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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 43 Robert I. Burton Lettie Richards Burton (Mrs. Robert Charles P. Carlson I Burton) Elijah Larkin Walter A. Kerr Lottie Foulger Smith Ruby Stevens Scoville (Mrs. Lester (Mrs. Burdette Smith) Scoville) William Watson William Z. Terry, professor at the Weber Stake Academy and later at the Weber College says that for a number of years near the turn of the century and even later the students on Founders' Day marched from the Second Ward Meeting House to the Tabernacle, from the Tabernacle to the Fifth Ward Institute and then to the Moench Building, holding exercises at each place in honor of the homes of the Academy. Malcom Watson, a prominent alumnus says that in 1907 when he was a student that the students on Founders' Day paraded and followed the same procedure as indicated by Professor Terry. The Weber College catalogue contains the announcement that "the school was later moved to the Fifth Ward Institute."1 There are pictures of the homes of the Weber Stake Academy and Weber College in the Souvenir Edition of the Acorn, 1923. Below the picture of the Fifth Ward Institute are the words The Third Home of the Academy. The Souvenir Edition of the Acorn of 1929 contains a short history of the school and in this history the readers are reminded that "in the early spring of 1890 the school was moved to the Fifth Ward Institute." A picture of the Fifth Ward Institute is included in this article. Milton Hunter writes that "early in the year 1890 it (The Weber Stake Academy) was moved to the Fifth Ward and was known as the Fifth Ward Institute."2 A feature article of The Standard of the Founders' Day of 1922 describes the celebration and the great parade headed by the school band. The parade formed at the College Campus and marched to the Second Ward Meeting House, then up twenty-sixth Street to Washington, and then north on Washington Boulevard to the Tabernacle and back to twenty-fifth Street and east to Madison Avenue; thence south to the Fifth Ward Institute, twenty-sixth Street and Madison Avenue and back to the College. Speeches and music featured the celebration.3 1. Beneath Ben Lomond's Peak, Milton R. Hunter, p. 558. 2. Weber College Catalogue, 1922, p. 15. 3. The Ogden Standard, January 6, 1922. |
