Description |
Weber Stake Academy first opened its doors for instruction at the LDS Second Ward Meeting House on the corner of 26th Street and Grant Avenue on January 7, 1889. The academy's two teachers, Louis F. Moench and Edwin Cutler, welcomed nearly one hundred students on the first day, and, by the end of its first term, 195 students in all had registered for the school. This monograph depicts the role the LDS church and its leaders played in founding the school, the background of its first educators and administrators and the financial challenges they confronted in operating the school from 1889 through 1894. Letters of appreciation for Louis F. Moench and a bibliography of primary sources are also provided. |
OCR Text |
Show CONTENTS Chapter XIII 49 Louis F. Moench Retires - Resolutions of Respect by Students, Faculty and Board of Education - Dedication of the New Building - Dedicatory Exercises and Banquet. Chapter XIV 52 Weber Stake Academy Building Formally Opened - Description From Deseret News - Impressive Exercises - Speakers and Music - Professor Moench's Invitation to the Dedicatory Exercises. Chapter XV 57 Emil B. Isgren, the New Principal, 1892-93 - Faculty -George F. Phillips, Principal, 1893-94 - Predicament of School - Louis F. Moench Applies for Principalship and is Accepted - New Faculty - Financial Relief Allowed by Church, 20% of Tithing Receipts. Chapter XVI 60 Richard Ballantyne Appeals to Deseret Sunday School Union for Privilege of Opening a Department for Instruction of Sunday School Teachers - Granted - Representatives of Wards Listed - Scholastic Year 1894-95 a Great Success - Recognition and High Rating Given. Chapter XVII 62 Letters of Appreciation: G. Adolph Brox, LeRoy E. Cowles, John L. Herrick, J. A. Howell, David O. McKay, William E. Newman, Henry Peterson, William N. Peterson, Charles C. Richards and Lottie Foulger Smith. Primary Sources 74 Life Sketches by Laura Moench Jenkins, the wife, Annie Ballantyne Moench, children, Laura Moench Jenkins, Ruth Moench Ball, Delecta Moench Davis, Wilford B. Moench, Janie Elizabeth Moench Roth, former students and friends, and the writer, a student of Professor Moench 1889-94. |