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OFFICERS
DESMOND L. ANDERSON, President
LORNA JOLLEY, Vice President
JUNE FEULNBR, Secretary
STUDENT COUNCIL
EMMA RAE EYRE
VERN B. EYRE
LOIS FRYER
NORMAN JONES
KENNETH WEBB
EUGENE HANSEN

UTAH STATS AGRICULTURAL COLL€G€
Logan, Utah

February 14, 1948
Honorable Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Ecclest
The Associated Students of Utah State have this year inaugurated a new
educational venture at the institution. We have invited presidential aspirants
and OUTSTANDINGLY PROMINENT political leaders to appear here in a lecture and
discussion series.
The whole program has been envisioned as an educational effort to dispel
the apathy which is ordinarily associated with things of a political nature by
giving students an opportunity to make enlightened analyses of pertinent pol­
itical questions. It is our desire that through this series students will be
stimulated to increased and enlightened activity in the political life of our
society without resorting to the negative activity of mere sideline criticism.
Considerable interest and recognition is being accorded the program in
this area since the series began. Senator Wayne Morse accepted an invitation
to appear here and last month Harold Stassen lectured to our students end fac­
ulty. Mr. Henry Wallace has expressed his desire to participate in the series.
It is with a genuine interest in your own personal activities and achieve­
ments that I invite you to speak at Utah State. The ordinary individual
rarely has the privilege of seeing and hearing those who give history its
dramatic appeal. It is especially appropriate, for our purposes, that you, as
an outstanding national figure, are from among us. yfy parents, the Nils P.
Andersons of the Logan Seventh Ward, have always spoken and talked of you with
high regard. All this combines to give me a great personal desire to have you
accept our invitation.
Anytime between now and May that it may be convenient for you to appear
here will be acceptable to us. The earliest possible day would be most desirable
for our purposes. We hoped that there may be some business reasons for your
coming to Ogden this winter or spring with which you could coordinate an appear­
ance in Logan.




Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated.

President

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Mr. Desmond L. A n d e r s o n , President,
A s s o c i a t e d Students,
Utah State A g r i c u l t u r a l C o l l e g e ,
Logan, Utah.
Dear Mr.

A n d erson :

Mr. Eccles has left for a brief respite in the
South and intended before leaving to reply to your very
kind invitation of February 14. I am deliquent in not
having discussed the matter with him prior to his. leaving,
as he had previously expressed a great interest iti your
letter and the| hope that it would be possible for him to
take advantage! of your courtesy.
His program, however, has been so uncertain that
he could not neach. any definite conclusion -at this- time-.
I am wondering, since you suggest any time between now and
May, if I may not advise you shortly after his return as to
whether there would be a possibility of his meeting with you
as you suggest.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Elliott Thurston
Elliott Thurston,
Assistant to the Board.

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