change not only the face of the world but Weber College and its students and faculty. On more than one occasion Dixon said: young people are the foremost of my hobbies; he enjoyed fly fishing as another of his hobbies. President Dixon made early and sustained efforts to draw the college and the community closer together and to obtain broad community support for the college. Dixons community, educational, and banking skills and contacts were very helpful to him as he guided Weber College over the next decade and a half. Ten new faculty members joined with President Dixon in beginning the school year at the college. In response to a question concerning the purposes of the college, Dixon included the following: the formulation of character and the building of ideals; guidance; professional and cultural courses leading to advanced degrees; terminal, semi-professional, cultural, and occupational courses to satisfy the needs of those not interested in college graduation. At the opening faculty meeting held on September 23, 1938, Dixon invited several guests to share their comments with the faculty: Charles Skidmore, state superintendent of Public Instruction; James H. Riley, member of the Ogden City Board of Education; Robert A. Hoggan, president of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce; W. Karl Hopkins, superintendent of Ogden City Schools; Keith Wahlquist, superintendent of Weber County Schools, Leland H. Creer; and William H. Reeder, member of the State Board of Education. Skidmore informed faculty members that their positions were secure as long as you give satisfactory service, and he reported that the federal Public Works Administration had approved the construction of a new vocational building at the Adams Avenue site between 24th and 25th Streets. Hoggan noted that the Ogden Chamber was supportive of the role of Weber College: It is our firm determination to continue our cooperation with the officials and faculty of this institution to the end that no educational institutions in this state can boast of higher standards, or finer faculties, or finer facilities. During the summer of 1937, the Ogden Chamber of Commerce mailed 700 letters to high school graduates in the Weber College area and urged them to attend Weber College. Out of this faculty meeting and others that followed, areas that were suggested for study by the faculty and administration included the guidance program, entrance and graduation requirements and how to strengthen the music, dramatic, athletic, and vocational programs. The study of vocational and technical education occupied a great deal of the time of many faculty members during Dixons tenure as president. Recommendations from the faculty during Dixons first year as president included: vocational programs were to be more advanced than high school programs; the programs would follow the standards set by the trade unions and the American Federation of Labor; areas in which classes would be taught, initially, included carpentry, plumbing, sheet metal work, air conditioning, auto mechanics, aviation, machine shop, electricity, welding, telegraphy, drafting, cosmetology, machine cutting and sewing, and distributive occupations. Suggested schedules for short and long term training as well as part-time training work were organized by the faculty. All of the training programs were to be offered with the advice of a regularly appointed TradeAdvisory Committee, who would work in cooperation with the school Vocational Director, and would advise the College on the standards under which individual programs would operate. In 1940, Robert A. Clarke, who had been a faculty member at Weber since 1937, was appointed Director of Vocational Education. The addition of vocational programs along with the gradual growth the college had been experiencing brought about changes in enrollments. Some 705 students enrolled in 1937-1938, 875 the next year (1938-1939), and 1121 in 1939-1940. The war years saw a gradual decline (1337 in 1940-1941,1114 in 1941-1942, 730 in 1942-1943, 723 in 1943-1944, 465 in 1944-1945) but following the war enrollments grew to 967 in 1945-1946 and 1808 in the 1946-1947 school year. One program which helped Webers enrollment grow was a cooperative program in nursing education in which nursing students would register for forty-four credit hours each year fourteen on the campus and the balance in the Dee Hospital. This cooperative program was approved by the State Board of Education in June of 1938, and tuition for the program was set at 61.00 per year to be shared between the hospital and the college. On August 16, 1938, the State Board of Education decided that the vocational programs at Weber College should be included as part of the general curriculum, all of which was to be supervised by the college president. As enrollments grew and college programs expanded, Dixon suggested that more space was needed. For this purpose, the State Board of Education spearheaded the purchase of the Central Junior High School building on July 18, 1939. The red brick building, located on the northeast corner of 25th Street and Adams Avenue, had earlier been a home for Ogden Senior High School and the Gordon Academy. Although the building was old, most of its rooms were used for college needs, including maintenance shops and a school laundry in the basement. 84,600 was provided by the state of Utah for the purchase of the building and grounds. In January of 1940, the State Board authorized Weber College to purchase the College Inn Property from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for 4,250. By the fall of 1940, the Central Building (the old Central Junior High building), had been renovated as a National Youth Administration project so that most of the building could be used. The building housed a new cafeteria and foods laboratory, three rooms for the physics department, two rooms for mathematics, power sewing machines in four rooms, and trade related course in three rooms. The expansion into the Central Building allowed the circulation library to be moved to the ground floor of the Moench Building, and the bookstore was moved to a larger space in the gymnasium. The Central gymnasium was used particularly for physical education programs for women. The Signpost appeared on the Weber scene for the first time during fall quarter, 1937. The student body had not been able to publish a student paper for several years because funds and equipment were not available. Beginning in 1935, a bulletin board, named The Signpost had served as a means to advertise college activities and news. On September 29, 1937, the first issue of the Signpost appeared with the masthead resembling a board of wood on