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Show the fall quarter. Another new vocational program was started during the fall of 1932 under the supervision of the College Alumni Association. The program included hair dressing and beauty culture, and because its academic nature was questioned by some faculty and board members, the Alumni Association ran the program with President Tracys blessing, and graduates from the one year program were allowed to take the required examination for a state license in cosmetology. Leland Monsons evening Book of Mormon course was so popular that one hundred and seventy-two persons were enrolled in the fall quarter of 1932. Because enrollments had become so large during the 1932-1933 year, every available classroom on the campus, including rooms in houses owned by the college, was used for classroom purposes. The library had grown gradually at Weber. Students, faculty, and community groups had both early and late contributed books, magazines, and newspapers. Book of Mormon classes had gathered books on American archaeology, the Class of 1903 had contributed books on theology, and some of the lectures at the college had as a fee the donation of a book or money for the library. By 1909-1910, the library had 1,541 volumes, 4,000 by 1923, and 11,367 volumes by 1933. The development of the library after 1923 was under the direction of Eva Browning who gave the library her loving care and attention. The curricula offered by Weber College in 1933 as it moved from church to state control had been developed over four and one-half decades and represented what was current and acceptable in junior colleges throughout the United States. The College Inn property which had been purchased for the college was now used as both a bookstore and a snack bar. The College Inn had generally employed girls eleven of them during 1930-1931 when their hourly wage was 20 cents an hour. Oscar Deming was the only male employee at the Inn in this period and he earned 30 cents an hour. Most of the girls and Deming were able to make enough money to pay for their tuition as well as for board and room. During the Fall of 1929, the Weber football team won its seventh straight Inter-Mountain Junior College championship, but lost in Ogden to McKinley High School from Honolulu. In 1930, Weber won its eighth straight football championship with much of the credit for the success of the football program laid at the feet of Coach Merlon Stevenson. Church standards for students at the college were continually stressed by President Tracy and the Board of Trustees. At a meeting of the Trustees held on March 10, 1930, Tracy suggested that many young people in the college think it narrow-minded to talk about the use of tobacco. After a discussion of the issue the Trustees reconfirmed their decision that no person should represent this school if he smokes and drinks. Further the Trustees suggested that no faculty member should be on the payroll who does not pay tithing. Because of the shortage of funds, professor Leland Mon-son suggested to the Trustees that debaters should be able to travel to distant debate tournaments in a variety of ways, but the Trustees felt that a hitch-hiking tour by debaters was not appropriate and if debaters could not go in a dignified way they should be kept at home. Although the depression and budget cuts affected the College, students and faculty found many ways to enjoy college activities. In the fall of 1930, the Weber football team traveled to Santa Rosa California to play the Santa Rosa Junior College team. The Weber team (21 members) was accompanied by the Weber band, the Girls Chorus (17 members), Weber tap dancers (5 in number accompanied by Roland Parry tap dance instructor), and a handful of community supporters and President Tracy. Most of the party traveled by train, but some traveled by automobile via the southern route to California. The Weber team lost the football game by a score of 14 to 7, but the events surrounding the game included a tour of San Francisco and several dinners in Santa Rosa. On December 20, 1930, an A.A.U. swimming and diving meet was held at the Weber Gymnasium with participants from Idaho, Montana, and Utah and several from Weber College. The Weber College basketball team played a variety of opponents including in 1930 the Piggly-Wiggly team from Denver and the Orpheum Theatre team from Ogden. Womens basketball was organized with contests between classes and with the sponsorship of Ogden businesses in a recreation league. Weber debaters usually traveled in pairs visiting many parts of the country and wrote to their coach Leland Monson or sent him a telegram concerning their condition and needs. For example the following telegram was received by Monson: Liberty, Missouri. February 19,1931. 6:29 a.m. Won over two boys at William Jewel. Critic judge. Jetta Barker and Fawn McKay Cultural and social activities were ongoing. On April 15, 1931, the Shakespeare Guild of America presented Romeo and Juliet in the Weber Auditorium. Several dances were held each quarter and the Girls Dance was an annual affair. On May 8, 1931, the Girls Dance was held at the College Ball Room which was decorated in Mother Goose style and the music was furnished by Joe Knights orchestra. The members of the college community participated in the dedication of the Ogden Stadium on November 11, 1931 by B. H. Roberts, L.D.S. Church general authority. Following the dedication, the Weber-Al-bion football game was played in the new stadium. Through the college year, there were a number of competitive activities between the freshmen and sophomore classes in athletics, games, and speaking. Some of the competitive games included skinning the snake, the rowing race, running races, walking races, the fish pole jumping contest, and swimming races. The size of the Acorn for 1929-1930 was reduced from earlier years which seemed indicative of the financial crisis in the nation. Women college students were participating more broadly in college events including debate. Aaron Tracy who had guided the college through difficult times urged students to weave together their vocational goals with culture. In part Tracy advised, A happy union of a cheerful vocation and at least one of the arts for the sake of culture is indispensable to happiness. I bid you seek a vocation that you and yours may be properly fed and clothed; I bid you master at least one art - music, poetry, painting, sculpturing, or architecture - that your soul may be fed the nectar of eternal happiness. A vocation and an art will force you into the realm of high citizenship where your love of your fellow men will cause you to lose yourself in constant |