community support for the Masters Degree program in Education was overwhelming. Support came from the Ogden and Weber School Districts, from the City of Ogden, from Weber County officials, from the Weber and Ogden education associations, from the Ogden Area Chamber of Commerce, from the Ogden Standard Examiner, and from the League of Women Voters. Opposition to the masters program came from Logan and Salt Lake City. The eventual decision by the Regents was a giant step for Weber State College and for the college area a step into the arena of graduate programs. Over the next decade the vast majority of masters degree candidates in the School of Education did most of their graduate work on Webers campus. Finally, early in 1988, members of the Weber State College administration were able to convince the Board of Regents that Weber should be allowed to house the Master of Education program without any strings attached from the Logan campus. The separate M.Ed, program would begin July 1, 1988. The M.Ed, program fit nicely with the individualized learning modules already in use in Webers undergraduate teacher certification program. The new Education Building was ready for use by the fall quarter of 1973. The four-story building had cost 2.4 million and included six large classrooms, eight small seminar-type rooms, laboratories to study and prepare foods, clothing, and textiles, 44 faculty offices, and several specialized areas. Space was provided for a childrens school which was to be an integral part of the curriculum of the School of Education. Donations from the community continued to bolster Webers financial base. In September of 1973, Willard Eccles provided 500,000 to endow the Eccles Chair in the School of Business. A 66,000 grand organ was given to the college in 1974 by Val Browning for use in the Fine Arts Center. In February of 1976, an announcement was made that Donnell and Elizabeth Stewart had donated 2.5 million to Weber State College and that 1 million of the gift should be used as an endowment for the library. Subsequently, the library was named in honor of the Stewarts as it was dedicated on May 7, 1976. Hyrum Wheelwright donated 300 volumes concerning Mormon-ism and early Mormon history from his library to the Weber library in the Spring of 1976. The Utah Academy for Sciences, Arts, and Letters and the Utah Conference on Higher Education both relied on Webers faculty for a portion of their leadership, and they both often met on the Weber campus. Major steps were taken during the Bishop administration to improve the landscape of the campus. Good Company was the name given to the group of a dozen college students formed in 1972 who took musical presentations to high schools and community groups throughout the intermountain region. The formation of the group was an outgrowth of the traveling assemblies program. In 1977 Good Company was chosen to tour a number of Pacific military installations sponsored by U.S.O. Students and community members continued to be involved in plays and musicals at the college including Noel Cowards Present Laughter, the Fantasticks, West Side Story, the Pirates of Penzance, South Pacific, Romeo and Juliet, Hello, Dolly, and the Taming of the Shrew. Appearances were made at the college by The Carpenters, Mary Travers, the Inter-national Folk Dancers from Brigham Young University, S.I. Hayakawa, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Ann Murray, Bella Abzug, Bill Cosby, Charles Kuralt, George Gallup, Jr., Henry Steele Commager, Van Cliburn, Henry Mancini, Robert Redford, Art Link-letter, John Wooden, Jane Fonda, Spencer W. Kimball, Sam Erwin, Alvin Toffler, and Ronald Reagan. Streakers, some clad only in ski masks and some with only tennis shoes, dashed across campus during the winter and spring of 1974 as part of a campus craze which spread across the nation. Students, faculty, and staff ran for real turkeys as prizes in the annual Turkey Trot. Two Weber students drowned in the ocean near San Francisco during a spring break choir tour in March of 1975. The victims, Brian Felt and David Sargent, were members of the Weber State College chorus. During October of 1974 the Northwest Association of Secondary and High Schools sent a team to visit Weber State College concerning accreditation for the college. The 13 member accreditation team recommended a ten-year accreditation for the institution, and this stamp of approval was endorsed by the Association during December. Prior to this ten-year approval Weber had received two-, three-, and five-year accreditations from the Association. A ten-year accreditation is the longest term the association can certify. In part the committees report read, the institutions own goals are soundly conceived, its educational programs have been intelligently devised, its purposes are being accomplished, and the institution is so organized, staffed and supported that it should continue to merit such confidence. In June of 1975, 1338 diplomas were given at the 87th annual Weber Commencement where the commencement address was given by Senator Frank Moss. A bachelor of General Studies degree was first given at the 1979 commencement. Weber became involved in a number of events celebrating the bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Of lasting importance is the Bicentennial Art Collection which includes 50 paintings depicting early Ogden and northern Utah scenes. The idea for this collection of paintings came from attorney William J. Critchlow, III, a director of the Weber State College Development Fund. The paintings hang today in the college library, and paintings by Weber faculty members Farrell Collett, Dale Bryner, Richard Van Wagoner, and Charles Groberg are included in the collection. A series of lectures by nationally prominent historians was another aspect of the bicentennial celebration. Another college project which was begun during the bicentennial in 1976 but not completed until 1981 was the beautiful Atlas of Utah. The Atlas was finally completed through the efforts of editors Deon C. Greer, Klaus D. Gurgel, Wayne L. Wahlquist, and Howard Christy. In August of 1976, a party of 20 including Weber alumni journeyed to the top of Mt. Ogden to commemorate the Mt. Ogden hike of 1922 and to place a bronze plaque at the top of Mt. Ogden. Three of the 20 who made the 1976 hike were involved in the original 1922 hike including William W. Terry, Junius R. Tribe, Sr., and J. Floyd Barnett. In the Spring of 1976, Robert A. Clarke who had been a faculty member at Weber since 1937 and had served both as Dean of Faculty and as Administrative Vice Presi-