Three women and seven men from the growing ranks of Brigham Young University's Emeritus Association have been singled out for Special Recognition Awards for 1996.
The 10 will be honored on campus Saturday, March 16, at the organization's annual meeting and luncheon at the Wilkinson Center. Carl Clark, the president of the 7,000-member association, said the honorees will be received at a 10:30 a.m. reception in the East Ballroom, with the meeting and luncheon to follow at 11:30 in the Main Ballroom.University President Merrill J. Bateman is the keynote speaker, and the class of 1946 will be inducted into the Emeritus Association. Eleanor Jorgensen will respond on behalf of the class.
Recipients of this year's awards are:
- Lorna Call Alder, Provo, who taught art education at BYU for 35 years and served as a visiting professor at schools in Mexico and Canada.
- Helen Ream Bateman, Provo, who combined several careers: teaching school, operating a family business, directing tours and authoring books and articles.
- George R. Blake, Provo, internationally known for his contributions to soil physics. A 1943 graduate, he taught for nearly 30 years at Rutgers and Minnesota. He is the author of 100 scientific publications.
- George G. Jackson, Salt Lake City, who obtained his M.D. at the University of Utah in 1949 and was that school's first student to be accepted at Harvard University Medical Services. He spent 37 years at University of Illinois and was also a visiting professor at universities in Europe.
- J. Smith Jacobs, Orem, who is described as a modern day Pied Piper with a gift for establishing communications between teachers and students. He devoted his life to teaching at the elementary and junior high school level.
- Francis R. Magleby, Provo, who first came to BYU on a football scholarship. Academically, he earned early recognition as an artist. He earned his doctorate at Columbia and is director of the B.F. Larsen Gallery.
- Leland F. Priday, American Fork, from the class of 1937, has established himself as a successful businessman, music leader and church man. He has always kept a close tie to BYU. He is a former Provo Temple president and was a stake president twice.
- Aline Coleman Smith, Salt Lake City, a dance enthusiast, began performing early in her life in Provo and Salt Lake City. She sought training outside Utah and moved east, where she performed with other notable dancers. She also became a teacher and a registered nurse.
- Dale T. Tingey, Provo, the founder of the American Indian Services, a nonprofit organization that provides 500 scholarships a year to American Indian students and has built 75 homes in Guatemala.
- Wilford J. Tolman, Provo, a retired professor of manufacturing engineering technology, has been responsible for training more than 600 instructors to teach in BYU's annual Merit Badge Pow Wow, the largest group of its kind in the world with more than 3,000 people attending each year.