was a somewhat difficult decision. Could I afford it, even though I knew I wanted and needed additional graduate work? I had three children, no savings, and no assurance of a job when I returned, even though it would be to my advantage. However, my parents offered to help, a brother agreed to loan us some money, and President H. Aldous Dixon, who had replaced Leland H. Creer when Dr. Creer resigned to take a position at the U. of U., gave me a verbal promise that I could return to Weber. Orlo Childs, who had just completed a Masters at the U., was hired to take my place. Dr. Robert A. Clarke was also hired to teach physics and mathematics. Tracy Hall, inventor of artificial diamonds, began his schooling and came to Weber as a freshman that fall. What took place in sciences at Weber the next two years, I know only from occasional letters and reports after my return. My fellowship was renewed and I stayed a second year, completing all the course work and an oral examination for my degree. I know Mr. Childs took large groups on the Zion-Bryce trip at least once and sometime in 1938-1939, the Central Building was purchased from the Ogden City Schools. Also, while I was away, the geology department was moved from the basement of the Moench Building to a room on the north side of the first floor, with limited storage space. In the summer of 1937, while on the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition, I had collected several boxes of plant fossils, but had not had time to prepare them for display. Somehow, in the move, these were assumed to be of little value and were taken to the dump. Unfortunately, they have never been replaced. For many geology students, the fall quarter, 1939-1940 was one of their most difficult quarters. I had just come back from two years of thinking and working at the graduate level and I expected my students, particularly in Rocks and Minerals to do the same. However, they survived and several went on to become geologists, so perhaps it was all for the good. Though Europe was in turmoil with World War II, Weber continued to grow. In checking my rolls for 1939-1940,1 find the following. In the fall, there were 96 students in three classes, two with labs. Winter quarter there were 158 students in four classes, one with a lab. Spring was a little lighter, only 109 students and three classes, one with a lab. I think I took two busloads of students to Zion and Bryce that spring. It was about this time, too, but it may have been earlier, that Weber began a cooperative agreement with the Dee Hospital to teach some of the general classes needed for nursing such as chemistry, other physical science group fillers, etc., as well as some of the more technical classes. I know I had many nursing students in my classes and took many of them on the Zion-Bryce trips. During the summer of 1940, the geology-geography department moved to three rooms on the northwest corner of what was called the Red Central Building, the west part of the building purchased from the Ogden City Schools the year before and now torn down. The classroom seated about 65, the lab about 20-25, and one was a storage area. If the physical geology classes became too large for this lab. there was another larger room we could use andoften did. As mentioned earlier, Weber was growing, and classes either were overly large or else had to be closed because of size. We were also adding new programs. According to the catalogue, William Z. Terry, who had taught at Weber many years before, was hired to teach math part time. Another department where class loads were far too heavy was chemistry. I cannot remember all the circumstances, whether it was because the geology-geography schedule was temporarily lighter, there was someone who could help there, or because I had had more chemistry than anyone else who was not already overloaded. Anyway, President Dixon asked me to take one section of beginning chemistry for the fall and winter quarters of 1940, including teaching the labs. The fall class was almost 60 and winter over 60. In a class of that size, ability differs greatly. There was one girl who just could not understand chemistry. It was not because she didnt try, but, for some reason she could not grasp chemical concepts no matter how much individual help she received. As I counseled her, I asked why she was taking chemistry. She replied, I want to be a nurse. Its a more honorable profession than being a secretary. But I hate the sight of blood. I checked her high school record and found she was good in secretarial science so advised her to go back into that field, telling her that secretaries are just as necessary as nurses. I do not remember how much longer she stayed at Weber, but eventually she went to Hill Field and in six months became one of the secretarial pool for the commanding general.In the spring of 1941, I was given sabbatical leave to return to Stanford to work on my Ph.D. dissertation and Orlo Childs returned to replace me. I had asked for and been given the opportunity to instruct one lab a week and to serve as night librarian in the geology library, knowing that I could do my library research at night and spend most of my days in the field gathering data. However, with World War II going on in Europe, most of the other graduate students were either doing field work searching for strategic materials, or had gone into the war-related industries, but this had not affected the number of undergraduates, so I was asked to teach labs four afternoons a week, plus taking the field trips, which severely limited opportunities for field work. Actually we were on a field trip when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Sunday, 7 December 1941. Winter is the stormy season for California so I was unable to do much field work until spring, but by that time we were beginning to feel the effects of the war effort. Undergraduate students were trying to get in as much college as possible before being drafted, air raid alerts and blackouts were common, people were tense and disturbed, and I was not able to gather the information I needed before we left for home. It was about this time too, that gas, tire, and food rationing went into effect, so for the next four years, I did very little work on my degree. In the spring of 1941, Dean Anderson resigned to take a position in California, and Sheldon Hayes, who by then had done much additional work in bacteriology, was hired in his place. In the fall of 1942, E. Smith Murphy was hired to help with chemistry and mathematics, and Glen Alexander came to teach some carpentry classes and help with math for by