A BRIEF REPORT ‘hen ON I was communities SOME elected that had no OF THE to PRELIMINARIES LEADING WAHLOUIST SCHOOL the Weber school; the County Board children in (transported to Plain City, North Ogden were Farr West, Harrisville, Marriott, children possible and and UP TO THE FOUNDING of Education, these there communities Wilson Lane. Slaterville, OF THE were were four being These four communities and the schools these were being sent to were over crowded. I pledged to get an elementary school for these four wards. myself to do everything The Board didn’t have sufficient funds to build a school at that particular time without bonding, so some of the Board members felt we should not attempt to build just then, and they were justified in their feelings for we were just Starting to recover from a depression, and we didn't want to involve the School District in bonding Superintendent if we could get by without Wahlquist felt we were doing badly in so. need of a school for these four communities and strongly recommended that we proceed to build. Part of the Board felt the same as Supt. "ahlquist, so after considering the possibilities, and finally deciding it was possible ~ - for labor was cheap and could get some government help, we decided to proceed to build. of the first community things due was to acquire consideration, and a suitable site, that was when we Of and we wanted our found out we course, one to give each headaches Then the the east side Commissioners it would be a still objected, Board considered a site on the first corner south of here and on of the road which is directly west of North Street. The County were invited out to look the site over, and they also thought that central site considering the four wards. Farr West and Harrisville but conceded to a site north of here on the corner where this road intersects the Plain City and Harrisville Road. Marriott and Slaterville still objected, so the Board investigated a site in between the two corners, and we found we could purchase a tract of land immediately across the street from here or we could buy this site where the school is now located. There were objections to either site from all four communities, so after many meetings with various committees from these four wards, the Board realized if we built a schocl, we would have to act independent of these communities. The Board didn’t see eye to eye on these sites, and one Board member argued that the ground was so poor we wouldn't be able to have a park, that grass wouldn't grow, that ment even that an an onion onion wouldn't wouldn't grow. grow, A neighbor to the school site acquired one of the largest onions onion at our next Board meeting, When one of the Board members made the I proceeded to disprove his contention. in question had IY could find in a field of onions, so I his patch, and produced the The onion seemed to clinch the site, for the very Board that an onion wouldn't grow made the motion that we purchase Wahlquist School now stands and proceed to build. (Signed) state~ E. member who contended the site where the Arnold Slater + began. At the first committee meeting held between Farr Vest and Slaterville, it was decided that a site between the corner by Leland Slater's and the corner North should be chosen. When this proposition was presented to the four communities, there was considerable opposition. Harrisville and Farr West felt a site further north and east should be chosen, and suggested the old school site in Harrisville be selected. Marriott and Slaterville objected to going there, contending it would be too one sided, considering all four wards were to use the school house.