servers. Hundreds of Weber students beginning at the College would form themselves into snake-dancers by joining hands and in a serpentine fashion weave themselves through the downtown streets and shops of Ogden, halting traffic and ending up on the steps of the city-county building for a pep rally and to sing Purple and White or to celebrate an athletic victory or an important forthcoming event. As the 1947-1948 academic year began, the State Board of Education authorized Weber to offer programs of study in cosmetology, watchmaking, diesel engines, and terminal engineering. James R. Foulger was approved by the board as Treasurer of Weber College to succeed W. Harold Handley, and Foulger would also continue to teach part time in the department of business. During the same year, Robert A. Clarke became Dean of the Weber College faculty. All changes in personnel and appointments at the College as well as all proposed salaries passed before the State Board of Education for approval. During the Spring of 1948, Laurence J. Burton was appointed as Chairman of Public Relations and all press releases concerning the college. In the recommendations of the college president to the state board, Dixon noted that faculty would be decreased from 82 to 78 for the 1948-1949 school year with an average salary of 3,730, and the non-teaching staff would be reduced from 54 to 52 with an average salary of 1,920. The operating budget for the 1948-1949 school year was set at 594,396. The faculty of the college asked the State School Board to establish academic ranking at the college in June of 1949 (specifically the ranks of instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor), and although the request was taken under advisement, more than a decade would pass before the request was implemented. During September of 1948, Weber College hosted the Utah Conference on Higher Education. Dr. Harry K. Newburn, president of the University of Oregon, was the principal speaker, and he addressed the educators from Utah on the topic of liberal education. Newburn suggested that an educated person can read with comprehension, speak and write with effectiveness, and can calculate with skill. Newburn stressed the application of a liberal education in everyday life: We are not so concerned with the fact that a student has sat through a course in economics or American history as we are that he understands and participates intelligently in his social environment. In part Newburn suggested to the assembled delegates that he was reacting to the government-promulgated doctrine that training of a technical nature is best for wartime. He suggested that liberal education focuses on the individual as a person and seeks to prepare him for living in the role of a moral being. Addressing the role of the individual teacher, Newburn said, greater emphasis must be placed upon teaching as an art, and greater rewards, both financial and professional, made available to the distinguished teacher. Newburns remarks were timely for the Utah educational community and particularly for Weber, as the faculty and administration continued to strike a balance between liberal and technical education. By December of 1948, architects Lawrence Olpin, Fred L. Markham, and Arthur Grix had completed a plan for development of the new campus. The architects were paid from funds contributed by the community for the development of the new property. The Ogden Rotary Club agreed to donate 25,000 for the construction of a suitable entrance to the new campus, and the state school board accepted the proposal and passed a resolution expressing appreciation to the Rotary Club for its generosity. The Rotary Club gift of the Harrison Boulevard rock wall entrance to the campus was completed and a presentation ceremony was held at the campus entrance on May 23, 1951. More than 130 members of the Ogden Rotary Club were in attendance at the presentation where Rotarian Frank M. Browning who had chaired the committee for the project made the presentation to the College. Many citizens of the Ogden area had been generous to the College in both time and money. Representative of this generosity was the gift of Judge J. A. Howell of his personal rare book collection to Weber and an endowment fund to supplement this collection over time. The Ogden Kiwanis Club became actively involved in the project of planting trees and shrubs on and around the new campus. By the fall of 1949, work had begun on the new campus including draining the land, filling in holes, and hauling in top soil. President Dixon suggested to the State Board that the building priorities included an administration building, a heating plant, classrooms (80,000 square feet), a library, and a stadium. As the funding picture became more clear, Dixon suggested that current priorities indicated that the stadium should be built prior to the library on the bench campus site. During the spring of 1950, a contour map of the campus was prepared by the Craven Engineering Company to allow planners to begin to locate building sites for proposed new buildings. During the 1950-1951 school year, Weber students contributed more than 1000 hours of labor on the new stadium, and negotiations with the South Ogden Water Conservancy District were made for the use of about nine acre feet of irrigation water for the campus. About 2,000 yards of top soil were trucked into the stadium area to make a good base for the grass for the stadium. With the excitement surrounding the acquisition of the new campus ground, most in Ogden suggested that the entire effort of Weber College should be shifted to the new campus from the downtown location. President Dixons arguments to the State Board of Education and the Board of Examiners included the following ideas: a split-campus was expensive to operate; the buildings on the downtown campus were old and in need of many repairs with the Moench building being 58 years old and the old Central buildings being 63 years old; much of the space on the current downtown campus was not suitable for college use; the proximity to 25th Street and numerous pool halls, beer parlors, and theaters made the present location undesirable; traffic conditions in the downtown area were deplorable and the lives of the students were constantly in danger; Weber College houses the upper division work of the University of Utah and the Agricultural College in Ogden which usually averaged about 400 to 600 students a quarter. After consideration of the question of a split campus or one entirely on Harrison Boulevard at the new location, the State Board of Examiners decided on October 6,