On the cover Z: hin _ William Arthur Budge and Mrs. Joseph ine Browning Wilson, class of 1907, lookin g over by Lou Gladwell their yearbook, and recalling their days at WSC. 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 Representing WSC Graduates, class of 1982, Commencement speakers Jill Niederhauser and Richard Hackwell. Richard is currently serving as vice 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 thirteen ! pace + group ‘‘Choralition.”’ Page 2 ba First school in old City Hall just stood and passed the ball around,” he re- recalls. The cage teams usually had only six members, providing a “‘spare’’ in case a player fouled out. The first school Mrs. Wilson attended was in the upstairs of the old City Hall on Grant Avenue where the Ogden Elks Lodge is located. _ ? “I 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 boiledin }_ soapy water on a coal stove, which also heated Knee-length shorts “immodest?” our irons for ironing clothes,’’ she said. Water for household use was brought in from outside hydrants. One of the girl’s chores wast He displayed a photo of the team wearing clean the kerosene lamps. . + what looks like a football uniform with kneelength ‘‘shorts’’, stockings and shoes. Still, Doctors made house calls in a horse and buggy. When there was a death in the family, recalls Mr. Budge, the girls who put out the white crepe was hung on the door. The viewm) yearbook refused to run a picture of the team, was held in the home. j For recreation, Mrs. Wilson said, there wer explaining the players weren’t ‘‘dressed properly.”’ 17 graduates in 1907 There were 17 graduates in the Academy class of ‘07. Mr. Budge and Mrs. Wilson remember well a fellow classmate, Moroni Olson, who was to become a motion picture actor of note. ‘Moroni gave us many laughs; he was very witty,’’ said Mrs. Wilson. Other classmates 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 an principal of the Academy. ‘‘He used to make us memorize Shakespeare,”’ Mr. Budge recalled. —e@ candy pulls, coasting on the 27th Street Hill from Jefferson to Washington, and ice skating F on the river by the Washington Avenue brid = LDS Ward Dances were ‘‘wonderful,” she § said, recalling that they only cost ten cents, : “That's where I learned to dance,”’ she beamed ay Mrs. Wilson married Benjamin Andrew Wilson in 1914. They are parents of three sons Don, Scott and Ray. Mr. Budge and his wife, Jennie Farr, havea daughter, Athleen Johnson, and a son, Arthur) 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 a his age with friends: “If I had known I'd live for 96 years, I’d have taken better care of myself.”’ _ oromi #indq “‘and I like modern improvements,”’ she added, “‘No dribbling was allowed in those times. We 1 Co oe Mr. Budge worked for the banks 42 years, Humanities; received the Wildcat and Silver Chalice Awards from ASWSC;: was on the president of cultural relations for Associated ‘han > a 7 retiring in 1959 as vice president. She worked in her father’s printing shop, A 3. Commercial Security Bank. Brothers Gun Store. Representative Jim Hansen in Washington GE al 7 team in 1908. D.C., and as first runner up to the Utah State Dairy Princess. pending Pe greggest The bank later became the Commercial Security National Bank, and still later the ] Jil) 3 -@mpos University, was one of his students. Mr. Budge got into his banking career att) old Security State Bank, located on the corner Hudson (now Kiesel) and 24th Street, while hi was looking for a summer job. located in the same building as the Browning 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 UW T later became president of Brigham Young Jill has a double major in Communications and Political Science. Jill was named Outstanding Student in the School of was vice president of the WSC Debate Team Sagem 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. 3 : -“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 was 80. “I’ve seen many changes,”’ she said'-- - Aln The Academy’s curriculum included theolog math, botany and zoology, among others. Mr. Budge taught at Central Junior High ft more than five years. Ernest L. Wilkinson, whi naming electricity, the telephone, plumbing and automobiles. “I remember the horse drawn streetcars,’’ said Aurthur Budge, ‘‘and horses pulling sleighs through the Ogden business district.’’ He played on the Weber Academy basketball WSC Academic Senate for the School of Social Science, news editor of the . “Signpost,” and news director of KWCR. She aime r back 27 R °