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Show by Allison Smythe Contained in the longed-for student union will be a whole line of facilities which endear a school to its student members as a place of comfort, of convenience and even of special pleasure. This spot is their own. several completed facilities would include Such offices would serve the president of the student body and his lieutenants; the editors of newspaper, magazine, yearbook, and their staffs; and also highly important, the members and officials of the Associated Alumni of Weber College. Roads would circle about the landscaped grounds after a utilitarian and attractive plan. Here the occupants of a visiting convertible might observe a group of intramural athletes playing at softball on a special diamond, and there, several tennis courts resounding to the thump and bounce of volleying balls, and in the secluded arbor the customary languishing boy-meets-girl combination. Elsewhere about the grounds in groups and trios, collegians would be observable lolling in comfortable negligence as they gossiped of the relative peculiarities of their “profs” and at the same time sunned themselves. There may also be a barber shop where the scissors and razor artists give out with short or long cuts as desired, say for less than $1 a clip. And adjoining there should be provision for a beauty salon. Not that our coeds seem to need it much at present, but in time and the transformation of a four-year school some degree of sophistication may be felt necessary. Such verdant, spacious stretches, lacking in “keep of the grass’ signs, certainly would be expected. And about the campus also would be trees, lofty trees, small trees, middle-sized trees, by singles and in clumps and groves, with somewhere among them at least one artificial pond to dunk our justfor-once, too-attentive, ever-so-pleasant Daisy Maes into annually. ““Sheathed in a tube of some silken material, she came toward Joe eagerly, her yellow hair burnished to a flame of gold, her hoyden, gum-chewing features altered to a precise classic outline by the wonders of judicious make-up.” The imagination of the prideful alumnus goes on from this point, and from this beginning he can picture what the completed Weber college will be. These foregoing conceptions have been mentioned from time to time as part of the plans but of course they constitute no contract. Time and fate and the state and the administration of the college and citizens and friends and the alumni will decide the actuality. These facilities would include namely lounges, a ballroom, recreation rooms, such as billiard, ping ping and card rooms; a cafeteria, student book store perhaps, and a suite of useful administrative offices. SHOP AREA -THE PRACTICAL MIDST THE INSPIRATIONAL The many other appurtenances of the ideal campus. Included would be a central heating unit, stadium, playing field, field house, varied laboratory and classroom structures, a greenhouse for flowers and shrubbery. But the union building is not to stand by itself. It is to be part of what President Henry Aldous Dixon has called a ‘“‘planned campus development.” Forecast from time to time, even at this relatively moneyless stage, has been a classroom-administration-library edifice. It would possibly serve as the nucleus of the new school plant until other structures are completed and would never outlive its usefulness. One senses the other possibility, however, that—money available — this self-contained structure might well become three buildings, thus satisfying the three named purposes more after the university manner. But pray let your voice sound out and your material assistance be heard to jingle for the generous purpose of aiding in a suitable beginning, embodying the dreams of the most wisely imaginative among us in a fine structure—the student union! Already, highly qualified staffs of landscape and building architects have been retained and are now engaged in laying the groundwork for developments every alumnus and friend can warmly support. In future years students will be able to look between the apple trees of the foreground upon the vocational center of Weber college, where they will be trained for the practical aspects of life, but where the creative side will also be stressed. But few, if any, of the creations of the arts and crafts of man will compare in beauty with the creations of nature. Northward will lie nearly 100 acres of extensive landscaped park, subsidized either by the city of Ogden, owner of the land, or by the state of Utah. It is to be known as Mt. Ogden Park or possibly as Mt. Ogden State Park. Page 14 Page 15 |