Richards, and William O. Bentley. At the same time, Weber College made application for 10 surplus buildings at Hill Field with a total of 26,820 square feet of space to become temporary classroom facilities to be placed on the downtown College campus. By 1947, the temporary buildings had been moved to ease the pressure on classrooms at the campus with several of the buildings situated on Porter Avenue as chemistry labs and lecture rooms and two were placed on the campus on the northwest corner of Jefferson and 25th Streets. Two bills introduced at the 1947 Utah Legislature recognized growth at Weber College. During January of 1947, Senate Bill 60 was debated which provided for Weber to expand into a restricted four-year granting institution with permission to grant bachelor degrees in the arts, business, education, home economics, nursing, and the sciences and to conduct terminal courses in other areas. Senate Bill 60 passed the state Senate but failed to pass in the House. Support for the bill was communicated to the State Legislature from many Ogden groups including the Ogden Chapter of the American Association of University Women, the Ogden Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club, Lions Club, the 20-30 Club, and the Sorosis Womens alumni association. Numerous editorials had appeared on the pages of the Ogden Standard Examiner promoting Weber College both as a four-year institution and in other ways. In the past, the Trustees of Utah State Agricultural College had allowed some four year work to take place at the Branch A.C. at Cedar City and this seemed to open the door for Webers four year effort, but this argument along with others failed to convince the 1947 legislature. Another four-year college bill (House Bill 2) was passed by the 1949 State Legislature but vetoed by Governor J. Bracken Lee. The 1949 bill, passed largely because of the efforts of State Senators J. Francis Fowles, L. Rulon Jenkins, and Alonzo F. Hopkin, would have allowed Weber to become a four-year institution and to offer complete terminal courses and grant degrees in the fields of the arts and sciences, business, and education. In rejecting the bill, Lee based his veto on the financial condition of the state and that passage of the bill would not be keeping faith with all sections and all of the people. Dixon had urged Lee to sign the bill into law noting that Weber was not requesting full-blown college status and was not asking to give graduate work or concentrate on research. Dixons arguments failed, and Weber would have to wait for a decade, until 1959, for Governor Clyde to sign a bill authorizing a four-year curriculum at the Ogden institution. Senate Bill 134, an important milestone in Webers history, was passed during the 1947 legislative session which directed the State Board of Education to acquire a Suitable Campus for Weber College and to Construct Suitable Buildings thereon at Ogden, Utah, and Maintain the Same. This bill was passed with the understanding that the people in the Ogden area would contribute one-half the cost of a new site for the College. Chamber of Commerce Executive Secretary Ezra Fjeldsted appeared before the State Legislature and pledged support of the Weber County community to match money passed by the legislature for the purchase of land for a new campus. The 1947 legislature appropriated 50,000 for the purchase of a new college site, and the Ogden Chamber of Commerce appointed Louis H. Griffin as chair of the Chamber committee to accomplish the goal of raising 50,000 in matching funds. Under Griffins direction, and with many coordinated efforts throughout the community, with the alumni, and at the college, 50,091 was collected by July 15, 1947, and the total amount collected by the end of the fund drive more than a year later was 69,387.08. Four sites were seriously considered as future locations for the College: the site of the Utah State Industrial School on North Washington Boulevard; expansion of the current college site on Jefferson Avenue; the J.M. Mills site located east of Harrison Boulevard between Thirty-seventh and Fortieth Streets; and the Glasmann site located west of Harrison Boulevard between 40th and 56th south. At the March 10, 1947 meeting of the State Board of Education, the Weber College Committee of the State Board which had been appointed the previous autumn recommended the purchase of the Mills site in the southeast section of Ogden as the new location for Weber College. The deed transferring the 175 acre Mills property to Weber College was made out on July 19, 1947. Additional property was purchased during the fall of 1947 from Merlin Edvalson whose property separated the Mills property from Harrison Boulevard. A College Building Committee was established with Wallace D. Baddley as chair, and Ralph Gray, Eva Browning, Milton Mecham, Ross Hardy, Lorenzo Peterson, and Robert Clarke as members to make recommendations concerning college buildings at the new college location. The acquisition of the Mills property and the plans for the expansion of Weber College came about with a great deal of support from the community and from the college. Henry Aldous Dixon orchestrated the campaign as he told Ogden business leaders that post-war growth in Ogden was going stronger than in any other part of the state, and that The state legislature has been wonderful to us [Weber College]. But we have got to spread out and have a bigger campus. We are cramped in all around. Dixon coordinated the effort to present Webers needs by hosting the State School Board Committee to study Weber needs and members of the state legislature on the Ogden campus on numerous occasions and there pointed out the cramped condition of the Jefferson Street location. The College president also put together a number of committees staffed by community and college individuals to stress the need for Webers continued growth and development, and then kept Webers needs in front of the public. Dixon continued to stress the need for a four-year college in Ogden, and suggested that both the students and community deserved it. It is apparent that Dixons plans formulated shortly after the war in which he involved both faculty and community leaders were to have Weber College become a four-year institution with a new campus. He was successful with the new campus site and nearly succeeded with the four-year plan. Dixons methods were simple but thoughtful, well-planned and coordinated. First, he involved the faculty in his planning and he kept close to the faculty committees that he put together at almost every step; second, he involved the community and students with faculty members