Founders Celebration 2010

Southern Utah University celebrated its founding March 24 & 25 with a variety of festivities:

Thursday
A new SUU tradition was created. Lunch at The Main featured food and stories from our founding as presented by SUU Alumni and Emerti. It was an overwhelming success!

The Howard R. Driggs Memorial Lecture was presented by Daniel Walker Howe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American Historian.

Friday
The restored Jenson Saw Mill was dedicated at the Frontier Homestead State Park Museum (formerly the Iron Mission State Park). The Saw Mill is significant in SUU history as it cut the original timbers used to build Old Main.

The annual Founders Celebration Dinner & Awards was held in the Great Hall where David Grant , Diana Graff and Terry Alger each received Distinguished Service Awards. David served as a member of the Board of Regents and was a tireless proponent of SUU; Diana Graff is a 35-year library veteran of SUU and served as our first female academic dean; Terry Alger served as SUU Provost for 18 years during an important time of growth for the University and is still a professor of Chemistry. Also during the ceremony several important donors were recognized for their generosity in making the new science building a reality.

Happy Birthday SUU!