and as a member of the Utah Crop and Pest Control Commission. Henderson was the author of many scholarly articles and LDS church publications, and was considered to be a popular lecturer. He died in Logan following a lingering illness on October 31, 1944. Principal Henderson at his desk in the Moench Building James L. Barker 1914-1917 James L. Barker was born on July 27, 1880 in North Ogden, the son of Henry and Margaret Stalle Barker. After receiving an education in the public schools of Weber County, he moved to Salt Lake City at age 15 to attend the University of Utah where he received a B.A. in 1901. After graduation Barker filled an LDS mission in Switzerland. Upon his return, Barker taught at Ogden High School from 1904 to 1906. While living in Ogden he married Kate Montgomery on May 20, 1906. In 1907 he moved to Provo where he was chairman of the department of modern languages at Brigham Young University until accepting the position of Principal of Weber Academy. From 1904 to 1913 Barker spent part or full time studying in Europe at such schools as the Sorbonne, Institute Catholique, and College de France. Barker received a Licencie es Lettres from the University of Neuchatel in Geneva, Switzerland in 1911. As principal, Barker organize the schools first newspaper, the Weber Herald, instituted a long standing extemporaneous speaking contest, and supervised the first college classes taught at Weber. After ending his term as principal in the Spring of 1917, Barker became head of the department of modern languages at the University of Utah serving until 1946. In the Summer of 1922 he was a visiting professor of phonetics at the University of Chicago. During 1935-1936 he was associated in an advisory capacity with the U. S. Department of Immigration and Naturalization. Barker was an active member of the LDS church serving on the general board of the Deseret Sunday School and as President of the LDS Argentine Mission in 1942-