76 students of the college. At that time the college sponsored an army and navy program promoting civil pilot training (CPT) for men who, after completing additional training in other schools, would eventually become commercial pilots, glider or transport pilots, or flying instructors. Some of these CPT students resided in the dormitory on Twenty-fourth Street and took their meals in the college cafeteria. In April of 1943, Weber College was notified that it had been approved by the Civil Aeronautics Authority in Washington, D. C., as a Naval Aviation Cadet Training Center. The telegram, which was sent by Mr. A. Harold Bromley, superintendent of the C.A.A. regional office in Santa Monica, California, informed the college that the C.A.A. had allocated 100 navy aviation cadets to the school for an elementary full-time three-month course. There were six phases in the program, and Weber was to teach the second phase. The college was directed to receive fifty cadets on April 16 and an additional number on May 14. Through Weber's selection, the school became one of eight navy training centers in the Sixth Region, which embraced Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah. In explaining the program to the citizens of the community, President H. Aldous Dixon of the College stated in the Salt Lake Tribune on April 13, 1943: The naval cadets who are coming in the middle of this month and in May are the finest type of young manhood. They represent a class of men upon whom Uncle Sam is willing to spend $25,000 each, and they