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Show Footnotes Chapter Five 1. These enrollment figures do not include individuals involved in war training programs, but rather only college students. 2. Ogden Standard Examiner, March 15, 1946. 3. On January 3, 1947, as noted in the Ogden Standard Examiner of that date, Henry Aldous Dixon named several committees and members for Webers future growth and needs. The executive committee included: J. Rex Bachman, Herbert Smith, D. Ray Wilkinson, Henry Aldous Dixon, Junius Tribe, A. Parley Bates, E. J. Fjeldsted, Leonard G. Diehl, Darrell Greenwell, Frank Browning, David J. Wilson, Earl S. Paul, Wilmer Maw, Ira A. Huggins, William P. Miller, Robert A. Clarke, W. Karl Hopkins, and Rulon White. The committee on college need included: Ira A. Huggins, chair, Louis Griffin, Arthur Brown, Hervin Bunderson, Clarisse Hall, R. A. Clarke, Ernie Bingham, Junius Tribe, George H. Lowe,John Velton, Darell Farnham, LeonardG. Diehl,J.M. Macneur, T. R.Johnson, David J. Wilson, A. Parley Bates, Everett Brown, and Chester J. Olsen. William Miller was the chair of the committee on curriculum which included: M. L. Stevenson, Louis W. Christensen, E. J. Hartvigsen, Sam Morgan, A. L. Smith, E. Allen Bateman, and Rulon Jenkins. Earl S. Paul was chair of the committee on sites with members including: Lyman Hess, Lorenzo Peterson, Janice Shupe, Arthur Grix, Keith Stratford, Piatt Fuller, William J. Critchlowjohn Edward Carver, W.J. Giroux,T. O. Smith, Junius Tribe, and George Morgan. Frank Browning chaired the committee on buildings with: W. Karl Hopkins, Edward T. Saunders, Laird Loveland, Charles Halverson, W. D. Baddley, Alfred Stratford, Lawrence Jenkins, Lynn Cornish, D. Ray Wilkinson, and Joan Emmett as members. The committee on legislation included: Heber Scowcroft as chair and Harold Welch, Darrell Greenwell, Alf Freeman, C. Ray Evans, Ralph S. Gray, Laurence Burton, Mrs. D. R. Wheelwright, Norman Bingham, William C.Jensen, George Eccles, Harold Hemingway, Blaine Peterson, Mrs. Milton White, David S. Romney, E. J. Fjelsted, Wilmer Maw, W. H. Handley, Patrick Healy, Jr., A. Thon, Rulon White, and G. Harold Holt. 4. The faculty salary schedule announced on April 10, 1947 included the following: AB or BA Degree beginning salary 2200 to 3250 in the 10th year MA or MS Degree beginning salary 2400 to 3500 in the 13th year MA or MS Degree + 1 beginning salary 2500 to 3800 in the 15th year MA or MS Degree + 2 beginning salary 2500 to 4050 in the 18th year Ph.D beginning salary 3700 to 4300 in the 20th year Ogden Standard Examiner, April 10, 1947. At the October 5, 1951 meeting of the State Board of Education, President Dixons salary was increased from 650 a month to 750 a month because he had moved from a home owned by the college to a new home which he had built at 1464 - 36th Street. Dixons salary was increased from 7,800 to 9,000. 5. A shortage of 8,779.73 in Weber College funds was discovered for the period September, 1941 through March 1948, when W. H. Handley was treasurer of the College. The shortage was discovered in an audit conducted by state auditor Reese M. Reese which was concluded in December of 1949. In December of 1949, when the shortage was uncovered by the audit, Handley submitted a certified check and cash to state officials to cover the shortage. Second District Court Judge Charles G. Cowley placed Handley on probation and ordered him to pay the costs of the special state audit of the Weber College books which amounted to about 2,000. 6. Minutes, State Board of Education, September 7, 1951. The architects committee making this recommendation included Keith W. Wilcox, Lawrence D. Olpin, and Fred Markham. 7. Salt Lake Telegram, February 10, 1949 as quoted in Dennis L. Lythgoe, Let em Holler, Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, 1982. 8. Deseret News, February 18, 1951. 9. The members of the Weber College Advisory Committee (sometimes called Board) included: W. W. Anderson, president and general manager, Anderson Lumber Company; A. Parley Bates, superintendent, Weber County Schools; Vernon Booker, Reverend, Congregational Church; Frank M. Browning, manager, Browning Chevrolet Company; Louis W. Christensen, superintendent, Morgan County Schools; Maurice Conroy, principal, Ogden High School; George S. Eccles, president, First Security Bank of Utah, N. A.; AlfL. Freeman, principal, Box Elder High School; E.J. Fjeldsted, manager, Weber Basin Water Conservancy District; A. L. Glasmann, publisher, Ogden Standard Examiner; Clarisse H. Hall, registrar, Weber College; G. Harold Holt, principal, Davis High School; J. A. Howell, attorney, Howell, Stine & Olmstead; Ira A. Huggins, attorney, First Security Bank Building; William C.Jensen, assistant chief clerk, Southern Pacific Railroad; W. I. Lowe, representative, American Federation of Labor; Roy C. Metcalf, principal, Weber County High School; Chester J. Olsen, regional forester, U.S. Forest Service; Olin H. Ririe, division manager, Utah Power and Light Company; Clarence E. Smith, business agent, Carpenters Local No. 450; T. O. Smith, superintendent, Ogden City Schools; Howard Widdison, farmer, Hooper; Fred Ball, president, Associated Students of Weber College; and Douglas W. Burnett, president of the Weber College Associated Alumni. Materials on the Weber College Advisory Committee can be found in Clarisse H. Hall, Weber State College Institutional Studies, 1973. President Henry Aldous Dixon, Robert A. Clarke, Dean of Faculty, and James R. Foulger, Treasurer served as ex officio members of the Committee. 10. Those who spoke at the hearing of the Utah State Senate concerning Weber College on December 16, 1953 were Frank M. Browning, Louis H. Griffin, Rev. Henry C. Beatty, George Herrod, Mrs. John Lewis, Dr. A. Cyril Callister, Darrell J. Greenwell, Percy W. Hadley, T. G. Schmidt, Mrs. Olive McCarthy, Howard W. Green, E.J. Fjeldsted, W. W. Anderson, John S. Hinckley, Arthur P. Brown, John M. Elzey, President William P. Miller, Ira A. Huggins, and David J. Wilson. 11. Ogden Standard Examiner, January 24, 1954. 12. Salt Lake Tribune, March 9, 1957. 13. Details concerning the efforts involved with Weber College gaining four-year status can be found in Clarisse H. Hall, The Development of the Four-Year Program, published at Weber State College, 1967. 14. Ogden Standard Examiner, March 11, 1959 as quoted in Hall, The Development of the Four-Year Program. 15. Faculty salaries at Weber College in 1961 included the following ranges: instructor, 4,450 to 6,900; assistant professor, 5,400 to 7,500; associate professor, 6,900 to 8,000 and professor, 7,900 to 9,000 for those serving as division chairman. Ogden Standard Examiner, April 18, 1961. |