Page 2 SIGNPOST Homecoming Edition SIGNPOST Bi Weekly Publication Associated Students of Weber College 402 Moench Building Phone Weber College Extension 26 OGDEN, UTAH Editor Corene Martin Business Manager Dick Slater Society Editor Cheril Heiner Sports Editor Dell Foutz Editorial Adviser... Wayne Carver Business Adviser E. M. Vietti Reporters Jan Heiner, Allen Cook, Charlotte Stark, Kent Weathers, Bert Taylor, Adrian Howell, Jerruleen Davis. A Sentimental Dedication 1941-51 Signpost, the perennial freshman, doffs its green striped cap to returning Alumni and wonders if it will ever follow the yearbook into graduation. It is sincerely envious of those prosperous and thin-pated graduates who have gone out into the world and now return at this reunion time. Signpost, watching the comings and goings, remains. Gathered in its collected and yellowing editions into a dust-covered file, it takes musty consolation from the fact that if the end is indeed dust unto dust, it is already half-way toward a state of grace. By virtue of its age and performance, then, and that academic authority that comes from dryness, Signpost makes a dedication to all former Weber students, these two days and this issue is dedicated. And a post-script dedication especially do we dedicate this homecoming to the students of the past decade the troubled, neurotic, horrible, beautiful, sad, tragic, silly, joyous, decade of 1941-1951. Our reasons for this are rather special ones. Beneath the covering dust of the file case, Signpost, in these ten years, recorded the peaks and the valleys of school prospects and spirits. In these years Weber and her friends saw their greatest triumphs and possibly their saddest defeats. The decade saw the largest student body ever at Weber in the years immediately following the war. It saw a virtually deserted campus and classrooms while the war was on. It saw the four-year college come a reality, then saw it snatched away. And now, 1951, it is seeing a strangely disquiting period that disquiets us less because in the past decade we have learned to deal calmly with crisis and meet change with the imperturbable rock of tested convictions. With eyes that are not entirely dry, Signpost, hardy veteran and constant ingenue, joins the ex-Weberites who have written elsewhere in this issue accounts of the years they knew. It recalls with mixed feelings the panorama it has seen from the fourth floor of the Moench Building. Styles and the students wearing them, changes in speech and canned expressions, the variation in what passed for female charm through the years, the big wheels who, from where Signpost sat sometimes looked awfully small and sometimes awfully big, the king and queens, the drones, and the butterflies that made the school tick or who got in the way of its ticking. Signpost, forever the sentimentalist, recalls the rich scents from the cherry trees on April evenings, and these get mixed with the dank mustiness of Octobers wet brown leaves. And in deep reverence for all these things, it dips again its green hat to the burly past and the men and women through the heavy years that kept Weber going and brought it safely down to here. Father Dont you think our son gets his intelligence from me? Mother He must. I still have mine. Some girls will scream at the sight of a mouse then climb into a convertible with a wolf. Walter C. Neville Appointed to Utah Academy Post Walter C. Neville of the Weber College faculty was recently appointed to the awards committee of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. The committee is composed of five members and the chairmanship is rotated so that the new senior member becomes chairman. Other members are Chairman, Dr. Wesley Keller, U.S.A.C. Dr. George Sayers, University of Utah Dr. J. Homer Walefield, B.Y.U. and Dr. Leon B. Linford, University of Utah. The Academy gives awards for outstanding meritorious work in any of the following divisions the physical sciences, the biological sciences, the social sciences, and the arts and the letters. Recent winners have been such noted men as LeRoy Robertson, Franklin S. Harris, Mahonri Young and Dr. Avard T. Fairbanks. The fall meeting of the Academy will be held November 16 and 17 at Weber college. Dr. Orson Whitney Young, chairman of Weber colleges life science department, is currently state president of the Academy. Cellar Theatre Has Unique Stage Plan By Jann Heiner Fellows and gals, we feel that you may have been missing something worth while. Right here on our Weber College campus is staged one of the most unique methods of theatre entertainment in practice on the American stage today, the cellar theatre. The Weber College cellar theatre, located in the basement of the Bertha Eccles Hall, is the only one of its kind in Utah, according to Mr. John Kelly, Weber college dramatics director. Unusual Stage The unusual stage plan, called theatre-in-the-round because of the fact that the audience is seated on three sides of the stage, lends an atmosphere of intimacy between actors and audience, which cannot be produced in the customary type stage play. Another feature of the cellar theatre is the serving of refreshments at intermission. The Golden Goose For the first production this season, the theatre workshop players, under the direction of Mr. Kelly, will present a childrens play, The Golden Goose, which will be staged soon. The exact date of the play production will be announced later. During the week of December 3, the cellar theatre will again be opened to audiences for the production of a play, the title of which is yet to be announced. Letter to Editor Dear Editor Well it looks like homecoming is coming up this week and everybody is lookin ahead to it with playsure. I dont rightly know what all homecomin is but tother day I was castin my eyes over the program and I see a car parade is on the menyou for Friday. Now I know what a car parade is cause we got em up home too. But we dont raise no big fuss over em up home like theyre doin this one. Up there we just wait till its at least dark and then we load what gals we kin find in the car and drive about a piece down the road and park. And them ornery gals parade right back home. But as Socrates or somebody once said If ten miles home they would parade, take em twenty miles instaid. Football Too I also see a big footbawl game is to be had Friday night and this should be some fun to watch seeins how I heard somebody tother day say that we had about as fine a footbawl team as ever grazed a Weber College campus. I didnt know until just about a week ago that it wuz against the rules for a freshman or freshwoman or a sophomore to go to a footbawl game. Just last week I wuz all set to meander on down to the field and take in this game when a kid I know who too goes to Weber and he says, Where ya goi? and I says To the footbawl game, and he says whos playin? Weber is playin, I inferms him and right then his pan gets really an expression on and he suffers some shock for a while then he asks me, are you crazy? Now lets not get personal bub, I am gettin mad cause that one question I didnt never care to answer right off hand. No Invite? Whats wrong with goin to a footbawl game, aint it free? Aint it no good fun? aintWell, he says, all I know is that you aint sposed to go to em and that theres a rumor floatin around here if any stoodents shows their mugs at a game the team will walk off the field, the coaches will shoot their- selves and the offenders will be hung at sunrise. It just aint bein done this year. Well I sure am glad he warned me cause I been under the expression that they wanted people at footbawl games. So I guess Ill wander on down and see some how. I see Who wants a place in the sun, is playin at the Ogden. Sure would like to see that game tho. Yours truly, Adrian Howell. A -bunch of germs were whooping it up In the bronchial saloon. Two bugs on the end of the larnyx Were jazzing a ragtime tue. While back of the teeth in a solo game Sat dangerous Dan Kerchoo, And watching the pulse was light of love, The Lady thats known as Flu.