— . Student Hadley breaking Lifelong body officers of the class of ’52, Carol Barker and Fred Ball assist the President in groundceremonies at the new Campus. friends, President Dixon and Judge David J. Go Wilson. forms of art, sculpture and jewelry. Lucille Dixon, Stu- memorials a flower is a fragile thing short-lived means Dixon. in Egypt. of as to cause paying lasting man and its beauty to look tribute to so for other the memory of one who has made his contribution in this life. This year the Alumni Association of Weber State Colege is continuing a program started last Looking over the collection with youngest son Dave, now Dr. David Dixon who teaches in the graduate school of South Dakota State College, Aberdeen, S.D. Family portrait, Verl L. Harrison, Phyllis Dixon Shaw, year Jack A. Shaw, Dr. John Dixon, Karma Jeppson Dixon, that provides a permanent and significant tribute to the memory of those lost to this life. It is a plan which allows alumni and friends of the college to contribute funds for the purchase of books—the book or books then to serve as @ Ferrin Larkin, Ruth Dixon Cannon, Dorothy Dixon Harrison, Lucile Dixon, Henry Aldous Dixon, Louise Dixon Larkin. Gentlemen deer hunters, Merlin Stevenson, Ralph Grey, A. Russell Croft, President Dixon. Community leaders Leo Loll, Lou Griffin, Orson Slack, and Blaine Bachman present check to President Dixon for purchase of new campus property. FP gare SER lasting memorial CS available for book pur- ings and edificcs; in- other instances the search, for But banquet. made noted, sonality. homecoming funds chases and other library materials. Certainly flowers and gifts in our own time play an important role in sentiment and respect. Aldous gn of legislative many Individuals were memorialized in beautiful build- the case of the pyramid dent Body President Jack Suttlemyer and wife, Henry mn took man; Willard Marriott, owner of the famous “Hot Shoppes” chain, and Mark Austad, Radio and TV per4. 1966 Alumni ot There is little quesiton that the heart of any great college is its library. The administration has recognized this by marked increases in the amount recognition resulted in wastefulness and extravagance and even in the loss of other lives such as . Three of “his boys” Laurence J. Burton, Utah Congress- ge Throughout centuries of time man has sought methods of honoring departed friends or relatives. Gifts to perpetuate the memory of the deceased to the name of a loved one. For each $5.00 donated to the fund a special bookplate will show who the book was given “in memory of” as well as identifying the donor. Plans other than memorializing in the present campaign provide an opportunity for a person to have his name or organization on a special bookplate to be placed on one book for each $5.00 donated. A person or firm may want to join the library ‘Book-a-Month Club“ where identification of the donor will be the same as previously mentioned and the $5.00 donation made monthly or by the year for a total of $60.00 a year. If a person desires to give volumes from his own collection it is suggested however, even with these It should be increased funds it could take six to eight years to bring the library up to the desired number of volumes. It was felt that such a drive could include all alumni regardless of station in life as each could give according to his own means. Whether a contribution places one book or is sufficient to place an entire collection in the library, each will be marked as a donation from yourself, your company or organization or as a living memorial to a loved one. A book will have the opportunity to enrich the educational experience of thousands of young people. It would be impossible to measure the influence that a good book can have to the many. readers using it throughout the years. The Alumni Fund have Association considers the Library a significant and worthy special appeal to all alumni plan. It should who recognize the importance of books to our way of life. Contributions to this lasting memorial may be sent to the Library Fund, Weber State College, Ogden, Utah. they check with the library to determine the need for such books. With the donors permission any unusable books will be sold and the money added to the fund. This year’s library fund drive is being directed by Donnell Stewart, a member of the alumni board of directors. Other members of the board plus volunteers from the community are assistaL in the effort to bring the Weber State College ibrary up to a proper degree of adequacy. Alumni President Ferrel Carter, Library Fund Chairman Donnell Stewart and Head Librarian James Tolman over needs and plans. talk