In the early years of WSC. many sporting events were held in this building. In 1927, Frank Bruno and "Monk" Halliday were captains of the basketball and football teams. By 1916 the high school curriculum had been expanded to include two years of college classes and was renamed Weber Normal College. This enabled the students to qualify for teaching positions in the state if they so desired. The year of real movement toward a future was 1923. At that time the high school classes were dropped from the curriculum and Weber became soley a junior college. Only ten years later, on July 1, 1933, the college was transferred as a gift to the State of Utah and became a state funded junior college. During the years of economic growth following WWII, Weber Junior College began to seek another campus area. In 1947 it secured the area between 37th and 40th streets from Harrison Blvd. to the mountains. Four years later, construction began on the "upper campus." The stadium area was completed and used for the 1953 football season. Buildings one, two, three, and four were ready for students to begin their studies in 1954. The year of 1954 was a trying time for the college. The Legislature and the Governor passed legislation to return the college to the L.D.S. Church. Through the efforts of concerned individuals, petitions were signed statewide. As a result, a referendum was submitted to the voters in November of that year and the college remained a state funded junior college by choice of the voters. May 14, 1963, was another important step forward for Weber Junior College. On that day, the name of the institution was again changed and it became a four-year college. Weber was now Weber State College. The first seniors to graduate from the four-year college were in 1964. The college was expanding to enable the local citizens to get their education while living at home and realizing great financial savings. The decade of the sixties brought with it expansion to the campus. By 1964 the lower campus had been vacated and the upper campus was the home of the college. The science, education, social science, administration, student personnel center, Union, art, library, fine arts, and student housing buildings were added to the campus by the early seventies. Bertha Eccles donated this building to Weber Academy for a girls dormatory with the understanding that if the College moved, the house would be converted to an art Center. This happened in 1950.