From “Of Timeless Memories” Published by the WSU Alumni Association 2001 ‘ Keil , /, hile au . Hr Dive Denntos Floyd Crockett Stuart ’20 recently had the pleasure of visiting in my home with Dr. Garth now the non-existent Pingree School, located on 30th Street between Pingree and Lincoln Avenues. This schoo was named for pioneer Job Pingree. one of our near neighbors. When | was finishing the second grade. my teacher and the school M. Blanch and Mrs. Jaciel Gray Blanch. South Ogden residents and members of the Emeriti Council of Weber State University. Mrs. Blanch is a sister of the former Gayleen Gray Drake of Ogden, who lived most of her adult life in Vinemont, Alabama, the home of her husband, Charles Franklin Drake. Through family research I had become well acquainted with the Drakes, who always visited me when vacationing in Ogden. In the course of the visit with Dr. and Mrs. Blanch, | learned that 1 knew Dr. Nichols principal took me out of that class and placed me in the fourth grade. The school principal was Inez Craven. Asa result of this advancement, after I had finished classes in Pingree School and Lewis Junior School, on 26th Street. above Washington Avenue (it became Washington Boule- = smch when he was just a small boy living in his parents’ some next door to a home that I was building on Ogden’s 24th Street. Red Dr. Blanch asked me if 1 would record some of my memories of early Ogden, especially those related to one of its schools, Weber Academy, now Weber State University. It is appropriate to commence this narrative describing events of my early life. I was born January 13, 1903, near ‘ineoln Avenue on Ogden’s 22nd Street. | grew up in the 2900 block of Wall Avenue, a neighborhood then consid- vard in later years) and enrolled in Weber Academy, | was about a vear younger than most of the students in that freshman class. The Weber Academy had been relocated from its previous quarters in the Second Ward at 26th Street and Grant Avenue to a new campus located on the west side of Jefferson Avenue between 25th and 24th Streets. By some, ered desirable by Ogden’s middle-class citizens. it was then called Weber Stake Academy. 4) | attended Page 14 of 14