TRANSIT Left to right: DEAN M. L. STEVENSON, MR. L. H. MONSON, BETH RHEES (VICE PRESIDENT), WAYNE CARVER (PRESIDENT), MR. HAROLD HANDLEY. ROY GIBSON, JOHN VERNIEU. ABSENT WERE LEU LOLL (TREASURER) AND MARVEL MURPHY (SECRETARY). 8 WEBER COLLEGE SIGNPOST FOOD for FREEDOM U.S. WILL PRODUCE THIS YEAR, TO MEET WAR NEEDS, ENOUGH MILK TO FLOAT ALL THE NAVIES OF the UNITED NATIONS SHAVE HITLER SAVE AMERICA buy WAR STAMPS OGDEN CITY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1942 NUMBER Student Publications Take Twin Literary Awards Nation Magazine Publishes Saga Of W.C. 'Learners' School is Credited With Meeting Phase Of War Emergency National attention will be centerd upon Weber college achievement in the vocational trades field when the November issue of the Junior Journal comes off the press. Eight pages of the Journal and the front "spot" will be devoted to an article entitled, "The Weber College Mechanic State Men Do "Real Audit" At the College Auditors from the Utah state auditor's office spent 10 weeks at Weber college this summer, departing September 10. In reviewing their work here, Mr. W. H. Handley, school treasurer, said yesterday that they performed the first real audit the school has had. Their recommendations were most valuable, he indicated, although the complete report Election for S. B. Treasurer Is Next Wednesday By unanimous vote of the board of control, the resignation of Jack Davis from the position of student body treasurer has been accepted. A special election will be held Wednesday, Oct. 28, to elect a new treasurer and also cheer leaders. Candidates may be placed on the ballot by a petition of 50 bonafide members of the student body on or before five p.m. Friday, Oct. 23. To be eligible for the position of treasurer, the candidate must have had or be taking one quarter of college accounting. Carver Announces Student Body Com. Members Sophomores students approved by Allred Picks Steinbecks For Fall Opus Play Depicts Lives Of Invaders and Conquered Peoples "The Moon is Down," by John Steinbeck, consdiered one of the year's biggest hits in the world of drama, has been chosen for fall production at Weber college by Mr. Thatcher Allred, instructor of drama and speech. Demanding the most mature ability that Weber college can muster, the play is one of military significance carrying an undercurrent of man's innate love for freedom. The story evolves around the lives people under the suppresion of a military invader, and is directed, also towards depicting Orion Scholars Edit Winners Edward Anderson editor-in-chief of the All American Signpost for last year. Marorie Vowles, business manager of last year's Signpost. Maurine Duffin, editor-in-chief of the All American Acorn for last year. LaMar Buckner, business manager of last year's Acorn. New Type Mag Will Be Pictorial Review of Quarter Assuming the general characteristics of the Acorn, yet employing a more informal style, the new Weber college magazine in scheduled to appear about 10 days before the end of the autumn quarter, the editor, Irene Bushell, said yesterday. the magazine will present a pictorial review of school activity each quarter and will attempt to record each major event of the year. Tentative plans for the autumn issue include many informal shots of first registration and orientation days. In addition, various other happenings about the campus are being recorded, and staff members are keeping photographers busy with new ideas to be "shot." Editor Bushell announced that the staff for the magazine will be chosen during the early part of next week. Artists and photographers are especially urged to attend the staff meetings, which are held every Tuesday afternoon from three to five p.m. Other positions on the staff include complete business and circulation departments, several associate editors, and fiction writers. Visiting Teacher Makes Study Of Local Set-Up Investigating the new "kinks" of the local school, Miss Fern Young of the Snow college faculty, Ephraim, spent last week at Weber. Miss Young is on leave from her school for one year for the purpose of making a study of the leading junior colleges with the objective in mind of applying the best of what she finds to her own school. She was assigned to this project by President James Nuttal of Snow college. She said that she had planned at first to spend only a day or two at Weber, but that after she began to study the local set-up and talk with the teachers, she found that it would take a week "to scratch the surface." She plans to supplement her investigation at the school by research in the various records, course of study, and special publications pertaining to Weber college. When she was leaving, Miss Young reported to the paper that she had been "so warmly and courteously and cooperatively received" by the personnel of the school that she wished to leave her central impression with the Signpost. She went on to remark that she had found the school to be in contact with life situations, to be altering and adapting to these situations, and to the contageous with spirit and enthusiasm for what it is doing now and for what it might do in the future. Blair Johnson, '42, is in training as a flying cadet at San Antonio, Texas. He was recently married All-American Comes to Weber Acorn Pictures, Coverage Treatment of Athletics Rated Best Last year's Acorn has been rated "All-American" by the National Scholastic Press association. The Acorn was one o ftwo U. S. junior college yearbooks to receive such an award. The volume was rated with annuals from other junior colleges whose enrollments ranged from 500 to 999 students with less than 500 students in a separate class. The critics had this to say about the Acorn: "Ogden's junior college yearbook, the 1942 Acorn, is outstanding in its class." Sports Is Best Pictures and coverage and treatment of athletics were both rated as superior, and various other departments were scored as "excellent." Miss Maurine Duffin, editor of the '42 Acorn, enjoyed a varied and outstanding career at Weber. Active in speech, she was a member of the debate squad which traveled to South Carolina in 1941 and to Missouri in 1942, and she also gained state-wide recognition as a speaker while attending Davis high school in 1940. A member of Chanodo social unit at Weber, Miss Dufin also qualified for membership in Orion, Weber's highest honorary club. She maintained a "B" scholarship average during her attendance at W.C. The business staff was headed by LaMar Buckner, manager. He was assigned by Jack Davis, Marvel Murphy, and Marjorie Stuart. Teachers Advise Mr. Charles C. Espy was chief advisor to the yearbook assisted by the following instructors: Dr. Ernest Miner, photography; Mr. Farrell Collett, art; and Mr. O. M. Clark, business. Miss Duffin was assisted in the production of the Acorn by the followin gstaff: John Vernien, Lesbeth Lucas, and Helen Maily, assoicate editors: Billy Johnson, art editor; Douglas Stringfellow, associate. The editorial staff was composed of Lorraine Cook, Roy Gibson, Lorraine Dame, Louise England, Pauline Black, Emmett Wiggins, Yoshi Sato, Alice Hodges, Arlene Paul, Kay Huss, and Pat Meissner. New Members Join Weber Teaching Staff Miss Alta Hirst and Mr. H. Parley Killburn are the 1942-43 additions to the college faculty. Miss Hirst replaces Mrs. Helen (Alleman) Ajax in the home economics department. She obtained her master's degree from the University of Oregon and has attended other universities. She has taught in the Preston, Idaho, high school, has been acting head of the home economics department at University of Oregon, and was last year member of the Snow college faculty. Miss Hirst has many new plans for the home economics department, she said. In the psychology department, Mr. Kilburn will act in the capacity of instructor of applied psychology. He will also direct the night school at Weber college. Mr. Kilburn has jsut returned from Stanford university, where he did work for a doctor's degree in education. He represented Weber college at the second annual meeting of the tenth corps area commission on college problems relating "ALL-AMERICAN" CONTINUING the excellent records set by Weber publications in 1941, two of last year's journalistic products were again rated "All-American" by the Associated Collegiate Press, national rating service for yearbooks, newspapers, and magazines. The Signpost, student newspaper, received the honor for a second time the highest rating possible while the Acorn climbed into the superlative class for the first time. Scribulus, literary magazine, was only a notch behind with a rating of "First Class." Editor of Signpost was Edward Anderson, this year a Marine in the United States armed forces, with Marjorie Vowles business manager. Maurine Duffin headed the staff of Acorn, while LaMar Buckner served as business associate. Maurice Richards and Sophie Reed were editor and business manager of Scribulus. For the second consecutive year, the Weber journalists missed garnering a clean-sweep of "All-American" honors by only a few points. The preceding year, Signpost and Scribulus were rated "tops," while Acorn received the "First-Class" honors. This is, the A. C. P. reports, one of the best records in the country for a single school. Associated Collegiate Press of N. S. Y. A. 1941 ALL-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER CRITICAL SERVICE SECOND SEMESTER NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION The Signpost All-American Honor Rating in the Twenty-fifth National Newspaper Critical Service of Associated Collegiate Press at the University of Minnesota, School of Journalism, this First day of November, 1941.