Stewart Tower Dedicated Dedication ceremonies were conducted December 14th, 1971 for the $200,000 Stewart Bell Tower and its 183 bell carillon, focal point of the growing Weber State College campus. At noon State and City officials were joined by college and studentbody representatives for the ceremonies, which were followed at 8 Al Warden Remembered State College, died on se ih al teem on to the people of this area the thrilf of competitive sports. I count it among the pleasures of my life to have known this man personally, to listen to him recount for hours the great days and then slap my leg and say, ** just got one more then I have to go...”’ Now it is my turn to remember Al Warden, and I tip my hat. M.M. A limited number of the following yearbooks are available through the Acorn office. Acorn ‘71 $5.00 Acorn ‘70 $4.00 Acorn ‘69 $2.00 Acorn ‘68 $2.00 Acorn ‘67 $2.00 Acorn ‘66 $2.00 Or a combination of any four for $10.00 If you wish to order by mail, an additional 50 cents will be charged per book for handling charge. Address: Acorn Yearbook Office Weber State College Ogden, Utah 84403 Bell of Weber November 23rd in Las Vegas, Nevada of a heart attack. Al Warden had been an active sportswriter in the Ogden area for 47 years prior to his retirement from the Ogden Standard Examiner in 1966. Mr. Warden was recently honored by the Weber State College athletic department for his long years of service to the national sports community. Al Warden was born in Bingham Canyon, Utah in 1896, and began in the newspaper business as a newsboy in Salt Lake City. It was at this time that his love for sports began and also a lifelong friendship with another newsboy by the name of Jack Dempsey. Al Warden attended Salt Lake City’s West high school where he was captain of the track team and winner of the state crown in the mile and half mile events in 1915. He later enlisted in the U.S. Navy where he was captain of the track and field team at the San Diego Naval Base. During his career Al Warden organized Utah’s high school All America baseball game, The Western American Winter Sports Association and was instrumental in the development of the old Pioneer baseball league. Mr. Warden was a director of the Football Writers of America and for five years the only intermountain representative on the national Football Hall of Fame. Pages can be written about the times of Al Warden and the contributions that he made to sports on the national as well as local scene. It seems fitting at this time, however, to remember the humor and the color that was the man, Al Warden. A personal friend to some of the worlds most glamours sports figures, Al Warden leaves a void with his passing that can never be filled. He belongs to a generation that has passed us by. Al Warden will now join a select group of great chroniclers of sport that he so often shared a press box with. He covered the great heavyweight bouts of his friend Jack Dempsey, the poker faced Joe Louis, Ezzard Charles, Rocky Marciano, and the ageless Jersey Joe Walcott. Al belongs to an era of sports that remembers Bobby Jones at Augusta, Bill Tilden at Forest Hills and the great Babe Ruth tipping his hat as he rounded third base. He tramped the training camps and the stadiums with the likes of Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner and Grar tland Rice and for almost fifty years passed Stewart friend by John Klein, a Pennsylvania carilloneur associated with the instrument’s manufacturer. The 100 foot tower, a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Donnell B. Stewart, Weber State alumni, is topped with a massive clock and four large cast bells. The bells will be sounded hourly by the automated carillon and utilized for the familiar Westminster chime melody, according to Dean W. Hurst, WSC director of College Relations. The base of the four pillar brick tower includes an observation deck, a glassed in carpeted room housing the carillon’s manual keyboard, and a subsurface room housing the instrument’s intricate sounding mechanism. It also includes a reflecting pool and a small courtyard area from which spectators may view the carilloneur at work. The courtyard is still under construction because of weather delays. Dedicatory speakers included WSC President William P. Miller; Frank Francis, Jr. WSC Institutional Council chairman; Glen Swenson, State Building Board director; and the tower designer, Ogden architect, John Piers. In addition to the four cast bells the tower includes the carillon’s clusters of Flemish, harp and celest bells, which actually are rodshaped tone generators cast from bell metal, struck by tiny hammers and electronically amplified through the tower. Mr. Klein, associated with Schulmerich Carillons, Inc., Selersville, Pa., has more than 40 recordings to his credit, and has performed at Montreal’s Expo ’67, the Seattle and New York worlds fairs and on carillons in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Chapel, the Harry S. Truman Library and the Herbert Hoover Memorial Library. As a composer he has arranged more than 450 published compositions. Mary Ray Johnson, an instructor in piano and music theory at WSC has been selected as the official carilloneur for the new instrument. Tower p.m. by the carillon’s first recital, performed Albert F. (Al) Warden, the dean of intermountain sports writers and a long time Nursing Alumni Award Scholarship The Weber State College Nursing Alumni has awarded a $190 tuition scholarship to Miss Pat Webb, a student in the new cooperative baccalaureate Nursing program at Weber State. The new four year program is an extended campus program in cooperation with the University of Utah. Miss Webb is the first recipient of this Nursing Alumni Award. However, according to Karen Beaver, director of the W.S.C. Practical Nursing program, the Nursing Alumni group plans to make this a regular award. The scholarship is awarded to Associate degree Nursing graduates who wish to pursue the extended program and acquire a baccalaureate degree in nursing. It was emphasized that more contributions to the nursing scholarship fund are the fund is to be continued. needed if Miss Webb graduated from Weber State College in practical nursing in 1964, then went on to earn her associate degree in 1969. She anticipates completion calaureate degree in 1972. of the bac-