BUILDING
AMERICA'S DEFENSE
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY'S
PRESIDENT, BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND STEWART LIBRARY INVITE YOU TO THE
UTAH CONSTRUCTION/ UTAH INTERNATIONAL
FIFTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
Wednesday, Oct. 5th
6 P.M.
Ethel Wattis Kimball Visual Arts Center, Dumke Family Atrium
RECEPTION
7 P.M.
Ethel Wattis Kimball Visual Arts Center, Lindquist Hall
LECTURE
""The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the US Army 2nd Ranger Battalion.""
SPEAKER
Dr. Douglas Brinkley
Honors Eccles Visiting Professor, Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization at Tulane University
October 5&6,2005
Wednesday. Oct. 5th
6 P.M.
Ethel Wattis Kimball Visual Arts Center, Dumke Family Atrium
RECEPTION
7 P.M.
Ethel Wattis Kimball Visual Arts Center, Lindquist Hall
LECTURE
""The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the US Army 2nd Ranger Battalion.""
SPEAKER
Dr. Douglas Brinkley
Honors Eccles Visiting Professor, Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization at Tulane University
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITS:
BUILDING
AMERICA'S
DEFENSE
MILITARY PROJECTS 1939-1975
located in Stewart Library's Special Collections
PRISONERS OF WAR IN OGDEN 1943-1944 located in the library's new entry level atrium
The Utah Construction Company, which incorporated in Ogden, Utah, in 1900, began as a builder of rail lines. The skills gained in grading routes and laying track would later expand into dam-building, construction, and mining projects in 16 countries on six continents.
Please join us in remembering World War II-era building projects including the Alaska Highway and Pearl Harbor's underground fuel tanks, as well as the Cold War-era uranium mining and construction of missile command centers and launch sites.
Thursday, Oct. 6th
Stewart Library Special Collections
8:15 - 9:00 A.M.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00 - 9:45 A.M.
LECTURE
""Building America's Defense""
SPEAKER
Dr. Robert Berlin
Professor and Director of Outreach, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
10 - 11:15 A.M.
PANEL DISCUSSION
""World War II & the Cold War: America Comes of Age""
Bill Allison - moderator Robert Berlin
Susan Matt Gene Sessions Charles Snow
Weber State University
Utah Construction/Utah International Fifth Annual Symposium
You are invited to join founders' families and friends in two special events Thursday, October 6:
UCC FAMILY HISTORY TOUR
2-4p.m.
Dr. Richard Sadler and Dr. Gene Sessions of the WSU history department will lead this tour of important locations in the founding and history of Utah Construction and Northern Utah. Travel will be on a comfortable, fully equipped WSU touring bus. Participants will receive information on pick up locations and times at the end of September.
RECEPTION AND DINNER
SOCIAL— 6p.m. DINNER —7p.m.
• BEST DRESS • Ogden Golf and Country Club
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY
