From Deseret News archives:
Crowd of 1,000 closes the door on UVSC, gives UVU big welcome
Pres. Monson emphasizes importance of education
About 1,000 people gathered to listen as President Thomas S. Monson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints offered a dedicatory prayer at the newly named school. Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, shared their thoughts about the school's advancement to university status, along with several other politicians.
"Literally thousands of students have benefited from this institution," President Monson said.
His remarks emphasized the importance of getting an education. During the dedicatory prayer, he blessed UVU students that they "might recognize the privilege they have to study and learn."
There is no room in this economy, President Monson said, for unskilled laborers.
"'The uneducated need not apply' is the unseen sign on every employment door," he said.
The dedication, which also celebrated the completion of the Digital Learning Center, reminded the church leader of another ceremony he was involved in at the Orem campus.
"I've been to a lot of dedications here and there," he said, with a half-smile. "Never one quite like this first groundbreaking, though."
Sorenson was tardy to that first groundbreaking and rode in on a horse at the last second. He hitched the horse to the bleachers that had been set up for the ceremony and grabbed the shovel, President Monson said.
"I call him a pioneer," he said. Sorenson and others who worked to bring the valley's humble vocational school up to university standards "have shown us the way to follow," he said.
Herbert agreed. He has been involved with UVU, he said, since he chased lizards through the sand hills of the historic Bunnell farm before it became the Orem campus. He took classes there as a high school student.
"These kinds of things happen because of the good works of many people coming together," he said. "We stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before."
All of the school's past presidents were in attendance. President Monson took a moment to congratulate Wilson Sorenson, who was president for 37 years, before taking the stand. He playfully placed a UVU hat on his head.
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