MARCH 1979 COMMENT PAGE2 ent Cm OE i ENS Nc ar Some like it hot, some How’s your child? (continued from page 1) able to express themselves without fear of reprisal or putdown. ee i es ae \a postage Ole paid at State College with editorial offices in overly-anxious the Alumni Office, Ogden, Utah 84408. Wilson. Directors BY SPENDING time with his sons in activities they enjoy, Dr. Frank Apolonio says, “you are important to me.” His four left to right, Jade, 5, Lance, 7, Dirk, 10, and Troy, 8. He also has a daughter, Minda, 3, who chose not to join Photos by a Greg Garfield Lewis Joseph Jerry Lindquist Donna Roberts Jeff Flamm Mike Hunsaker Donnell Stewart Jim Packer Mike Schoenfeld rsa in, and wife, Julia. Lorna Rich Tim Blackburn Gene Hansen Paul Skeen George Stromberg Heed Swenson Michael D. Lyon Dick Speechly ae aN rd ig ers a Arlene sae = aa nM SN EE OE Editor: Alumni Board of Directors Executive Committee a Alumni le Nk is mailed at no charge to alumni of Weber State College. Tim Morris, president Kent Petersen, first vice president Margaret Favero, second vice president Alan E. Hall, executive director are, Se Vol.11 No.3 Mar. 1979.COMMENT about your child. It undermines a child’s feeling of self confidence if parents don’t show appropriate confidence in them for their age and maturity. sons pe et Ogden, Utah, published five times a year in October, December, February, April and June at Weber ,— be Second-class eee CU This is really saying ‘I enjoy being with you, you are im portant to me. We'll do it together.”’ @Don’t the warmest. ‘Looking at the charts over the one hundred year period, then,’”’ Dr. Murphy concludes, “the climatic trend in the area seems to be toward slightly cooler and drier winters with slightly hotter and wetter summers. This would not appear to support grandfather’s claim to colder and wetter winters in the past, but it does not deny the fact that certain past winters may indeed have been extremely cold or wet.”’ COP @ Join in parent-child activities. If your toes, fingers and heating bills said ‘‘cold winter”’ this year records affirm that January was one of the coldest while January ‘78 was one of R. lle CO lee examined Utah climate records, drawing some interesting conclusions. ‘It appears that January temperatures presently average 2 TEMPERATURE AND precipitation reveal climate trends to Dr. Don Murphy, professor of Geography. eed Quarterly, ~ Historical Ce of Utah lO. professor of Geography. ‘The misimpression of ‘rougher winters in the past’ may be due to man’s advancing technology that... allows us to travel in heated automobiles on wellmaintained highways instead of open buggies along snowdrifted lanes or relax through hot summers in air-conditioned homes instead of spending such summers suffering through what seemed like endless hot days and sleepless nights.”’ Dr. Murphy’s ‘One Hundred Years of Utah Climate” published in the fall 1978 issue lee much deeper than at present,”’ said Dr. Don R. Murphy, bed Oe to 3 degrees Fahrenheit colder than they did earlier in the twentieth century while July during the temperatures present century are 1.5 to 2 degrees warmer than _ they were during the nineteenth century,’ said Dr. Murphy. He also found that March and November temperatures have been dropping through the years except for a slight rise during the last 30-year interval. “Precipitation has increased in April, June, July and August but decreased in May and all other months,”’ he said. The steady decline of May precipitation, which is such an important time for crop growth may be more significant for agriculturalists than the slight increase in precipitation during the following warm months. Dr. Murphy pointed out that while the winter of 1976 was one of the driest on record April, ‘76, was the wettest along the Wasatch front so precipitation was “normal!” for the year and won’t show up as a dry year on charts. “As a child many a Utahn probably sat at Grandfather’s knee and heard him tell stories when, as a lad, winters were colder and the snowfall was _ like it cold