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Another ~ajar .addition of facilities during this period was the

installation in the .Joseph Smith Auditorium of the pipe organ which prev-

~ously had served in the Salt Lake Tabernacle ~or many years~ This great

instrument, . which had just been rerJlaced by a new ins·trumen:t in .the his-.

toric tabernacle, was given to the University by the Church ~uthorities .• . .

After necessary remodeling was made .in the space above and behind ·t.he : .

. :stage, the inst~llation was· completed in 19~9. ·

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·o:f the leadership .,;,hi ch Dr ... de .Jong ,,• '· .

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l7

A year before ·the South American leave of Dean de Jong, President

HcDonald had acted .upon his recommendation of a change in the .chairman-

ship of the :Music Department. Prof. Leroy J. Robertson, who .had .been ·a

member of ~ts factilty since 1924, was named as ~ts head to succeed Prof-

Flo:renc·e Jepperson Madsen. After only two years, however, Prof.. Robert-··

son resigned to ace ept a similar ,appointment at the University of Utah

where his .forme~ fellow-townsman from Pleasant Grove,. Utah, .:Or .• A. Ray .. . :~.' . < .. '

'·. cilpin, hadre.cently become president.

This ·change o~curred in. 1948, foii'~wing the. return of Iiean . . . . ' · . .' ... . ,···.

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18

nuring ~h~ first five post-war years :the output of bachelor's d~gree

r.ecip·ients in ~F'ine Arts increased to an av:er_age ·o£ .... 54-.-·per·-·year as compared

with 31 per year in the decade 1935-45. The number of graduates .from the

University as a whole rose even ~ore rapidly, however~ so that the output

of the College represented 9 per cent of the total i]J) 1946-50 as ·compared

with .12 per cent of the ··

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l \J THE WILKINSON YEAR.S, 1951-71

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In the two decades of the presidency of .brnest L. vi:Llkinson, the

Coll-ege o·f .Fine Arts experienced both its greatest period of growth a:nd

its most notable academic and arti,s:tic achievements. These developments

Were enhaDC ed 'by its OCCUpancy 1 at the beginning Of j_ ts 4.0th y.ear l11 .·

·september, 1964, of the new Harris Fine Arts Genter ... · .. :Ai.tfterr·:y~ar£L.o:lf,·::'<"

:careiful::,:planrlihisi t'his·:str.tict.ure "had been ~rected during 1962-64 as.~ ·• .. ''-·

Iit•tfrig; ··sho.~c~se fch-' tb~ v.isu~l and performi'ng ~~·ts .. , .. -~-·-1 i . - . •' .-~ ..

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'I'he first department chairman to be retired was Dr. Pardoe from the

Speech Department in l952. He was succeeded by Harold I. Hansen, whom

President l;Jilkinson brought to the campus from Utah State University (then

Utah State Agricultural College). The department was divid~d into two

part~ from 1961 through 1967, with Dr. Hansen continriin~ a~ ~ead oS

Dramatic Arts untii lg66 and Morris M.

Lael .. J. vJoodbury .became chairman. :of Dramatic Ar·ts i·n

beaded the ~ec6mbined