STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE FACULTY. 1901-1902. The Principal of the Academy is ex-officio a member of all standing committees. EXAMINATION AND REGISTRATION. David O. McKay, Alfred Nelson, and John I. Hayes. SCHOLARSHIP AND GRADUATION. John G. Lind, Alfred Nelson, and William Z. Terry. LIBRARY. John. T. Spencer, Joseph Ballantyne, Jennette McKay ATHLETICS AND AMUSEMENTS, Alfred Nelson, Jennette McKay, and John I. Hayes. LITERARY SOCIETY. Wm. Z. Terry, Joseph Ballantyne, and John G. Lind. ACADEMY PUBLICATIONS. Jennette McKay Alfred Nelson, and John D. Spencer. PRINTING. John G. Lind and David O. McKay. 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 regard 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 9, 1889.