the campus scene On Campus ee ae a Dr. Richard M. Alston Grand Canyon Hikers 1934. Professor Farrell Collett of the Weber State College Art Department inspects newly found portrait of Professor Louis F. Moench with Mrs. Walter Davis, a daughter of Professor Moench Davis the founders grandson. FOUNDER FOUND— BOILER ROOM and IN Don THE After an unexplained absence of fifteen years, the portrait of one of the founders and first principal of the Weber Stake Academy, Louis F. Moench, is back on the Weber State College campus. Discovered in the boiler room of the old Moench Building named after him the painting was inadvertently left behind when the college moved to the present location in 1954. Painted by a well-known Utah artist, Lee Greene Richards, in 1931, it was prominently displayed around campus until the move. Coinciding with the move was the appointment of a new college president and with the confusion of moving and reorganization the “Grand Old Gentleman of Weber’ was somehow left behind. One of the unique aspects of the discovery was the assistance, in part, by a descendent of Professor Moench, Don Davis, a grandson of the first principal and recent graduate of the institution founded by his forebear. Informed by an acquaintance as to the whereabouts of the missing portrait, Mr. Davis secured the painting and presented it to college President William P. Miller. The painting is considered extremely valuable by virtue of its historical significance, subject matter and the reputation of the artist. It seems strangly apropos that the portrait of Louis Frederick Moench, founder and first principal of the institution should seem rather reluctant to leave the building associated with his name and remembered in the minds of countless thousands of former students as the symbol of their college days. m= Student lab assistant Philip Carter conducts session in new Speech Laboratory. COUPLE MAKES SABBATICAL TOUR OF EUROPE... NEW LANGUAGE WEBER Professor Farrell Collett, noted artist and head of the Art Department at Weber State College, along with his wife Martie, assistant professor of Library Sciences, spent the school year of 1968-69 on a working tour of Europe. The colletts tour began in September of 1968 and terminated in May of 1969. During this period five weeks were spent in Great Britain, five weeks in Portugal, five months in Spain and six and a half weeks in the remainder of Europe. Professor Collett explained that his reason for taking a sabbatical leave in Europe was to acquaint himself with the programs of art study, as they existed in Scotland, England, Portugal, Spain and Germany. Professor Collett made sketches and paintings in most of the thirty-three cities that he and his wife visited, some of which were featured in the Fall 1969 issue of the Illustrator, a national artists magazine. Mrs. Collett assisted her husband in his study of the art and history of various Western European countries and spent much of her time in gathering data on the operation and use of libraries in the areas visited. A new language laboratory with the latest in electronic equipment, to accommodate 72 students, is operating at Weber State College. It replaces an older, smaller lab that became partially obsolete, said Oren E. Moffett, acting chairman of the Foreign Language Department. Design of the lab allowed expansion from 55 carrels to 72 positions without any major electronic changes, and tying it in with a dial access system, including television viewers. New cassette tape recorders and specially designed custom-built carrels and console, a recording room for preparation of tapes and portable recorders and tapes for loaning to students are other features. Mr. Moffett said he regards the lab as Professor Farrell 54 aa Collett LAB LIBRARY AT “one of the finest in the Western United States.” Students studying French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish use the lab simultaneously. The system caf accommodate an additional seven languages. Martie Collett DOCTORATE Richard M. Alston, assistant professor of economics at Weber State College, has received his doctor of philosophy (PH.D.) in economics from Cornell University. He is an honors graduate of the University of Utah and received a master of arts in economics from Cornell. He has held the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, the National Defense Education Act Fellowship and the Pres- idential Scholarship in Economics. z ston is a member of Phi Beta appa and Phi Kappa Phi national Onor societies and the American Fconomics Association. ; is dissertation is entitled “Commercial pon Enterprise: The Fear of Water Distortion.” the Genesis of Market t delves Beeb rise -poate ea at 4 FORMED into the reasons wh rivate has failed to ann an System of water resource and has left the developater resources to the govern- Dr. ie Bie a te LEAGUE Articles of incorporation were recently drawn up organizing the Weber State College Library League. The league will be administered by a board of trustees of from sixteen to twenty members with Emeritus Faculty Professor Thatcher Allred as chairman. James R. Tolman, head librarian at Weber State, explained that the purposes of the league were to promote a general knowledge of the function and needs of the library and to lead in the development of a program for the extension and improvement of its resources and services. Of primary interest to the league will be the securing of funds for special needs beyond the command of the library budget and to encourage the making of gifts, in kind . . . such as books, manuscripts and other appropriate materials to the library. The Weber State College Library is of great importance to the future development of the college and _ the community, and it is public interest in the library that the library league wishes to foster. es if served as a part-time eber State as well as aching assistant at Cornell. © is married to th S f Reynolds of Salt Lake a. ne Library Allred. League Chairman Thatcher Left to right back row: Grant McFarland, unknown, Maurice Johnson, Warren Miller, Wilson Jensen, Dwight Loosli, Eugene Lynch, Oliver Cliff, Jerard Klomp, Ira Dublois. Seated; Fred Harris, Paul Hararries, Ralph Nelson, Lamar Bennett, Earl Warman. Prone; Alden Brewer. FIELD STUDY TRIP REMEMBERED — 1934 Although field trips and group excursions are considered common learning practices today, they were pioneered and developed during the great depression among Weber State students in one of the most difficult financial periods in Weber State history. In early May of 1934 the Yeoman Club of Weber College made one of the first recorded field studies from the college. Organized by faculty member A. Russell Croft, the Yeoman Club was composed of Forestry and Ecology students. The club raised money to meet the expenses of the trip by staging boxing and wrestling matches in the Ogden area using both local competitors and professionals. Professor Croft later became a well known figure in National Forest Administration and has published numerous articles and books on erosion, forest hydrology, land management and other related subjects. A graduate of the class of 1915 Mr. Croft took an active role in athletics and drama at Weber and his great interest in Weber State is illustrated by a continuing association since. He served as the first president of the Alumni Association following its re-activation in 1940 and is currently serving as a member of the development fund of the college.