Thirty-five students graduated with an associate of arts degree and 114 graduated with an associate of science degree. Finances were a major difficulty of the entire state moving into the 1934-1935 school year. The State Board of Education, with urging from the new junior college faculties and presidents, petitioned Governor Blood on November 5, 1934 for a special appropriation for faculty salaries noting that junior college salaries are far below the standard of high schools in the state. The State Board also directed President Tracy to economize at Weber by cutting debate trips, janitorial services, athletic events, and in other areas that might save money. Much of the janitorial work at the college was done by students at a rate of 30 cents an hour. Wallace Baddley who had been appointed to the position of custodian in 1933 became Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds in 1936. The governor and the state legislature were understanding concerning Webers plight and as a total of 73,000 in state funds was appropriated for the 1933-1935 biennium (1933-1934 and 1934-1935 school years), 120,000 was appropriated for the 1935-1937 biennium (1935-1936 and 1936-1937 school years). This was an increase of sixty-four percent. With the building remodeling at the College, the office of the president which had been on the ground floor of the Moench building was relocated to the ground floor of the gymnasium near the south foyer with the change taking place early in 1935. The presidents office remained in this location until the college moved to its new location on south Harrison Boulevard. Faculty meetings usually were held on an every week basis during the school year. The faculty members were organized into numerous committees including committees on Utah Education Association membership, on legislative and finance matters, a research committee, a scholarship committee, a social committee, a welfare committee, and a publicity committee. Efforts were made within the college and from without to have all Weber faculty members join the U.E.A. The faculty were critical of high prices charged by the bookstore which was managed by the Alumni Association. The faculty asked that refunds be made to students. The textbooks ranged in price from 2.25 to 4.33. Faculty socials included a Thanksgiving dinner on November 20, 1934 at a cost of forty cents each in the school cafeteria and a Christmas party a month later where each faculty member was to take a ten cent gift for exchange with other faculty members. The 1935 Acorn (for the 1934-1935 school year) for the first time included pictures of the state superintendent and members of the state board of education. Pictures of twenty-nine faculty members were included in the volume along with pictures of the college secretary, treasurer, clerk, registrar, and librarian. Fawn McKay, former Weber student, was pictured as an English instructor. She taught at Weber for only one year and left the next year for the University of Chicago and for a career as a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and biographer. New college clubs pictured in the Acorn for the first time included the Bachelors, La Dianaeda, Excelsior, and Otyokwa along with Delta Phi, the Sociology Club, and Phi Rho Pi national debating fraternity. Lynn Foley, 160 pound end, was the captain for the Wildcat football team; and Stanley Watts, later to coach basketball at B.Y.U., was the captain of Webers basketball team, was second in scoring in the conference, and was selected as a member of the all-conference first team. Weber also fielded mens teams in wrestling, boxing, track, and swimming. A Womens Athletic Association was organized at Weber in 1935 with Helen Parmley as president. The Womens Association conducted intramural tournaments in basketball, volleyball, squash-ball, swimming and archery. Seven womens teams entered the basketball tournament including English, Sociology, Physical Education, faculty, Business, Otyokwa, and the eventual winners La Dianaeda. On Saturday, February 2, 1935, the members of the state legislature visited Weber College, and students and faculty were asked to be in attendance as the band met the legislators at the train station. Students were asked to mingle with the legislators as they toured the campus, and to attend the 11:00 a.m. assembly. Differences in educational philosophy gradually developed between President Tracy and the State School Board and between Tracy and some of Webers faculty members. By the beginning of 1935, these differences were significant enough to have the State Board on March 18, 1935 award Tracy an indefinite leave of absence with pay for the next school year and to hire a new college president. In general, the State Board felt that Tracy acted in a far too independent fashion in directing the college. Leland H. Creer, a member of the faculty of the University of Washington in Seattle who held a Ph.D. degree in history was hired by the State Board as Webers new president. Creer began his term as president on July 1, 1935, and was the first of Webers presidents to hold a doctorate. Tracy had directed Weber from 1922 to 1935, longer than any of Webers principals and or presidents to this point in time. He guided Weber from a joint high school college to become a junior college, and then as the hand-writing on the wall spelled out the message that the Mormon Church was going to cut loose all junior colleges, he was in the forefront of the move to take Weber from church control to state ownership. Tracys strengths included recruitment of students and land acquisition for the college by the Alumni Association. A farewell dinner was given for Tracy on May 22 by the faculty at Dicks Cafe and a gift of bronze book-ends was given to him as a token of appreciation by the faculty. The student body arranged to have Lee Green Richards paint a portrait of Tracy, and this was given to him at the 1935 commencement where 133 students graduated. Aaron Tracy had envisioned Weber as a four year college, and when Weber became a state-sponsored four-year institution, the first honorary doctorate degree was granted to David O. McKay, and the second honorary doctor of humanities degree was awarded to Aaron Tracy on June 10, 1966. Tracy died two months later, August 6, 1966, at the age of 81. President Leland Creer was the chief administrative officer of Weber College for two years, and at the end of the 1936-1937 school year, he left Weber to become a member of the history department at the University of Utah. Creer had received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Utah and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He had also served as president of Gila College at Thatcher, Arizona from 1920-1924. Under