50 The Board of aiducation of the Weber Stake Academy sent the following tribute of respect to the retiring principal: Ogden, Utah, June 25, 1892. To Professor Louis F. Moench, on his retirement from the position of Principal of the Weber Stake Academy. Dear Brother- As you have deemed it wise, in view of your declining health, through so many years of arduous labor in the school room, to resign your position as principal and thus serve your connections with the Weber Stake Academy, we, the undersigned, feel that it is our duty, as well as our pleasure, to briefly testify in this manner of your great zeal, love, devoted diligence and faithful work in the cause of education. It is now twenty years since you took up the labor of this profession in Ogden City. You were the first principal who had charge of the Central School, and it was in this institution where you established your justly-merited reputation as the leading disciplinarian in school government in this Territory, and where you demonstrated your ability to dispel from the minds of the students the elements of discouragement and gloom which invariably attend the laborious application of the mental powers to study; and in place thereof to inspire their feelings with a fascination and love of education, that it transformed the pursuit, in the experience of many, ye one of pleasure and delight. Your long and successful career as a principal, and for six years as head master of all the city schools, and for eight years county superintendent of district schools, besides the four years you have had charge of the Weber Stake Academy, has endeared you to the hearts of thousands, and has left imperishable impressions of regard and esteem on the minds and in the hearts of all those who have been under your tuition and elevating influence in the school room. We part with you, therefore, with a due appreciation of your past services, so faithfully and diligently rendered in the interest of the educational advancement of the youth of Zion. We sincerely hope that the change in your profession, from the training of the mind and directing on the youthful mind to the study and practice of medicine, will be the means of restoring and permanently establishing your health. Should you, however, at any time feel disposed to resume the role of professor in any of the halls of an academy or college, we shall be most happy to fill any position to which you may aspire to occupy.