Three Retire in Family Life Dept. With the beginning of another school year, the Family Life Department will feel the void of three of its faculty members who retired at the end of the school year 1971-72. Mrs. Melba J. Lehner came to chair the Family Life Department in 1952 and served as the chairman until 1969. She saw the department grow from one full-time faculty member to its present strength of eleven. In those early years Mrs. Lehner was the only full-time faculty member-and taught all of the Family Life classes except clothing construction. Mrs. Lehner received her B.S. and MLS. at Utah State University and did graduate work in all areas of family relations at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and University of Oklahoma. She had taught on a part-time basis on Weber’s lower campus since 1946 prior to coming to Weber as the chairman of the Family Life Department. Mrs. Lehner is a life member of the state PTA board. For six years she served as Parent Education Chairman and was PreSchool Chairman for three years. Mrs. Lehner served as the State Supervisor in Idaho during the Works Progress Administration days. She was also the Utah State Director of Day Care Center affiliated with the State Department of Education and the Ogden City Schools. Parent education groups were set up in connection with the nursery schools. Many of these schools became the state’s first nursery schools and set a pattern for today’s nurseries. From this pattern Mrs. Lehner organized the first nursery school in the Family Life Department made possible through a $2,000 grant from the State Department of Education for a parent education program. The nursery school was also used as an observation learning experience for Weber students interested in child development. The nursery school remained a parentcooperative nursery school until the present child development program was adopted and the nursery school became laboratory space to offer practical experience to students. The nursery school has grown from the original one section to the present four sections of nursery school. Mrs. Lehner’s hope is that one day the Family Life nursery school can once again involve parents in the nursery school program in a cooperative nursery school. Retiring with Mrs. Lehner are two of her colleagues, Mrs. Margaret Jacobs and Mrs. Bessie Mumford. Mrs. Jacobs came to Weber from Brigham Young Uiversity in 1957 to head the foods and nutrition area. She has taught family food preparation and selection and nutrition-classes. She received her M.A. at Teachers College, Columbia University. Mrs. Bessie Mumford: joined the Weber faculty in 1952 as a part-time clothing instructor. She Jater became a full-time faculty member and headed the clothing and textiles area, teaching personal development, clothing construction, and textiles. She received her M.S. at Utah State University. During their careers, Mrs. Lehner, Mrs. Jacobs, and Mrs. Mumford have seen the campus moved from the center of Ogden to its present location, have served in numerous communities, and helped to develop a two-year curriculum into the present four-year offering as the college grew up from its junior college status. Work of Noted Artist at WSC Thirty thousand dollars worth of art work by eminent animal artist Paul Bransom has now found a home at Weber State College. The collection numbering some two hundred and seven pieces, and including work done for early editions of the Saturday Evening Post, and book illustrations has been secured for the college through the efforts of Professor Farrell R. Collett, of the Weber State Art Department, and his wife Marty, who is in charge of special collections through the library. The Colletts are personal friends of Mr. Bransom. Professor Collett joins Mr. Bransom as a member of the Society of Animal Artists. In a letter to the Colletts earlier in the year, Mr. Bransom mentioned the fact that a number of his paintings and drawings were being sought by the University of Oregon for a special collection. After some conversation Mr. and Mrs. Collett called the artist at his home and asked him about the possibility of a number of his pieces being donated to Weber State. Mr. Bransom replied that while certain collections were Bessie Mumford committed to the University of Oregon, other pieces were available, and he would be most pleased to donate them to Weber State. then administration college The authorized Mr. Collett, along with Weber State Art Department chairman, Peter Koenig, to travel to New York City to receive the collection. Included in the group are paintings and drawings done for the Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentlemen, and the New York Evening Journal and many wildlife books. In addition information has now been received that the college is also to acquire a number of books published by the Smithsonian Institute on the American Indian, which have been illustrated by Mr. Bransom. Paul Bransom has long been renowned as one of the finest animal artists in the United States, and prior to coming to Weber State, the present collection was on display at the New York Zoological gardens. A native of Washington, D.C., Mr. Bransom began drawing early in life. As most boys he was quite taken with animals. His facination led him to attempt to capture, in painstaking detail, the movement and habits of these wonderful creatures. After leaving school at 13, he became an apprentice draftsman, assisting with mechanical drawings for patents in Washington, D.C. His spare time was spent at the National Zoo, sketching the animals. He developed a careful style that caught every detail of the individual animal he was drawing. Mr. Bransom later traveled to New York City, where he went to work for the now defunct, New York Evening Journal, as a comic strip artist. He has, in his career, done illustrations for over 50 major magazines, and many novels including, Jack London’s ‘‘Call of the Wild.” During the summer months Mr. Bransom, who is presently president of the prestigious Society of Animal Artists, teaches at the Teton Association Outdoor Art School at Jackson Hole Wyoming, in addition to maintaining his New York studio.