of the College on October 1, 1956. David R. Wheelwright, a graduate of Weber Academy in 1896, presented a bronze plaque to the College featuring presidents and principals at Weber. The plaque featured a sculptured relief of the Moench Building as well as sculptured reliefs of McKay, Moench, Tracy, and Dixon. Speakers at the program honoring the Colleges past leaders included David O. McKay, H. Aldous Dixon, Aaron W. Tracy, and Mrs. Delecta Davis a daughter of Louis Frederick Moench. The College continued to provide cultural events for the community including speakers, concerts, and plays. Oklahoma, The Crucible, and Heaven Can Wait, played to large audiences and included cast members from both the College and the community. In February of 1957, Lou Gladwell former reporter for the Ogden Standard Examiner was appointed as public relations director for Weber College. The Flaming W had been for several years an integral part of Weber Colleges fall activities, but the traditional event came to an end in a rather graphic way on September 25, 1957. After the move to the new campus it was decided to light the hillside east of the campus with red flares placed in the shape of a W rather than have the Flaming W on Malans Peak. On the evening of September 25, 1957 as the flares were lighted, not enough space had been cleared and the grass near the flares caught fire. The breeze scattered the fire through the dry grass and oak and the whole hillside became a mass of flames. Students, faculty, and staff as well as many community members spent most of the night on the hill trying to control the fire. The Ogden City Fire Department and thefire fighting unit of the U.S. Forest Service were in charge of the effort to control the blaze. About 25 acres of the hillside were burned and more than 1500 of college money was used in the efforts to fight the fire. A civil suit concerning the fire was threatened against the college, and some students suggested that in the future the name of the event be changed from Flaming W to Flaming Mountain. In later years the W was outlined by electric lights powered by a portable generator. Two weeks after the Flaming W incident the new technical education building and the maintenance building were both dedicated during a special program held in one of the automotive shops in the technical building. Governor George D. Clyde, Secretary of State Lamont F. Toronto, and Attorney General E. R. Callister were among the guests who attended the dedication which was held on October 14, 1957. In the new building, the Division of Technology would initially offer courses in auto body reconditioning, automotive service and repair, carpentry and millwork, commercial art, cosmetology, diesel mechanics, electronics, industrial arts, machine shop, maintenance mechanics, refrigeration, watchmaking, and welding. During this same fall quarter, President Miller and his family moved into the Ferrin home at 4012 Harrison Boulevard which had been purchased by the College. This home would be the official residence of the president of the College until the early 1970s and in the home the Millers hosted many presidential receptions. In 1961, the College purchased additional acreage on the south side of the campus: eight acres from Frank L. Blaes for 58,000, six acres from Edith B. Smith for 52,500, and 1.71 acres from Dimitri A. Zannes for 8,500. This land would be used in part for residence hall sites. One part of moving completely to the new campus was the disposal of property at the old campus. On March 20, 1958 the State Board of Examiners agreed to transfer the west portion of the old campus (all of the old campus except the Moench Building and the Gymnasium) to the Ogden City Board of Education for 230,000. The old technical education building was remodeled and used as the administrative offices for Ogden City Schools, the old west central building (originally the Ogden High School building) on the northeast corner of 25th Street and Adams Avenues was demolished, and the Central Building on 25th Street between Adams and Jefferson Avenues was remodeled and used for offices and for storage. In March of 1961, the State Board of Education authorized the transfer of the gymnasium on the old campus to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints upon completion of the new gymnasium on the upper campus. With the disposal of the old west campus, plans were laid at the new campus for additional construction. During the 1957-1958 school year, the site for the gymnasium was a major point of discussion with the location south and west of the stadium finally chosen. It was estimated that the new gymnasium would cost 1,250,000. The Bettilyon Construction Company offered a low bid of 1,139,000 in December of I960, and construction on the gym began early in 1961. A student union building had been a goal of students and others since the possibility of moving to the new campus had been discussed. In March of 1958, President Miller and College treasurer James Foulger met with the Housing and Home Finance Agency officials in San Francisco to explore the possibility of a loan from federal funds for a union building. During April an application was filed with the H.H.F.A. for a 675,000 loan, and on May 5,1958, word reached college officials that the application had been approved. The 675,000 together with 67,000 already on hand from student fees would provide the necessary funds for the building, and during June, Keith W. Wilcox was appointed as the architect for the new union building. Porter Butts, director of the Student Union Building at the University of Wisconsin, was engaged as a consultant for planning the new building. On March 29, I960 a low bid of 846,112 submitted by M. Morrin and Son Construction Company of Ogden was accepted for construction of the Union Building, and as the bid was higher than had been anticipated, the loan from the Housing and Home Finance Agency was renegotiated to 765,000. Construction was begun on the Union building during the spring of 1960. At the same time, the State Building Board appointed Keith W. Wilcox as architect for the auditorium-fine arts center and Hodgson and Holbrook as architects for the library building. The construction of the Union Building was completed on September 1, 1961, and the dedication of the building was held on September 25 in the cafeteria area. This was the first real student center space which the students of the College had as their own since the College began in 1889. The Weber College basketball team under the direction of Coach Bruce Larson won second place in the National Junior College Basketball Tournament in Hutchinson,