the old a wood-frame war surplus building which had served as a bookstore, classrooms, faculty offices, and a gathering place for students. On the new campus it would serve as a temporary student union building (the Tub) and included a cafeteria, some faculty offices, and bookstore. J. Farrell Shepherd was appointed the manager of the building. Parking lots were placed both to the north and to the south of the new campus buildings, and in the midst of construction, moving, and grass planting, wet weather brought a muddy campus and dry windy weather brought the dust. The Commencement Exercises held at the end of Spring Quarter of 1955 saw 32 members of the first class of associate degree nurses graduate from Weber College. Music professor Roland Parry held auditions for his production All Faces West which portrayed the migration to Utah of the Mormon Pioneers under the direction of their leader Brigham Young. Igor Gorin, internationally known baritone, had been signed to play the lead role in the musical drama which had been presented since 1951 as part of the Ogden Pioneer Days Celebration in July. H.E.D. Redford, director of the Weber College Cellar Theater, had produced the drama Antigone during the school year which was presented in Bertha Eccles Hall. The move to the new campus and the growth of Webers programs, as well as some faculty members moving to other institutions, brought a number of new faculty including: Max Dalby, Floyd Woodfield, Howard Johnson, H.E.D. Redford, and Robert Mikkelsen. During the fall of 1955, the State Road Commission established a 25 miles per hour speed limit on campus and installed traffic control signs. The Technical Education building was bid in two phases. In June of 1956 two bids totalling 727,000 were accepted and the building was built jointly by the Jack Aiken Construction Company and the Whitmeyer Construction Company. As Fall Quarter opened, freshman students were asked to wear green and white beanies for Freshman Week which culminated in the Kangaroo Court Assembly. In the Kangaroo Court, freshmen dreaded being called upon before the student body to pay for their misdeeds during Freshman Week by having to dig for a penny in a bowl of flour with their teeth or some similar indignity. Homecoming Week included a football game, Softball games among the womens social clubs, a pushball contest between freshmen and sophomore men, an alumni assembly, and the annual Songfest. At the beginning of the 1955-1956 school year, Weber College employed 130 faculty and staff with an enrollment of 1,290 day students and 1,227 night students. Webers student body of 2,517 compared with the University of Utahs 9,401 (7,360 day and 2,041 night), Utah State Agricultural Colleges 3,870 (3,575 day and 295 night), the College of Southern Utahs 426 (all in the day), Snow Colleges 359 (273 day and 86 night), Dixie Colleges 356 (267 day and 89 night), and Carbon Colleges 355 (all in the day). The enrollment of Utahs two private institutions included 8,441 at B.Y.U. and 428 at Westminster College. Enrollment at Utahs Colleges during this fall showed a 11 gain over the previous fall. Diplomas were awarded to 317 Weber graduates at the end-of-the-year Commencement Exercises where Henry F. Eyring gave the commencement address and W. Cleon Skousen gave the baccalaureate sermon. A new L.D.S. Institute of Religion was built on the upper campus and classes in the new red brick facility were held beginning in the Spring Quarter of 1956. The 1957 Legislature appropriated funds to allow the purchase of 8.81 acres of land from the Joseph P. Beus family at a cost of 44,050 and 19.36 acres of land from the C. Arnold Ferrin family including a home and thirteen apartments at a cost of 230,000. These properties adjoined the College campus on the south. The Legislature also made a partial appropriation for a gymnasium on the upper campus, while the College had also asked for funds to build an auditorium-fine arts building and a library-classroom building. State Senator J. Francis Fowles was particularly helpful in steering Webers requests through the legislature. The State Board of Education, in accordance with action taken by the 1957 legislature, approved selling the west half of the old campus which included everything west of the gymnasium and the Moench buildings. During the 1956-1957 school year, the College converted its heating system from coal to natural gas. The use of coal had caused some pollution problems in the neighborhood of the College on Harrison Boulevard. On December 3, 1956, President William Miller was elected President of the Northwest Association of Junior Colleges which included public and private colleges in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. In March of 1957, the American Association of Junior Colleges held its annual convention in Salt Lake City and more than 100 of the educa-tional leaders visited Weber College and commented on its aesthetic beauty and functional layout. The keynote speaker at the convention was Idaho Senator Frank Church who told the assembled educators the primary purpose of education in a free society is to teach the people to understand. A liberal education in the humanities and social sciences is essential to accomplish this purpose. The technical education building on the upper campus began to be used during the school year, and the State Board of Education agreed to the recommendation that Weber faculty could participate in the Teachers Insurance and Annuities Association for retirement benefits as well as the Utah Teachers Retirement System. The auditorium in the Moench Building was too small for many college events which were held instead in the Ogden High School auditorium. In January of 1957 Signpost editor Bob Grondel suggested that the name of the student newspaper was antiquated and that a new name should be given the college paper. A prize of 10 was offered for a new name for the masthead, but after a number of submissions and suggestions the old name remained. Reed Swenson, who had been basketball coach at the College since 1933, was replaced in 1957 by Bruce Larson. Swenson who had enjoyed great success at Weber continued as Director of Athletics and head of the Physical Education Division. A year earlier in the Spring of 1956 football coach Milton Mecham resigned to become placement director and veterans coordinator at the College and was replaced as coach by Wally Nalder. Weber looked not only to the future, but also to the past as it honored past leaders