The Emeritus Club of Brigham Young University, which includes retired faculty and former students who attended BYU more than 50 years ago, has named 10 members to receive the Special Recognition Award for lives of outstanding achievement.
Cornelius R. Peterson, president of the 5,000-member club, said the recipients will be honored at the annual meeting Thursday, March 18, in the Wilkinson Center. Speaker will be BYU President Rex E. Lee, and ceremonies will include induction of the Class of 1943.Those to receive honors are Catherine Bowles, Florence Todd Britsch, Ara O. Call, Charles Steven Hatch and Willard Call Nelson, all of Provo; Robert E. Halladay, Salt Lake City; Anneliese Buggert Ence, Santa Clara, Utah; George Ellis Doty, Studio City, Calif.; Wayne F. McIntire, Northridge, Calif.; and Robert A. Price, Phoenix.
Bowles taught in Utah elementary schools for 21 years and for 20 years was instructor in early childhood education at BYU. She was a member of the LDS Sunday School General Board for 15 years and the Church Correlation Committee for five years.
Britsch, who was 1974 Utah Mother of the Year, taught in Provo schools 10 years and was piano accompanist many years for BYU choruses, operas and soloists as well as the Utah Valley Opera, Woodward Chorale, Couriers of Song and many other groups. She was a member of the LDS Church Children's Correlation Committee and helped prepare seven teaching manuals.
Call is founder of the food science and nutrition department at BYU. He operated his own cheese plant in Salt Lake City and later was control manager of 34 plants in the United States and Canada for Western Condensing Co. He helped develop the patented process to make instant nonfat dry milk. In the 1930s, he built the LDS Church cheese business in Mexico.
Hatch has been a prominent physician in Idaho Falls and Provo since 1943. He was a Navy surgical officer in the Pacific in World War II, and with his father and three brothers operated the Hatch Clinic in Idaho Falls 14 years. He was an associate in a Provo urology clinic, 1964-1980, and served in the BYU Health Center.
Nelson has been a leading architect in Utah since 1947. He designed many major buildings, including the BYU Richards, Talmage, Eyring and Clyde Buildings; Utah Valley Regional Medical Center; Physicians Plaza, hospitals in Price and St. George; and the Hall of Justice in St. George.
Halladay retired in 1987 as president of the Utah Manufacturers' Association after 28 years of service. Previously he was Provo Chamber of Commerce manager for eight years, was first chairman of the Utah Advisory Council on Technical and Vocational Education, and was on the State Unemployment Advisory Council.
Ence taught for 27 years at Woodward Junior High School in St. George and three years at Dixie College, and was honored by the Utah Department of Education for outstanding programs in German and physical education.
Doty was a practicing physician and surgeon in Southern California from 1946 to 1974, when he and his wife left on an LDS medical mission to Guatemala. Then for 10 years he continued in consultation at a Burbank, Calif., hospital.
McIntire was professor of education at Los Angeles State University from 1950-1977. In 1960, he established National Leadership Training for the Deaf, and in 1966 worked with school administrators to establish the intern doctoral program, which was later adopted by BYU.
Price, a well-known Arizona physician, received his M.D. in 1945 and retired in 1991. He has served as chief of staff and director of Family Practice Residency at Phoenix Good Samar-i-tan Hospital and presiding officer of Arizona Medical Association.