3 No man of his time was better qualified to accept the principalship of the newly founded Weber Stake Academy. The school grew under his leadership and continued to grow under the most difficult circumstances until it held a most enviable position in the Rocky Mountain region. Louis F. Moench saw the necessity of training young men and young women in the teaching profession. At that time there was a great lack of competent teachers, and he felt the county could and should prepare the young people to help train the children. He had the vision, and in his report to the trustees of the Weber County Schools dated July 27, 1877, he writes: I beg leave to kindly ask the members of the legislature of our county, as well as the county and city officers, to aid in establishing a college in our city, where our students may further qualify themselves for teaching, so that Weber County may maintain her position in educational advancement with the leading counties of our Territory.1 Again in a report to the County Trustees of the District Schools, October 30, 1878, and appearing in the Ogden Daily, he states: To enable us to keen pace with the spirit and progress of education, we had a Normal Institute of two weeks duration this fall, which was attended by nearly every teacher in the county....I would mention that the real reservoir of public instruction is a normal school or an academy, where our young men and ladies can prepare themselves for teaching.2 The Junction advocated "the establishment of a high school or academy, a desideratum which was ultimately fulfilled' in the erection of the Central School."3 Professor Louis Frederick Moench lived to see this wish realized in the building of the Central School in 1880 and the founding of the Weber Stake Academy in 1889. And so as William Z. Terry says: "Professor Moench was not only the founder of the Weber Stake Academy, but also the founder of the Ogden High School." 1. The Ogden Daily Junction, July 27, 1877. 2. Idem. December 12, 1878. 3. Idem. April 20, 1879.