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Show President's Assistants Parry Sorensen Assistant to the President According to President Fletcher, Parry Sorensen's job is to see that the President does his job. As Assistant to the President, Mr. Sorensen administers the many details of the presidential office. In addition to these duties, he is Secretary of the Board of Regents and is Professor of Journalism. Asked what he would change about his job, the veteran of twenty years at the University stated simply, "More time to think." Alfred C. Emery Academic Vice President Vice President Emery's greatest concern is how to provide a quality education for the large number of students now attending the University. His duties include the operation of all the colleges and academic departments at the University which are actually concerned with teaching. In addition to the supervision of academic facilities, such decisions as faculty appointments and tenure go through his office. Alfred C. Emery has been at the University of Utah since 1947 as a Professor of Law and later Acting Dean of the law school for a period of two years. In 1951 L. Ralph Mecham received his B.S. degree in Political Science at the University of Utah, and until this year he served as Administrative Assistant and Counsel to Senator Wallace F. Bennett in Washington D.C. In 1963 Mr. Mecham was awarded the highest of the first four Congressional Staff Fellowships by a "bi-partisan" House-Senate Leadership Advisory Committee for the American Political Science Association. Impressed with the dynamic leadership of President Fletcher, Mr. Mecham returned to the University this year to take charge of special projects at the School. L. Ralph Mecham Assistant to the President for Special Projects 22 |
