Chapter 6 The Campus on the Hill as a Senior College 1962-1978 On September 24, 1962, the first junior class was enrolled at Weber College. The past nearly three-quarters of a century had seen Weber grow from a small church academy with much emphasis on teaching students in the primary grades to a senior college. The United States and Utah had changed over the decades, and as Weber became a senior institution, John Kennedy was well into his second year as President of the United States. The next two decades would see an expansion of the war in Vietnam, protests, assassinations, movements for minority rights, political upheavals, and Watergate. The American scene was colored with turmoil, and during this period of time much of it spilled over onto college campuses. Growing pains, protests, and changes marked Webers early years as a senior institution, as well as a struggle for identity and continued growth in the student body including older adults (non-traditional students) returning to finish their education. The colleges name was changed to Weber State College early in 1963 as Governor George D. Clyde signed a bill to that effect which had been sponsored in the legislature by Senators Frank M. Browning, Haven J. Barlow, and Merrill Jenkins. The name change was effective May 14, 1963 (sixty days after the legislature adjourned), and on that day a special program was held at the west entrance to the campus. As part of the program the Ogden Rotary Club changed the name on the rock wall they had donated a decade earlier to Weber State College. At the July 16, 1963 meeting of the Weber State College Board of Trustees, it was suggested that the next change would likely be to Weber State University at some time in the future. Twenty-two majors were announced in the Fall of 1962 for students to choose from for bachelors degree majors including: accounting, business administration, secretarial training and business education, elementary and secondary teacher education, art, English, music, speech and drama, botany, zoology, medical technology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, history, political science, psychology, sociology, power mechanics, engineering technology, electronics and engineering technology, industrial engineering technology, and tool and manufacturing engineering technology. New instructors were added to the faculty to help with the increased teaching loads including: Frances Bud Belnap, Carol Tribe, Parry Wilson, Leroy Overstreet, Donald Moorman, Gordon Allred, Benjamin Noid, Emron Jensen, Dix Cloward, Elmer Ericson, Kenneth Adams, Alan Dayley, Ronald Galli, Thomas Burton, Geraldine Hansen, Rod Julander, Elden Liechty, Blair Low, Levi Peterson, Evan Memmott, Leonard Nicholas, Blaine Parkinson, and Donna Mae Weston. In December of 1963, Val A. Browning gave to the college 707 shares of First Security Investment Company stock. The proceeds from the sale of the stock were to be used to purchase needed equipment for the Machine Tool department. In January of 1964, Wendell L. Esplin was appointed as chair of the Division of Technical Education to succeed Lorenzo E. Peterson who had taught at the college for a quarter of a century and who died on January 23, 1964. Symbolic of becoming a senior institution was the completion of the new gymnasium in November of 1962. The building was dedicated during a brief service held during the half-time of the Weber State College and Idaho State College (later changed to Idaho State University at Pocatello) basketball game on December 12, 1962. Governor George D. Clyde and Glen R. Swenson, director of the Utah State Building Board, each made some brief remarks, and Weber Trustee Ira A. Huggins gave the dedicatory prayer. The installation of roll-away bleachers in the new gymnasium made it possible for as many as 5,000 people to view athletic events at the facility. With the completion of the new gymna-sium, President Miller delivered a quit claim deed to David O. McKay, president of the Mormon Church, which conveyed the title of the old gymnasium building and property on 25th Street back to the church. The college had used the old gymnasium for four decades one as a church college and three decades as a state institution. Miller conveyed to McKay at their November 9, 1962 meeting the appreciation of the students and faculty of the college and the members of the community for the opportunities of using the old gymnasium. The completion of the gymnasium made it possible for the college to conduct virtually all of its educational programs at the Harrison Boulevard campus. In May of 1964, the college sold about 40,000 square feet of land on the northwest corner of 25th Street and Jefferson Avenue (the southeast corner of the old campus) to the Mormon Church for 42,200 for use by the Church as a parking lot for the old gymnasium which had become known as the Deseret Gymnasium of Ogden. In 1967, the College sold the northeast corner of the old campus to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for 71,741. The income from the property was to be used for land purchases adjacent to the new campus. With the sale of this last piece of property the College had disposed of all property on the lower campus with the exception of the Moench Building. The Moench Building continued to be used for more than a decade after the move to the new campus for assemblies, musicals, plays, and other activities. In keeping with the terms of the deed which conveyed the Moench Building to the College and the State in 1933 the Moench Building property was to be given back to the church