became a high point of the academic year. Great interest was shown in the development of a Student Union Building and Alumni involvement was included in its planning which would provide space for Alumni offices and lounge areas. Alumni officers voted to switch the annual Alumni banquet from spring to fall months as part of the Homecoming activity and with the change of the banquets location from downtown to on-campus following the construction of the Student Union, the Alumni Association began to enjoy a new era of visibility within the campus and community. The organization honored Dr. William Z. Terry, whose teaching career began in 1895, as a highlight of the 1958 banquet and the honoring of outstanding individuals of the college and community became a tradition of the annual banquet. In 1959, the Alumni Association elected its first woman President, Mrs. Athlene Fishburn. Two of the colleges earliest graduates, E. A. Larkin and D. R. Wheelwright, both 85 years of age, were honored at the Homecoming banquet that year. The banquet speaker, Dr. H. Aldous Dixon, former college President and now U. S. Congressman, spoke of the honorees as dedicated to the ideals of Weber College. Resolutions of appreciation were presented to Eva Browning, college librarian from 1921 to 1957, and former President Aaron W. Tracy. A capacity turnout was on hand when the Alumni Association held its annual banquet in the newly opened Union Building in 1961. Past President Athlene Fish-burn described the event as a dream come true. Dean W. Hurst, who had been associ-ated with the college since his student days, was elected Alumni President in 1962, after a long association with the Alumni that extended back to his first term as a member of the Board of Directors in 1952. A prominent role was played by the Weber State Alumni during the institutions 75th Diamond Jubilee celebration in 1964. Mr. Hurst was appointed chairman of the celebration which placed considerable responsibility for the activity in the Alumni sector. Coinciding with the graduation of the first senior class, the celebration represented a happy combination of Alumni, student and community activities and culminated in a highly successful Diamond Jubilee Ball, hosted by the Alumni Association and featuring a floor show of Alumni student performers. During the term of Mrs. Reva Blair as the Associations second woman president, the first full-time Alumni secretary, Ms. Barbara Visscher, was employed. She organized a vastly improved record-keeping system and did considerable work in updating the alumni mailing list. At the 1966 Alumni Homecoming banquet, President Miller told a large audience that, Each year the Alumni Association is becoming a more effective organization in support of the college. He reported that the presence of the Alumni President on the colleges Board of Trustees gave the Alumni a direct voice in the administration of the college. Perhaps one of the most significant projects in the history of the Alumni Association was initiated in 1966 under the leadership of Alumni President, Richard Myers, with the organization and implementation of the Weber State College Development Fund to serve as a charitable foundation for the cultivation and solicitation of gifts from the private sector. Another significant step followed in 1967, when Dean W. Hurst was employed as a full-time Alumni Director with additional duties as Executive Director for the newly formed Development Fund. Housed initially in Building 3, sharing office space with Lou Gladwell and other personnel in the News Bureau, the Alumni headquarters shifted first to the old administration building in Building 1, then to the basement of a private home purchased by the college and then into the long-awaited office space included in the second phase of the Student Union in 1969. Unfortunately the Alumni facilities were altered considerably as a result of architectural changes and following a request for office space for student personnel, the facilities were relinquished and the Alumni office moved into the new Miller Administration Building in 1972. In more recent years, a feasibility study was completed by the Alumni Association and a number of possible on-campus sites studied for a suitable location for a permanent facility to house the Association and its various functions. After years of study punctuated by frustration and disappointment, a site was finally agreed upon and plans initiated for the funding and eventual construction of an Alumni house in concert with the centennial observance of the college but that particular chapter remains to be written. During this period of time, the Alumni enhanced its program of honoring outstanding individuals by instituting the Distinguished Service and the Distinguished Alumni Awards recognizing the contributions of both Alumni and non-Alumni achievers. The first of these awards was presented to U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, David Kennedy, member of the class of 1923. In 1970 the H. Aldous Dixon Memorial Award was initiated, honoring an outstanding member of the faculty or staff. With the appointment of Alan E. Hall as Executive Director of the Alumni Association in 1974, an expanded travel program was begun which enabled large groups to attend Weber State athletic and cultural events as well as Hawaii and other tourist meccas. During Mr. Halls tenure, community theatre productions with heavy Alumni involvement provided a new dimension of interest under W.S.C. Alumni sponsorship. Renamed Alumni Community Theatre (ACT), a number of highly successful stage productions were arranged with both alumni members and community participants. Alumni services, opportunities and influence were greatly expanded during the 1980s following the appointment of Edith (Edie) Hester as Executive Director. An ambitious program was undertaken by officers and directors to expand the organization both geographically and within various age groups. The Emeritus Chapter of the Alumni Association was organized in the late 60s and is comprised of former students having graduated or attended 40 years ago or more. Each year, a class reaching that status is added to the Chapter Roster, with special recognition provided at a spring banquet. A more recently organized group, the Young Alumni Chapter, begin affiliation during their junior year in college continuing on through their fifteenth year out of school. Both of these groups have their own officers and council members who determine programs rela-