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Show 12 WEBER COLLEGE sary to secure better accommodations. Plans were made for the erection of a permanent building on Jefferson Avenue. In the meantime the school was moved from the Second Ward to the Ogden Tabernacle, and later to the Fifth Ward Institute. 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 building, was 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. When the old Weber Stake was divided into three new stakes, the name of the school was changed from 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 m 1918. However, 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 schoo ; and 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 1922-23 the scope of the College was enlarged to take in North Davis, Morgan and Summit Stakes as well as the four WEBER COLLEGE 13 stakes in Weber County. At the same time the Board of Trustees was reorganized and made to consist of the presidents of the seven stakes, the Board now being as follows: Thomas E. McKay, Chairman, Ogdgn Stake George E. Browning, Weber Stake John V. Bluth, North Weber Stake Robert I. Burton, Mount Ogden Stake Henry H. Blood, North Davis Stake Howard Randall, Morgan Stake Thomas L. Allen, Summit Stake During the school year of 1922-23 the Commissioners of Education of the Church announced a new policy of the Church School system. It was decided that as soon as possible the Church Schools should confine their efforts to college work. In conformity with this policy the high- school department of Weber was discontinued with the close of the year 1922-23. Since then Weber, with an enrollment that wholly justified the change in policy, has enjoyed one year as a complete Junior College. This fall, the Weber, with its enlarged faculty, three-hundred-thousand-dollar gymnasium, increased facilities, and progressive policy, will open its doors to the people of Ogden and vicinity prepared to care for a student body of five hundred. Two-year courses will be offered in education, arts and sciences, preparatory engineering, preparatory medics, and preparatory law. On completion of a full two-year course the degree of Associate of Arts and Associate of Sience is conferred. |