Contributed by Susan A. Polster
Dytanya “Bubby” Johnson thought he was coming to USU Eastern to play basketball last fall, but when he leaves in May, he leaves countless elementary, junior high and high school students as his new BFFs.
The six foot, eight-inch guard/forward on the Golden Eagle basketball team hails from Waldorf, Md., a suburb of Washington D.C. He played his freshman year at New Jersey Technical Institute, across the Hudson River to Manhattan, N.Y. He spent his sophomore season in Price, a community in the heart of the Wasatch Mountains.
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Posted May 8, 2013, 2:43 pm
USU Eastern’s Phi Beta Lambda placed four students at its state leadership competition on April 5-6 at Dixie State College in St George. Students competed in business events against the other two- and four-year colleges and universities in Utah.
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Posted April 18, 2013, 1:50 pm
A graduate of Emery High School will represent the USU Eastern class of 2013 as its valedictorian while a student from South Korea will be the first international student to represent the class as salutatorian. In the 75-year history of the school, an international student has never achieved this academic honor.
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Posted April 17, 2013, 5:26 pm
The vice president of business development of Mandalay Entertainment Group and native of Price will serve as commencement speaker for USU Eastern’s 75th graduation ceremonies slated for Saturday, April 27 at 10 a.m. in the Bunnell-Dmitrich Athletic Center.
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Posted April 17, 2013, 5:28 pm
Eighteen USU Eastern students will be honored at the annual awards program on Friday, April 25, at 7 p.m. in the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center multipurpose room, by the academic vice chancellor’s office. Also, all honor and high honor students will be awarded honor cords that evening.
Students honored by their departments include; Collette Marx from Price, who will receive the outstanding accounting award; Joshua Camp, Millard, outstanding anthropology award; Rachel Falk, Price, the outstanding art award; Chad Every from Price, the outstanding automotive technology award.
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Posted April 17, 2013, 5:33 pm
On a quest for another national title, USU Eastern welding students must qualify at the Utah SkillsUSA competition held in Salt Lake City where they compete against other college and high school welding programs in the state.
The students performed well the state level by winning two gold medals and a silver team medal recently. They are sending the post-secondary division winner and secondary division winner to the national level on June 24-29 in Kansas City, Mo.
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Posted April 17, 2013, 5:44 pm
Contributed by Shadayah Jones
USU Eastern criminal justice students witnessed real crime scene investigations at the State Crime Lab and toured a 100-year old prison in Idaho as part of two field trips in April.
On April 2, Dr. Richard Walton, associate professor of criminal justice took six students from his Crime Scene Processing class and field experience class to Salt Lake City to visit the State Crime Lab at the Bureau of Forensics Services.
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Posted April 17, 2013, 5:33 pm
Not many people can say they have spent their lives following a dream they discovered in National Geographic magazines as a child. But Pam Miller has followed her dream of archeology from child fantasies to adulthood. After around 26 years at USU Eastern, she is retiring to follow more dreams.
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Posted April 17, 2013, 5:42 pm
Contributed by Karli Morris
Recently, USU Eastern has taken over the cosmetology concurrent enrollment program with CTEC (Canyons Technical Education Center), previously contracted with Salt Lake Community College.
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Posted April 17, 2013, 5:31 pm
Contributed by Seth Richards
After 24 years, Ron Vogel associate professor of business, is retiring from USU Eastern this semester.
Vogel, a native of Ogden, was a student of art history when he first entered Brigham Young University. After being convinced of the futility of a career as an artist, Vogel studied business at BYU and accounting at Weber State University before moving to Price to be closer to his wife’s Lorilyn’s family: Brad and Mike King.
“I love the school. I love the area,” says Vogel, “This was a great place to raise a family and have a career.”
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Posted April 17, 2013, 5:43 pm
