ing program. In October of 1969, Dean Hursts title was changed from director of Alumni Relations to director of College Relations, and Michael Macfarlane was appointed as Alumni Executive Director. By mid-fall of 1969, Weber had negotiated with Southern Utah State College, Dixie College, Snow College, College of Eastern Utah, Utah Technical College at Provo, and Utah Technical College at Salt Lake City to handle the accounting operations for each school through Webers data processing department and equipment. Webers equipment included an I.B.M. 360. In March of 1970, Robert E. Rose was appointed to fill the position of Dean of the School of Business to replace Quinn McKay who had resigned. The Commencement Exercises on June 6, 1970 included the awarding of Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degrees to both Ira A. Huggins and J. Willard Marriott. The Science Building was first used for classes during the Fall Quarter of 1969. Arthur Mueller was the architect for the building which was planned with much faculty input. The building was actually two buildings connected by a covered walkway. The laboratory building consisted of six floors, each providing laboratory facilities for a department, and by lowering the ceilings in the faculty offices, it was possible to provide eight floors of faculty offices on the north side of the building. The departments of physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, microbiology, and geology-geography were housed in the new building. The second building, a circular building located to the north of the laboratory and office building provided classroom space, lecture rooms, faculty preparation rooms, a science museum, and a planetarium. On April 14, 1971, the planetarium was named in honor of donor Layton P. Ott. The round lecture building was later named the Lind Lecture building in honor of geology professor John Lind who had served the college and its students so well during the first third of the century. In January of 1970 plans were approved for better traffic flow around the college. Harrison Boulevard between 42nd Street and 36th Street was to be widened by 40 feet on the east side of the road, and a peripheral road from 41st Street to Edvalson Street on the Weber campus was to be constructed to handle the flow of traffic on campus. The costs of the improvements would be assumed by the State Road Commission. In order to clear the way for the road developments, the college in June of 1971 sold ten college-owned homes to private individuals. These homes had served as offices and had been rented by the College as homes to some individuals. All of the homes were moved by December 1, 1971. Early in 1970 the Carnegie Foundation announced a grant of 195,400 was to be awarded by them to the School of Education of Weber State College. The grant was to fund the development of an individualized performance-based teacher education program. The Weber program included the development of Weber Individualized Learning Kits, referred to as WILKITS. During the next several months, under the direction of Dean Caseel Burke, the faculty members of the School of Education, with the assistance of several temporary faculty members, developed more than fifty WILKITS. This flexible program allowed students to pursue the teacher education program at their own individual speeds. The Weber program received national recognition. On February 25, 1971, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education presented to Dean Burke on behalf of the School of Education, Weber State College, their Distinguished Achievement Award. In April of 1970, Donnell and Elizabeth Stewart met with the Institutional Council to discuss their gift to the college of a bell tower. The tower was to be 100 feet high, 14 feet square with four clock faces at the top. The bell tower was to include an electronic carillon of 150 bells and 4 larger cast bells. The bell tower was designed by John Piers. The council approved the plans, and the bell tower would provide a focal point for the campus. The bell tower was dedicated in honor of all former students on December 17, 1971. Named the Stewart Bell Tower by the Institutional Council, the structure became the first campus facility to be named or memorialized. This set the stage for the memorialization of other campus facilities. In April of 1970, construction work began on the Social Science Building. The plans for the building included 40 classrooms, 13 laboratories, and 71 faculty offices. By August of 1970, plans for the Education Building had been completed which included 16 classrooms, 13 laboratories, and 35 faculty offices. During December of 1970, administrative offices were moved from their various locations on campus where they had been located since 1954 to the new administration building. This three floor building, designed by architect John L. Piers, included the possibility of expansion to five floors. The third floor included offices for the president, vice presidents, institutional research, academic research, public information, and college relations as well as a meeting room for the Institutional Council. The second floor housed the business offices and registrars offices. Building One which had housed many of the administrative offices on campus was remodeled for use by the School of Business. The new administration building was later named in honor of President William P. Miller. In December of 1971, the Weber Institutional Council approved plans for a proposed 3,900,000 library extension which would more than double the size of the library. Approved at the same meeting was the site for a new maintenance complex for the campus to be located on the northeast corner of the campus. Construction work on the library addition and the maintenance building was begun during the fall of 1972. During the winter and spring of 1971, the college moved to acquire the Avondet property located east of Harrison Boulevard and south of 46th Street. The property would eventually become the location for the Dee Special Events Center, and the initial acquisition of property in April of 1971 included a condemnation hearing which resulted in a decision by the First District Court to allow the College to purchase the land for 269,285. The 1973 Utah Legislature authorized the issuance of bonds by the College to proceed with development of a special events center. After a study by Salt Lake architect Robert A. Fowler, it was decided that it would approach 7,000,000 to have a 12,000 seat arena built. Support from the entire community was forthcoming, but particularly from Donnell and Elizabeth Stewart who offered to match all funds contributed