Weber State University - Acorn Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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Owen F. Beal 19171919 r if t L Henry Aldous Dixon Joel E. Ricks 1920-1922 James L. Barker 1914-1917 Aaron W. Tracy 1922-1935 Dr. Leiand II. Creer 1935-1937

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McGavin McKendrick 1908-1910 David 0. McKay 1902-1908 Dr. George Phillips 1893-1891 William W. Henderson 1910-1914 Louis H. Moench 1889-1892 1891-1902 PAST PRESIDENTS Emil B. Isgreen 1892-1893 6

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As the nature of the curriculum changed, Weber Stake Academy became Weber Academy, later Weber Normal College and then Weber College. Again the name was changed when the State Legislature in 1962 authorized a change to Weber State to better reflect its role as a four-year, public college. Shortly after its organization in the Second Ward the school moved to larger quarters in the old LDS Tabernacle at 22nd and Washington. Hut after a few weeks there Weber was forced to close its doors for 18 months while its first permanent home was being built. This was the Moench Building, 2455 Jefferson, which was used along with other buildings on lower campus for the next 70 years. The classical structure was finished in 1892. The move to its present 230-acre campus at the loot of the Wasatch Mountains, 38th and Harrison, was made in 1954. In the early days board members and other officials made personal sacrifices to keep the school going, thus infusing into the institution a personality of integrity and of love that has carried Weber over many hard times. As the great events of the century unfolded - the depression, World War 11, the population explosion - Weber adapted its program to equip students for the needs of the times. Weber was divided into two divisions: transfer courses for students planning to finish college, and the vocational-technical programs lor those who wanted immediate employment. An important function in its role as a community college was the evening school. Records show that as early as 1900, courses were given in the evening, but the first regularly scheduled evning classes began with the opening of the 1938-39 term, and today Weber State’s evening scool is one of the largest in the West, outside of California. That Weber should eventually become a full-fledged four-year public college seemed inevitable to many of its leaders, as far back as the depression days. It was 1949 when the first organized attempt was made to induce State Legislators to authorize the expansion to senior college status. Success finally came in 1959, when the lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the “four-year bill”. Weber State now faces a bright, new era in its proud history - one involving great campus expan- sions, large faculties, greater enrollments, and add- ed opportunities too serve the community and the state.