Weber State University - Acorn Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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Planting SeVENTv eight YEARS ago a little company of brave and sturdy pioneers spanned the vast wilderness to find a new home in the mountainsof the west. These pioneers walked most of the way from the Missouri River to the Great Salt I.ake, a distance of more than a thousand miles. In their covered wagons were ploughs and other implements, seed grain, and a season's supply of provisions. Hop did they not have to plant crop» for their subsistence during the following winter? In the spring of five thousand acres of land were under cultivation in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah. Nine hundred acres had been sowed with winter wheat. The welfare of the people in the valley and of those who were to come from the far away frontier depended on the suc- cess of this crop. The present supplies of the settler were getting very low. The brave little group was a thousand miles from anywhere'’ and the only means of communica- tion with the outside world was by ox team and pack- mule. If the harvest failed—what then?

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Foreword Any account of the hikes, rallies, and celebrations of a school year will be found to voice many of the school’s tra- ditions as well as to recall many incidents of personal interest to every student taking part. These factors have been deemed of sufficient importance to justi- fy the space given such activities in the Acorn this year. It is desired that the brief record of these events that it has been possible to here include will serve as a framework upon which your memory may hang the pleasant recollections of thousands of joyful moments that you would other- wise have forgotten; that your love for your Alma Mater and for your class- mates may grow with every passing year.