24 WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH Buildings The buildings of Weber College reflect its history and provide for its expanding program. The Louis Frederick Moench Building, located opposite Lester Park on Jefferson Avenue between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Streets, is the fourth home of Weber College since its founding January 7, 1889. Classes were first held in the Second Ward Institute of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the autumn of 1889, the school was moved to the Ogden Tabernacle, and in the spring of 1890, to the First Ward Institute. By the year 1892, Weber Academy was housed in the first structure on the present campus, the east section of the Moench Building. In 1907, a wing on the west side was erected; and in 1934, through federal and state aid, the west entrance. From the early part of 1934 to the latter part of 1935, extensive repairs and renovations were made through funds made available by the government. The College Gymnasium Building, constructed at a cost of $300, 000, is situated on Twenty-fifth Street between Adams and Jefferson Avenues. It was dedicated January 9, 1925, to serve the interests of both the community and Weber College. Extensive remodeling on this building during the years 1934 and 1935 resulted in the addition of a west entrance and other improvements. The Vocational Education Building was ready for occupancy September 1, 1938. On August 25, 1937, the Public Works Administration made Weber College a grant of $65,592 for the construction of a Vocational Education Building to cost $145,760. It faces Adams Avenue between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Streets. The Central Building, the West Central Building, and the President's Home, located on Twenty-fifth Street between Adams and Jefferson Avenues, were purchased June 30, 1938 from the Ogden City Public Schools at a cost of $84,600. These buildings have been reconstructed to serve the purposes of college classes and the home of the President. The Men's Dormitory is the latest addition to the physical plant of Weber College. The Weber County Courthouse was leased to Weber College July 29, 1940 for a fifty-year period. Through the joint efforts of the College and the National Youth Administration this building was converted into a men's dormitory which accommodates one hundred thirty students. Four men may live in each of the small rooms; in a large room the men live barrack style. The dormitory has an apartment for the Supervisor, offices for the Supervisor and the District N.Y.A. Superior, and a large dining hall, kitchen, shower room, lounge and recreation hall, besides the living quarters. Board, room, and supervision are provided for the students here at a minimum cost. WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH 25 Purpose Weber College is a two-year state junior college offering two years of lower division college preparatory work and two years or less of terminal work. The scope of the institution is broad. It is organized to serve at least four major groups of students: (1) those preparing for upper division standing in institutions of higher learning, (2) those seeking a cultural education in courses that terminate at the end of the college sophomore year, (3) those desiring two years of semi-professional, trade and industrial, business, or other vocational training that will qualify them to enter the commercial and industrial world, and (4) those whose needs are best met by short term courses and cooperative programs. The primary purpose of Weber College is to promote the development of its students and to direct their development along socially desirable lines. Weber College accepts as its first obligation the undergirding of American democracy. Weber College accepts as its first obligation the undergirding of American democracy through the development of an enlightened citizenry and through full cooperation with and participation in the National Defense Training Program. The state has a right to expect its schools to develop youth and adults who will assume social and civic responsibility. Weber College also shares with the community and the home responsibility for the development in its students of personality and ethical character. Weber College combines cultural and practical objectives in its educational philosophy. Some people say that the purpose of education is to make a life. Others say that it is to make a living. But most college students in their preparation for successful living feel that their education should be a combination of the cultural and practical or vocational. Weber College subscribes to this point of view. As a result of this philosophy the distinction between academic and vocational courses is becoming less marked. Instructors teach academic courses with their vocational values in mind, and on the other hand, instructors in vocational courses consciously seek every opportunity to promote rounded cultural development. It is the belief of the faculty that this cooperation is possible without sacrificing the purpose or the unique pattern of either the terminal or the academic courses. Weber College maintains high standards of scholarship and performance in all fields as it liberalizes its purposes and offerings. The emphasis in education is being shifted from subject matter to student growth, from subject content to student needs, from the accumulation of information as an end in itself to the modification of behavior. To this changing emphasis Weber College subscribes, yet along with this liberalization of purposes and offerings, it persistently seeks to maintain high standards of scholarship and performance in all fields. The terminal function is often misinterpreted through erroneously connecting it with the notion that two years of college work is ample education and that students with that amount are made to feel that they "have arrived." It is important to stress here the fact that it is the course only that terminates, not the education of the individual. There is no end to education just as there should be no end to growth. The responsibility of the junior college for adult education arises out of the belief that two years of college work should not terminate the education of the individual.