SFC Rfe? P L. WEB C O i. i. C E Freshmen! 1 Welcome T FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1943 NUMBER I VOLUME 7 W1 I War Favors Concert Series With Foreign Artists, Lecturers Ten Numbers Are Scheduled for Evening Appearance "Unexpectedly the war has made possible a choice of attractions for this year's ly-ceum and the OgdenCommunity-Weber college concert series that might have been beyond our reach in peace time," Mr. Guy H. Hurst, Lyceum and concert chairman for Weber college, said Friday.In support of this, Mr. Hurst pointed out that Mia Slavenski, star o the motion picture "Ballerina," built her career on the stages of European capitals. F. L. Kunz, lecturer on India and the southwest Pacific, was during calmer times president of Ananda college of Ceylon. Baron Joseph Van Der Elst, art connoisseur, was resident formerly of Burges. Adolf Busch and Rudolf Se.-kin, pianist and violinist specializing in joint recitals, it has long been somewhat enviously known by music lovers in this country, were fond of performing in the foreign music centers now "torn by the agony of destructive travail," according to the Weber chairman. A detailed chronology of the evening series known as the Ogden Community-Weber college concert, as it stands at present, was released by Mr. Hurst as follows: October 15 Sen. Elbert Thomas, authority on Japan. October 20 Dr. Gerald Wendt, foremost American interpreter of science. October 26 Columbia All-Star quartete, composed of Metropolitan vocalists Josephine Tuminia, soprano; Helen Olheim, mezzo- soprano; Nino Martini, tenor; and Igor Gorin, baritone. November 15 Roth Quartette, famed string ensemble. November 16 Loring Campbell, magician and ventriloquist. January 5 Dorothy Crawford, character impersonator. January 12 Dorothy Maynor, Columbia soprano. January 25 Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin, joint recital with piano and violin. February 11 Mia Slavenski, prima ballerina of the Monte Carlo Ballet, with her dance ensemble. April 17 Morley and Gcarhart, duo-pianists. Other notable performers, being considered for the morning lyceum held exclusively for Weber college students, are Louis Untermeyer, Carl Sanburg, Joseph Auslander and Eve Curie. Two of the following names will be featured, according to Mr. Hurst: Karl Robinson, on "Defrosting Alaska"; Charles Ferry on the southwest Pacific; Baron Joseph Van Der Elst, Flemish art lecturer. These speakers all specialize in illustration for their talks. Another possibility is William A. Lydgate, of Gallop-Poll fame. Paul Wittgenstein, famous one-armed pianist, will doubtless be a Weber lyceum feature, Mr. Hurst said. Summer Sessions Prove Success, Benson Reports Summer school at Weber college proved successful this year, Mr. John Benson, director, started in a recent report. Five hundred and fifty-two students were enrolled in academic, business, trades, engineering, and nursing subjects. The "extended day" school program ran from eight a. m. to eleven p. m. and included such classes as mathametics, psychology, bacteriology, engineering, radio, typing, shorthand, trade and vocational courses, and the regular naval cadet training program. Nearly forty regular college instructors taught the summer classes under the administration of Mr. Benson. Donna Jones Edits '43-'44 Handbook . Donna Rac Jones has been appointed by the board of control to edit the handbook for this year. She promises that it will be full of traditions, songs, yells and instructions for freshmen telling them how to behave on the campus until they are recognized by the upper classmen as being worthy of the privileges enjoyed by students of Weber college. She has chosen as her staff Elizabeth Schelin and Betty Lou Lamoreaux, associate editors; Afton Parker, secretary; Betty Nelson, songs and yells; Betty Jo Green, clubs; Joanne Smith, typist; Shirley Burrows, activities; and Miss Marian T. Read, adviser. Parry Plans Full Year For Musicians Expects to Do Berlin Type Performance For Ogden Public Mr. Roland Parry .director of music, said Friday concerning the outlook for the coming season at the college, "This is going to be a very active year musically." "When school starts October 4, we shall begin work on a patriotic musical show which will enlist out standing talent not only in music but also in comedy, drama, and the dance. We expect to travel to other cities with this production and to become professional in our ability to put it over to the public. It will serve somewhat the same purpose locally as Berlin's 'This Is the Army' has done nationally. With talented navy men and faculty men ready to participate with us, a nice balance can be maintained."The purpose of the whole venture (I should say adventrre) will be to help sell more war bonds and to foster wholesome patriotism. It should give us a great deal of pleasure to serve." Mr. Parry went on to tell of the traditional Christmas oratorio presented bv Weber college. "This oratorio," he said, "should as usual draw capacity audiences at the Ogden high school auditorium. The production will be the highlight of the musical year ahead of us. Our navy men and male chorus, combined with our always dependable choir, the Musettes, and the Sym-phonettes, and the Nurses' chorus, will form the five required choirs for the proper presentation of this religious spectacle. ' In continuing the outline of the year's schedule, Mr. Parry said that at least two evening concerts, instrumental and choral, will be presented during the yar. "We expect," he said, "to have a very active personality pep band, with accent on novelty eflects. "The orchestra as well as the band will participate actively in the above school activities. In fact, all musical presentations will definitely center around the college choir and the orchestra. We advise that students enroll In the choir or orchestra if they expect to participate."The string ensemble, a brass quartet, a woodwind sextet, maintained throughtout the year will provide refinement in music for those of us who like chambre music," Mr. Parry concluded. Pat Riley Is to Be Inducted Into Armed Forces Soon Mr. Thomas "Pat" Riley, assistant treasurer of the school for the last four years, will be inducted into the U. S. army on October 6. He will make application to enter the air force. Mr. Riley is the seventh member of the college personnel to enter the armed forces. Mrs. Riley and son will continue to reside in Ogden. College Welcomes Freshies at Annual Assembly Sophomores and Faculty Members Introduce Plebes Into W. C. Student Life At Orientation Program Friday Night Freshmen will have their first initiation into college life Friday evening at 8 o'clock when Weber's annual orientation assembly will be held in the Moench auditorium. Student officers and administrative and faculty heads will be introduced to the new students at this time, Mr. Ralph Jenson, Jr., faculty member in charge of the program, reported. Skits and musical numbers will entertain the audience. President Dix on will make his welcoming address at this time. Directly after the assembly, the group will convene to the inner campus lawn for a watermelon bust. Alumnae Marvel Murphy and Caroline Hobson will lead group singing. Sophs Will Help Sophomore groups who will help with the program and welcome the freshmen are Whip, girls' service club, who will be present in their new uniforms, and the co-ed counselors, who will help the freshman women become acquainted with the Girls Direct Students for Time Being Berghout Holds Council Chair By Appointment Charming Melva Campbell and MarJean Hickman, vice-president and secretary of the student body, found themselves in reigning positions when Junior Blair, president, was inducted into the Navy and King Durkee, treasurer, left to attend the University of Utah. Blair, who made his farewell address at his own inaugural as sembly last spring, left for Farra-gut, Idaho, on July 1, where he is training as an officer in the navy. Durkee is in the army medical reserve and as such is enrolled at the state university. Although arrangements are being made between the two schools so that he may come back, it is doubtful that he will be here this fall. During the summer Miss Camp bell, Miss Hickman, Durkee, and faculty representatives of the board of control met and appointed John Berghout to a temporary position on the council until a new elec tion of student body president can be held this fall. The group has been holdin regular meetings throughout the vacation months and have planned the initial student activities for the 1943-44 school year. In compliance with the decision of the board made last spring in view of changing condition's, an election for the missing student offices will be held soon after school begins. There is no certainty that the present substitute, Berghout, will be named for the office of presi dent, according to officials. Last year a similar substitute was made in one of the other student offices. and later student election selected differently. In other words, there is apt to be some stiff electioneering before student offices are filled, according to those who take a hand in student body politics. Forensic Coach Expects an Active Year Speech activities at Weber college will go forward as usual this year according to Mr. Leland H. Mon-son, chairman of the division of humanities. Debates will take place between Weber college and the Agricultural college, the University of Utah, the Brigham Young university, Snow Junior college, Dixie Junior college and Carbon County Junior college. Extemporaneous speaking and oratory contests will also be conducted with these schools. The Utah Alpha chapter of Phi Rho Pi will continue its activity with other chapters in the state. Students will be encouraged to participate in inter-college speech contents in an effort to qualify for admittance to membership in their National Junior Forensic society. Intra-college speech contests will be conducted in Moench auditorium. These will be the Noviatiate contest, the James L. Barker ex-temporeneous contest, the junior chamber of commerce oratorical contest, and the J. S. Lewis extemporaneous speaking contest. school and their new classmates. This latter group is under the charge of Miss Mae Welling, dean of women, and officers of the Associated women students. "The purpose of the orientation assembly is to welcome the freshmen into the Weber family' and let them know something of our ways and customs," MarJean Hickman, secretary of the student body stated. Everyone Come "We want everyone to come and really get the right start into collegiate life." Regular college classes will begin the following Monday, October 4. Women Rule Charming standbys in rickety student office positions at Weber. Left, MarJean Hickman, secretary, and Melva Campbell, vice president. Junior Blair, president, was called into the navy. King Durkee, treasurer, may still come to Weber, but the requirements of a shortened pre-medics course have him in their power. Absentee Staff Members Will Send in Junk As Usual, Says Adviser By MARY FITCH Induction of the editor-in-chief, Dee Anderson, of the sports editor, LaVor Wood, and of the feature editor, Robert Peterson, into the armed forces since school let out last spring will have the chief effect of giving a valuable opportunity to other students (if they can be talked into taking it) , the Signpost advisor, Mr. C. M. Nilsson, said yesterday. This was revealed in a personal interview while getting out the paper last night. By the way, Mr. Nilsson has grown old advising Signpost, but his various staffs have grown older. "Of course," the old cynic went on to say, "we shall miss Anderson's habitual absence from the staff room on dance nights. Wood's car was certainly a great help when we had 10 girl reporters to furnish cartage home after twelve at night. And one thing about Peterson's cartoons was that when we finally got them, they were quite funny. He usually did his own modeling." Then he sighed as he rummaged among his three-day-old whiskers (on account of you don't have time to shave when you are getting this school paper out) and secured a sliver of lead pencil, with which he picked his teeth ruminatively, "Yes, we could have used them. We needed Anderson to organize Bonnie (Clay) into a staff the way Water-stradt did. Now Bonnie will have to organize herself. We planned on Wood for society editor actually; now Shirley (Mills) will edit both that and sports girls'. Instead of Pete's cartoons we'll run the space blank and see if the public notices any difference." "Yes," Bonnie said hopefully, trying to prop at least one of her weary eyes open, "but Signpost's loss will be the navy's gam. The won't have to work so hard there either." "And," said Shirley, "I am now 16 and will drive the girls home in your car if you don't wish to stay up till then, Mr. Nilsson." "Ooo, goody, goody," gurgled Barbara (Singleton, she had been sleeping on the job and was still able to gurgle convincingly), "I've always wanted to give a soldier a ride." The adviser thought out loud that the girls' ideas were wonderful. "Besides," he said, parking the sliver of lead pencil back in his three-day-old beard, now athree-day-and-15-minute old beard, "these fellows are going to send their contributions in just the same. There won't be any improvement. Anderson's column appears in this issue. Pete's cartoon is on the way if they'll let it come through the mails, just in time for the next deadline. Mr. Baddlcy has kindly promised to help Wood out by lending us a rubber-tired wheelbarrow with the tires sent in to the rubber salvage campaign a year ago. Shirley can pick up a soldier for Barbara in that. Things aren't going so bad after all." To Register . . . 1. Freshmen call at office of rccistrar for an admittance slip. (High school credits must be at the collece before the student can register.) Sophomores obtain progress card and admittance permit from the registrar's office. 2. Present the card, at the treasurer's office and pay registration fees and tuition. 3. Go to the gymnasium lobby and consult your adviser about registration. 4. Fill registration book as approved by your adviser. 5. Make an appointment for your medical evamination. f. See that your name is placed on the roll at the checking tables. 7. Give your registration book to the registrar and get her final approval before you leave. Braithwaite Cites Aims Of Program Stresses Enriching Experiences, High Values in Wartime "It is our desire that during the coming school year the program of the institute shall be filled with life enriching experiences," Mr. Royden C. Braithwaite, director of the institute of religion, stated early Friday. Institute officials have planned activities for the coming year which include the regular classroom work, firesides, Sunday school, and worship services. Sophomores and freshmen are urged to participate in these affairs and to use the lounge, the library, the chapel, and facilities for socials and music hours. Three classes will be offered during the autumn quarter. "The Teachings of Jesus" will be a brief, intensive study of the life and teachings of Jesus. The application of the philosophy of Christ to present day problems of living will be stressed. "Courtship and Marriage" will constitute a study of the personal, social, and religious resources which may be drawn upon and utilized for successful marriage. Problems of courtship and marriage in wartime will be stressed. "Mormon Doctrine and Philosophy" is a study of the religion of the Latter-day Saints. Two hours academic credit will be granted by Weber college for the "Teachings of Jesus" and two hours terminal credit for the other two classes. Time schedules are available at the registration room of the college or at the institute. A Sunday school officered by stu-(Continucd on Page Two) James Murdock Makes Career Of United States Navy Jim Murdock, remember musician on the piano, man about town, where 13 he now? In the armed forces like most of the others? Sure. But this time you can have the whole story of a typical Weber fellow who graduated as recently as June, 1942, and was a rough and willing Joe College everywhere on the campus. In the logbook of the United States Naval Air Navigation school, the Pinpoint, the editors have a clever little passage that refers to Jim Murdock and no one else. Here is how it goes: "With navigation we had aerology. There was one cadet in our company who said he liked the study of aerology. His name will go down in history." In the navy, Jim writes plaintively: "They won't let you whistle and they won't let you chew gum and they don't want your hands in your pockets." You remember how you used to know Jim. His face full of gum and his pockets full of hands. Pardon. Jim Murdock no longer. Ensign James Murdock now. Navigator; S10 a day and expenses. How come? The Pinpoint helps again with a thumbnail sketch of Ensign Murdock's career to date: "Attended Ogden high school-majored in forestry at Weber junior college CPT at Logan, Utah employed as clerk by Union Pacific railroad St. Mary's pre - flight Dixon Tells New Students About Weber College Of Today and Tomorrow After Dark . . . Weber's autumn quarter evening school will start October 5, with registration from nine a. m. to nine p. m. on October 4 in the gym building. Classes in the following fields will be available: general, cultural, business, and vocational. Subjects to be offered are shorthand, typing, office machines, radio mechanics, radio code, commercial art studio, mathematics, Spanish, English, geography, psychology, home economics, machine shop, creative mechanics, aircraft engines, aircraft sheet metal, power machines, blue print reading, and probably several others as well. Classes in other subjects will be organized if a sufficient number request it. Registration fees are announced on the schedule. Drama Man Sets Up Speech Plans Weighs Wartime Value Of Relaxation In Platform Work By THATCHER ALLRED Director of Speech Arts Weber college will not "for the duration" diminish its interest in plays and other speech activities. As a matter of fact, it will give increased attention to these aspects of student life insofar as funds and students themselves exist to carry such endeavors forward. All activities of such nature serve a double purpose during times of strain that follow in the wake of wars. There is the constant benefit of experience that comes to the student who participates. Added to this, in special degree just now, is the relaxation and the release from serious daily cares that comes from the activity. Speech activities to be emphasized are of three main kinds, plays, radio performance, platform speaking.The final selection of plays will be made after registration is completed and classes reveal possibilities for casting and for organizing of production crews. Two or more long plays, primarily for public performance, are contemplated. One-act plays in varied number, will be offered as special features in the student assembly schedule. There will be a special need and special opportunity this year for students capable of serving as assistant directors, or as production chairmen. In the radio production activity a special group is contemplated, supported by the campus Radio (Continued on Page Two) him? Phoenix man, bang-upt school." And then, of course, the big honor of being selected for special training at the United States naval air navigation school, Hollywood, Fla. Grades: A's at St. Mary's, 97 average at the navigation scnool. Then ensign and the $10 a day. Now he works out of a station on the Atlantic coast in a bomber that escorts convoys and sometimes finds submarines. While other crew members drop bombs on them, Ensign Murdock takes movies of them. But this is not his ambition. He wants to see Germany from the air. What credit does he give to Weber college? Couldn't have got anywhere without it. And especially "It was one of my lucky days when I signed up for that course in astronomy." "Mother," he says in one of his letters to the folks at home, "you sure knew what you were talking about when you made me go on with my piano. Some evenings I Sees Big Enrollment As Inevitable In Post-War School (Editor's Note:' The following remarks by the president of Weber college constitute his address to the returning sophomores and to the incoming freshmen and to their parents, as released exclusively to the student press at the opening of one of the most momentous years in the life of Weber college, our college, and in the life of these United States, our country. May they both endure forever and grow greater year by year, as President Dixon here foresees, with the college ever serving the best interests of our great nation.)By H. A. Dixon The crispness of the Indian summer, the beauty of our mountains in the autumn, the freshness of youth and their enthusiasms as they enter college for the new school year all inspire me to drream. I dream of things to come at Weber college, not alone during this war year, but also beyond this -f Officials O.K. W. C. on Recent Tour Governor Says Plant, Equipment and Name Powers in Educating By WILSON CLIFF S. L. Tribune Weber college's war - time role underwent the close inspection and won the .praise of the Utah state board of education, state and county officials and Ogden civic leaders during their half-day tour of the campus and supplementary facilities recently. The response of state board members and state officials was embodied in a brief statement from Governor Herbert B. Maw. "The school is to be congratulated for the state it has made along the line of industrial development and training. In my opinion, although Weber is a pioneer in the field, you haven't scratched the surface yet. "With your reputation and equipment, you will be in an excellent position to rehabilitate the men who cannot return to their old positions after the war." Other Speakers Other speakers at a luncheon session in the naval air cadets' dormitory, the old Weber county courthouse, were Lieutenant Alf Bran-din, resident naval officer in charge of the naval air cadet school; C. H. Anderson, faculty member assigned to coordination of the program; Chester J. Olson, president of the Ogden chamber of commerce; Dr. E. E. Monson, secretary of state, who declared: "It is a wonderful compliment to democracy that an Continued on Page Two) Ensign JAMES Ml FtDOCK sit down at the piano and forget everything." Ensign Murdock is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Murdock of 1184 Twenty-seventh. year. : Weber college is in her youth as far as being a state school is concerned. She has only gotten under way with her new program, and her future holds out both wonderful and charming possibilities.My dream for today concerns itself with winning this war. Already our Alma Mater has lost 17 heroic sons in battle, claims eight more who are missing, and points with pride to thousands who are "carrying the ball" for our country. We are also proud of the fact that our technical school was in full swing long before the war started, and that it has now been dedicated to government war service. As a result, thousands of much-neeued technicians haveln aA trained and turned over to war industry. For the Navy Weber has developed a flight training program for the navy that represents another extremely satisfactory war training unit. The 140 naval cadets who make this their home represent the finest kind of moral, mental, and physical manhood. The same is true of the scores of men trained in the enlisted reserve corps who are now in the armed forces assuming positions of leadership. Our student body and faculty are loyal to the man. We will give what Uncle Sam wants us to give. We'll pay what he wants us to pay. And we'll teach what he wants us to teach. So much for today. What will tomorrow bring to Weber? While the war endures, registration naturally will be heavy in the technological fields. The institution, therefore, is placing renewed emphasis upon the liberal arts and sciences. The faculty believes that with the sciences and skills belongs a certain amount of general and cultural education. Both emphasis belong in a balanced education, and a balanced oducnlinn is the kind that will win the peace as well as the war. A balanced education is exactly the kind that will prepare for the post-war period. Great Possibilities Weber college is a local institution that meets the needs of youth and the communities in the Ogden area. Its great possibilities lie in the opportunities of the Ogden area and in the broad program of studies of the college, which serves not only the 36 per cent of youth who will go on throu"h senior college, but nlso the 75 per cent who need a terminal course to qualify them for making a life as well as making a living. The phenomenal growth of the college from S00 to 1300 regular students in four years, up until the wnr struck, gives a glimpse of what win Happen aner tnu war. n Weber could register 1300 students in 1940, when Ogden had a popu lation oi itf(uuu, wnat win De me registration after the war. when Ogden has almost doubled that population? During the state officials' visit to the campus on September 3, Governor Maw said: "The school is to be congratulated for the start it has made along the line of industrial development and training. Iri my opinion, although Weber is a pioneer in the field, you haven't scratched the surface yet. "With your reputation and equipment you will be in an excellent position to rehabilitate the men who cannot return to their old positions after the war." In addition to the norma! school population of youth coming to college age, there will be the returning soldiers whose enreers were interrupted by the call 'o the colors. Soldiers Will Come Roger Bnbson said recently: "Very few returning soldiers will feel justified in starting a four-year college course after returning from war. They may be wise in completing a college course already started if one or two years 'Continued; on Page Two)