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Show HISTORICAL NOTES During the year 1960 a program to recognize worthy individuals for extraordinary service in the cause of history was formulated by the Board of Trustees of the Society: "Honorary Life Membership" to be conferred upon the individual who, in die opinion of die Board, has rendered distinguished service to the state and to the Utah State Historical Society; the designation of "Fellow" to be bestowed upon the individual who has rendered the greatest service to Utah and to the advancement of history through outstanding published work. The first presentation of Awards and Honors to prominent Utahans was held at the time of the annual dinner meeting of the Society on May 7, 1960. For distinguished service to Utah and the Society, Honorary Life Membership was conferred upon the following: Mrs. Kate B. Carter for her long years of unselfish devotion to state and local history through her leadership of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Publications under her editorship including the twelve volume series of Heart Throbs of the West and Treasures of Pioneer History 422 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY (six volumes to date) are valuable contributions to the historiography of Utah and the Mormon people. Mr. Charles Kelly, for his years of research and writing on various facets of Utah and Western history. Mr. N. G. Morgan, Sr., for his generous contributions of time and money spent in the interest of preserving Utah's history and culture. Dr. Joel E. Ricks, professor of history at Utah State University, for a professional lifetime dedicated to the cause of history. He was for several years chairman of the history department at USU and for uninterrupted terms totalling nearly thirty-five years served on the Board of Trustees of the Society, eight years of that time as president. Mr. Horace A. Sorensen, prominent local businessman, for his unselfish devotion and tireless energy dedicated to the preservation of Utah's history and culture as evidenced by the Pioneer Memorial Museum at 3000 Connor Street, Salt Lake City, and the more recently established Railroad Museum and Village at Corinne, Utah. For eminence in historical research and writings, the following were designated "Fellows": Dr. Leonard J. Arrington, professor of economics, Utah State University. His book Great Basin Kingdom; An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900, published in 1958 by Harvard University Press, has received national acclaim as a significant work. He has written innumerable articles which have appeared in various magazines, including the Quarterly, dealing with various phases of Utah's economic history. Dr. LeRoy R. Hafen, professor of history, Brigham Young University, with his wife Ann as coeditor, has edited innumerable books, thus preserving valuable source materials from journals, diaries, and manuscripts. His remarkable "The Far West and The Rockies" series published by the Arthur H. Clark Company is nearing completion. For nearly thirty years Dr. Hafen served as director of the Colorado Historical Society. Mr. Dale L. Morgan, of the staff of the Bancroft Library, is honored for his dedication to the cause of history and aid to the Historical Society. For more than twenty years by his research and writing activities he has practically been an unpaid staff member, being responsible in great measure for editorial work on several volumes of the Quarterly, in particular the Powell volumes, XV and XVI-XVII. He has authored and/or edited numerous books on the fur trade, mountain men, HISTORICAL NOTES 423 and forty-niners. His The Great Salt Lake and Utah: A Guide to the State are outstanding contributions to the history of this area. After the appearance of "Vignettes of Park City" by Dr. William McPhee in the April Quarterly an interesting letter was received by the editor from Mr. Sam Raddon. In the interest of historical accuracy and for supplemental information pertaining to the above article we quote: I was particularly interested in Dr. William McPhee's "Vignettes of Park City." . . . With no wish to be thought critical of the interesting article, but for sake of accuracy of the record (and of the Park Record), I believe you may care to note that the founder of the Park Mining Record, as it was known in its first year, was James R. Schubach, rather than "James Shepback" as the name is spelled in Dr. McPhee's story (p. 140). And referring to the bottom of the page following, it was LePage H. (Lee) Raddon, my brother, not S. L. Raddon, my father, who died in 1957. Father passed away in 1948 in his 90th year, after 64 years of ownership and weekly publication of the Record, although he had retired in 1943, because of the handicap of advanced years, from active participation in its affairs. Father had worked on the Record, as a matter of fact, in its first year of publication. At that time he was a compositor on the Salt Lake Tribune, where he had started as a "newsboy," and spent his summer vacation in 1880 in Park City "at the case" for the Record. He acquired his first financial interest in the paper in 1884 and preserved it throughout his lifetime. Following father's death, L. H. Raddon continued publication of the Record. He had "grown up" on the paper and in 1905 had acquired in it the interests of our uncle W. A. Raddon, who had been associated with father in the business for nineteen years, and who moved in 1905 to Los Angeles where, in his 90th year, he is now living. Following the death of L. H. Raddon in 1957 his widow sold the Record to its present owners, thus breaking, or at least approximating the long-time record of one-family ownership and publication of a weekly newspaper west of the Mississippi. . . . / s / Sam Raddon Discussion of a pertinent book would ordinarily appear in the "Review" section of this magazine, but the editors wish to call special attention to The University of Utah, A History of Its First 100 Years. By Ralph V. Chamberlin (Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1960, 616 pp., $10.00). Although of somewhat localized interest, the book is extremely significant. Publication of this first one-volume comprehensive history of the University of Utah provides both an important 424 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY addition to the recorded history of the state of Utah and a valuable reference work permitting ready access to extensive data concerning the establishment and growth of the university, its colleges and departments, its faculty and administration, its student body and activities. The growth of higher education in Utah and in particular the growth of the university has been related historically to the growth of the state and to the important events of this growth. Numerous historically important individuals whose work at the university has been significant are treated in the volume. Many times during the first 100 years courageous individual effort kept the university alive, and the book indicates that unceasing personal effort from leaders in education has always been the price of educational progress. Dr. Chamberlin himself, for many years a professor at the university, was particularly well equipped to write the book after his long years of intimate acquaintance with and knowledge of that great institution. |
