Weber State College Comment, July 1989, Page 10 Alumnews Alumni Lagoon set for July 27 Day The Weber State College Alumni Association is sponsoring a Lagoon Day on July 27, at the amusement park in Farmington, Utah. All Weber State College Alumni and their families are invited to attend, and can get in with a discount by using the address label attached to the back page of this issue of the Comment, said Bryan F. Hurst, WSC alumni president. The Davis Pavilion at Lagoon will be the center of th alumni’s activities for the day, and drawings will be held throughout the day for special prizes and Weber State merchandise for those alumni who have paid the current year’s membership dues and present their membership card at the pavilion, Hurst said. There will be one free ice cream or drink for members of the Little Cat Club when they present their card at the pavilion. WSC alumni who bring in the address portion of this issue of “Comment” will be admitted to the parking area - for $1.00 and will receive a discount ticket rate. Those rates will be: Unlimited ride pass-$10.50 plus tax per person; Water Park Pass-$10.50 plus tax per person; or a combination pass for rides and water park for $15.50 plus tax per person. Further information concerning the WSC Alumni Lagoon Day can be obtained by calling the WSC Alumni Office, (801) 626-6564. Alumni seeking members for “Little Cats Club” The Weber State College “Little Cats Club” is starting its Summer 1989 drive for new members in preparation for their Fall activities. Any children or grandchildren of Weber State alumni from birth through 18 years of age are eligible for membership. Membership is free, but the child must be registered with the alumni office and receive a Little Cats Club Card. Little Cats T-shirts are also available to members only. Many activities are offered during the year and are free or at discount prices. Some events include: Wildcat basketball and football games; music and theatre events; gym and swim day; camp-outs, movies, Christmas party, Wildcat Sports Camps, Homecoming events and continuing education classes. To register send the child’s name, date of birth, gender, address, telephone number, the alumni parents’ or grandparents’ name and social security number to Weber State College Alumni Relations, Ogden, UT 84408-1011, or call (801) 626-7950. Former faculty member Reed K. Swenson dies : Reed K. Swenson Construction on a new addition to the Swenson Physical Education building is scheduled for completion later Photo by Clark Taylor this summer and will more than double the size of the existing building. —Ball State men's basketball Former coach, alumnus new head coach Dick Hunsaker, a former WSC point guard and 10 year assistant coach, has been named head coach of Ball State University’s men’s basketball team. According to an Associated Press report, Hunsaker, who served as an assistant at Weber State under Neil McCarthy for eight seasons, and two seasons with Larry Farmer, has been at Ball State the past two years as the team’s associate head coach. He was selected as head coach in April to replace former Ball State Coach Rick Majerus who resigned to take Lynn Archibald’s head coach position at the University of Utah. Last year the Cardinals had a 28-2 regular-season mark —the best in the Mid-American Conference regularseason and postseason tournament championship—and next season the team’s top nine players return to the squad. “There’s no question I have a tremendous opportunity in that I am inheriting a seasoned, veteran group,” he said. Hunsaker, 35, said he will carry on Majerus’ philosophy of strong defense and rebounding and good shot selection. Academics, however, are the first priority, he said. “As acoach, you first have to put things in their proper place and I’m not about to short-change the kids. Their lives are empty without an education,” he said. Hunsaker graduated from Weber State in 1977 with Reed Knute Swenson, 86, prominent local and national sports administrator and coach, died April 2 at McKayDee Hospital after a long illness. A native of Provo, Dr. Swenson received his education at Brigham Young University and the University of Southern California before being named head football and basketball coach and athletic director at Weber College in 1933. He gave up football coaching in 1968. Weber State’s Centennial History book notes that when Dr. Swenson first started at the college he asked to see the football equipment. The student newspaper, the “Weber Herald,” is quoted as reporting: “He was shown one jersey, one pair of pants, and one shoe. (When he asked where the other shoe was he was told not to be so extravagant, that there is only one punter on a football team and that he only punts with one foot.) At the first call for football the candidates who turned out were almost as poor and as few as the football equipment.” Dr. Swenson continued as basketball coach until 1957 and as athletic director until 1968. Flora Ogan, associate editor for the Standard Examiner, wrote: “Reed K. Swenson crafted athletic programs for Weber State. He was a giant to those athletes whose college careers grew and prospered under the direction of Coach Dick Hunsaker is the men's head basketball coach at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. a degree in psychology. He earned his master’s degree in educational psychology in 1983 from BYU. Swenson. His legacy is the viable, vital four-year athletic program at WSC and its recognition as one of the big five NCAA teams in Utah.” Dr. Swenson served as president of the National Junior College Athletic Association from 1949 until Weber became a four-year college in 1962. _ He was inducted into the Weber State Athletic Hall of Fame in January as one of the original members, and into the National Junior College Athletic Association Hall of Fame at Hutchinson, Kan. in March. He also received numerous awards on the local, state and national levels. In 1981 the physical education building at the college was dedicated as the Reed K. Swenson P.E. Building. As a civic leader, Dr. Swenson served as president of the Kiwanis Club and helped organize and operate recreation programs in the area. In 1971 Dr. Swenson received the H. Aldous Dixon award from the WSC Alumni Association. The citation on the award reads, in part: “Dr. Swenson has never tired of extolling the virtues of health, physical education and his beloved Weber. A firm believer in the Spartan Code of a healthy mind in ahealthy body, Reed Swenson has, with wit and wisdom, devoted himself to the advancement of good health in young men and women, and community interest in Weber State.”