a he ee | Dedication, award, mark . , Founders’ Day j By Ray Wight 2 wera TE ~ al — — pe: == 1990. Many more will be middle aged and older, he said. He said he sees an increased role for the school in vocational preparation, a student body with more members from outside the area and state, an enlarged faculty, and continuing challenges to make the most out of the taxpayers’ dollars. At the Founders’ Day banquet which followed immediately after the mall dedication rites, Robert L. Newey, Ogden lawyer and member of the State Board of Regents, pointed to problems created for higher education by a state increasing rapidly in population yet with continuing prospects for stringent budgeting for higher education. He called it ‘an intolerable situation’’ which cannot help but be harmful to education. Dr. Young received a standing ovation after receiving the Dixon award and paying tribute to his students over decades of teaching as people who had contributed mostly to his education and with whom he had had a wonderful and satisfying relationship. t 10,000 students to around 20,000 by — VM Honored were Louis F. Moench, first principal of the old Weber Academy founded in 1889, and Dr. Orson W. Young, professor emeritus of zoology, _ who received the Henry Aldous Dixon award. In a look ahead for the next decade. or two, Dr. Rodney H. Brady, WSC president, sketched his ideas of growth patterns for the school. A key part of the central campus running from the administration _ building to the Stewart Bell Tower was dedicated as the Moench Mall in honor of Mr. Moench. Mrs. Delecta Davis of Ogden, a daughter of President Moench, said her father was a leader and a builder able to instill in his students a desire for learning. Heber Jacobs, representing the class of 1923; presented a bronze plaque containing names of the members of that graduating class which will be fastened to the base of the Moench statue which stands facing the area dedicated in his name. Dr. Brady called Moench a ‘giant of aman... with far reaching principles of education.”’ In his look into the next decade, Dr. Brady envisioned a campus enlarged by at least three major new buildings for students in business, allied health sciences and physical education. He said the student body could approximately double from its present _—— ~- AVS. asolid future as Weber State College alumni celebrated Founders’ Day with separate ceremonies Friday. we eS A former administrator and a teacher were honored and predictions voiced for —™ > 4 > Se. a~ \ ; Statue of Louis F. Moench stands overlooking dedication of Moench Mall. Mrs. Delecta Davis, daughter of President Moench, tells about her father. of And it shall be called Moench Mall. Former professor receives award Dr. Orson Whitney Young, recipient of the 1980 H. Aldous Dixon Award, served for many years as professor of zoology and physiology at Weber State ‘College. He was born in Raymond, Alberta, Canada, the son of Brigham Young III (commonly known as Brigham “‘S’’) and Marie Salt Lake Lake City Portland, Catherine Jonasson, both of City. He was raised in Salt and attended Reed College in Oregon where his father was mission president. Dr. Young served a mission in Germany, 1925-29 and earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Zoology at the University of Utah. Appointed instructor in zoology at Weber College in 1933, Dr. Young studied for a year at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor on a sabbatical and studied summers at the Biological Station near Cheboygan, Michigan, eleven in all, and was granted the Ph.D. degree in 1942. Photos by John Shupe Always.interested in politics, he was elected to the state Legislature and attended the 1949 session. In 1947, he gathered six thousand signatures to make possible the founding of the Weber County Mosquito Abatement District. He is currently serving as president of the District. The Utah Academy of Sciences appointed him to start and direct the Science Fair Program for the State of Utah. Later the Academy appointed him to direct the Visiting Scientist Program which he did for four years, traveling the entire state to visit the junior and ~ senior high schools. He married Lucille Blair, formerly of Logan, who was teaching in Salt Lake City. They are the parents of three sons and a daughter, all graduates of Weber State College. Page 3 he e? i -