COMMENT WEBER STATE COLLEGE April 1981 Center, plaza, to be memorialized Ss ee Two dedications are scheduled for spring. The Science Center will be dedicated as the John G. Lind Science Center during a program April 23 at 3 p.m. in the Science Lecture Hall, room 127. This dedication will be in honor of the ‘‘founding father” of the Natural Sciences at Weber State College. Remarks will be made by Dr. dean of = admissions and records, who will retire this year from Weber State College, has been selected to receive the prestigious WSC Alumni Henry Aldous Dixon Award. The presentation of the award will be made at the Founders’ Day Banquet, May 1. “T feel highly honored to be selected to receive this award, especially so because of the close association I had with President of the Natural Sciences at Weber. His expert leadership pioneered many disciplines at the college. He be dedicated the Aaron W. Tracy Plaza in honor of former President Tracy. Hermoine Tracy Jex, daughter of Dr. Tracy, will respond, and Louis A. Gladwell, retired director of WSC News Bureau and a student at Weber College under Dr. Tracy, will Dixon when he was President,’’ said Dean Mecham. Dean Mecham recalled that when fishing and hunting seasons came, President Dixon sent around a memo coaching at the University of Utah. He also supervised the men’s dorms. One hundred and twenty men were on a government project one-half day working on an Ogden elementary school and attending the junior college for the other half of the day. During that year, 1940, the Preside of the United States sent notice to all members of the military who held commissions that they needed to serve on year active duty. Dean Mecham had graduated from the ‘‘U”’ as a second lieutenant and so in August of ‘41 he was sent with the 7th Infantry Division to Ford Ord, California. World War II started December 7 and he didn’t get day and place were set and everyone gathered there for the hunting or home until August of ‘45, after spending 35 months overseas in the Pacific Theater of operations. “I just did what I had to do,” he said. Ike Armstrong, coach at the fishing. “We had great evenings of story-telling and comradery,’’ he Davis left Weber in 1946 and to all the faculty and staff saying, “The health curriculum around here { is shot. Let’s plan a fishing trip!’”’ A then applied as head football and said. Dean Mecham “U;’ wrote and asked him to join his staff. He worked there until Bob began his long career at Weber State in 1940 as assistant football coach and health, physical education and recreation teacher, following two years’ wrestling coach. He was head coach for 11 years, teaming with Reed Swenson, who was head basketball coach. (Continued on page 2) in 1896 as an Dr. Lind’s, will also speak. also give brief remarks. Milton C. Mecham, Dr. Lind started teaching at Weber Academy physical sciences. He retired in 1938. On Founders’ Day, May 1 at 11 a.m., the plaza between the Union Building and Browning Center will by Arlene Wilson The founding father of the Natural Sciences at Weber State College was Dr. John Gustave Lind. Richard Moyle, professor of Geology, who has collected artifacts, photos, and documents pertaining to the life and career of John G. Lind. Dr. Walter Buss, an early colleague of Milton Mecham selected for Alumni Award During each dedication program plaques will be presented by President Rodney H. Brady for placement in the Lind Science Center and Tracy Plaza. Dr. John G. Lind and students on a field trip. instructor in Latin and natural and This dedicated and sincere Professor was the Founding Father contributed the entire time and energy of his professional life to the stature of the Natural.Sciences and the success of the college. His private mineral and rock collections, as well as his unselfish dedication to the Geology-Geography Department, were the mainstay to its existence through hard times at Weber. Dr. Lind was extremely well (Continued on page 2)