Weber State University - Acorn Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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The ACORN 19 17 The Board of Trustees AS TIIE executives fartherest removed from the students themselves, but most definitely connected with student welfare, the members of the Board of Trustees have sympathetically assisted Weber College to its status as a self-reliant educational institution. These men have, this year, consistently and generously planned for Weber, as leaders, and supported her, as men. Stepping far enough ahead of the students and side by side with Presi- dent Aaron W. Tracy, this Board, under the guidance of its president, Thomas E. McKay, has served to bind together the College and the Church Board of Education, and through its vision and foresight to emphasize We- ber individuality. Alumni ONCE a Weber student, always a loyal supporter of Weber activities and ideals!” This is a keynote to a distinctive characteristic of the spirit of our college which has reached its culmination in the Alumni As- sociation ably guided by John Q. Blaylock, Harvey L. Taylor, Bertha Eccles Wright, Erma Galbraith and Lucille Parry, officers. As guardians of Weber College, the Alumni, in recognition of this school’s services to them, purpose that this institution may become pre- eminent in this community. Each year the members, visualizing a greater and more influential Weber, purchase a property addition to our campus. They are also loyal supporters of the Tournament, school socials, the Little Theatre movement, and all other school activities, and each year they give a banquet and dance wherein the graduates are made official members of the association. That Weber spirit, through the self-reliant, unflinching character of its students of yesterday and today, may influence the lives of those with whom these graduates come in contact, and that progress, through the individuality and righteous efforts of its propogators, may never cease is the sincere desire of this college, and that the fulfillment of such a hope is inevitable so long as we have an alumni association of present enthusiasm, loyalty, and courage, is recognized.

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The ACORN 19 17 President and Faculty WITH the closing of a number of Weber’s sister Junior Colleges through the action of the church education- al board, President Aaron Ward Tracy, the vision endowed admiral-in-chief of the Weber College ship, has contended this year for the school, realizing that on his attitude to- ward existing conditions rested the support of the church and the admiration of the people. In spite of the extreme strain that the president and his faculty have fought under, they have observed his afore-mocked-at visions and be- come dynamic forces in Weber—forces which have mold- ed the individuality of the college so nicely, that in this, her fourth year, she shows a progress unequaled by that of any other Utah college. Sailing as super-cargo, the faculty members have never refused to spend their time on deck in bad weather nor to pull on the oars when the boat has leaned and leaped and hesitated cunningly on the top of the broken foam. They have at the president’s suggestion equipped their crew and fellow passengers with the knowledge that stands for them in the stead of life-boats; they have cast off the medieval anchors of precedent and conformity and have wrought from the ore of self-reliance the modern anchor of common sense. To their service the small, exceptionally manned liner that is now Weber will stand an endowed tribute.