On the cover ZG William Arthur Budge and Mrs. Josephine Browning Wilson, class of 1907, looking over their yearbook, and recalling their days at WSC. hen by Lou Gladwell The old LDS Weber Stake Academy class of 1907 is still represented by two of its graduates, now in their 90’s. Classmates William Arthur Budge, 96, and Mrs. Josephine Browning Wilson, 95, readily recall their school days of 75 years ago. They glory in the great progress that has seen their little church school expand to what today is Weber State College, with its 10,000 plus enrollment. But they do not spend much time in reverie of those vintage years, dear as they are to them both. “T like to live in the present, not the past,” says Mrs. Wilson. “I take the daily paper and do other reading to keep up.” She even enjoyed a jet plane trip when she Representing WSC Graduates, class of 1982, Commencement speakers Jill Niederhauser and Richard Hackwell. Jill has a double major in Communications and Political Science. Jill was named Outstanding Student in the School of Humanities; received the Wildcat and Silver Chalice Awards from ASWSC; was on the WSC Academic Senate for the School of Social Science, news editor of the “Signpost,” and news director of KWCR. She was vice president of the WSC Debate Team was 80. “I’ve seen many changes,” she said ’-- “‘and I like modern improvements,” she added, naming electricity, the telephone, plumbing and automobiles. “IT remember the horse drawn streetcars,’’ said Aurthur Budge, “‘and horses pulling sleighs through the Ogden business district.” He played on the Weber Academy basketball team in 1908. “No dribbling was allowed in those times. We just stood and passed the ball around,” he rerecalls. The cage teams usually had only six members, providing a “‘spare’’ in case a player fouled out. Knee-length shorts “immodest?” and president of the WSC Scholastic Society. She has been selected to receive a fellowship of $4,500 from Phi Kappa Phi, and will begin her study of law at Yale University this fall. She will spend the summer as an intern for Representative Jim Hansen in Washington D.C., and as first runner up to the Utah State Dairy Princess. r back He displayed a photo of the team wearing what looks like a football uniform with kneelength ‘‘shorts’’, stockings and shoes. Still, The Academy’s curriculum included president of cultural relations for Associated Students of WSC. In 1980-81 he was special events chairman for the ASWSC College Activities Board. He is a member of the National Honor Society and upon graduation plans to attend law school. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Taiwan. While at WSC he was a member of the Weber State Singers and the performing group “‘Choralition.”’ was looking for a summer job. Page 2 £ The bank later became the Commercial Sa Security National Bank, and still later the a, Commercial Security Bank. i. The first school Mrs. Wilson attended wasit) the upstairs of the old City Hall on Grant Avenue where the Ogden Elks Lodge is located. She worked in her father’s printing shop, — located in the same building as the Browning ~~ “IT can remember when I was a girl. We operated our washer by hand -- 25 minutes to each load,’”’ she said. “Things like dish towels had to be boiled in soapy water on a coal stove, which also heatel our irons for ironing clothes,”’ she said. Water for household use was brought in fro outside hydrants. One of the girl’s chores wast | clean the kerosene lamps. Doctors made house calls in a horse and — buggy. When there was a death in the family) explaining the players weren’t ‘‘dressed properly.”’ candy pulls, coasting on the 27th Street Hill ‘Moroni gave us many laughs; he was very included Aaron W. Tracy, who served as a Weber College President during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Mr. Budge said he well remembers President David O. McKay who was a faculty member and principal of the Academy. “He used to make us memorize Shakespeare,”’ Mr. Budge recalled. In! | @°™4 Brothers Gun Store. was held in the home. witty,”’ said Mrs. Wilson. Other classmates \ First school in old City Hall yearbook refused to run a picture of the team, of ‘07. Mr. Budge and Mrs. Wilson remember well a fellow classmate, Moroni Olson, who was to become a motion picture actor of note. R Mr. Budge worked for the banks 42 years, § retiring in 1959 as vice president. . white crepe was hung on the door. The viewm) There were 17 graduates in the Academy class : es University, was one of his students. me Mr. Budge got into his banking career at tl ) ; old Security State Bank, located on the cornet Hudson (now Kiesel) and 24th Street, whilehey recalls Mr. Budge, the girls who put out the 17 graduates in 1907 pein more than five years. Ernest L. Wilkinson, Wii) An , + later became president of Brigham Young | enthu: “Yc For recreation, Mrs. Wilson said, there wer from Jefferson to Washington, Richard is currently serving as vice theology math, botany and zoology, among others. Mr. Budge taught at Central Junior High i Jill and ice skating on the river by the Washington Avenue bridge LDS Ward Dances were “wonderful,” she said, recalling that they only cost ten cents, EW who d “That’s where I learned to dance,” she beamel been t Mrs. Wilson married Benjamin Andrew Wilson in 1914. They are parents of three sony “made fF Ou Don, Scott and Ray. | Mr. Budge and his wife, Jennie Farr, havea daughter, Athleen Johnson, and a son, Arthur his ed Last year, on their 70th wedding anniversary, they received a letter of congratulations from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. Mr. Budge recently quipped while discussing) his age with friends: ‘If I had known I'd live She Fon fc ot _ anift 7 for 96 years, I’d have taken better care of myself.’