AlumNus S. SGT. TERREL KIMBER, age 25, died in April, 1971 as a result of an attack by hostile forces while on a combat operation in Vietnam. He had been awarded the Bronze Star and Ribbon, Bronze Star for Valor and 2 Army commendation medals as well as the combat infantryman’s badge. Before duty he resided in Brigham City with his wife and son. RAYMOND KUPFER, Trenton, Utah, age 44 died February, 1971 from an extended illness. He attended Weber State and Utah State and was a Veteran of World War II. ESTHER THOMPSON MITCHELL, age 73, died after a short illness, February, 1971. She graduated from Weber Academy and taught elementary schools in Weber County. KEITH EUGENE MOYES, Bountiful, age 37, died June, 1971 after a long illness. Class of 59, he was senior electronic technician for Utah Power and Light for 19 years and had resided in Richfield, Utah. KURT CONRAD HANS NIEMANN, age 29, formerly of East Germany, died of cancer May, 1971. He graduated from Weber in 1969 in Business Management with his wife and 3 sons. and was residing in Murray, Utah BERTHA OAKDEN, age 80, died of a heart ailment, June 1971. She worked as purchasing clerk for Union Pacific Railroad, retiring after 40 years of service. BLAINE E. PETERSON, Kaysville, age 39, died March, 1971. He attended Weber State College and was an electronic technician at Hill Air Force Base. JACK V. PERRY, age 48, died May, 1971 of a heart attack. Residing in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, he was employed as regional sales manager for the Point of Sales, Inc. DEAN B. PORTER, age 67, died January, 1971 of a heart ailment. Class of ’22, he was a statistician for the IRS, manager of Goodsell Electric Co. and Gresham Roofing Co., and active in athletics. EPHRAIM POULTER, age 77, died February, 1971 of a heart attack. He graduated from Weber in 1914 and was co-owner of Poulter-Jensen Insurance agency. STANLEY PURRINGTON, age 82, died following an extended iliness June, 1971 in Centerville, Utah. He was a retired accountant and had written several of the 24th of July Pageants. REED S. ROBINS, age 50, died June, 1971 following a short illness. He was employed at Hill Air Force Base and had lived in Ogden most of his life. ARMY SGT. VAL CLARK ROBINSON, age 23, died in May, 1971 from complications from an accident while dynamiting a helicopter landing space in a jungle area of Vietnam. He was awarded posthumously the Bronze Star Medal and the Good Conduct Medal, and prior to death he received 6 other medals. EDNA BEUS SODERQUIST, age 79, died February, 1971. She was a graduate of Weber Academy, class of 1913. She taught religion classes and was active in her church. NETTIE STEWART, age 88, died April, 1971. She had attended Weber Academy and resided in Plain City and Warren prior to moving to Ogden. EUGENE WALLACE, age 67 died of a heart attack, June, 1971. A lifelong resident of Clinton as farmer and cattleman, he was former Pres. of Fife Ditch Co. and secretary of the Sugar Beet Growers Assoc. MABLE MARTIN WARD, Willard, age 67, died February, 1971 of a heart ailment. She attended Weber County schools and Weber Academy. VELMA ROUSE WILLEY, age 44, died in Las Cruces, New Mexico following surgery. A °47 graduate of Weber and a member of Chi Omega, she has lived in New Mexico since 1953. IRIS _SMITH YANDA, age 24, died April, 1971 from complications following surgery. She attended Ogden High and received her Associate before moving to Pacific Grove, California where she resided with her husband. WEBER KENNETH in Foreign Associates Heidelberg, with Weber Language. STATE INSTRUCTORS and INGE ADAMS, husband and wife teaching team Language have been selected as Danforth Foundation effective this fall. She graduated from University of Germany and joined the faculty in 1961; he has been since 1963 and was Department Chairman of Foreign LOWELL S. ADAMS, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, received a stipend of $10,000 plus costs of tuition and fees from the National Science Foundations to work toward his Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University, during 1971-72. BERDEAN BALLS ends a 42 year teaching career in Ogden with retirement this spring. He specialized in bookkeeping and has taught evening school at Weber State for the past 13 years. DALE W. BRYNER, Professor of Art was named first prize winner in the National Environmental Art Show in Ogden; and among his accomplishments had a recent showing in Kaysville which included oils, woodcuts, watercolors and other media. LEOLA DAVIDSON, Associate Professor and Chairman of the Nursing Dept. has been named Nurse of the Year by District 2 of vs ae State Nursing Association. She is the wife of Kenneth avidson. CRESCENT DERU, the late art teacher in pottery and weaving was recognized in a retrospective exhibit of her work in Ogden. Her art impressions having many realms of variety and diversity, a os national recognition during the last seven years of er life. ELMER H. ERICSON, Director of Freshman English and Associate Professor as well as an alum of Weber, has completed work toward a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. He taught in the Weber County schools before joining the staff in 1963. DR. DEON GREER, Associate Professor of Geography has publisheda three color map of the Great Salt Lake, the detailed single sheet map of the lake and its surroundings published and contains much information not yet published map of any scale. had most ever on a JAMES L. KIMBALL, part time professor of American History and working on his Doctorate, has been awarded a $2,000 fellowship grant from the Illinois State Historical Society to further develop the history of Mormons in Illinois. An Illinois Historical Society journal has published his writings on the Nauvoo Charter. TERRY E. PASKINS, Coordinator of Off Campus studies, completed his requirements for his master of science degree in Industrial Education from Utah State University this spring. DR. CANDADAI SESHACHARI, Associate Professor of English is the first to receive an honorary membership in the Weber State Chapter, Phi Kappa Phi, in recognition of his excellence as a teacher, scholarship and other qualifications. DR. HARVEY L. TAYLOR, Professor Emeriti of Weber State was honored “In Recognition of a Lifetime of Devotion to the Arts in the Gospel” at a ceremony in April at Brigham Young University. He has been long known for the writing and directing of pageants and plays in Arizona and Utah for various schools. DR. DON R. MURPHY, Associate professor of Geography and Geology will spend a year as guest lecturer at the University of ec Africa and does research for the academic year, FIFTY YEARS AGO — 1921 Miss Ruth Scowcroft was named valedictorian for the class of 1921 at Weber Normal College, according to Principal Joel E. Ricks. Other honor students included John Emmett, Delbert Wright and Gladys Green. George E. Browning of the Weber Stake Presidency announced bids will open for construction of a gymnasium at Weber College. A nearly filled house heartily applauded students of the musical dept. of Weber Normal College in the operetta “The Fire Prince” at the Orpheum, under the direction of William H. Manning. An apology for an error in the last issue of “50 years ago”. Boyd Lindsay, not Claude Lindsay, a graduate of the Weber Normal College was selected as the manager of the new practice farm at Utah Agricultural college in Logan. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO — 1946 A Weber College Institute to discuss higher education was held in Ogden. Some of those attending were G. Harold Holt, Davis County Schools; A. Parley Bates, Weber County Schools; William P. Miller, Ogden City Schools; Sam Morgan, Davis County Schools; Roy C. Metcalf, Principal Weber High School and Dr. H. Aldous Dixon of Weber College. Certain students were objecting to the regulation requiring lights out at ten o’clock in the men’s dorm. A letter to this effect was printed in the Signpost. President Dixon was named to a 30 man national education committee by President Harry S. Truman. The “flickers” in town were “Lover Come Back” with George Brent and Lucille Ball, plus “She Wrote the Book” with headliners Joan Davis and Jack Oakie. 500 students were signed up for the annual high school debate meet set for March 7, 8. Professor Leland H. Monson said students from 3 states would be represented. TEN YEARS AGO — 1961 Weber’s debate squad finished up the year at the national Phi Rho Pi tournament in Stockton, California. Those attending were Ann Moesinger, Eileen Grix, Connie Oborn, Ken Gardner, Douglas Marker, Jim Palmer, Kay Schmidt and John Shaw. Elected studentbody officers for the coming year were Dennis Wood, Max Brown, Kay Matsamura, Vee Ann Bingham and Sally Rhees. The Weber State baseball team started the season off by losing three in a row. The first two came at the hands of the University of Utah in a double header with the third loss going to Utah State. Opera Star Leontyne Price was scheduled to appear at Weber under the auspices of the Community concert series. After having their assembly stopped by the assembly committee, Excelsior was put on probation for the remainder of the year and eliminated from further participation. This action was taken by the standards committee. The Weber College Colleens named their new officers for the coming year: named as captain was Cherrie Jensen; co-captain, Karen Waldron; head flag twirler, Annette Wheeler; flag twirlers were Joan Clark, Diane Naisbett and Carolyn Kennedy. FIVE YEARS AGO — 1966 Weber States little theatre was presenting Tennessee Williams “The Glass Menagerie”. The play to be presented February 4, 5 and 6 with Kent Nelson from Brigham Young University as guest director. was Weber States basketball team took a 79-71 decision over Portland State. High man Greg Harrop with 19, Jerry Trice had 15. The following week the cats throttled Idaho State 114-92 behind the hot hand of Gene Visscher. Among the social units, Excelsior was given the years spirit award for showing the best spirit at ball games. The award was presented by yell leader Max Willard. A long list of candidates was announced for the Junior class King and Queen. Queen Margene Berghout, Marilyn Thomas, Julie Knudson, Gerri contestants included: McDonald and Nancy Wilson. Those contending for King were: Robert Hunter, Jerry Nebeker, Ray Flowers, Art Jones and Doug Tweede. President William P. Miller announced the receipt of $110,000 from the Federal Economic Opportunity Act to the “Upward Bound” program at Weber State. Layton P. Ott, Dean W. Hurst ADDITIONAL STOCK FOR PLANETARIUM An additional gift of 3,000 shares of stock valued at approximately $21,000 was given to Weber State College for use in the planetarium by Layton P. Ott. Mr. Ott, in whose name the planetarium is dedicated, earlier gave a gift of $35,000 in stock of Vista International Corp., of which he is president. The latest gift was given by Mr. Ott during dedicatory ceremonies of the planetarium. He donated the shares to the college in the names of his close friends, Heber and Ardith Kapp, Lou and Joanne Nord and Malan and Sarah Littlefield. “Tl want my friends to share with me the pleasure of seeing and helping Weber State College grow into one of the finest educational institutions in the West,” Mr. Ott said. The gift brings a total of $56,000 for the use by the WSC Layton P. Ott Planetarium, noted Dean W. Hurst, WSC Development Fund director.