Louis Griffin, manager of Paramount Dairy and Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee. This group made three recommendations: 1. That the immediate goal of the College be obtaining the land for a suitable campus and additional buildings, and that no more buildings be built on the present campus until a suitable campus is secured. 2. That a four-year college be a goal of the College. 3. That a large widely representative committee of citizens be invited to meet and be involved in the planning. It should be noted that the summer school at Snow Basin and the aeronautics building at the airport were given second priority.Upon invitation of President Dixon, a representative committee from the Weber College area met January 2, 1947 in the Central Building auditorium. The group was referred to as The Committee of Eighty. The Committee was organized with an Executive Committee of sixteen members. The Executive Committee included: J. Rex Bachman, President of the Chamber of Commerce as Chairman; and H. A. Dixon, E.J. Fjelsted, Frank Browning, Wilmer Maw, Herbert E. Smith, Junius Tribe, Leonard G. Diehl, David J. Wilson, Ira A. Huggins, D. Ray Wilkinson, A. Parley Bates, Darrell Greenwell, Earl S. Paul, William P. Miller, W. Karl Hopkins, R. A. Clarke, and Rulon White. After a preliminary discussion the group divided into five committees, each of which was provided with a written discussion guide: 1. Committee on Need: Ira A. Huggins, Chairman. 2. Committee on Curriculum Expansion: William P. Miller, Chairman. 3. Committee on Sites: Earl S. Paul, Chairman. 4. Committee on Buildings: Frank Browning, Chair-man. 5. Committee on Legislation: Heber Scowcroft, Chairman. After the committees had met for about an hour, they reassembled and presented their findings. After the findings had been heard, two motions were approved unanimously: 1. That the legislature be requested to purchase a new campus and provide buildings. 2. That the legislature be requested to approve a four-year curriculum. This meeting received wide publicity. During November, December, and January, President Dixon talked with many groups throughout the Weber College area. One such meeting was the annual Founders Day program held the evening of January 24 in the Ogden High School auditorium. He spoke before more than 2200 people, and urged the audience to (1) work for an increase in the operating budget of the college; (2) purchase land for a new campus; (3) work for Senate Bill 60 (the four-year bill), (4) work for 1,125,000 for buildings on the new campus. He said, We should come to think of education in its true light, an investment, not an expenditure. Ogden is still starved for fine things. Look at the support for our churches, our school concerts, our lecture series. Take the U.S.A.C. away from Logan and what would Logan be as a residential city, or the B.Y.U. from Provo. Give Ogden a new and greater Weber College and we will have here an equally desirable place in which to rear our children. He pointed out that the College has only 7 acres for its campus compared with 150 acres at the University of Utah and more than a hundred at U.S.A.C. and B.Y.U. This was but one example of President Dixons 217 communication with the community. Many groups filed petitions with the legislature in favor of the College proposals. Many people were involved in the selection of the site for the new campus. A large map, 27 x 44 was prepared showing the possible sites for expansion of Weber College. The map showed the number of acres in each site, the number of buildings on each site, the assessed value of the land and the assessed value of the buildings. Elevation lines were shown indicating the slope of each site. The four principal sites were: 1. The Utah State Industrial School located east of Washington Blvd. and north of Five Points. At this time there was talk of moving the Industrial School to the Bushnell Hospital buildings in Brigham City. This site contained 310 acres. After the legislature had discussed the proposed move of the Industrial School, the matter was dropped. 2. The expansion around the old campus at 25th St. and Jefferson to include Lester Park and land to the south and to the north for a total of 27 acres. This involved buying 133 buildings plus land with an assessed valuation of 107,331 per acre. It involved condemning people out of their homes. The twenty seven acres would not provide for a field house and athletic field. 3. The J. M. Mills site located east of Harrison Blvd. between 36th St. and 4000 South. It contained about 175 acres of which 80 acres were suitable for buildings. The assessed value was 34 per acre. Additional land was available for expansion if needed. 4. The Glasmann site located west of Harrison between 40th St. and 5600 So. and containing approximately 200 acres with an assessed value of 240 per acre including land and buildings. President Dixon discussed the proposed sites with numerous community groups and with the legislators who visited Ogden, and he took several carloads of people at various times to look at the sites and express their opinions. The author remembers tramping through the snow in January 1947 at the Mills site with the Chairman of the Sites Committee Earl S. Paul, some members of his Committee, and President Dixon. Mr. Paul was a building contractor as well as President of the Mt. Ogden Stake. He would stop from time to time and talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the various sites. The discussion narrowed to the Mills and Glasmann sites. These sites compared equally on most criteria. As the group paused and looked out across the valley, the superior view from the Mills site and thoughts of how well the slope would set off the buildings, appealed to the group and Chairman Paul stated a strong preference for the Mills site. The group agreed, and President Dixon later prepared recommendations to the State Board and legislature. It was also decided that the ten acres separating the Mills site from Harrison Blvd. should be acquired. This was the Merlin Edvalson subdivision which had been sold as building lots, but the only buildings on it were Mr. Edvalsons home and a small cement block house. Options were secured and the legislature had a firm basis for appropriating funds for the campus. It was announced on March 5, 1947 that the legislature had appropriated 50,000 toward purchase of a new campus for Weber College with the understanding that the community would match this amount. At the time members of the legislature visited the campus late in January 1947, the Ogden Chamber of Commerce announced its willingness to conduct a drive to match the legislatures