Under the Spotlight By JOAN WILLIAMSEN and JACK WARDLE Several persons formerly connected with Weber College, most of them as students, have had their names under the spotlight recently for outstanding achievement and selection for responsible posts. Weber, like other schools, does not hesitate to claim former students who have made a name for themselves and the college they attended. Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson this month assumed the presidency of Brigham Young University of Provo. He attended Weber when it was still an academy in 1917 and 1918. Dr. Henry Aldous Dixon, president of Weber, remembers Ernest Wilkinson as a spunky chap who stayed longer than anyone else to help build the tennis courts. As attorney, Dr. Wilkinson has earned many honors. One of these was his successful pleading of the case for the Ute Indians which resulted in judgments aggregating nearly $32,000,000. Dr. Wilkinson will be the speaker at Weber commencement services this graduation. Douglas O. (Doug) Stringfellow, a member of the Weber football team and an Excelsior club member in 1941 and 1942, who left the school to enter the armed forces in 1943, won triple honors during the past month. He gained one of the three high national awards in the public address division of the 1951 Freedoms Foundation contest, placing just behind General Dwight D. Eisenhower and former President Herbert Hoover. His other honors were being selected as outstanding young man of Ogden by the local junior chamber of commerce and being selected for the distinguished service award of the Utah junior chamber of commerce. The national and state honors came because of his powerful patriotic oration developed around his ordeal in prison and on special assignments in Europe during World War II, which left him crippled. He is the chief announcer for station KLO of Ogden. Remodeling of Covey's restaurant in Salt Lake City brings back to Utah perhaps the most successful businessman among former students in the person of Willard (Bill) Marriott. The multimillionaire is establishing the first western unit of his chain of eating establishments there. He attended Weber from 1921 to 1923 and was student body president. Later he started in business with a small root beer stand in Washington, D. C, and at once was embarked upon one of the country's sensational money-making careers. Between the years 1933 and 1941 this college had on its faculty a University of Utah graduate noted for the fastidious excellence of his haberdashery and the not unfamiliar attainments of a slow drawl and a sense of humor. This was David R. (Dave) Trevithick, now appointed acting postmaster of Salt Lake City and no doubt one of the most faithful and energetic workers in his political party in the state. Mr. Trevithick is showing how the postmastership, nominally a do-nothing post with little obligation except to party, can be occupied profitably for the taxpayer by contributions to improved public relations through civic service. Just now he is president of Utah Society for Mental Hygiene and of the Family Service Society. He is also chairman of the Salt Lake City March of Dimes, secretary of Utah Committee on Alcoholism, director for Community Chest, and for Public Employees' division, Red Feather Appeal. He is also immediate past president of the Salt Lake City Community Council and now member of the executive committee. Dr. William P. (Bill) Miller, graduate of 1926, is the new assistant superintendent of Utah state department of public instruction. M. L. Stevenson, coach when Bill Miller played on the football team and also his mathematics teacher, said he was a "fine student" and "we have nothing to worry about when students are of his type." Handsome Dr. Miller was principal of Ogden High School and more lately assistant superintendent of Ogden city schools before obtaining the state position. One of his daughters, Barbara, is now a student at Weber. Stanley (Stan) Watts, graduate of 1936, has made his name as head basketball coach at Brigham Young University. Both in 1950 and 1951 his boys won the Skyline Six conference. His team is invited to compete with the country's finest in New York City in the National Invitation Tournament. As winner of Skyline Six it also qualifies for the western National Collegiate Athletic Association playoff in Kansas City. (Continued on page 14) From Top . . . 1. DR. ERNEST L. WILKINSON, president of Brigham Young University. 2. DR. WILLIAM P. MILLER, assistant superintendent of Utah State Department of Public Instruction. 3. DOUGLAS O. STRINGFELOW, national winner of the 1951 Freedoms Foundation contest. 4. STANLEY WATTS, head basketball coach at Brigham Young University. 5. DAVID R. TREVITHICK, acting postmaster of Salt Lake City. 4 SNOW CARNIVAL By FRED BALL Pint sized mathematician Elliot Rich came close to starting a battle that compared with the Marines' landing on Wake Island when he forgot the rope and began pulling on football players during the tug-of-war at the 1951 Winter Carnival at Snow Basin in late January. Faculty had the gridiron team nearly bested when Mr. Rich got brave like a mouse on likker and started a wrestling match with his opposition. But after the beefy brutes and the faculty brains lined up, the battle raged in gory glory. Both teams forgot the rope and the grueling free-for-all ended with a football victory. Another crazy job was the novelty race in which any mode of transportation was legal in coming down the swift slope. Garbage lids, pieces of cardboard, bed pansyes and sleds, toboggans and skis were all right transport down Engen hill. Refreshments provided by the college imparted the right social touch. Footballers arched little fingers in tilting cups of hot chocolate, then wiped their whiskers with a swipe of the backs of their hands. Faculty slurped and gurgled in their mugs and beamed in amiable style even upon prospective "D" scholars. Coeds seemed even sweeter, if possible, with their fresh snow-washed and apple-cheeked faces hanging out. Campus talk was that this hilarious affair would become an annual feature. Crazy Doings . . . Crazy People Football brawn went into the prize-winning piece of snow sculpture. Front, Sonny Bray, Roger Hall, Bob Rasmussen, rear, Charlie Kalani, Vern Young, L a M o yn e Garside, Marvin Peterson and Darius Coker seem satisfied with the job. Draining the hot chocolate after the races are Juana Cun-nington, Renee Neu-enschwander, Darlene Powell. "Now, let's study this out." Milton Mecham, master of ceremonies, looks over the lineup for the next event. It's "Yo, heave ho!" for the faculty end of the tug-of-war. Joanne McCune pauses to turn on the personality.