28 • A student seeks counsel on his own initiative. Faculty members or administrative staff members encourage students to seek counsel when confronted with troublesome problems. The final decision, however, rests with the student. Every member of the Faculty serves in a guidance capacity, both in classes and through private consultations. The Chairman of the Student Guidance Committee, and other counselors have scheduled hours each day for individual counseling. Any regular student, prospective student, or former student is entitled to this service by private appointment. The Weber College Veterans Guidance Center, staffed by the College Veterans Coordinator as well as training officers of the Veterans Administration, assists veterans with their special problems involved in registering and training under the G. I. Bill of Rights. Returning veterans who expect to enter the College under the G. I. Education Pogram are encouraged to take advantage of this service at Weber College or to apply for the advisement service at the Veterans Guidance Center. The guidance program provides a testing service through its Testing Bureau. Aptitude, interest, personality, study habits, and U.SA.F.I. general educational development and subject achievement tests are used primarily as an aid to personal counseling, for educational placement purposes, evaluation of educational experience for credit, and for a limited amount of research. An Orientation Program provides a one week pre-registration period prior to the starting of the quarter, for educational placement and orientation purposes. Testing and counseling services are available during this period to aid the student in the selection of his educational objectives^ and to assist in his registration. Regularly scheduled Orientation Classes for credit are offered in the various curricula, as a form of group guidance. They provide units on college adjustment problems, study techniques, use of the library, personality development, vocational and recreational choices. Health Service The health program of Weber College provides protective and educative benefits for every student. Its purposes are: (1) to give a medical examination (regarded as a screening rather than a diagnostic examination) to every student upon his initial registration in the College; (2) to give special attention to those in need of medical or dental care through a follow-up program which, if necessary, will guide students and parents to sources of medical and dental treatment; (3) to take care of accidents and sudden illness occurring at the College; (4) to provide opportunity for conferences and consultations with a physician; (5) to re-examine at reasonable intervals students with physical defects; (6) to provide a healthful environment for student life; and (7) to initiate protective measures against the spread of disease. Medical treatment and diagnosis are the responsibility of the home and the community. Housing All living arrangements for out-of-town women students are under the direct supervision of the Dean of Women. Accommodations for men students are under the supervision of the Dean of Men. 29 The College maintains a dormitory for men. Board and room ranges in cost from $35 to $45 monthly. Unlimited facilities for board and room and light housekeeping in private homes in the City are available for both men and women. Financial Aid Scholarships are offered annually by the following organizations, individuals, and institutions: Chi Omega Alumnae gives a twenty-five dollar tuition scholarship to a first-year Weber College woman on the bases of (1) scholarship, (2) participation in student activities, and (3) personal qualifications that conform to Chi Omega standards of Hellenic culture and Christian ideals. The Howard D. Merrill Memorial Scholarship, a full-tuition scholarship at Weber College, was established in 1943-1944 by Dr. and Mrs. L. S. Merrill in memory of their son, a student of Weber College for the year 1935-1936, and a graduate of the United State Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1941. Ensign Merrill was killed in action at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the first from Weber College and Ogden City to die in the service of his country in the event that precipitated the United States declaration of war against Japan in World War II. The scholarship was created in the belief that great benefit would accrue to any student who would "emulate the spirit of determination, helpfulness, and courage that so completely characterized Howard D. Merrill." The Lydia Holmgren Tanner Scholarship is a full-time scholarship, established by the Alumnae Association of Otyokwa in 1945, the year of Mrs. Tanner's retirement. It is awarded to a freshman woman on the bases of (1) scholarship, (2) participation in student activities, (3) need, and (4) the peronal qualities which conform to the ideals which Mrs. Tanner taught in her classes. Higher institutions of learning annually extend scholarships to Weber College graduates. The Utah State Agricultural College, the University of Utah, and the Brigham Young University each give one or more full- tuition scholarships. Students recommended from Weber College have been successful in obtaining scholarships from the University of Southern California, Occidental College, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the College of the Pacific. Weber College students have also won the Willard D. Thompson Scholarship to the University of California, the Henry Newell Scholarship to Stanford University; and through competitive examination, entrance to the California Institute of Technology. Weber College offers scholarships to incoming freshmen and returning sophomores. Recipients of the freshmen scholarships are determined by the principals of the high schools from which the students are graduated, and the number of awards of any one high school in attendance at Weber College at the time the scholarship grants are made. In addition to these general scholarships, Weber College annually awards a varying number of special music scholarships, some full and some part-tuition. The recipients are selected by the instructor of music at Weber College and are passed upon by the President of the College and the Faculty committee on awards and scholarships. There are also several part-time and full-tuition scholarships in the fields of speech, English, and athletics. The recipients are selected in the same manner as they are for music. A few scholarships are distributed directly by the Faculty committee on awards and scholarships.