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Show HISTORICAL NOTES TENTH ANNUAL MEETING A large portion of this issue of the Quarterly is devoted to events surrounding the Society's annual meeting. It is with great pleasure that we do this, for the Tenth Annual Meeting proved to be one of the most successful ever held. The number in attendance exceeded that of any previous year. The members and friends of the Society joined in a social Social Hour held prior to the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society. UTAH STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY I'HOTOCRAI'll hour prior to the dinner. Here pleasantries were exchanged and friendships renewed. And then the meeting itself proved to be an unusually interesting one - with a fine dinner, a concise and illuminating President's Report, and an entertaining and colorful speaker, whose address is presented in this Quarterly, Recipients of Annual Awards for 1962. Left to right: fuanita Brooks, Fellow; David E. Miller, Fellow; A. R. Mortensen, Honorary Life Member. COURTESY Salt Lake Tribune ANNUAL AWARDS The program of annually recognizing outstanding contributors to Utah history was part of the evening's entertainment. Board member, L. Glen Snarr announced the selection of Dr. A. R. Mortensen as recipient of an Honorary Life Membership in the Utah State Historical Society "not only for his service to the cause of history in the state of Utah, but for his research and writing as well." Part of his service consisted of serving as director of the Society from 1950 to September, 1961. It was during his directorship that the Society was built into a respectable and recognized historical institution. Also as part of the awards program, two of Utah's most successful authors were made Fellows of the Utah State Historical Society. Mrs. Juanita Brooks was cited for her contributions to history as a past board member of the Society and as author and editor of outstanding 370 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY historical works. Writings of Mrs. Brooks have appeared in numerous periodicals, but she is best known as the author of The Mountain Meadows Massacre (1950) and John Doyle Lee, Zealot - Pioneer Builder - Scapegoat (1961). Her editing with Robert G. Cleland of A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1846-1876 (1955), won her wide acclaim. Dr. David E. Miller, professor at the University of Utah, was the other writer honored as Fellow. Dr. Miller has written on various subjects concerning early trappers and traders in Utah and the West. His research on Peter Skene Ogden's activities in Utah is particularly outstanding. But his book, Hole in the Rock: An Epic in the Colonization of the Great American West (1959) has brought him his broadest recognition. Dr. Miller's insistence upon field work or on-the-spot inspection of historic sites and trails has enabled him to correct and amplify many previous accounts. The Society is honored to have such capable and careful scholars receive this year's awards. STUDENT AWARDS With the hope that younger historians' interest in the Society would be awakened and the thought that outstanding students should be given proper recognition, the Society this year initiated a program of Student Awards. In each of the four-year institutions of higher learning of the state, the history faculty selected the history student to be recognized by the Utah State Historical Society. Each selectee was given a certificate award and a year's membership in the Society. Their names will be entered on the rolls of the Society as students who have excelled in history. Those selected to receive the first Student Awards are: Wayne Kendall Hinton, Utah State University, a native of Utah's Dixie, has established a record of achievement in his academic career. Awards have become almost commonplace to this young man who was chosen as the outstanding history student at Dixie College in 1960, and who, this year upon graduation from Utah State was granted that school's Graduate Research Fellowship. Curtis Jenson, Westminster College, a native of Idaho and resident of several western states before enrolling at Westminster, began a career in engineering at Brigham Young University. However, after an absence to serve his church and a military stint, Mr. Jenson took up the HISTORICAL NOTES 371 study of history. Upon graduation, Mr. Jenson re-entered the service of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he had previously been employed. R. J. Snow, University of Utah, born in Iron County, but raised in Washington, D.C., and St. George, has achieved an enviable record in scholarship and student activities. Among these activities were editor of his school paper and student-body president of Dixie College. Mr. Snow's graduate work will be carried on in Connecticut under a fellowship granted by the National Center for Education in Politics. WAYNE KENDALL HINTON Utah State University CURTIS JENSEN Westminster College R. J. SNOW University of Utah ROBERT N. WHITE Brigham Young University 372 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Robert N. White, Brigham Young University, was born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Glendale, California. After army service in Germany, he entered Glendale College and then Brigham Young University where he began his history studies. As evidence of his accomplishments, he was awarded a National Defense Fellowship to Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts) to pursue a course of study in American Colonial and Early National United States history. The Society is pleased to have such outstanding young men receive these awards. It joins the many friends who wish them success in their future endeavors. GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY The Utah State Historical Society, always dependent upon the good will and generosity of friends and members in building its manuscript and photograph collection, wishes to acknowledge gifts of exceptional value in the pages of the Quarterly. First of these are some outstanding diaries presented to the Society by Mrs. Mae Crosby White, of Beaver. They consist of diaries of her grandparents, Jonathan and Caroline Barnes Crosby. The Caroline Barnes Crosby memoirs begun at Tubuai, Society Islands, in 1851, cover the period 1807-1846. Her journals are from 1848-1864 and 1874-1882. "A biographical sketch of the life of Jonathan Crosby written by himself," Smith Crosby ledger book (1870-72), a family register, temple record (baptisms, endowments, sealings), and miscellaneous family papers complete the collection. Mrs. Emily Smith Stewart, Salt Lake City, has favored the Society with important business records of the Kanab Cooperative Stock Company, in which her grandfather, John Henry Smith, was associated. The records cover the operation of the company during its existence and constitute a very important source for the study of co-operative ventures in southern Utah. They are important for another reason; they shed light on the business activities of a very prominent Utah man, John Henry Smith, who, aside from many other important positions, was the president of the Constitutional Convention which successfully drafted the Utah State Constitution put into operation January 4,1896. More and more, the picture collection of the Society is playing a larger role in the over-all operation of the Society. And yet, it is operated almost entirely from donations and a very small return from the sale of prints. Even so, Librarian Margaret Shepherd has made remarkable HISTORICAL NOTES 373 progress in her acquisitions. The latest addition came through the cooperation of Mr. Roy W. McLeese, Salt Lake City Engineer, and the Salt Lake City Commission. In July, 1,161 glass negatives were transferred to the Society. The photographs were taken between 1904 and 1930, and record graphically the growth of the city with its improved and enlarged water, sewer, street, and fire protection systems. Here is a source of information for future engineers and historians to' ponder. The Society accepts with sincere thanks and deep appreciation these gifts from persons interested in the Society's growth and the preservation of our historical heritage. |
