standing of the school. Governor Clyde appointed as members of the first Board of Trustees Joseph F. Breeze, Frank M. Browning, Harvey Cahill, O. C. Hammond, Robert G. Hemingway, and Ira A. Huggins from Ogden; John Higginson of Brigham City; Oma Wilcox of Layton; Rendell N. Mabey of Bountiful; and Marion D. Hanks, Frederick R. Hinckley, and Sherman B. Lowe of Salt Lake City. Serving on the first Board as non-voting ex-officio members were Secretary of State Lamont F. Toronto and Lex A. Malan president of the Weber College Alumni Association. As the new trustees took office on July 1, 1961, Rendell N. Mabey was chosen as chairman, and O.C. Hammond as vice-chairman with Robert A. Clarke appointed as secretary to the Board and James R. Foulger as treasurer. The bill which created the Board of Trustees for Weber State College transferred all power to govern the College from the State Board of Education to the Board of Trustees. Specifically, the Board was empowered to approve budgets, building contracts, faculty, hiring, salaries, and other duties formerly handled by the State Board of Education. At its first meeting on July 5, 1961, the Board selected its officers, formally appointed Dr. William P. Miller to continue as president, and accepted the responsibilities to act for the College. The Board subsequently organized committees from among its members including an executive committee; finance; faculty; athletics; buildings and grounds; and code, regulations, and order of business. During the first few months of operation there were several changes on the Board: Frederick R. Hinckley resigned because of a possible conflict of interest with his business and was replaced by Paul B. Tanner; Harvey F. Cahill died after a short illness and was replaced by Samuel C. Powell; Marion D. Hanks resigned because of his appointment to a church assignment in Great Britain and was replaced by Mark E. Peterson; and in November of 1961 Herbert J. Corky was elected as president of the Weber College Alumni Association and replaced Lex A. Malan. The Weber College Advisory Committee which had been very helpful to the College during the decade of the 1950s was disbanded on December 5, 1961 as the College now had its own Board of Trustees. The official seal for the College was designed by Farrell R. Collett of the Art Department under the direction of the Board of Trustees. The seal, which was adopted on May 8, 1962, included the lamp of learning at the center of a circle to designate the academic purpose of the college, a gear to represent technical education and industry, and the atom to represent science. The words Weber College were at the top of the circle and State of Utah at the bottom. The numbers 1889 were located just below the lamp of learning to designate the year of the founding of the college. In 1959, Weber College was notified that it was eligible to participate in the National Defense Education Act and would be allocated 4,736 for loans to students provided the college would match this amount with 526 or one-ninth of the grant. During March of 1959, the Ogden Rotary Club provided the 526. Over the next few years as the funds from the federal government were increased substantially, they were matched by the joint support of the Ogden Rotary Club, the Ogden Kiwanis Club, the Ogden Lions Club, the Ogden Exchange Club, and the Ogden Elks Club. As time passed, the Legislature began to provide the needed matching funds. With the passage of the four-year bill in 1959, a committee of administrators and faculty was established to study needed changes. Robert A. Clarke, Dean of Faculty, was appointed to chair the committee which included as members Dello G. Dayton, Leland H. Monson, Wendell L. Esplin, Merlon L. Stevenson, Lorenzo E. Peterson, and Reed L. Frischknecht. Recommendations were made in several areas including the necessary policies and procedures to establish academic rank. Surveys were made of institutions across the country concerning their procedures, and faculty meetings were held to discuss suggested criteria. After approval by the faculty, the policies were approved by the administration, and finally the State Board of Education on March 24, 1960. The policies provided for the ranks of instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. A committee of faculty and administrators was given the authorization to determine the individual rank of each faculty member in relation to the criteria which had been adopted. Suggested guidelines for the initial distribution of rank included instructor (17 to 30 of the faculty), assistant professor (27 to 40), associate professor (16 to 22), and professor (12 to 18 of the faculty). After deliberations were made concerning rank, of the 104 faculty members at the College, recommendations were made to the State Board of Education to have 11 receive the rank of professor, 22 as associate professor, 42 as assistant professor, and 28 as instructor. President Miller also suggested that a salary schedule would beput together at the College which reflected the new system of faculty ranking. The Board of Trustees in a December 19, 1961 meeting approved recommendations developed by the faculty and administration for the needed changes in curricula and academic organization to move to a four-year institution. These changes included the creation of 21 departments with 18 teaching majors and 26 teaching minors for secondary teachers. Policies for creating the rank of emeritus faculty members were approved for the first time in the history of the College by the Board of Trustees in March of 1962. Another of the studies performed by faculty and administration to prepare the College for senior status related to tenure. Recommendations concerning tenure approved by the faculty and administration received the approval of the Board of Trustees on March 7, 1962. These were the first tenure policies and procedures adopted for Weber since its inception, and included the following: 1. faculty members would be eligible for tenure following a probationary period, (probationary period initially set at three years for associate professors and professors and five years for assistant professors). 2. after receiving tenure, a faculty member can only be terminated for adequate cause, except in the case of retirement for age or because of institutional financial exigencies. 3. tenure committees to be appointed by deans and or other administrative officers. 4. tenure criteria included distinctive excellence in teaching and or research, degree, promise as a scholar, and the candidates character including personality, attitude toward work, students, and colleagues. 5. administrative personnel have no tenure in their administrative offices. 6. the College reserves the right to employ faculty