, Michigan . Mrs. Owen taught home eco­ (Virgil Burrup, ex-Aggie) and ha s three children.