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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. |
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Show 10 175 students. We hope to be able to open school in about three weeks from the present date. We will have, however, to be governed by the arrival home from his mission of Brother Moench, whom we expect to engage as principal. We are sanguine over the prospects of having a good school in full operation shortly and under our management, and will duly advise you of its progress. Any instruction the Central Board may have to give will be appreciated. Yours respectfully, Joseph Stanford, Secretary1 Rules of conduct governing the students of the Academy were announced as follows: These rules were strictly enforced for the welfare of every pupil in the Academy. 1. Students are required to subject themselves to the regulations of the Academy during their time of membership. 2. Students from a distance must confer with, the Principal as to their places of boarding, the places of amusement, the parties they attend, and the associations they form outside the schoolroom, with a view to their personal comfort and to avoid mixing up with and forming acquaintances among those not in good repute. 3. The above rule as far as it relates to amusemuents, parties, and associations will apply to all students unless objected to by parents who must make their objections known to the Principal. 4. Students must avoid late hours and when boarding in rooms by themselves (two or more) must appoint a senior, who will be held responsible to report any conduct not compatible with good order and unimpeachable conduct. 5. The use of tobacco in any form is prohibited in the school house or on the premises. 6. Profanity and obscenity are strictly forbidden and will be attended after an investigation by the board with explusion from the academy. 7. Students negligent in their studies will be duly reported to their parents or guardians. 8. Any difficulties or unpleasantness arising from any cause whatever among the pupils must be reported without delay to the Principal for the wise and kindly adjustment. 1. Historical Record, Weber Stake Academy, p. 5. |
