toward war and the problems associated with it. Speakers to the college community stressed being prepared to wage war and defending democracy. In a speech to the faculty of the college on September 6, 1940, State Superintendent Skidmore suggested that the American people should be prepared to stand alone as the guardian of freedom. We must not repeat the mistake of the European democracies. We are looking upon Weber College as one of the helpful schools to carry on national defense. This matter of character education will point the way toward saving the freedom of America, and establishing defense against totalitarianism. During the fall of 1939, Weber began to offer training for pilots and by 1940, Weber was authorized to offer courses in aeronautics which related to the war effort including the history of aviation by C. H. Anderson, the theory of flight and aircraft by Robert A. Clarke, aircraft power plants by Clyde Decker, parachutes by Art Morten-son, and navigation instruments by H. O. Walker. Decker was later killed in a crash as a Navy flight instructor. He was one of six Weber College faculty who left the college to serve in World War II. Others were Farrell Collett, Charles Espy, Ralph Jensen, Ferron Losee, and Milton Mecham. National defense efforts continued to make demands on Weber College to produce skilled defense industry workers. These demands brought about a lengthy and at times heated discussion among faculty members on the campus concerning the role of the college to provide liberal and or vocational education. From its earliest days, Weber had adapted its curriculum to meet student needs and community needs, and the change to voca-tional programs in 1937 and the effort to meet defense needs in World War II, moved Weber from a liberal arts junior college to a more comprehensive college offering both general education and terminal vocational training. By the fall of 1940, the student-teacher ratio at Weber was 21 to 1, and the average teacher met 109 students in the classroom during the day. On the average, each instructor was involved in 19.5 hours of instruction each week. There were 19 classes being taught with fewer than 10 students which was 7.3 of the total number of classes taught which compared with 17.1 of the classes taught at the University of Utah (under 10 students) and 32.6 at Utah State Agricultural College. On September 21, 1939, Weber College presented its first television effort a two-hour program on a Salt Lake City television station which was broadcast at a Salt Lake City department store location. Appearing on this first time Weber College television show were Henry Aldous Dixon, Leland Monson, Clair Johnson, Farrell Collett, Rolfe Peterson, who was student body president, Barbara Reeve, and the acting mayor of Ogden, William J. Rackham. Webers presentations included musical numbers. Members of the Weber faculty and student body had presented a weekly radio program over station KLO. During the fall of 1939, the State Board of Education approved the use of the former Ogden City School office building located immediately west of the gymnasium in a house for use as a presidents home on campus; and President Dixon and his family moved into the building during the Christmas holidays. Founders Day, on January 8, 1940, was celebrated byan assembly and other activities which focused on Webers past including a lengthy letter from David O. McKay who was recuperating from an illness in a Salt Lake City hospital. McKays letter placed his training at Weber in a global context. By the fall of 1940, two-month short term classes that were termed defense training were taught at the college including electricity, motorized equipment, aircraft engines, drafting, spray gun, welding, machine shop, and sheet metal. The defense courses were taken particularly by W.P.A. workers and were geared to teach in two months skills that would provide each student with a job at the end of the training. The program was aimed at decreasing unemployment through training paid for by the federal government and to better prepare the United States for a possible war. Hill Field Air Force Base was in its beginning stages at this time, and in December of 1940, Colonel Morris Berman, Commanding Officer of the base suggested that civilian employees at the base would eventually number 3,400, and Weber College became one of the prime training areas for Hill Field employees. At this same time, Civil Aeronautics Association (C.A.A.) pilot training also became part of the college curriculum. Construction of the Army General Depot at Second Street in Ogden was begun during 1941 and Weber College looked toward training workers for that facility. As vocational programs increased, the student body increased as well, and social and extra-curricular activities were planned to involve all college students. The intramural sports program was expanded, and the football and basketball teams continued to win under coaches Bob Davis and Reed Swenson. During the spring of 1941, construction began on a Mormon Church sponsored Institute of Religion for Weber College students. The building was located on the south side of 24th street between Adams and Jefferson Avenues, and expenses for the building were projected at 38,000. During March of 1940 the national Phi Rho Pi debate tournament was held at Weber College with Weber debater Mark Austad winning one of the national prizes, and the annual Weber College debate tournament for high school students was held on campus on March 1 and 2, 1940 with more than 400 students attending the meet. During May of 1941, 8,000 band students from Utah and surrounding states met in Ogden for a music festival under the direction of Weber faculty member Clair W. Johnson. The 52 bands who made up the festival played several musical numbers for an assembled group in the Ogden Stadium on May 9, and participated in a parade on the same day which had been designated as Loyalty Day in Ogden. Many activities involving high school students were planned to recruit as many high school students as possible to Weber. One such activity was to invite the senior class from a neighboring high school to visit the campus during the spring and mingle with Weber students. Water polo was a new sport added at Weber during the 1940-1941 school year. As school began in the fall of 1941, President Dixon reported to the State Board of Education the resignation of twenty-seven members of the Weber faculty and staff. Two resigned to enter the military service, and most of the others resigned for higher paying jobs at defense plants in the Ogden area. By February of 1942, eleven more