university life elsewhere. That strength of odds. It will guarantee a second century character, I believe, is what drives Weber even more remarkable than the first. State to persist and to thrive against all Webers Principals and Presidents John Sillito Louis F. Moench 1889-1892, 1894-1902 Louis F. Moench was born on July 29, 1846 in Neuffen, Germany. He was one of sixteen children born to Christian and Barbara Hess Moench. His father emigrated to America in 1852, and, after his mothers death in Germany in 1856, ten-year-old Louis emigrated to the United States with several of his siblings. After moving around the country and spending time in Canada, Louis settled in Chicago where he resumed his schooling by attending night school and studying at home. In 1865, Moench and a companion, Henry Allen Trescott, bought a team of horses and a wagon and set out for California. After a fire destroyed their supplies while camping outside of Salt Lake in the summer of 1866, Moench and Trescott stopped in the city to regroup. Moench, however, was converted to Mormonism in February 1867, John Sillito has been at Weber since 1977. He is the college archivist and an assistant professor of library science.