Homecoming Edition oming Edition homecoming is eek and every- lead to it know what all - tother day I ‘s over the pro- ? ar parade is on Friday. Now I rade is ’cause we 0. But we don’t er ’em up home is one. Up there ’s at least dark yhat gals we kin i drive about a 1 and park. And 1rade right back tes or somebody niles home they em twenty miles Too ootbawl game night and is this to watch seein’s »0dy tother day rbout as fine a ever grazed a mpus, I didn’t out a week ago + the rules for sshwoman or a to a footbawl wuz all set to to the field and when a kid I s to Weber and a goin’?” and I awl game,” and yin’? Weber is him and right eally an expresfers some shock e asks me, “are vy let’s not get am gettin’ mad uestion I didn’t r right off hand. ite? with goin’ to a ’t it free? Ain’t in’t”’—“Well,” he s that you ain’t and that there’s around here if ‘rs their mugs at vill walk off the will shoot their‘fenders will be It just ain’t bein’ Well I sure am le ’cause I been sion that they footbawl games. der on down and e “Who wants a is playin’ at the _ like to see that uly, Adrian Howell. is were whooping saloon. > end of the lar- Dan Kerchoo, ie pulse was light known as Flu. By Roy Gibson I always look forward to Homecoming time here at Weber college for it is a time of gladness when faces of former students appear on our campus for the assembly, ‘the reception, and our annual football game. At Homecoming time, we usually like to recount ties, retell the our fun bygone of the activi“good old days,” and visit with former teachers and friends, Since the start of the last war, Weber has undergone a tremendous growth both in student population and in facilities for teaching our students. : It was only ten years ago that our students numbered slightly over 500, we were engaged in a terrible war and we had a small seven-acre plot to call “home”. The progress made in the last ten years is truly amazing. Today and we have evening a combined enrollment 2500 students. We of day nearly have a new cam- pus of 180 acres, plans for construction of four new class-room buildings, a heating plant, a new sta- dium @ which new is partially completed, memorial entrance-way do- , 1941 and 1942 were years of unconcern at Weber College for our class. The war had by the Ogden Rotary started but little changed from the same spirit that existed in 1941 ...1933 ... 1924... or even 1890. I am certain that Weber students are still as friendly as ever. Our “Weber Family” is still intact and our faculty members teach the same principles of honor and enlightenment that have made Weber a “great” institution to attend since 1889. Sincerely, Henry A. Dixon, President. collegiate found time glish III to minds the who and passed them to tell learned family” hadn’t absorb section Faculty yet impact wrote - 1941 Betty Bond The year of Pearl Harbor, 1941, Weber College had the same healthy interests, organizations and activities as the present Weber college, Although there were about 1200 in the student body the female was still predominate. Happy is the man who can smile in the face of sixto-one odds. mind the, same the ran of the student state of confusion was in as at present; although patriotism high, the question was still there—should I join the service or should I wait until they draft me? Before the school year was completed, most of the male population had conditioned themselves to the rim outlook of the future—the By It is difficult for me to tell of Weber College as she was in our year, Like Columbus, the Freshman enters college faced with a new world When I write, I want to write of her as I know her, and the difference is not Weber college. Jerry Davis (Freshman) open to him, to conquer! laughs, and sometimes He smiles, crys over the There is a mood that will always be Weber; it is not in her build- notes across the room everybody what in her “marriage class. she and had the Reminders Friday morning at eleven was always a little uncomfortable. The president and the faculty frequently found enough assembly time to make the student body squirm with enjoy Weber better than any other student body, A War Mood The war created a mood of its own. It was excitement, a feeling of things that 1943 Year 1943 was Change This mood laugh harder, cry harder. One important were drafted one by one. Friends started to join the reserve. The girls looked frightened but if you. were a reserve they winked at you a little more often. Early in the year the reserves left for basic training. All the rest were drafted soon, and by graduation day the campus might have been a school for girls. The Naval Reserves moved in, but it wasn’t the same. The girls had their idols and their loves, and the letters written over I to microscopes were adsome distant, unknown land, never mentioned in the graphy text, called “A.P.O.” sacrifices they were help bring to a close war and corruption. geo- to make to the days of The styles of both male and female were very extreme—for the males the good old cords were in full swing—the dirtier they were, the more in fashion they were. A washing was something out of the question. The collegiate saddle shoes for men were just coming into their own. As for the day thing. women, the skirts were becoming shorter and shorter—scarcity of material you know. Before the trend came to a stand-still the skirts were well above the knee, and the hair was getting longer and longer. a lonely became orders, and meet new people, mak- traditions, and they slowly grind us to and try years, a pretty One school year is good of those days is a good remem- brance, Weber college a — ing lifelong friends. Weber College being little different from other colleges, has its long, time-honored into the little ones’ ears, heart and mind. During the rush of later taught harder, he will find time to think, and reminisce upon his past days at Weber college. His thoughts might go something — like this: thing to know. “Oh, what I’'d give to be going to college this morning! Good old Weber! Kids get all the fun, Seems _ 1952 - only like yesterday, that I started Weber, and here Junior is trotting By Dick Richards | 5 off, his green beanie on his head, Whether 1941 or 1951, there is his song in his heart, and happilittle difference as far as the col- ness, complete happiness. That old saying back in ’51, ‘Youth is wonlege student is concerned. I admit that a lot has happened derful! It’s a shame kids have all to the world in the last ten years, of it! is certainly true. Lucky kid! for:example a world war has been fought and won. When all fighting at had stopped many not the same all. These minor discomforts increased their intensity when class- mates are ending, feeling. unwanted worry over the situation in the Pacific and Europe. But even those moments had their satisfac- Biology dressed By By Shirley Decker initiations, the rush parties, and the lessons, However, he rarely smiles as the well-padded wallet becomes of any major change. There was a ings her students, her faculty. It so quickly bared, and the thoughts slim blonde in English I who needed callouses remain is a quiet something, It is the good and oftentimes a wink every Monday, Wednesday and peaceful feeling of a shelter. from the summer’s hard work, but the money seldom lingers on! But and Friday. English II, Section C, A Small Year amid all the mixed emotions of a had two smiling, freckled redheads Our year was not a big year. Be- freshman, between sophomores to warm the cold, sleepy hour be- cause of the war, our activities were taunting, teachers wild cries, and as our num- work, tween footnotes through January, cut almost as much work, work, the freshman February and March, There was a ber. But I believe that because of still finds time to have his fun, do the war, we learned to know and his lessons, succumb to the sophs’ chubby brunette in the Spring Enyoung club “Junior” is finally coming of age. His physical being is undergoing change but his spiritual side is - 1953 - - 1944- tions, Every student remembered and there are still numerous signs the heroes who came back to say of impending growth on the hori-, hello to the “family.” Some of them came only from Fresno, California, zon. © Old “alumns” might be inclined but they were heroes just as much to feel that this isn’t the same as the dead for whom they had sung “Purple and White”, but whom school that they knew. Well, in they had never seen. many respects it isn’t. nated The ragtime tue. 1e teeth in a solo - 1943 - The President's Message with 3 College Life During Past Decade “Glimpses of Weber . Editor Page SIGNPOST of us thought permanent peace had lished and would be Now, although formal been estab- maintained. there declaration a has been no of war, the world is definitely not living in a time of peace and security. The world is again facing a time of uncertainty as it did just ten Oh, for the to stay home, good old wash days. I have dishes, make beds, clean house! What a life! Oh, for the good ol’ days. That chemis- try professor wasn’t so bad, come to think of it. But that English teacher, gads! What a man! He thought we something! were bookworms or I never will forget the time he...” years ago. of life that our hopes and dreams may become realities. If we lose this, we lose everything. We will give anything and everything to We both want the same things out maintain what is now ours. We owe it to our forefathers, to ourselves of life: freedom, peace, security. I doubt that we are different from and to our posterity. Ten Years Ago anyone else. Same Problems Ten years ago they faced this Now the same desires, expectations and plans for the future that were prevalent in the college students ten years ago are ours. This is only part of the picture. There are still the same problems, feeling of ‘emptiness, the same sense of uselessness in education, same problem, and they solved it. We can do the same. We’ve got to, because it is only in a country such as ours that a common man It is difficult to explain exactcan have plans for his future. ly how the student feels when he Technically, we are in the same knows that possibly any day his American. hopes and his plans for the future position as any other individual of us can make may be shattered. Naturally he is NONE until we have guaranteed somewhat depressed and may get plans and security, When the feeling, “Ah, what’s the use ourselves peace of life is again — anyway?” Maybe we have the our democratic way right, wrong attitude, maybe our feelings secure, We will have evry and opportunity the aren’t justified, but who is there privilege its people. to tell us? We know what we want “American Way” offers To every Alumni member with from life and we can see the possibilities of never getting it. . us today, we of the present sophoDon’t get me wrong. We don’t more class wish to express our &pfeel bitter. We realize as much as preciation for the fine way you anyone else that it is because of fought the war and still gained an America and our democratic way education at Weber. —