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Show Service to them. The College was a melding of the intellectual and the vocational. Weber College had survived the hard financial times of the depression of 1929 as it moved from church to state control. The lessons of the past four and one-half decades of struggle and educational progress would be applied at Weber as it became a junior college of the state of Utah. Footnotes Chapter Three 1. The Acorn, 1921-1922, page 8. Although the celebration took place on January 5 and 6, it should be noted the actual day of founding was January 7, 1889. 2. The speeches are summarized in the minutes of the Board of Trustees, Weber College, for September 1920. 3. Minutes, Weber Faculty meetings, November 30, 1920, Weber College Archives. 4. Minutes, Weber Faculty meetings, February 15, 1921. 5. Weber Herald, March 17, 1921. 6. Weber Herald, May 12, 1921. In an article in the Herald under this date it is noted that Shurtliff spoke to the students in a devotional on April 26, 1921. In his speech Shurtliff, who had been a stake president for 39 years, told of his experiences with the Prophet Joseph Smith, Shurtliff said he was in Nauvoo, Illinois when Brigham Young was made president of the Church and in that meeting when people were haranguing with each other as to who was to be the next president, that Brigham Young came in with his voice and face just like the prophets. Shurtliff said Nothing is so great as to know that Jesus is the Christ, that Joseph Smith is the Prophet, and that this is the true Church re-established by the Prophet. Just less important than the spirit of God is education. How I rejoice with the gospel! It is the one thing I appreciate most. Shurtliff also told the Weber students that Weber had sent out more missionaries than any other school. 7. Minutes, Board of Trustees, Weber College, July 5, 1922. 8. Statistics from Church Board of Education, L.D.S. Church Archives, statistical reports. 9. Weber College Devotional minutes, Weber archives. 10. Minutes, Church Board of Education, March 23, 1926. 11. Weber College Devotional minutes, October 19, 1925. 12. Minutes, Weber Faculty meetings, March 23, 1926. 13. Minutes, Board of Trustees, Weber College, May 28, 1926. 14. Weber College Devotional minutes, May 3, 1927. The portrait of McKay now hangs in the Miller Administration Building. 15. As written in Leland Monsons 1928 Acorn, Weber College Archives. 16. Minutes, Church Board of Education, February 20, 1929. 17. Deseret News, February 22, 1929. 18. Minutes, Board of Trustees, Weber College, August 15, 1929. 19. Minutes, Church Board of Education, February 4, 1931. 20. Weber College Devotional minutes, March 22, 1932. 21. State Board of Education minutes, June 17, 1933. 22. Discussions concerning these subjects are found in the minutes, Weber College Board of Trustees, 1929-1933. 23. Minutes, Board of Trustees, Weber College, January 12, 1933. 24. This advice from Tracy is found in the Acorn, 1935, in his Message to the Graduates. |