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Show Campus Improvement Project Making Progress 'When we finish with it, it will come up to here.' Earl S. Paul, contractor, tells Peggy Wood, Weber college student body president (right) and Joan Crawford, student body secretary as they inspect work on the sign at the new college campus, Thirty-seventh and Harrison. This is sponsored by the Rotary club at a cost of $25,000. Concrete Base in Place For College Site Sign Progress is being made on the $25,000 campus improvement project of the Ogden Rotary club at the new Weber college site at Thirty-seventh and Harrison. Earl S. Paul, contractor, said 93 feet of concrete base for the large sign in the forepart of the campus, has already been laid. Work is now progressing on the. stone work and panels which will make the stone and concrete sign five feet high at its highest point. Steel rods will reinforce stone and concrete. Panels will be set in the stone work to carry the illuminated letters spelling out 'Weber College,' legislature creates Weber State college, a four-year institution. In addition to the stone and concrete sign in the center of the campus area, there will be stone gates at each end of the campus; one at Edvalson street and the other at Thirty-seventh street. The gates will also contain equipment rooms with steel doors, to hold mowing machines and other tools and machines necessary for keeping the area in trim. signed by Paul S. Hodgson, is being underwritten by the Ogden Rotary club as a civic project. After Weber College was fully established at the new location the Ogden Rotary Club decided they wanted to do something that would be benifical to the College. They decided to build beautiful stone entrances and a Site Sign facing Harrision Boulevard. They gave the contract to a member of their Club, Earl S. Paul. This article from the Standard Examiner shows the the begining of the work on the sign. One day after the concrete base and the reinforced wall was finished ready for the facing of stone a night storm came and washed the earth from under the South end. When I went to work the next morning the end of the sign was suspended in the air. Unfore seen things like this happen, but after digging down to solid ground and pouring a good concrete foundation under the South end the sign was made secure and now the passers by can be introduced to Weber State College both day and night. |