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Lecture is titled “Lessons in Leadership – 26 years with NASA”
EPHRAIM, Utah—March 8, 2004—Snow College today announced that Ron Dittemore, president of ATK Thiokol Propulsion, will deliver the Tanner Lecture on Human Values Thursday, March 18 at 7:00 p.m. in Founders Hall of the Noyes Building on the Ephraim campus. Dittemore’s lecture is titled “Lessons in Leadership – 26 years with NASA.” Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.
Dittemore’s final assignment at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was shuttle program manager and spokesperson during the Columbia disaster on and following February 1, 2003. He joined NASA in 1977 as a space shuttle propulsion systems engineer and served in several leadership positions including space shuttle flight director and manager of the space shuttle orbiter project office. Dittemore’s responsibilities included leadership, flight preparation and direction of space shuttle missions and design, development, modification, certification and testing of the orbiter vehicle.
Dittemore resigned from his position at NASA following the Columbia disaster and joined Alliant Techsystems (ATK) as an assistant to the chief operating officer. In February 2004, Dittemore was named president of ATK Thiokol Propulsion where he is responsible for the overall management of ATK’s space and strategic propulsion business unit.
The Grace A. Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Snow College is funded through an endowment established by the O.C. Tanner Foundation. Tanner Lectures are presented annually at many esteemed universities including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, University of California and University of Utah. Previous lecturers at Snow include George McGovern, Joan Mondale, Jake Garn, Scott Matheson France Davis and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
Snow College
Snow
College, founded in 1888, serves approximately 3,000 students at its Ephraim
campus. The college provides general education and applied technology programs
leading to Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of Applied
Science and Associate of Pre-Engineering degrees, and certificates of
completion in a number of occupational areas.
Once owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Snow
College became a state college in 1932.
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