past jeer Iwo V.P.’s To Step Down | Business Vice President Dean Hurst Takes Phased Dr. Jerald Storey, To Return To Classroom too limited,’’ he said. Associations with employees, ad‘ministrators, Institutional Council members, and with government and higher education officials are what Dr. Storey puts in his ‘‘will miss most’’ category. ‘*! will not miss not being able to adequately reward hard working, capable people,’’ he said. Dr. Storey has been successful in ob taining statewide support for a number of key decisions that have affected the college, including a decentralization of a state computer system, the acquisi tion of buildings and changes in a number of important statewide policies. The WSC Alumni Association chose Dr. Storey this year to receive the an- nual Dr. Jerald T. Storey r. Storey is leaving his post as vice president of business affairs to return to teaching this year, and he leaves the position with no regrets. ‘The college is clearly in good hands and | feel good about stepping down,”’ Dr. Storey said. Dr. Storey has been vice president for over 15 years and is leaving the administration July 1 to return to the classroom. He will teach management and marketing. The tall, slim administrator came to a vice president job in 1972. Thenpresident Joseph Bishop selected him as the academic affairs v.p., a position 3 he held until 1975. Former president Dr. Rodney H. Brady reassigned Dr. Storey to vice president for planning and administration and he sat in that seat for the next five years. ‘*It’s probably in the best interest of the institution not to have an ad ministrator in the same place for too long. That way the college gets fresh people with new ideas, and it gives opportunities to others. I’ve averaged five years in each spot, and if it hadn’t been for those changes | probably would have stepped down earlier,’’ he said. In 1980 Dr. Storey became the vice president for business affairs, which oversees all the financial aspects of Weber State and makes sure the college remains fiscally sound. ‘‘What is it like to be a vice president? Busy, sometimes weighty, often disappointing, but more often satisfying. Occasionally it’s sad, but generally the work is fulfilling,’’ he said. The temptation for some who work in money management would be to become ‘‘figures-oriented,’’ but while Dr. Storey has the necessary acumen to weave expertly in and out of fiscal policies he still retains a concern for people--listing them as his major accomplishment. ‘*1 feel good about the people we’ve hired. I’ve enjoyed bringing outstanding people to the college as employees and then developing a system that rewards effective work, even though those rewards have been Retirement H. Aldous Dixon award, the highest recognition the Alumni Association gives. The award goes to the person who has distinguished himself in his campus position and who has achieved a meaningful measure of excellence in his career. The recipient must also have sought to meet the needs of students. ‘The success of the college, and therefore the success of the students, has much to do with people like Dr. Storey,’’ said Sharon Young, president 6 °T: a hundred years when someone asks ‘What did Dean Hurst do for Weber State?’ the answer will. probably be, ‘He drew Waldo.’’’ Dean made that statement sitting in his office remembering more than 40 years of association with the Purple and White. He is stepping down as vice president of college relations and pur suing a phased retirement. Dean gazed out his window and wat ched an incredible array of sun-stars reflected in the pond that is part of the Ada Lindquist. Plaza. That pond, and the Stewart Bell Tower are the two most distinguishing physical features on campus, and are reflective of Dean’s fund raising efforts. ‘*They would have to be two of my most memorable ‘bests,’’’ he. said. “The Stewart Library, Dee Events Center and Marriott Allied Health Sciences building would have to be a few others,’’ he added. Dean’s plans for a phased retirement mark just another step in his associa tion with Weber State that began when he entered Weber College as a freshman in 1944. When he graduated he was a class officer, yearbook editor, in the drama club and active in a varie ty of campus activities. He went to the University of Utah, and, while there, he and another student started their own advertising agency as a way to get experience. An Ogden-based ad agency hired him away from his own agency, and he eventually became a partner in Pier son, Kearney and Hurst, where he worked for 12 years. During that time he served on the WSC alumni board, was president of the alumni association, and was chair. of the WSC Alumni Association. ‘‘We felt the work that he does benefits not only the college, but future students. There was a very strong feeling towards him,”’ she said. Dr. Storey joined the Weber State faculty in 1964 as a teacher of manage. ment, marketing, accounting, economics and finance. He had just completed his doctor’s degree when he was appointed vice president in 1972. . ‘*! achieved a great deal of satisfaction in the classroom watching young man of the college’s Diamond Jubilee. people learn and contributing to their ‘‘There is hardly a period of time ability to understand and_ think. There’s a real joy when you see a stu. when | was not involved with the col dent’s face light up as they grasp a new lege in some way or other,”’ he said. concept,’’ he said. Then, at age 40, and despite a thriv ing advertising business, Dean hit a During his 15 year stint as an adkind of mid-life crisis. ‘‘l needed a new ministrator Dr. Storey kept his hand in challenge,’’ he said. the classroom, teaching when _his He interviewed with a number of schedule permitted. This spring he companies and was offered jobs. taught a class with the idea of finding out if he still enjoyed it as much as he “In the midst of this I woke in the middle of the night with the feeling remembered. that | should call the college. | woke up ‘*! found out that I did, so | feel in the morning and the feeling was still good about my decision,” he said. there, and all day | thought about it. Dr. Storey has worked in industry The college was closed for Christmas with companies like Pillsbury, Dunn vacation, but | called anyway and Pres. and Bradstreet, Springer and Compen‘William P.) Miller answered. | asked: sations Systems Corporation. CurrentHave you got anything up there that ly he is a corporate board member of the Northern Utah Board, and Com. you need me to do?”’ mercial Security Bank, and is also a The college happened to be putting member of the Ogden Chamber of together a position that was a combina. Commerce, the Rocky Mountain tion development director and ex. Business Officers Association and | ecutive director of the alumni. The pay many other professional organizations. wasn’t as good as what Dean was getting in advertising, but the benefit He plans to maintain activity in the package, especially the thought of havprofessional business world as a way to ing two weeks paid vacation every stay current in the classroom, and to year, was too enticing. provide information for research and writing. ‘*Things were so busy, though, that it was three years before | took a vaca‘*} am taking this action with much tion,’’ he said. anticipation as | look forward, yet with Two years later he became director mixed emotion as | look back,’’ he said. ‘‘Il have had ‘the opportunity to of college relations. Former WSC work with many fine people.’’ president Joseph Bishop made him Dean W. Hurst a assistant to the president in 1972, and when Dr. Rodney H. Brady became president in 1978 more administrative duties were added to his job descrip. tion. Shortly after, without Dean’s prior knowledge, the Institutional Council gave him the title of vice president. ‘‘Pres. Brady said, ‘If you’re going to do the work you ought to be given the title.’ | was deeply honored,’’ he Said. ‘‘!’m probably the only vice president in the nation who ever held that title without applying for it,’’ he added. Dean will vacate his administrative job July 1 of this year,-but plans to continue as a kind of Centennial Celebration specialist through the end of the decade. His main responsibilities will be development and special projects. ‘1 think | can be of more use to the college raising money than accounting for it,’’ he said: . ‘*1 do not see this as a retirement. | see myself being very much involved with the college,’’ Dean added. Budget restrictions this past year have forced the cancellation of the women’s golf and men’s wrestling teams, both under Dean’s direction, and while neither of those are the sole reason for his retirement, the frustration caused certainly contributed to his decision, he said. He calls his retirement a ‘‘real opportunity’? and talked about having more time to pursue artistic interests. But amidst the calm, summer-like days he envisions for retirement is the realization that in some ways Weber State will never let him go. ‘‘Never a year goes by,’’ he said, ‘but that | don’t get a request from the students for a new Waldo in some different pose, dress or activity.”” _