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Show Gail E. Plummer Professor of Speech Gail Plummer is an educator, an1 author and a civic servant. After 33 years on the University faculty, his favorite class is "a group of freshmen in Speech I." And for them he has written, "A Syllabus for Effective Speaking" which is used in classes here and at other universities. Another of his publications is The Business of Show Business, a product of his 27 years as manager of the University Theater and Kingsbury Hall. He enjoys humorous writing, and is now working on One Hundred and One Best Excuses or Alibiology, a collection of excuses given him by students, and My Life and Hard Times in the Hospital, a report of his experiences during a long hospitilization period after lung surgery. Mr. Plummer has served for nine years as president of the Salt Lake City Library Board and has worked for the new City Library and the Rose Park Branch Library. Of the branch library he said, "This will be everyone's university." Joseph Lundstrom of the Deseret News comments, "Indeed it will, and while youngsters in decades to come enjoy its facilities, Gail will be busy getting a library built somewhere else. He's that kind of citizen." "Affable like oak, leaning low," is the personality of Jay E. Welch, head of the Music Department. These words are taken from a poem to which he composed "Marshes of the Glyn," performed by the Utah Symphony Orchestra at the Utah Composers Concert. Since his graduation from the Paris Conservatory in 1951 with class honors in orchestra conducting, Dr. Welch has written several compositions, among them "Suite Romande." For the University Theatre he has written music for "Cavalcade, " "Richard III," "The Crucible," "Pippa Passes, ' "Romeo and Juliet" and "Much Ado About Nothing." He has also composed for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir of which he is assistant director. At present he is working on two operas, "Apple Tree" and "Three Marys." Like Sidney Lanier, the poet he admires, he, too, succeeds in making poetry into music. Jay Welch Head of Music Department tlxe growth of thoixg-ht. 27 |
