STATE ALUMNI NEWS | | Progress Ahead |As Alumni Office Outgoing President Mrs. James C. Blair, Jr., and WSC drama staffer John M. Elzey discuss new theatre season, with Fine Arts Center forming arty backdrop. Adds Secretary OPENING OF FINE ARTS CENTER EAGERLY AWAITED BY COLLEGE One of the big events of the = “new term on WSC. campus. is the opening of the $1.8. million Fine Arts Center. Its 13 classrooms helped relieve a near crisis -in room space as day enrollment overshot the 4,000 mark ana stretched the seams everywhere. Its huge auditorium of 1800 seats provides the sorely needed place for the large student gatherings. It represents a dream come true for the dramatic and musical _ groups, which have not been able to enjoy a modern theatre facility in this generation. Due to delays encountered in installation of a complex lighting and sound control system, the auditorium will not be ready for stage productions for several weeks. But John M. Elzey, a member of the WSC Alumni Board and also of the college drama staff, is happy to report that although it was necessary to shuffle the sequence of the play schedule, the year’s offerings in drama and musical numbers are excellent. Benjamin M. Noid, chairman of drama, has the honor of directing the first musical in the new auditorium, “My Fair Lady,” which has been cracking box office records in the nation’s show houses for years. WSC will stage it in February. First cast to tread the new boards will be director Therald Todd’s Arena Theatre players, who perform “Waiting for Godot,” scheduled for Nov. 17Zi: Prof. Roland Parry will return to the Weber stage with his original ‘‘A Child Is Born” cantata for the Christmas sea- son. It will be early December. Thatcher presented in Allred, WSC’s “srand old man _ of theatre,” breaks a long absence from the art when he takes up the megaphone to direct “A Man for All Seasons,” an early spring production. The February offering will be another Arena Theatre performance, “Medea,” directed by Leonard Rowley. Mr. Elzey is also scheduled to hand guide an Arena Theatre show in April. This bill should be a fitting offering for the exciting season ahead, made unique with new and ornate surroundings of the Palatial Fine Arts Center, distinguished by its graceful arches of white stone. The theatre programs are among the _ several reasons WSC alums should find themselves trooping back to Alma Mater during the new year. Alumni Employs Mrs. Barbara Visscher began her duties Oct. 1 as Weber’s first paid secretary of the Alumni Association. Although she will work half a day this school year, her presence will provide the Alumni with a steady, continuing office service never before enjoyed by the institution. Her early work is being concentrated on establishing a permanent record system of names and addresses of former Weber members, which is a basic need of alumni operation. Her desk is in the Information Service office of the college, in the Life Science Building. Mrs. Visscher is a graduate of Hope College, Holland, Mich., This is the year—1964-65— that Weber State College Alumni activities: should enjoy considerable prograss. The Association has its first permanent secretary, Barbara Visscher, better financial re- Homecoming Events Readied, Record Turnout Sought The Weber State College Alumni Association banquet in the USC Union Oct. 23 at 7:30 p. m. will be the main event for all former Weber students during annual Homecoming Celebration, Oct. 19 through 24. With the Alumni activities on the upswing due to the enormous growth of the college, officers hope to be able to welcome kack to the campus the largest gathering of alums in history. A series of class reunions begin at 5:30 p. m. The classes of 1945, 1950, 1955, and 1960 will meet in the Union for these pre-banquet get-togethers, and then members will join the main crowd at the 7:30 p. ni. banquet. Mrs. James C. (Reva) Blair, prexy, will ==.\outgoing Alumni preside at the banquet, which will be of an informal nature, devoted to short remarks, musical and other numbers, reports on the growth of the college, and of the Alumni. Dr. Dr. DON A. BUSWELL . President-elect Buswell Takes Helm Chairmen of the four class reunion groups will introduce numbers of entertainment their class will perform. President William P. Miller will bring grads up to date on the college expansions, and Mrs. Blair will do the same on alumni operations. Dr. Don A. Buswell, an Ogden dentist, becomes president The menu features prime rib of the Weber State College steak served at the tables, and Alumni Association during the the tab is $3.00 per plate. This includes costs of table decora: association’s annual banquet tions and other incidentals. Oct. 23. Tickets ma ybe bought. at the sources, and improved _recordScience ms. The WSC’ Al-| } His message ‘Keeping systems | Building, or at the banquet umni office is located in Room potential enibere follows: oor. 327, Life Science Building, and “With the advent of the fourA special treat will be selecalums are welcome to call there year Weber State College, has tions by the Musettes ,one of there iany time. come many changes and opporWeber State’s outstanding chorWeber’s Alumni movement also enjoys greater prestige tunities for improvement. Not al groups, under direction of now that Weber State is a four- the keast among these, are the J. Clair Anderson. year, degree-granting institu- opportunities now available to Both present and former tion. In the past when Weber the Alumni Association for ex- members of the Musettes will was a junior college, the grads appear in the program. Much pansion and growth. went on to the four-year uniwork has gone into this per- “A approach this new posiversities, and thus _ switched formance, such as rounding up as Alumni Association the alumni members, and the their loyalties to the big schools tion from which they obtained their president with great humility. like. degrees. From now the excuses we have Annual election of officers Fortunately, those days are history. Weber State grads now used for not doing more have tops the order of business. Mrs. pick up their degrees at We- been erased. We now have some Blair and her committee promber, and leave their undergrad- funds to operate with, and even ise the program will be rich in uate days with built-in loyalties a space for desk and chair that variety, highly interesting, edifying to all alums, and not too we call the Alumni office. for WSC. long. WSC Alumni officers hope “Also we have a secretary for these factors mean that the four hours a day to look after grads will now want to affiliate our affairs. We should be able with the Alumni Association, to accomplish great things.” (Continued on next page) “We can now proceed with setting up accurate records for the association. The school has a fine IBM setup, and it is where she majored in English WSC day enrollment showed ‘!available for our records. I perThe Alumni phone office sonally feel the most import- an increase of 30 per cent over number is 3943491, ext. 329. the similar period of a year ant project before us is that of setting up an adequate rec- ago during the second week of ord program for the Alumni As- fall quarter. Registrar Milton C. Mecham’s sociation. We have inquired of the other Alumni associations records showed day registration as of Oct. 2 had reached 4,322, compared with the 3317 attendand support in this most impor- ing a year ago. tant project. That is 1005 more students “We as officers of this asso- enrolled than for the similar ciation want to thank the mem- day last year. The number includes a whopbers in the past. From this point on, however, we will need ping frosh class of 2270. There were also 983 sophomores, 549 ever-increasing support if we are to make WSC Alumni As- juniors, and 425 seniors. sociation a truly effective orWith the 1806 attending eveganization. Our success. will ning classes, WSC’s fall quarter mean a great deal in the future enrollment totaled 6128 stuMRS. BARBARA VISSCHER growth of WSC.” dents. First Secretary Student Load Going Up, Up CE Membership in the Associated Alumni of Weber State College is clearly defined in the new association constitution. Any person who has graduated from any department of Weber State College, or of the institutions which preceded it, or who has attended Weber State for one quarter or more may become aé_e regular member of the Alumni Association. Faculty and staff members of the college are entitled to join as well. The board has also given consideration to those people who have shown special interest or rendered service to the college. Upon recommendation of the Board of Directors, they may be elected as honorary members of the Association by a majority vote of the members present at the annual meeting. ~—-. WHO MAY JOIN? HERE'S RULES... a" s Banquet Beckons Grads to WSC Campus Oct. 23 2a oe WEBER