JOHN B. FAIRBANKS, Instructor in Drawing. ARTHUR SHEPHERD, Pianoforte. .......................................................... , Assistant in Music. ALBERN BINGHAM, LIBRARIAN. Lecturers: HON. B. H. ROBERTS, HON. H. H. ROLLAPP, HON. ORSON F. WHITNEY, HON. C. C. RICHARDS, HON. JOHN NICHOLSON, HON. JOSEPH PEERY, HON. GEORGE REYNOLDS, HON. NATHAN HARRIS. ......................................................., Janitor and Custodian. Weber Stake Academy. HISTORY. In a letter addressed by President Wilford Woodruff in 1888, to the Presidents of the several stakes, in which was urged the appointment of Stake Boards of Education, the following extract occurs: "We feel that the time has arrived when the proper education of our children should be taken in hand by us as a people. Religious training is practically excluded from the district schools. The perusal of books that we value as divine record is forbidden. Our children, if left to the training they receive in these schools, will grow up entirely ignorant of those principles of salvation for which the Latter-day Saints have made so many sacrifices. To permit this condition of things to exist among us would be criminal. The desire is universally expressed by all thinking people in the Church that we should have schools wherein the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants can be used as text books and where the principles of our religion may form a part of the teaching of the schools." During the same year, a Stake Board of Education was appointed for the purpose of establishing in the Weber Stake of Zion an educational institution in accordance with these sentiments. Through the efforts of the board, temporary quarters were secured in the Second Ward Meeting House in which the Academy was opened January, 1889. As the patronage and the prestige of the institution rapidly increased, the Board found it necessary to secure better accomodations. In 1891, plans were prepared and the erection of a suitable school building was commenced. The work was pushed as rapidly as the means at hand would permit, and in the fall of 1892, the new building was ready for occupancy. In response to the demands of the times more advanced courses of study have been gradually added to the curriculum, and the Academy is now prepared to offer as complete and thorough courses as those offered by the leading schools of our state. LOCATION. Five railroads center in Ogden from as many different directions, connecting the city with all parts of the state and countryhence access is easy and comparatively inexpensive to