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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 20 Programme, April 28, 1889 Song Choir Prayer Peter Geertson. Song Choir Recitation May Littlefield. Physiology Moroni Ferrin. Selected Reading William Brown. Lecture Temperance, Scott Anderson. Duet Annie Brown and Annie Pingree. Song Choir Programme, May 3, 1889 Song Choir God Is Love. Prayer A. F. Ellgreen. Song Choir Do What Is Right. Recitation Gratitude, W. R. Brown. Lecture London Parks and Palaces, Ephriam Nye. Duet Nettie Herrick and Ida. Scrowcroft. Song Choir Prayer Soren Peterson.2 Programme, May 10, 1889 Song Choir Prayer Ephriam Maw. Song Choir The Constitution of the United States, Henry Peterson. Lecture Past, Present and Future, Louis F. Moench. Quartette Janie West, Mamie Thomas, Squire Coop, and Soren Peterson. Song Choir Prayer Mary Cordon.3 Programme, May 22, 1889 Debate Resolved that Lee Was a Greater General than Grant. Affirmative: Moroni Ferrin, Squire Coop, Ezra Richardson. Negative: Lauritz Peterson, Thaddeus Ferrin, Andrew Elljjren. "Judges declared that they could not say which side produced the best argument." 1. The Standard Semi-Weekly, April 27, 1889. 2. Idem, May 5, 1889. 3. Idem, May 10, 1889. |