8 WEBER COLLEGE WEBER COLLEGE 9 GENERAL INFORMATION HISTORICAL In the year 1888 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints inaugurated a more extended program of Church school education. Inasmuch as religious training was practically excluded from the public schools, letters were sent to the Presidencies of the various Stakes urging then establish academies in order to foster religious training and moral development among the young. In conformity with the import of the letter ad dressed to Lewis W. Shurtliff, President of the Weber Stake, the brethren of the priesthood called together to consider the matter. They decided to organize a board of education and to establish the Weber Stake Academy. Accordingly, the Board was organized with the three members of the Stake Presidency, Lewis W. Shurtliff, Charles F. Middleton, Nils C. Flygare; one member of the High Council, Joseph Stan ford; three bishops, Robert McQuarrie of Second Ward, Thomas J. Stevens of the Fifth Ward, David McKay of the Huntsville and Prof. Louis F. Moench, who had gained considerable reputation as a teacher in Weber County and in Ogden City, and who was to become the first principal of the school. Through the effort of this Board the Weber Stake Academy was established. Temporary quarters were secured in the Second Ward meeting house, Ogden, where the school was formally opened January 7, 1889, with Louis F. Moench as principal. The attendance, though small at first, increased so rapidly that it was found necessary to secure better accommodations. Plans were made for the erection of a permanent build Jefferson Avenue. In the meantime the school was moved from the Second Ward to the Ogden Tabernacle, and later to the Fifth Ward Kite. The first building on the present site was ready for use in the fall of 1892, and the school moved to its present home. Since that time it has been necessary to enlarge the building. In 1907 a new building, built on the west of the original builds completed and ready for use when the school opened in the fall. The name of the school has been changed a number of times to express the periods of growth. I then the old Weber Stake was divided into three new stakes, the name of the school was changed I fan the Weber Stake Academy to Weber Academy. After the school took up college work and began to specialize on the training of teachers, the name of the school was changed, to express this new function, to the Weber Normal College. The change of the name was made in 1918. How the school had been giving college work for two years before this. With the opening of the school in the fall of 1922, the school was reorganized into two distinct departments: the senior high school, consisting of the tenth, eleventh and twelfth years of school; the college, consisting of two full years of college work. The name of the school has been changed to the Weber College. At the close of the year 192223 the scope of the College was enlarged to take in North Davis, Morgan and Summit Stakes as well as the four