20 WEBER COLLEGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE In a meeting of the Utah State Board of Education held January 4, 1952, President H. Aldous Dixon recommended the establishment of an advisory committee for Weber College. The State Board of Education unanimously approved this recommendation, with the understanding that the president of Weber College appoint the Advisory Committee and that the committee have no official authority to act for the Board. The recommendation for the organization of this committee read as follows: It is felt by the faculty that if the State Board and the faculty had the assistance of an advisory committee the institution could gain more support from the community by way of registration; some financial backing which it is not receiving now; assistance in the solution of several serious problems, such as military training, contracts with the military installations, etc.; and more united support (for a four-year institution. It would be understood) at the outset that this board would be nonpolitical, widely representative and purely advisory in character. The members of the faculty feel, however, that if there are any misgivings on the part of members of the State Board of Education about such a move, or that if any member of the State Board of Education interpreted the recommendation as meaning that there is anything but the greatest satisfaction on the part of the faculty with the splendid treatment which the State Superintendent and State Board of Education have accorded Weber College, the idea of an advisory board should be immediately abandoned. Before the creation of this committee ("Advisory Committee" and "Advisory Board" are used interchangeably) it was evident that such an organization could supplement the work of the