Weber State University - Acorn Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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By 1916 the high school curriculum had been ex- panded to include two years of college classes and was renamed Weber Normal College. This enabled the students to quality tor teaching positions in the state If they so desired The year of real movement toward a future was 1923 At that time the high school classes were drop ped from the curriculum and Weber became soley a ,umor college Only ten years later, on July I. 1933. the college was transferred as a gift to the State of Utah and became a state funded junior college. During the years of economic growth following WWII. Weber Junior College began to seek another campus area In 1947 it secured the area between 37th and 40th streets from Harrison Blvd to the mountains. Four years later, construction began on the upper campus. The stadium area was completed and used for the 1953 football season. Buildings one. two. three, and four were ready for students to begin their studies in 1954 The year of 1954 was a trying time for the college. The Legislature and the Governor passed legislation to return the college to the L.D.S. Church. Through the efforts of concerned individuals, petitions were signed statewide As a result, a referendum was submitted to the voters in November of that year and the college re- mained a state funded |umor college by choice of the voters. May 14. 1963. was another important step forward for Weber Junior College. On that day. the name of the institution was again changed and it became a four- year college. Weber was now Weber State College. The first seniors to graduate from the four-year college were in 1964. The college was expanding to enable the local citizens to get their education while living at home and realizing great financial savings The decade of the sixties brought with it expansion to the campus. By 1964 the lower campus had been vacated and the upper campus was the home of the college The science, education.social science, ad- ministration. student personnel center. Union, art. library, fine arts, and student housing buildings were added to the campus by the early seventies. lcchs donated ffti buM to Weber Academy to agirH dormitory with the understanding that it the College moved the home would f converted to on art Center Thu happened m 1950 8v ng from the Pa',1 7

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