Walter C. Neville Appointed to Utah Academy Post SIGNPOST Bi-Weekly Publication Associated Students of Weber 402 Phone Moench College Building Weber College—Extension OGDEN, UTAH 26 Walter C. Neville of the Weber College faculty was recently appointed to the awards committee of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Editor - Homecoming Edition SIGNPOST Page 2 Corene Martin Dick Slater Business Manager Society Editor Cheril Heiner Sports Editor Dell Foutz Editorial Adviser Wayne Carver Business Adviser E. M. Vietti Reporters Jan Heiner, Allen Cook, Charlotte Stark, Kent Weathers, Bert Taylor, Adrian Howell, Jerruleen Davis. The committee is composed of five members and the chairmanship is rotated so that the new senior member becomes chairman. Other members are: Chairman, Dr. Wesley Keller, U.S_A.C.; Dr. George Sayers, University of Utah; Dr. J. Homer Walefield, B.Y.U.; and Dr. Leon B. Linford, University of Utah. The Academy gives awards for A Sentimental Dedication—1941-51 work in Signpost, the perennial freshman, doffs its green-striped outstanding meritorious any of the following divisions: the cap to returning Alumni and wonders if it will ever follow the physical sciences, the biological yearbook into graduation. It is sincerely envious of those pros- sciences, the social sciences, and the arts and the letters. Recent perous and thin-pated graduates who have gone out into the winners have been such noted men as: LeRoy Robertson, Franklin S. world and now return at this reunion time. Signpost, watching Harris, Mahonri Young and Dr. the comings and goings, remains. Gathered in its collected and Avard T, Fairbanks. yellowing editions into a dust-covered file, it takes musty conThe fall meeting of the Academy solation from the fact that if the end is indeed dust unto dust, will be held November 16 and 17 at Weber college. Dr. Orson Whitit is already half-way toward a state of grace. ney Young, chairman of Weber By virtue of its age and performance, then, and that academic authority that comes from dryness, Signpost makes a dedication: to all former Weber students, these two days and this issue is dedicated. And a post-script dedication: especially do we dedicate this homecoming to the students decade; the troubled, neurotic, horrible, silly, joyous, decade of 1941-1951. beautiful, of the past sad, tragic, Our reasons for this are rather special ones. Beneath the covering dust of the file case, Signpost, in these ten years, recorded the peaks and the valleys of school prospects and spirits. In these years Weber umps and possibly largest student and their body her friends saddest ever saw defeats. at Weber their greatest The decade saw tri- the in the years immediately following the war. It saw a virtually deserted campus and classrooms while the war was on. It saw the four-year college come a reality, then saw it snatched away. And now, 1951, it is seeing a strangely disquiting period that disquiets us less because in the past decade we have learned to deal calmly with crisis and meet change with the imperturbable rock of tested convictions. With eyes that are not entirely dry, Signpost, hardy veteran and constant ingenue, joins the ex-Weberites who have written colleges life science department, is currently state president of the Academy. Cellar Theatre Has Unique Stage Plan By Jann Heiner Fellows and gals, we feel that you may have been missing something worth while. Right here on our Weber College campus is staged one of the most unique. methods of theatre entertainment in practice on the American stage today, the cellar theatre. The Weber College cellar theatre, located in the basement, of the Bertha Eccles Hall, is the only one of its kind in Utah, according to Mr. John Kelly, Weber college dra- matics director. Unusual Stage awfully small and sometimes awfully big, the king and queens, the drones, and the butterflies that made the school tick or who got in the way of its ticking. Signpost, forever the sentimentalist, recalls the rich scents from the cherry trees on April evenings, and these get mixed with the dank mustiness of October’s wet brown leaves. And in deep reverence for all these things, it dips again its green hat to the burly past and the men and women through the heavy years that kept Weber going and brought it safely down to here. Father: “Don’t you think our son gets his intelligence Mother: mine.” from me?” Some girls ; will scream at the “He must. I still have | *!8ht of a mouse—then climb into a convertible with a wolf, stage play. Another theatre homecomin’ feature of serving ‘the of cellar refresh- at intermission. “The Golden Goose” For the first production this season, the theatre workshop players, under the direction of Mr. Kelly, will present a children’s play, “The Golden Goose’, which will be the cellar theatre will again be opened to audiences for the production of a play, the title of which is yet to be announced. but tother day I got ’em up home too. But we don’t raise no big fuss over ’em up home like they’re doin’ this one. Up there we just wait ’till it’s at least dark and then we load what gals we kin find in the car and drive about a piece down the road and park. And them ornery gals parade right back home. But as Socrates or somebody once said: If ten miles home they would parade, take ’em twenty miles instaid. Football Too I also see a big footbawl game is to be had Friday night and this should be some fun to watch seein’s how I heard somebody tother day say that we had about as fine a footbawl team as ever grazed a Weber College campus, I about a week ago the rules for know until just that it wuz against didn’t a freshman or freshwoman or a sophomore to go to a foothawl game. Just last week I wuz all set to meander on down to the field and in know he this game who. too says, when a kid goes to Weber “Where ya goin’?” says “To the footbawl game,” I and and I and he says who’s playin’? Weber is playin’, I inferms him and right then his pan gets really an expression on and he suffers some shock for a while then he asks me, “are you crazy?” “Now let’s not get personal bub,” I am gettin’ mad ‘cause that one question I didn’t never care to answer right off hand. No Invite? “What’s wrong with goin’ to a footbawl game, ain’t it free? Ain’t it no good fun? ain’t’—“Well,” he says, “all I know is that you ain’t sposed to go to ’em and that there’s a rumor floatin’ around here if any stoodents shows their mugs at @ game the team will walk off the field, the coaches will shoot their- selves and the offenders will be hung at sunrise,” “It just ain’t bein’ done this year.” Well I sure am glad he warned me ’cause I been under the expression that they wanted people at footbawl games. So I guess I'll wander on down and see some how. in the I see “Who sun,” Yours at the like to see that truly, Adrian A bunch wants a is playin’ Ogden. Sure would game tho. ments staged soon. The exact date of the play production will be announced later, During the week of December 3, is was castin’ my eyes over the program and I see a car parade is on the menyou for Friday. Now I know what a car parade is ’cause we place is the Editor: Well it looks like homecoming is coming up this week and everybody is lookin’ ahead to it with playsure. I don’t rightly know what all take The unusual stage plan, called elsewhere in this issue accounts of the years they knew. It re- theatre-in-the-round because of the calls with mixed feelings the panorama it has seen from the fact that the audience is seated on fourth floor of the Moench Building. Styles and the students three sides of the stage, lends an wearing them, changes in speech and canned expressions, the atmosphere of intimacy between actors and audience, which cannot variation in what passed for female charm through the years, be produced in the customary type the big wheels who, from where Signpost sat sometimes looked Letter to Editor Dear of germs were Howell. whooping it up In the bronchial saloon. Two bugs on the end of the larnyx Were jazzing a ragtime tue. While back of the teeth in a solo game Sat dangerous Dan Kerchoo, And watching the pulse was light of love, The Lady that’s known as Flu.