18 ANNUAL CATALOGUE The College Gymnasium Building, erected at a cost of $300,000.00, is situated on Twenty-fifth Street between Adams and Jefferson Avenues. The building, dedicated January 9, 1925, serves both the community and the college. Extensive remodeling on this building during the years 1934 and 1935 resulted in the addition of a west entrance and the completion of other improvements. Ballroom, gymnasium, administrative offices, bookstore, and ladies' lounge are in the Gymnasium Building. The Gymnasium Building contains a large ballroom newly decorated, a large gymnasium floor with a balcony of fifteen hundred seating capacity, four handball courts, tiled swimming pool, archery range, in door golf net, boxing and wrestling room, shower and steam rooms, and locker rooms. The administrative offices: offices of the President, Registrar, Treasurer, Dean of Instruction, Dean of Women, and Director of Gymnasium are located in the Gymnasium Building as is the College Bookstore, operated by Weber College. The second floor of the Gymnasium Building is held exclusively for women. During the year 1936-37, the Ladies' Lounge was furnished, thereby providing a social center for the women of the institution, a delightful environment for study, rest, and informal entertainment. A Mechanic Arts Building is contemplated. A new Mechanic Arts Building is contemplated. Pursuant to action at the last meeting of the State Legislature, which resulted in the appropriation of $80,000.00 for the use of Weber College, the State Board of Education, at an expenditure of $8500.00, purchased the former Burt property on Adams Avenue, facing west from the present college campus, for the purpose of constructing on this site a Mechanic Arts Building. WEBER COLLEGE 19 Location Location of Weber College affords geographic and economic advantages. The district which Weber College serves includes: Box Elder, Bear River, Davis, Morgan, and Weber counties, all within a distance which makes it possible for a student of junior college age who lives within this district to attend college and live at home. The location of Weber College in Ogden, Utah, affords definite geo graphic and economic advantages recognized by the citizens of the community who point with pride to the fact that Ogden City is "strategically located at the mouth of Weber Canyon the one great avenue of rail travel through the Wasatch Mountains and situated also directly in the path of travel, north, south, and west. Transportation facilities, including six railway lines, transcontinental air transport, motor bus lines, and a network of good roads, make the city the natural trading center for a vast, rich surrounding territory. Ogden, the second largest city in the state, covering an area of 16.69 square miles and having a population of approximately forty-five thousand, is one of the most beautifully situated and carefully maintained cities of the West." Environmental features of Ogden City are favorable. The Wasatch Mountains rise to the east of Ogden, while in the west, north, and south are fertile lands. A delightful climate, rich soil, and abundant water supply are natural resources utilized by an energetic citizenry to build in Ogden City not only a prosperous community but also one of delightful surroundings, of beautiful homes, parks, and fine schools. The all-year environmental features of Ogden City afford recreational opportunities, such as mountain hiking, trout fishing, hunting, golfing, motoring, tobogganing, snowshoeing, and skating. These natural advantages of location the student of Weber College shares with the citizens of Ogden City.