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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 21 Chapter VI The first term of the Weber Stake Academy closed on March 15, 1889. The whole day was devoted to exercises, as well as the evening, the lower departments furnishing the program for the morning session and the higher department for the afternoon session. Members of the Board of Trustees and other leading city and church officials were on the stand. "The exercises went off well and all went away highly delighted and pleased."1 The closing exercises at the end of the first term of the first year of the Weber Stake Academy were very exceptional and comprehensive. Practically every phase of the school work was demonstrated during the two-day program, morning and afternoon of March 14 and 15, 1889. This program and the program at the end of the second term of the first year make interesting reading. Closing Exercises, First Term, Weber Stake Academy Thursday, March 14, 1889, 9 A.M._ A member of each class was named to render a subject from that particular study. Academic Department 1. Theology 3. Physical Geography 2. Algebra 4. Pholosphy 5. Elocution Intermediate and Preparatory Departments 1. Theology (Book of Mormon). 2. Arithmetic (Preparatory Grade). 3. Grammar. 4. Grammar (Intermediate Grade). 5. Reading and Orthography (Fourth Reader). 6. Geography (Preparatory Grade). Intermission 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. General Exercises of the Intermediate and Preparatory Departments 1. Song, Choir. 2. Recitation, Miss Alice Anderson. 3. Solo. Miss Edna Edlredge. 4. Composition, Master George Stanford. 5. Book of Mormon Exercise, Miss Eliza Barker. 6. Song, Master Andrew Kerr. 7. Life of Hoseph the Son of Jacob, Master David Eccles. 1. Historical Record of Louis F. Moench. |
