: a Oo —— — WSs rhe (lit fee Bee : e =& ee 4 — -~ ioe t~ a TH fA hey: tee PT! = hl . . nd I Cover Photos Weber State’s Rampaging Wildcats in Action; Miss Weber State Royalty: Sandy Edwards, Jean Nowak, Sherry Ellis Weber Stake Academy first principal, Louis F. Moench; Weber State Day in Hawaii. Associated Alumni of Weber State College came across the following article while researching some history of Weber State recently. It caught my fancy for a number of reasons. First, because the events decribed have proven startlingly true. Second, I was intrigued by the quaint wording. The airplane had just recently been invented and descriptive words oriented toward this tremendous event and other happenings had not yet become established in the language of that day. I was also impressed by the thought that most future predictions are stimulated by the present needs and desires. Written just 13 years after the dedication of the Moench Building, at a time when those facilities appeared to have been quite adequate, there would seemingly be little justification for thought of future expansion or even the suggestion ofa new campus. Regardless of logic, the author presents an extremely visionary glani i into the future that has proven amazingly accurate. = Member American Alumni Council OFFICERS Joseph H. Florence, President M. LeRoy Mecham, First Vice President Roy C. Nelson, Second Vice President BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dexter Duane Farr, Immediate Past President Mrs. H. Jay Moyes Dr. Max J. Malan Ronald T. Halverson Charles W. Lindquist Wilford G. Fowers M. Blaine Peterson Mrs. Barnett Allen Ivan J. Heslop Mrs. Boyd Eddins Thair Blackburn Dr. A. LeMoyne Petersen Dr. Rulon Garfield = ee Dean W. Hurst, Executive Director Dr. James R. Foulger, Alumni Treasurer Dr. William P. Miller, W.S.C. President Tom Welch, Student: Body President _.It was a beautiful morning when I started out for the worlds am fair at Ogden, on the anniversary of the Lucin cutoff. The flying machine was ready and after we started upward the scenery was beautiful below. _.As evening approached we reached the city. How large it looked. After lowering the machine, I met my friend at the out-skirts of the city and she consented to show me the city from the air. As we traveled over the city, I noticed many improvements. No telegraph poles were standing in the roads as the wireless system was used throughout. Then I noticed some large buildings upon the hill and asked what buildings were extending into the air so high? She answered “Why those are the buildings of the Weber University. Don’t you remember the Weber Stake Academy? This is what it is gro to”. J answered, “I shall never forget that school. But where the old building now?’She replied that after I left school it was” sold. They then moved up on the hill where they could have plenty of room for training and University work. Jennie Groberg - Class of 1906 (Weber Stake Academy “Acorn” Pg. 59) — te at : = — 3 — One of the unique problems facing the present Utah State Legislature concerns the care and feeding of cats; not the common household variety of cats they seem to get plenty of tender loving care from concerned owners - but the FELINUS WEBERUS strain, a wild species found in the foothills East of Ogden, has been reproducing in such vast numbers that immediate care must be taken in order to provide a suitable habitat for all the kittens coming up. No longer does the expression “Lo, the poor indian”’ refer to the reservation to the South. With 40.8 per cent of the States college enrollment learning the Ways of the red man, they receive 49.9 Per cent of the total college appropriation in the state. And that’s a lot of wampum. The aggies to the North don’t seem to e en ee Take a look at the pread next time your u Beery. They claim 22.6 i cent of 2s pe colle: enrollments in the state apropristion a Jennie Groberg later married Lowell Woods. She died many y and interestingly enough was the Aunt of Charles Groberg, A Professor of Art at Weber State College. How about you? Would you care to indulge in a little spec the future of Weber State 60 years hence? If you are as accurate Groberg was in 1906 maybe we’ll print your prognostications t That should be in about 2032 A.D. ee cent of the college Where the concern for ’cats head » you see, because wildcat in Ogde i eent quarters of the tora gden, with 19.5 per Slate tal college enrollments in 4 feceives only 11.7 per cent of Case meee appropriation. Just in consid Subtle point escapes you, 31HE Per€r this: cent With more an thenroll mentof fjjust an Dean W. Hurst their wildcat friends to the South, the cow-boys receive more than twice the percentage 25.4 per cent as compared to Weber’s 11.7 per cent - of state appropriations. And that just doesn’t seem quite right somehow. - Especially when you take into consideration the fact that there are actually fewer Utah residents being trained at the U.S.U. Ranch than there are at the W.S.C. Den in Ogden. In 1967-68, there were 6,497 home-grown cats attending Weber and only 5,720 resident hands up North. In fact, there were 2,715 non-resident cow-hands in 1967-68 and that was nearly 50 per cent of the entire bunk house. Well, enough of that. If we keep talking in that manner, someone might get the idea we're dissatisfied. They'll start telling us that it takes more money because of graduate programs at those other outfits, and to be patient - just look how far we have come to date. Well, that doesn’t help smooth the fur much either. You see in 1965-66, those pesky red skins received 43.5 per cent of the total college enrollment and 49.3 per cent of the appropriations. Three years later, their percentage of total college enrollments are down but their appropriations are up. The Aggies had 25.4 per cent of the State’s College enrollment in 1965 and 27.2 per cent of the appropriation. It’s true that in 1968 their appropriation . A Not-so-Tongue-in-Cheek glance at the present state appropriations to higher education