12 WEBER COLLEGE HISTORICAL SKETCH On January 7, 1889, Weber College was founded by a corporation, the Church Association of Weber Stake. It was then known as the Weber Stake Academy. In 1918, the name of the school was changed to the Weber Normal College. In 1922, all secondary education was discontinued, and Weber College was founded as a junior college. The Utah State Legislature of 1931 passed House Bill Number 101, creating Weber College a state junior college. The school was not to be transferred to the state, however, until July 1, 1933. The Utah State Legislature of 1933 passed House Bill Number 120, which was an amendment of House Bill Number 101. It reads as follows: Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah. Section 1. Sections 75-6-1, 75-6-2, Revised Statutes of Utah, 1933, are amended to read as follows: 75-6-1. There shall be a state school at Ephraim City, to be known as Snow College, a junior college. The course of study therein shall be limited to the first two years of college work, and it shall be opened for registration of students for the school year beginning July 1, 1932, upon condition that the Board of Education of Snow College provides a suitable campus, buildings, and equipment for the conduct of such a school without cost to the state. (Said school shall, however, thereafter be maintained by the state.) 75-6-2. There shall be at Ogden City, a state school to be known as Weber College, a junior college. The course of study therein shall be limited to the first two years of college work, and it shall be opened for registration of students for the school year beginning July 1, 1933, upon condition that the Board of Education of Weber College provides suitable campus, buildings, and equipment for the conduct of such a school without cost to the state. (Said school shall, however, thereafter be maintained by the state.) 75-6-2. Under The State Board of Education. The State Board of Education shall have the management and control of said schools, prescribe the course of study, employ instructors and prescribe their qualifications, appoint a president for each of said schools, and prescribe entrance requirements of students to the institutions. Section 2. This act shall take effect when the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1933, become effective. In conformity with this law, on July 1, 1933, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contributed Weber College to the State of Utah. WEBER COLLEGE 13 BUILDINGS The Louis Frederick Moench Building, which is valued at $250,-000.00 is situated on Jefferson avenue between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets, opposite Lester Park. It has twenty-two lecture rooms, eleven laboratory rooms, an auditorium with a seating capacity of approximately seven hundred, and a modern library with stack rooms and reading rooms sufficient to accommodate one thousand students. The College Gymnasium is situated on Twenty-fifth street between Adams and Jefferson avenues. It cost approximately $400,000.00. The Gymnasium was dedicated January 9, 1925, and serves both the community and the college, having facilities sufficient to accommodate two thousand people. DEPARTMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS Weber College offers definite social advantages to its students. Men's and women's organizations have been instituted to further interest in extra curricular and social activities. Each department organizes its own major group and prepares programs, expeditions, and outings, to stimulate student interest in each special field. The men's and women's physical education association carry out a similar program for the entire student body. The debating association, Phi Rho Pi, a national junior college organization, is purposeful in promoting speech activities, particularly oratory, extemporaneous speaking, and debating. LIBRARY The College Library is a reference and circulating library open to all students. It contains about 15,000 volumes, exclusive of unbound pamphlets. It occupies several rooms grouped together on the second floor of the Moench Building.