Ps — ee Eat Second long-time city councilman, best record ever a yee old People’s party and paving the way to statehood. ! Frank J. Cannon, one of Utah's first United States senators was from Ogden and William ‘ Glasmann was another power in _ local and state politics. He served — as Speaker of the House and as — mayor of Ogden. During the territorial period Ogden nurtured two of the most important figures in the woman suffrage movement: Jane S. Past efforts to achieve necessary to interest Mormons in both national parties if national party alignments were to succeed in ending the old religious — rivalries. Mormons tended to support the Democratic party. Again, Ogden was in the forefront of the new movement. In 1891 a Republican club was organized in Ogden and a few weeks later a Democratic club was also organized with a non-Mormon as president and a Mormon vice-president. ‘The following summer similar organizations were established in Class Notes ~ ~ Richards, wife of LDS Apostle said statehood had failed and it was — blessings of the Mormon leaders as a prelude to breaking up the Franklin Dr. White. Shock waves from the election in Ogden rolled over the state...a wave of change, started in Ogden, was sweeping over Utah politics. Dr. White points out that the political climate began to change with the issuance of the Manifesto. The population doubled from 1860 to 1870 and a new political party made up of “Gentiles” anda group of disaffected Mormons who objected to church control of financial and economic affairs in the territory was organized. It has a discouraging history at first, failing year after year. “With the passage of the Edmunds Act in 1882 the picture began to change,” said Dr. White. “This act disfranchised all practicing polygamists.To achieve that end a five-man body called the Utah commission was sent to the territory to take over all the Salt Lake City. Both had the Ry 1869. Therefore, in January the Ogden City Council passed a new election ordinance providing for a numbered ballot..and a requirement that anyone voting had to have been a resident of the city six months. This later clause would effectively prevent the railroad laborers from voting. The ordinance also provided that no one could be appointed or elected to any city office unless he had been a constant resident of the city for at least one year. This provision would further head off political involvement by the railroad workers or by others whom the railroad might attract to Ogden. electoral functions...a reading of the books of the commission shows that their major aim was to get as many Mormons off the voting rolls as possible and to make it convenient for non-Mormons to register and vote. They excluded 12,000 men and women from voting by reason of polygamy by November 1882 | The election of 1889 is often held to be the turning point in Utah territorial politics...Fred J. Kiesel, a German immigrant merchant and entrepreneur- and a non-Mormon- had become the new mayor by 400 votes over © John A. Boyle, a Mormon and a D. Richards, and her daughter-in-law Emily S. Richards. The pair organized suffrage groups all over Utah. And Ogden also provided one of . the first women members of the state legislature, Sarah Anderson, who was elected in 1896. “By the mid-1920’s Ogden and Weber County had a stable two-party system. Although i ~ voting with the state and nation : much more often than not, they still reserved the right to be different. They always remained a potential challenge to Utah’s political conservatism,” said Dr, White. , Class Notes _ service. Acting as liason between Hill AFB and the news media, Bowman was ihvolved in community relations programs conducted by the base as well as internal information programs. He received an associate degree in business at WSC in 1942 and at the University of Utah in 1948 in marketing and ; P management. He and his wife, Beverly, reside | in Roy. They have three children and three grandchildren. (continued from page 3) Johnson hit .791 percent of his charity tosses (223-282). Johnson set a Wildcat season mark this year, making 91 of 108 for .843, breaking Greg Harrop’s mark of .823 (84-102) set in 1966. Mark Mattos continued to pile up more assists on his own record. Mattos ended his career with 642 assists (5.8 average). He has the school and Big Sky record for most assists in one game, 17 vs. Montana State in Bozeman. Head Coach Neil McCarthy, whose 5% year record now stands at 116-48 (.707) was named BIG SKY CONFERENCE COACH OF THE YEAR and DISTRICT SEVEN COACH OF THE YEAR. Bruce Collins was named | Page 4 DISTRICT SEVEN PLAYER OF THE YEAR for his efforts. Collins is expected to be named to two or possibly three post-season teams. The .518 percent the team shot as a whole from the field (844-1628) also established a new school and conference record. Weber also set some records in “lows” with 28 in a game against Northern Arizona (WSC won 28-22), fewest rebounds in a game, 10 (vs. NAU), fewest field goals made, 9 (vs. NAU) and fewest field goals attempted in a game, 14 (vs. NAU). The Wildcats also set a record for fewest points in a half, 12 against both NAU and Idaho. DR. JAMES W. FRESTON of the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City has been named chief of medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center, effective July 1. Dr Freston has five appointments at Utah, including professorships in medicine and pharmacolory and chief gastroenterology. He succeeds Dr. Irwin H. Lepow, a world famous immunologist who left UConn a year ago to head the Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute in Rensselaer, N.Y. A Utah native, Dr. Frestone is an expert on the effects of drugs on digestive diseases. He is a graduate of WSC, Univeristy of Utah medical school and he also received a Ph.D. from the University of London. JOHN P. MATHEWS has been elected a director and assistant vice president of Edison Brothers Stores Inc. of St. Louis, MO. He joined Edison on a part-time basis while attending WSC in 1960. In 1968 he was named director of training and personnel. He is married to the former Jean Holbrook of Ogden. They have 3 children. ROBERT H. BOWMAN, deputy public affairs officer, has retired after 38 years of federal ery a considerable resistance to some of the candidates favored by the church. A pattern of voting for some church candidates and abstaining from voting for others (but not voting for the opposing candidate) can be seen by ~ examining certain voting records of the territorial period.” In early 1869 the building of the transcontinental railroad was proceeding rapidly, and the local leaders worried about what would happen if railroad workers arrived in the city and votedunder the rather loose election ordinances in the city election of % ——— “Probably no area in Utah has had a more colorful and interesting political history than Ogden and Weber County,” said Dr. Jean Bickmore White, WSC political science professor, in a recent article in the Utah Historical Quarterly. | Dr. White explored the history “characterized by strong personalities, intense conflicts, and differences as well as similarities with political patterns in the rest of Utah.” Weber County stood in the forefront of the struggle between Mormons and Non--Mormons for political domination of the state during the territorial period. As national political parties emerged, it became a stronghold for the Democratic party, only to turn Republican later, as did the state. Later still, it swung from one party to another. No one could take it for granted, she stated. Dr. White traced politics from 1851, when city officers were appointed by the territorial governor, Brigham Young, through early “elections” where men were acclaimed officers by a voice vote and the outcome was a foregone conclusion. “During this period officials of the city generally were also Mormon church officials of the area...research shows that on occasion the people demonstrated re pea ; “ae wee =... oh Bs ¥ z o—— \ peek iz tae "Colorful" political history in Weber County NEIL H. CHRISTENSEN, Tempe Arizona, has been elected vice president by the VNB board of directors of the Valley National Bank of Arizona. Mr Christensen initially joined the bank in 1972 as a tax accountant and assistant controller. He was appointed assistant vice president in 1978. He is a 1968 accounting graduate of WSC. q STEPHEN R. BENNION has been appointed vice president and treasurer of the Envirotech Corporation. He joined Envirotech in 197023 director of taxes after holding positions with the Internal Revenue Service and the public accounting firm of Ernst & Ernst. He holdsa B.S. degree in accounting from WSC and attended the University of Utah Graduate School of Business and is a Certified Public Accountant. He resides with his wife Carolyn and four children in Los Altos Hills, California. MAX BROWN is a professional actor in network television commercials in New York and appears regularly in magazine ads. He played in a number of WSC theatre productions during his student years at Weber, including South Pacific, The Golden _ Fleece, and My Fair Lady. | §) W i i q i 7 _ r