strengthened. The stock market reached a five-year high in October of 1936, and the Boulder Dam was completed at the same time. The effects of the depression had begun to moderate. In August of 1936, the Utah state treasury announced a surplus of 3,000,000. Faculty salaries had not improved with the general economy and remained at about eighty to ninety percent of predepression rates. Ogden High School was completed in 1937 as a New Deal project at a cost of 1,000,000 and the building was dedicated on September 1, 1937. President Creer suggested to the State Board of Education that Weber College could fulfill a role in the growth of the nations economy and education by expansion in both land and buildings on the block the college occupied. The areas of the curriculum in which Creer suggested expanding included mechanic arts, fine arts, domestic art as well as foreign languages, history, and physical education. Creer noted that the minimum state appropriation across the nation in junior college for each student was 150 while the appropriation at Weber was 100 per student. At the University of Utah the figure was 225 per student and 278 at U.S.A.C. Webers president suggested that he would favor closing the school rather than operate a substandard institution. During the 1936-1937 year, the Weber Campus was visited by the State School Board, members of the legislature, and Governor Blood. Creer continued to press each of them as well as members of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce for support for expanding Webers curriculum and facilities. In February of 1937 the Burt property on the east side of Adams Avenue between 24th and 25th streets was purchased by the State Board and plans were developed to construct a mechanical arts building on the site. The 1937 state legislature gave Weber College an appropriation of 160,000 for the biennium (1937-1938 and 1938-1939) and also authorized the construction of a mechanical arts building on the newly purchased property. Early plans suggested that the shop building would include areas for the teaching of mechanics, wood work, carpentry, forging and foundry, diesel engines, painting, and design. The building would not only allow new courses in the curriculum but would also attract an anticipated 200 new students. President Creer worked to reduce faculty teaching loads to an average of fifteen hours a quarter. In a message to the students, Creer quoted the philosophy of Henry Van Dyke, American poet, There are four things that one must do if he would keep his calling true: To think without confusion clearly; To act from honest motives purely; To love each other most sincerely; To trust in God and Heaven securely. Creers legacy to Weber College was a commitment to scholarship and a faculty organized in committees to discuss and solve the problems confronting the college on a daily basis. In leaving the college following the completion of school in 1937, Creer suggested to the faculty that he felt he had a decidedly better future at the University of Utah both with regard to promotion and also financially. In commenting on President Creers resignation, State School Superintendent Skidmore suggested that one of Creers outstanding talents was his ability to work with all kinds of people. At the interview Skidmore predicted that Weber College will become the best Junior College this side of Pasadena. During 1936-1937, the Womens Athletic Association expanded the sports they sponsored for womens competition to include: winter sports, tennis, fencing, golf, hopscotch, ping-pong, and horse-back riding. Dances during the school year included the Acorn Ball, the Starlight Cruise which was a girls choice dance, the Thanksgiving Dance, the Coney Island Carnival, the Hayseed Hop, the Valentines Dance and the Snow Ball. New clubs continued to spring up on campus including Trivesta, Frenisti, and Algia. President Creer was a great booster for athletics and served as official scorer for most of the basketball games during his tenure as president. Some of the activities of the college brought unwanted publicity such as the Kissable Lips Contest where girls stood behind a bed sheet with only their lips showing through a hole in the sheet. They were competing to be judged as most kissable. Science professor Orson Whitney Young in advertising for twelve cats for use in his class in Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy brought about protests from the humane society. One Ogden lady called the newspaper saying that her cat was missing and she suspected Dr. Young. During May of 1937, the State School Board considered a list of 15 individuals who were candidates for the position of president of Weber College. The Board decided that no one would be considered for the position who did not have a doctors degree or who could not meet the requirements of a doctors degree within one year. After discussion during the month, it was proposed that Henry Aldous Dixon be appointed president of Weber College at a salary of 3,400 a year for the year 1937-1938. Dixon had been involved with Weber College two decades earlier and after a career in business in Provo was ready to return to education. Dixon had just completed the necessary requirements for his Ph.D. in education from the University of Southern California. A faculty dinner was held in honor of President Creers departure where the out-going president was presented a painting. A public dinner and reception was held on May 28, 1937 at the Hotel Ben Lomond ballroom with Reed Swenson as toastmaster. Dr. Creer bid the community good-bye at the 49th commencement exercises held on June 4, 1937 which included the graduation of ninety-five graduates. For Henry Aldous Dixon, returning to Weber was in a way returning home for he had been involved there as an instructor and as college president previously. In 1920, Dixon had returned to his native Provo where he served as superintendent of Provo City Schools and as managing vice-president of a Provo bank. During this period in Provo, he was also president of the Provo Chamber of Commerce for two terms. He began his second term as Weber College president in the summer of 1937 and held position until 1953. Many changes came to the world during Dixons tenure in office. The United States was moving out of the depression while at the same time facing problems of major proportions around the world. War had already raised its ugly head in Asia and in Europe, and before too long the world would be engaged in the second world war of the century. World War II as well as the Cold War and the Korean War would