General Information General Information the Armed Services, who wish to make up deficiencies before entering medical, dental, or engineering schools, or who wish to prepare for positions. 2. Adults who wish educational guidance, training, or general self-improvement. 3. College men and women who desire to accelerate completion of an academic degree. 4. Veterans who wish to take advantage of their GI schooling opportunities. 5. Employees who wish to improve their vocational skills. Intercollegiate Athletics Dale L. Gardner, Director Weber State College is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and of the Big Sky Athletic Conference, and as such offers a full program in Intercollegiate Athletics. The members of the Big Sky Athletic Conference are Weber State College, Gonzaga University, University of Idaho, Idaho State University, University of Montana and Montana State University. The program is under the direction of Dale L. Gardner as Athletic Director with Gary Crompton as Assistant Athletic Director. Athletic publicity is under the direction of Don Spainhower. The following coaches are responsible for the sports that are offered: Sarkis Arslanian Tom Ramage Francis "Bud" Belnap Douglas Hunt Ralph Hunter Lynn Corbridge Philip Johnson Gene Visscher Ed Garvanian Blaine Sylvester Ralph Hunter Lynn Corbridge Earl Miller Mac Madsen Russell N. Hirst, M.D. Ronald Flygare Head Football Coach Assistant Football Coach Assistant Football Coach Assistant Football Coach Assistant Football Coach Assistant Football Coach Head Basketball Coach Assistant Basketball Coach Head Track and Cross Country Coach and Trainer Head Baseball Coach Head Wrestling Coach Head Swimming Coach Head Ski Coach Head Golf Coach and Head Tennis Coach Team Physician Equipment Manager The Community Contributes— Finally, the community itself, with its broad cultural, economic, social, and geographical advantages, helps the College realize its objectives. Students share these advantages in many ways: 1. The businesses, shops, and industries of Ogden City provide outstanding opportunities which enable students to take part-time employment while they learn. This advantage is especially helpful in making arrangement for courses where both theory and practice are essential. Ogden is particularly attractive as a technical-trade training center because of the openings available to students who complete training courses in the trades. 2. The Ogden locality affords abundant opportunity for field trips, observation, and study in courses in the sciences and arts. Field trips in such subjects as botany, zoology, engineering, geography, geology, social sciences, art, and photography are regularly scheduled. Situated 35 miles from the Utah State Capitol and within driving distance of mining and industrial interests of the magnitude of the Geneva Steel Mills and the Bingham Copper Mines, the College has access to these additional educational resources of the community. 3. The environmental features of the Ogden locality afford such recreational opportunities as hiking, trout fishing, hunting, boating, swimming, golfing, motoring, skiing, and skating, all of which are utilized in the activity program of the college. 4. Ogden affords a diverse social laboratory in which students and faculty can become deeply involved. Students and faculty, alike, seek new and unique ways in which they can apply the great knowledge of our times to the problems which face us in contemporary society. Honors Program Dr. Jennings G. Olson, Director The Honors Program at Weber State College is a college wide effort to assist superior students by providing them with special educational opportunities and direction. A campus wide effort of the faculty and administration integrates the Honors Program into the various schools of the College. The program is designed to allow superior students greater flexibility and depth in their studies. The student may pursue and achieve scholarly excellence in the various dimensions and characteristics of scholarly endeavor. 28 29