Weber State University - Acorn Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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Superintendent Joseph •'. Merrill has endeared himself to Weber for qualities, common to big men. reflected in a year of difficult transition, when he came to her first heading a visiting committee from the Uni- versity of Utah vehere he served as Director of the School of Mines and Engineering. He was honest-minded, direct, encouraging, constructive: a man with a sincere desire to be fair in his judgment, a man who wanted first to know the truth and then to have conditions right; a man who respected the desire of those influenced by his decisions; a man of tender feeling, of sensitive regard for the will of those whose lives be touched. Weber loved him then for his breadth of vision, the quiet consistent confi- dence that has been maintained in department relationship where he has suggested means for accomplishment of objective and acknowledged credit when due. In administrative relationship now. Weber welcomes him to counsel her youthful spirit.

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Weber men and women will miss the eight year contact of Dr. lien- nion as past Superintendent of Church schools, to renew it through his appointment to the advisory body of the present administrative system. They will like always to retain his inspiration, his spirit of youth; they will like to catch that infectious enthusiasm of his. to respond to his wit and sparkle and laughter; they will like to be stimulated by that keen challenge of mind, that impulsiveness of heart, that strength and wholesomeness which reflect his clean living; they will like to remember that charming sweetness of manner with which he extends to them always tender, comforting courtesies. Sensitive to fineness, to virtues in big men, to the real essence of their contribution to society; spontaneous in ex- pressed recognition of the little and the big things; in the heart of Weber he is that scholar and that gentleman who is the embodiment of youth’s ideal in Weber’s consciousness.

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Thomas McKay, fourteen years member, five years President of Weber's Hoard of Trustees; John V. Blutb, George :. Browning. Robert I. Burton, Henry II. Blood, William (). Stevens, and Howard Randall, promi- nent busy men of affairs, serve Weber’s larger community as an advisory body to Weber’s President. They are men who. having gone over most of the road themselves, keep alive the idea that life is good, that there is in it an inexhaustible fountain of joy provided young people equip themselves properly. It is with concern for that equipment that they counsel the way. displaying confidence always in youths’ ability to solve its own problems in a complex age. They are great-souled men, generous, with a distinct sense of the loyalty of individual responsibility to college affairs, in administration and activity; they are men with the echo of Weber’s yester- day in their hearts who serve the Weber of today with thought of the Weber of tomorrow.