All major offices and informational services are combined in the Administration Building. The Registrar's Office regulates classes and transfers and maintains student records. For advisory help, the offices of Veteran's Co-Ordinator, Dean of Men, Dean of Women, and Student Personnel are available. The offices of Treasurer, Cashier, and Business, Purchasing and Accounting control most business transactions. The Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds is responsible for the external picture of Weber. Also located in Building One are the offices of the President and Dean of Faculty. Below, the Union Building gives evidence of the rapid campus growth. In its early years Weber College operated under the name of Weber Stake Academy. When Weber Stake Academy opened in January, 1889, it was primarily a preparatory school with a few high school courses added. Many of the students attending Weber were men and women who had not completed the equivalent of an eighth grade education. Before the beginning of the free school movement and even afterward, many students attended school for only a few months during the winter. Many were denied schooling altogether. Weber Academy accepted the challenge of teaching these men and women. By offering preparatory or elementary courses the Academy provided an opportunity to acquire at least a knowledge of the common branches, and by offering high school subjects, provided an inducement for higher learning. Weber Academy served a definite need in the community and made a valuable contribution to the cause of education in Weber County and in the State of Utah. In 1947 a new homesite was chosen for Weber College. Set majestically above the city of Ogden, Utah, the site had plenty of room for a growing Weber family. This year our Weber College Union Building was in use for the first time, and with the completion of our new gymnasium Weber will at last be unified on one campus. This is a far cry from the cornfield that was once our campus, a far cry from the wooden sign that proclaimed the future of Weber College. There were many who expressed skepticism at Weber's ability to hold sufficient classes in four buildings. Others felt a split campus would present difficulties; but for many years now Weber has maintained the two campuses. The lower campus is the location of many historical structures, among them the Moench Building, named after Louis F. Moench, founder and first principal of Weber College. The new buildings being completed and others in the planning stage may make the lower campus obsolete in reality but never in the hearts of Weber students; the lower campus will always be of great historical and sentimental value to all of us. The cornfield, symbol of birth. In 1943, the Paricutan volcano erupted in a cornfield in Mexico. Nine years of hte expanded the cone to a height of 3,000 feet. In 1947, Weber College had a similar beginning in a cornfield. It has grown immensely in its fourteen years to include eight buildings and 2,300 full-time and special day students, autumn quarter. Above, the front entrance of the Union is a masterpiece of design detailing even down to the sidewalk that welcomes students and visitors alike. Below is a view of the Technical Education Building showing the impressive mountains that rise above it.