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Show commencement exercises. The procession formed on the Ogden Tabernacle grounds, and faculty members expressed pleasure and pride in the opportunity of seeing each other, for the first time, clothed in colorful academic apparel representing colleges and universities throughout the country. With the completion of the Union Building, the question of smoking in the building had been raised. The original Union Policy Board consisting of eight students and seven faculty, staff, and alumni adopted a no smoking policy in the building during September of 1961. The question of smoking continued to be raised by student, faculty, and community groups, and an architectural study was requested concerning the ventilation system in the building. The report suggested that the original ventilation system was unable to ventilate the building properly to remove cigarette smoke, and additions to the ventilation system would be costly. Some suggested a smoking room, and protests to the no smoking policy continued including a May 1966 smoke-in in the lounge of the Union Building. As the new addition to the Union Building was completed in 1969, the Union Policy Board approved smoking in designated areas in the new building. The Fall quarter enrollments for 1964 saw an addition of 1000 students, a 29 increase which placed a strain on campus facilities. Construction on the campus was an ongoing feature. The Fine Arts Building was built during the period from 1962 to the fall of 1964. The 1,800,000 building included classrooms, faculty offices, special rooms for vocal and instrumental music, and an auditorium which seated 1200 on the main floor and 600 in the balcony. The auditorium provided a home for student and faculty presentations as well as the lecture series and symphony and ballet performances. The dedication of the building was held on December 13, 1965 as part of a Christmas musical presentation. Construction for the library was begun on July 14, 1964 with the bid of 1,032,854 by Skyline Construction Company accepted by the Board of Trustees. During the summer of 1965, the library was completed and library materials were transferred to the new building from the former library area which was on the north end of the second floor of Building Four. The library was dedicated at a noon service on September 21, 1965, and the new building marked the first time in the seventy-six year history of the college that a separate library building was available to faculty and students. The new library consisted of three floors with the lower floor being occupied by the School of Education. The residence halls (La Sal, Wasatch and Stansbury Halls) were built and named under the direction of the Board of Trustees. The Trustees decided that rather than name the buildings after individuals, they should be named after mountain ranges in Utah. The largest building was named Wasatch Hall and provided space for 219 students. La Sal and Stansbury Halls included twelve apartments each. Each apartment contained a kitchen and living facilities for six students. During the fall of 1964, Wasatch Hall was occupied by male students and La Sal Hall by female students. The completion of Stansbury Hall was delayed because of soil problems. The Board of Trustees adopted policies concerning student residence halls on November 19, 1963 which required single fresh-man and sophomore women students under 21 years of age and single freshman men students under 21 years of age to live in college operated residence halls. The director of housing was allowed to make exceptions to the policy. During the summer and fall of 1964 the 41st Street road connecting Harrison Boulevard to Taylor Avenue was completed. This road allowed much easier access to the residence halls and the gymnasium. On September 15, 1964, William E. Carver, former Ogden police officer, was appointed as chief of Campus Security. The Security Office was charged with law enforcement on campus including traffic control and security. Effective January 1, 1965, Paul G. Butterfield became the director of the Evening School and the Summer School, replacing Wendell Esplin who continued as chair of the Division of Trade Technical Education. In February of 1965, Quinn G. McKay was appointed chair of the Division of Business to replace Talmage Y. DeLange who returned to full-time teaching. In the March 16, 1965 Board of Trustees meeting, Sarkis Arslanian was appointed head football coach to replace Wallace Nalder. Nalder had served as football coach since 1956, and now moved to full-time teaching in the Department of Physical Education. A dental assistants program was created upon the approval of the Board during April of 1965 with Richard Kingston, D.D.S. as its director with classes being held in downtown Ogden in the Eccles Building. Although this program lasted for only one year before federal funds were withdrawn, it became a precursor for a strong dental assistants program at Weber. During the summer of 1965, a Department of Campus Planning and Construction was created at Weber and Fred M. Johnson was appointed director of the department. On November 16, 1965, Alan J. Dayley, Dean of Men, was appointed Dean of Students to replace Merle E. Allen. Allen had been appointed director of the Utah Coordinating Council on Higher Education. Rolfe Kerr was appointed as Dean of Men, and when Kerr resigned in 1967, Marvin Peterson was appointed Dean of Men. The 1965 state legislature through House Bill 64 took action to issue bonds for the construction of numerous state buildings amounting to 67,000,000. Weber State Colleges share of the total came to 9,805,000 which was to be spent in the following manner: Science Building (3,030,000), Administration Building (570,000), remodeling of Buildings 1, 3, 4 (115,000), Classroom Building (Social Science Building - 4,750,000), Maintenance Building (450,000), campus development (400,000), land and facilities purchases (400,000), physical education facilities (90,000). Several million dollars of federal funds were used to supplement state bonding funds as construction proceeded. The federal funds made it possible to construct more adequate facilities than would have been possible with state funds alone. In June of 1965, the Board of Trustees increased the student building fee from 30 to 40 a year. This action was done in part to finance the expansion of seating in the stadium. Since 1953 when the stadium was completed only about 3,500 people could be seated, and the proposed bleacher expansion would allow the stadium to accommodate 8,400 spectators on each side of the facility. The bleacher expansion program was completed by the fall of 1967. Other improvements for the |