PRESIDENT CHAMBER POST Fred S. Ball, Vice President and General Sales Manager of IML Freight President of Mr. Ball was Is a native of After leaving Inc., has been named executive Vice the Salt Lake area Chamber of Commerce. Studentbody President at Weber in 1952 and Ogden. Weber, Mr. Ball attended the University of Utah and the Stanford University Graduate school of Business. He began with IML as a sales representative before becoming Sales Manager in the San Francisco Office in 1960. Just recently Mr. Ball was elected President of the American Trucking Association Sales council. He has also served as President of the ATA Public Relations Council and has been a member of the Weber State College Boosters Club, Ogden Navy League and the Lions Club. He is presently serving as a member of the Weber State College Development Fund, Board of Directors. Mr. Ball succeeds Max E. Rich who resigned to accept the tiec5 position of Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association in Washington D.C. In addition to being SN Student Body President, Mr. Ball served on the board of * we eber. DR. TRACY HALL GIVES DIAMOND LECTURE The Cortez Honors lecture series at Weber State featured one of the most interesting of its recent presentations on December 10. Guest speaker and recipient of the John J. Cortez award was Dr. H. Tracy Hall, noted scientist and the first man to sucessfully produc e a synthetic diamond. Dr. Hall is a native of Ogden. He attended schools in oa and graduated from Weber Colleg e in 1937. He ULES his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University After a hitch in the U.S. Navy, Dr. Hall return Lake City where he worked as a chemist rae is Bureau of Mines. He left there in 1948 to become a research Associate with the General Electric Research laboratory in Schenectady, New York. It was while with G.E. that Dr. Hall perfected the first synthesis of a diamond in 1954. Scientists had been working on this project for over 150 years. In 1955 Dr Hall left G.E. and became Direct or of Research at the process he had developed while at General Electric and was informed that if he wished to continue his research into synthetic diamonds it would be develop a completely new appara necessary for him to tus. For Dr. Hall to perfect a system that had eluded scientists for over a century was a monumental task, but to be asked to repeat it in an entirely different manne r was almost unheard of However, within a year of beginn ing his research at B.Y.U. - Hall had done just that and had perfected new ees for coming up with the same results, synthetic Dr. Halls lecture centered not on the i technical aspects of his work as one wouecun ee rather on some of the problems facing men who wish to continue working toward new methods of manufacture and accomplishments in Scienc e under the sometimes absurd restrictions of government and industry. and was Editor of the Signpost, while a student at TAKES REINS ASSOCIATION OF The annual Alumni Banquet saw the helm of the Weber State Alumni Association change hands once more as outgoing president M. LeRoy Mecham turned the gavel over to new President, Roy C. Nelson. Mr. Nelson has been a member of the Association Board of Directors for the past two years and has most recently served as first Vice President. He is employed by Commercial Security Bank as a Vice President. Mr. Mecham, in stepping down Was praised by the association for the leadership and enthusiasm he exhibited during his term as President. Other members of the Alumni Executive committee who will be working with Mr. Nelson in the coming year are First Vice President, Wilford Fowers, and Second Vice President, Paul W. Bott. The banquet also saw six new members elected to the Alumni Board of Directors. Those named were Dr. Richard E. Nilsson, Michael Murdock, Elaine Bird, Dr. Russell W. Carruth, L. Kent Bachman and Marian Storey. Presently serving on the board of directors are Norma ee Raelene Brian, Lyle Wynn, Ron Halverson and Bill udson. RETAILER SUPPLIES GOALPOSTS Something new has been added to the Weber State College football one” the college a imo a etered to as “building Administration has moved into the newly completed the pune building. A year and a half in construction, es o Two dollars. was erected at a cost of $1,115,000 the fin with state the by borne was the construction cost e s one third coming from the Federal Government. 0 te : The new edifice will house in addition to the ; Studen of Dean the Presidents; Vice and President the Haier Education, Continuing Payroll, office, an es Bureau, Purchasing, Research, New Registration, the Accounting Department and Academic Research. to the Administration Building, the old ure will now be the home of the formerly i sani) Bide department. Some of the on related to the Business Department will remain for t . With the move time being in the Old building, namely; Building Grounds, Dean Dayton’s office, Dean Peterson, an¢ Dean ae of Women, Mrs. Marva Gregory. re, consolidation of departments into will be further accomplished by departmenta oe enitil sata the completi on of the Social Science Building, presently under construction, and the Education building yore is NELSON ALUMNI AREA OPEN NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING ishteen years in the cramped quarters of stadium. Steel single leg goal posts called uni-goals have been installed at either end of the playing field. The new goals replace the older double post type that have stood in the stadium for several years. The cost of the new units was provided through the generosity of Mr. Dee Glen Smith, President of Smith’s Food King Stores and a long time Wildcat booster. The new single post type uni-total is being used by most major colleges today and provides a strong unit that can be set back from the goal line thus greatly reducing the possibility of collisions between players and posts. € announcement of the new structures was made by Weber State Athletic Director, Dale Gardner, after discussions with Mr. Smith. The new units were erected by the college Buildings and Grounds staff under the direction of Superintendent, Wally Baddley. to begin in the very near future. The two year struggle a has a Library addition continues and planning money ne been requested for the Department of Business. Major construction projects can often be painful ys oy ae with the necessity of first approaching the Legis planning or possible land aquisition money, submit ing re mA detailed plans and then returning to the Legislatu e construction appropriations. Little by little, HOE es campus is taking shape and the physical plant draws ae to the final product which will provide excellent facilities for the students of Weber eit ee enches, mud, ears promi Ke y eminishing parking space, but it eee a promises the excitement of a booming ite constantly improving conditions for our Faculty, stat an studentbody. HUGGINS i oh Oh GIVES TO THE LIBRARY to the Weber State College library fund ee by the former chairman of the WSC Tie Ac Hugels: ogden attorney, now a member of the Utah Board of Higher Education, made his pre a! by response to the annual giving program being conducted ; Association. ae ed through the campaign will be oe all academic programs of the college, but those specifying the application of funds for the library will in addition qualify the donor for membership in the WSC Library he League,” said Michael Macfarlane, Alumni director. The Library League, recently organized, has a boar ne oe directors selected from the community, emeritus students and alumni. Thatcher Allred, professor ye a of speech is chairman. Mr. Huggins donation qualifies for life membership in the Library League. _ Other classifications for league membership inclu A ees to students, $10 regular, $25 sustaining, $50 cone butte Mr. $100 patron and $500 or more for life membership, Macfarlane said. eet FORMER STUDENTBODY TAKES SALT LAKE CITY aaa . js os: - > : | ; ' ~ rr : } bar . Russ MOUNT OGDEN Croft REVISITED In the Autumn of 1922, as previously reported in this magazine, a group of students and faculty from Weber College, numbering approximately 300, took it upon themselves to scale Mount Ogden, directly east of the present Weber State campus, and erect a flag pole upon which waved the Old Weber Banner. In the base of the flag pole was placed a jar containing the signatures of each of the hikers. Numbered among them were J. Willard Marriott, David Kennedy and the late David O. McKay. The flagpole, after standing for some years on the top of the mountain, was ruled an eyesore by an unnamed bureaucratic organization, and rather unceremoniously uprooted and tossed the pole down the back side of the mountain. Last summer an expedition was organized under the direction of Mr. Frank McElwain of the U.S. Forest Service to return to the top of Mount Ogden and see what might be salvaged of the old flag pole. Joining the expedition were Russell Croft, former Weber Faculty member, an Alumni president and also a retired forester of some note; Dean W. Hurst, Director of the College Relations who had began the initial project to recover the lost shaft; Michael C. Macfarlane, Alumni Executive Director and members of Mr. McElwain’s staff. The 1970 party made the ascent in considerably less time than the original party, thanks to modern vehicles. In searching the very steep east slope of the mountain top, the party recovered a section of the pole some 12 to 15 feet in length, portions of the cement base and the lid to the jar that had contained the list of names. The much sought after and treasured signatures however, had been lost forever to the elements. The jar lid and the fragments of the base were returned to the campus where they will be enshrined for all, especially those early mountain climbers to view. The large length of pole was too cumbersome to return at the time it was located and it will be returned to the valley floor by a later expedition, possibly in the summer of 1971 when the thaw makes it once more visible.