===. FOUNDERS A TIME FOR REMEMBERING 1970 .... After a lapse of several years the practice of observing the founding of Weber State College has been revived. The 1970 Founders Observance was held May 8 in the Union Building Ballroom. Some one hundred seventy people attended the luncheon to hear Harvey L. Taylor deliver the keynote address and witness the presentation of the first annual H. Aldous Dixon Memorial Award. Alumni Association President M. LeRoy Mecham welcomed the gathering to the luncheon, introduced some special guests and recounted, in brief, the history of the school to date. Of interest to those in attendance were models of the new Social Science complex and the Stewart Bell Tower which were displayed in front of the head table. Construction is to begin on both the bell tower and the social science building immediately, with the tower to be completed before the end of fall quarter. One of the high points of the luncheon was the presentation of the first H. Aldous Dixon Memorial Award to Dr. Dello G. Dayton, Dean of the School of Arts, Letters and Science. Dr. Dayton is presently on a leave to attend a seminar program in California but had arranged to return for the luncheon. The H. Aldous Dixon Memorial Award was set up by the Alumni Association to give much deserved recognition to those individuals in full-time positions at Weber State College who render outstanding service to the campus and the community. Dr. Dayton’s tenure at Weber State has been long and productive. As he mentioned upon accepting the award he came to Weber on a temporary arrangement in the Spring quarter of 1946 and is still here. During that period Dr. Dayton left the campus briefly, between 1947 and 1951 M. LeRoy Mecham, DAY Dr. Dello G. Dayton and a proud Mrs. Dayton. to earn both a masters and doctorate degree from the University of California. Dr. Dayton returned in 1951 and has been on the faculty for the past nineteen years. llo Dayton is a native of Cokeville, Wyoming and received his formal education at Cokeville High School, Utah State University and the University of California. He is married to the former Verlie Loosli of Providence, Utah and has three children. Mrs. Dayton and the Dayton family, Verlie Gaye Dayton Delange, Kathleen Dayton Van Orman and Joel Kim Dayton; were all in attendance at the luncheon. Tribute was paid by Dr. Dayton to those people who had been instrumental in his success at Weber State, specifically, his family, the late Henry Aldous Dixon, for whom the award was named and Dr. William P. Miller current president of the institution. Dr. Dello Dayton brings a very impressive list of prior honors to this award. In the past he has been named a winner of the Phi Kappa Phi national fellowship, a member of the Phi Kappa Phi, National Honorary Scholastic Society and recipient of the Willard D. Thompson Memorial Scholarship. In 1965 he was named the outstanding teacher at Weber State College. In a professional capacity Dr. Dayton has also served as chairman of the Social Science Division at Weber State, President of the Utah Academy of Science, Arts and Letters and President of the Utah Conference on Higher Education. To list all of the accomplishments of this man would take us several pages. While at the college Dello Dayton has more than given of himself in promoting the programs of the college and it has been remarked many times that it is very fitting that the first H. Aldous Dixon Memorial Award be bestowed upon him. Dr. Henry Aldous Dixon was one of the state of Utah’s foremost educators and leaders. Dr. Dixon served as Superintendent of Schools in Provo, was an instructor at Brigham Young University and President of Utah State University in Logan. He was a businessman, civic and church leader and for three terms a United States Congressman. In reciting the history of Weber State College and the men who have been responsible for its growth, the name of Henry Aldous Dixon must stand very high on the list. We at Weber State feel that Dr. Dixon’s greatest contributions to education came on this campus where he was an instructor from 1914 to 1918 and President of the college for 17 years, from 1919 to 1920 and from 1937 to 1953. He was an inspiring man who felt that the most important person on campus was the student. Many faculty members and former students alike remember very fondly the vigorous, smiling man who led them in any number of activities from raking and preparing the campus for the grass seed to the annual fishing trips. Henry Aldous Dixon was a warm, thoughtful man devoted to the educating of young minds and tireless in his efforts to advance the causes of Weber State. The award in honor of Henry Aldous Dixon is to be an annual award, given each year at the Founders Observance. Many awards are given each year on college campuses by Alumni Associations, however, most of them go to individuals who have left the institution and made their mark somewhere else. Because of this the award in question was instituted to honor those who directly serve the college and the communities that surround the college. Mrs. H. A. Dixon, widow of the late president of the college was on hand for the granting of the award, as was Dr. John Dixon and members of the Dixon family. Mrs. Dixon received a replica of the award presented to Dr. Dayton, a bronze plaque bearing a likeness of her husband. In very timely and brief remarks, Mrs. Dixon thanked the association for the honor granted her husband. Founders speaker Harvey L. Taylor. Harvey L. Taylor, a Weber County native son and a distinguished alumnus returned to deliver the Founders address. Born in Harrisville, Dr. Taylor attended the Weber Academy, where he was student body president in 1915. After further schooling he returned to the Weber Academy in 1922 as an instructor in History. Leaving a second time to continue his own education at Columbia University, Harvey Taylor returned once more to the faculty, this time to Weber College in 1926. Dr. Taylor also served as advisor to student groups and vice president of the Alumni Association. Dr. Taylor has spent his entire life in education and in his remarks reminisced about his days as a student and teacher at Weber. Dr. Taylor spoke very informally to the assembled crowd, many of whom had been classmates of his. His remarks included a detailed account of the now famous Mr. Ogden hike of 1922 when the flag pole was raised on that summit. Dr. Taylor gave the meat of his speech to lauding the founders of the institution and its present administration for the great strides that had been made and predicted that Weber State would become the second largest if not the largest college in the state. We are now looking forward to our Founders Observance for 1971 and to the additional growth that will be accomplished in the next year. We will at this time extend an invitation to all alumni and friends of Weber State to look for our announcement and plan to be with us at the next founders observance. Paul W. Bott was chairman of the Founders Committee this year and had some very able assistance from Ronald Halverson, Raelene Brian, and Norma Willie in making a successful and enjoyable affair of the 1970 Founders Observance. Former WSC Sa FOLEY President H. Aldous Dixon.