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Show Farrell Shepherd, the union building director, saw the completion of a new union building last year. This year he saw that building go into function. With the great expansion and added responsibilities he added an assistant to his staff. A recent survey showed that over 100,000 students used the union building this year. That's a lot of people to be responsible for. The new expansion led to greater problems for him, but they were surpassed by the worthwhile rewards and pleasures he received as UB director. U. B. PERSONNEL Judy Willmore, student activities coordinator, felt her way through her first year with an inherent understanding and broad insight into the problems she was faced with. A graduate of USU, Judy spent her first three years here at Weber State. Monty Shupe, assistant union building director, was a student-body officer when WSC was a two year college. He then went to USU and received his degree in speech and theatre. When the UB opened here at Weber in 1961-62, Monty became student activities coordinator. Each year he encouraged the people to be more creative because he felt that an important part of the collegiate attitude was created by the UB activities. Since the UB expansion last year, Monty became the assistant director, under Farrell Shepherd. Curtis E. Smout, student government coordinator worked directly with studentbody officers and all students who have to manage the financial end of an organization. As a member of the student executive cabinet and student senate and several committees, he stated, "I enjoy working with and for students with questions." Curtis considers his responsibility very challenging. He also serves in a public relations capacity for the associated students and as business advisor to all ASWSC sponsored organizations. As frosting to his cake, "I answer several million questions a week." The leadership committee, directed by Wayne Hill, felt their responsibility was to every student leader on campus, whether elected or appointed. Their goal was to plan a conference capable of de-fining roles and ways to function with greatest success. The three days the conference was held, the student leader was able to learn whom he would be working with and gain worthwhile insight into their purposes. Mike Richards, chairman of the orientation committee concluded, "An interesting challenge for anyone is orienting new students to the curious environment of college." This statement was made after he successfully oriented over 2,000 incoming freshmen to the rigors of college life. To acquaint the student with the growing campus, tours were conducted by various student leaders. Probably the greatest advent was the booklet A Freshman's Guide to Weber State College. It was instrumental in explaining many different phases of college life to the incoming student. Headed by the former special events chairman, Rick Murray found himself directly related to the problem of initiating and maintaining spirit. Wildcat Week be-came the major premise he and his committee undertook. Wildcat Week was originally initiated to dedicate an entire week to the fun and folly of having a good time and granting respect to the college's name. Publicity was the key point with Weber's best foot forward. The committee, under competent leadership, worked to create and maintain high spirit. Someone had to be there to count the ballots, make sure the election was run fairly, and announce the winners. That was Roger Johnson's job. He entered upon a job that hadn't been successfully fulfilled the year before. He immediately set himself to the task at hand. The elections began in the fall when the freshmen voted on their representatives. He and his committee handled various other elections, many of which were the queen candidates. All went smoothly. |