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Show FOUNDERS DAY awards alumns, honors Mansfield In celebration of the 118th birthday of the founding of the University of Utah, February 28, 1968, the University Alumni Association conferred Distinguished Alumni Awards on four outstanding graduates of the school. This award is the highest honor the U can bestow on former students; it recognizes achievement, service, and dedication on the part of these alumni who have served the nation, the University, or their profession with distinction. In 1968 the awards went to Wendell J. Ashton, Vice President of Gillham Advertising Agency in Salt Lake City, a 1933 alumnus; Dr. Allen V. Astin, Director of the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C., a 1925 alumnus; Dean Dinwoodey, a prominent legal journalist, a 1922 alumnus; and Joseph Rosenblatt, President of the Rosenblatt Foundation, a 1926 alumnus. Another kind of guerdon, the Arthur V. Watkins Distinguished Congressional Service Award, bestowed by a national panel, was won by Michael J. Mansfield, Democratic Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate. This award was instituted on Senator Watkins' 80th birthday and honors a present congressman. Wendell J. Ashton Dr. A. V. Astin Dean Dinwoodey 50 |