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Show Spiritual leader of almost a million and a half persons is David O. McKay, Nor '97, who has been President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1951. His children and grand-children have followed him to the University. Trademarks that have made him familiar around the world: a shock of white hair, a genuine love for his fellow man, and a vigor of thought and wit. Ever an advo-cate of learning, his loyalty has never flagged.If there are not footlights and greasepaint in Heaven, Lila Eccles Brimhall, BA '14, just may not go. She's at home on stage or in class. Patrician, warm and ever-gra-cious, she will stand her ground with disarming tenacity for what she thinks is right. She has studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and holds an MA from USC. Winner of one of the first Distinguished Alumni Awards given by the Alumni Association, she retired (busily) in 1960.When better alumni are built . . . they will find their way into the Emeritus Club which is comprised of former students whose classes were graduated 50 or more years ago. Leading this organization in 1962 was Dr. Calvin S. Smith, Nor '10, BS '15 & MA '23. A much-respected educator, he has a branch library named in his honor, and has sent or will send 13 children to the University with the help of his wife, who is Utah's Mother of the Year for 1962.Only 41 years ago, a brilliant youngster took out his BS in physics at the University and immediately joined the faculty. Since then, Dr. Thomas J. Parmley has left the campus only long enough to get his PhD at Cornell and to fill scholastic assignments in many parts of the world as head of the Department of Physics. Quiet, warm and deep, he enjoys the classroom and the lab more than the desk. His wife presides over the entire LDS Primary organization."Oil" rhymes with "Moyle," and in this case it should, for James D. Moyle, BS '26, is part and parcel of the oil industry in Utah. Has a knack of getting to the heart of a problem and quietly stearing a steady course. Made Owl & Key and lettered in both track and football. Keeps an eye on the campus from his Wasatch Towers apartment and completed a two-year term a year ago as one of the alumni representatives to the University's Athletic Council.Back in the days when a platoon was something in an army and not a part of a football team, a 60-minute All-American even to his professional teammates was Frank L. Christensen, Ex '33. Big, tough, graceful . . . and smart ... he personified the best- in college football to most of a generation. He has never stopped being a champion, now heading one of the nation's most important industrial diamond concerns. The Alumni Association gave him a Distinguished Alumni Award. |