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Show 139 Princeton, Utah appreciated that choice too. In Eyring's case, he was not "a prophet without honor in his own country." Both Utah and Arizona, the home of his boyhood, c1aimed him as if he was the native son made good, and shared in bestowing honors and praise upon him. In Arizona, the University of Arizona took the opportunity to honor one of its most prominent a1umni when in 1947 they presented Eyring with their distinguished a1umni award. An award of merit came in 1960 as part of the University's seventy-fifth anniversary, and in 1951 they conferred an honorary doctorate of science on him. In 1977, Eyring returned to Thatcher, Arizona to receive a distinguished a1umni award from Eastern Arizona Co11ege. Eastern Arizona was former1y the Gi1a Academy from which Eyring graduated in 1919. In 1978, Arizona State University a1so awarded Eyring an honorary doctorate in science. Eyring frequent1y visits his 01d home state for consu1ting and 1ecturing and to visit fami1y and 01d friends. In Utah, the praise was equa11y 1avish. In 1952, after serving as Dean of the Graduate Schoo1 for just over five years, the University of Utah conferred an honorary doctorate on him, the first of many he wou1d receive. In 1961, the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the graduate schoo1 at Utah, Eyring was presented with a distinguished a1umni award. Two years before, the Utah section of the American Chemica1 Society presented Eyring with their Utah Award and Brigham Young University awarded him the James E. Ta1mage Scientific Achievement Award at their June 1959 Commencement. In 1973, the Utah Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters presented him with its highest award, the Ni11iam Gardner Award. |
