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Show OMMENT WEBER STATE COLLEGE April 1981 ‘3 Center, plaza, to be memorialized Two dedications are scheduled for During each dedication program spring. plaques will be presented by The Science Center will be President Rodney H. Brady for dedicated as the John G. Lind placement in the Lind Science Center Science Center during a program and Tracy Plaza. April 23 at 3 p.m. in the Science Lecture Hall, room 127. The founding father of the This dedication will be in honor of Natural Sciences at Weber State the ‘‘founding father’’ of the Natural College was Dr. John Gustave Lind. Sciences at Weber State College. Dr. Lind started teaching at Remarks will be made by Dr. Weber Academy in 1896 a nxt Richard Moyle, professor of Geology, _ instructor in Latin and natural and who has collected artifacts, photos, and documents pertaining to the life physical sciences. He retired in 1938. This dedicated and sincere and career of John G. Lind. Dr. Walter Buss, an. Car. ly colleague of Professor was the Founding Father of the Natural Sciences at Weber. On Founders’ Day, May 1 at 11 a.m., the plaza between the Union many disciplines at the college. He contributed the entire time and Building and Browning Center will energy of his professional life to the Dr. Lind’s, will also speak. . ae : | : ‘ M : if Oo n bes r Al ec U m yy a n y q m Awa se ec , ] r ci by Arlene Wilson : | Milton C. Mecham, dean of admissions and records, who will coaching at the University of Utah. He also supervised the men’s dorms. retire this year from Weber State One hundred and twenty men were College, has been selected to receive the prestigious WSC Alumni Henry Aldous Dixon Award. The presentation of the award will be made at the Founders’ Day on a government project one-half day working on an Ogden elementary school and attending the junior college for the other half of the day. During that year, 1940, the Preside of the United States sent “T feel highly honored to be selected to receive this award, especially so because of the close notice to all members of the military who held commissions that they needed to serve on year active duty. “) Hc as isha oe association I had with President Dean Mecham had graduated from Lind and the ‘‘U’’ as a second lieutenant and students so in August of ‘41 he was sent with on a field Dean Mecham recalled that when the 7th Infantry Division to Ford fishing and hunting seasons came, President Dixon sent around a memo _ to all the faculty and staff saying, Ord, California. World War II started December 7 and he didn’t get home until August of ‘45, after “The health curriculum around here spending 35 months overseas in the () is shot. Let’s plan a fishing trip!’’ A day and place were set and everyone gathered there for the hunting or Pacific Theater of operations. ‘I just did what I had to do,” he said. Ike Armstrong, coach at the fishing. . “We had great evenings of “U;’ wrote and asked him to join his staff. He worked there until Bob story-telling and comradery,”’ he Davis left Weber in 1946 and said. Dean Mecham then applied as head football and began his long wrestling coach. He was head coach career at Weber State in 1940 as for 11 years, teaming with Reed assistant football coach and health, physical education and recreation teacher, following two years’ Swenson, who was head basketball coach. (Continued on page 2) fe : the Geology-Geograp epartment, were the mainstay to ts Seite through hard times at Weber Dr. Lind was extremely wali (Continued on aque 2) pag Dixon when he was President,’ said Dean Mecham. a , Banquet, May 1. eront es Gladwell, retired director of WSC News Bureau and a student at Weber College under Dr. Tracy, will also give brief remarks. , stature-of the Natural.Sciences and the success of the college. His private mineral and rock collections, to . “— es a steer eee be. dedicated the Aaron W. Tracy Plaza in honor of former President Beers ae a eae ‘ ‘ one pn a Tracy, will he ; , His expert leadership pioneered G trip. , |
