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Show Pre-Season Dance Sept. 22 School Starts on Sept. 25 Flaming "W" Hike Sept. 25 Sec. 562 P. L. & R. U. S. Postage PAID Ogden, Utah Permit No. 276 r ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF WEBER COLLEGE VOL. 3 (XiDKN, ITAH. SKl'TKJIBEH 18, 1939 NO. 1 v i Parry Announces Big Year in Music 'Naughy Marietta' Probable Opera Two Singing Groups Planned for Radio Roland Parry, head of music newly returned Irom a year ol study in California, has now completed plans for an ambitious season for those students interested in music. He says: "We of the music department anticipate a year of pleasurable accomplishment. We have an abundance of fine talent from last year and this year again many exceptional high school musicians are enrolling. We have ideal rehearsal halls. And the administration is enthusiastically behind us. Certainly under these conditions our orchestra, band, and vocalists will bring us increased cultural enjoyment. "Naughty Marietta" Scheduled "In vocal, activities will center around our large glee club, which will be a social organization as well. The cast for a major light opera, which probably will be 'Naughty Marietta', will be selected from the glee club. "At least three major concerts will be presented by this group in cooperation with Clair Johnson's orchestra and band. "Immediately when rehearsals begin, numbers of our first concert will be developed. We expect to dramatize in costume part of one of the operas as was done last year with 'Faust.' Dorians and Musettes to Sing "Two special feature singing organizations will be developed to meet the demands of radio and community. The Dorian Singers, a select group of male vocal students under my own direction, expects to do things not attempted before in Ogden. The Musettes, a select group of Instrumentalist RICHARD MURDOCH, Weber sophomore this year, is a member of the White City dance orchestra. As a freshman, he was student conductor of the W. C. orchestra and soloist on both saxaphone and clarinet. girl vocalists directed by Clair Anderson, will carry on artistically this year as they have in other years. "We in the Music Department believe that this will be the greatest year in Weber college history and pledge ourselves to do our part." It's Our Bell Maybe So . . . After a year of futile fussing and fuming, Weber may get the gong at last. The gong, of course, will be in the form of I he city's two thousand-pound bell. A year ago Mayor Peery graciously presented the bell to Weber college with the understanding thai the student officers would arange to take it down from the tower of the old city hall. Embryonic student schemes included everything from lowering it down a hole chopped from roof to basement to tossing it over the brink into the rescue net of the local fire brigade. But all efforts failed- the nlH bell appeared to be doomed to life ill an attic until the W.P.A. (Continued on Page 2) l 1 900 800 700 600 500 400 m 300 ZOO I 1933-34 1934-35 REGISTRATION GROWS OVER FIVE-YEAR PERIOD . . . This chart shows Weber college enrollment during the six years preceding 1939-40. The chief gain is recent. From 613 students in L9S6-37 the enrollment has climbed during the last two years to 875. On the basis of these figures and the trend of current registration the college predicts an enrollment of 1100 for 1989-40. The special students listed are those taking a course of less than ten hours. The chart, however, includes neither evening vocational students nor gymnasium members. Courtesy of Walter Neville Three Full-Length Plays and Many One-Act Plays Listed By DR. ALBERT MITCHELL Students will be delighted to learn that the Departmer' of Speech will continue to offer an expanded opportunity for participation in the production of plays. This participation will be open not only to students registered for courses in' acting, reading and play production, but to all students. Particularly are students outside the department urged to try out for the major productions of full-length plays, one of which will be given each quarter. These plays, together with a series of one-act plays each quarter, will furnish splendid opportunity for experience and training in stagecraft, design, lighting, acting, directing. In these productions, qualified speech majors are called upon to assist in various capacities, including that ofassistant-director. Club Will Centralize The college dramatic club will centralize and direct dramatic activities. Membership is open to participants in the various phases of dramatic production. In addition to furnishing some of the actors, directors, and technicians, this club assists in providing publicity, tickets, programs, and house management. It may be called upon also to assist with the one-act play festival which the department contemplates spon Thousands of Miles Will be Traveled by W. C. Students In harmony with Weber college's efforts to make education more practical, many trips have- been planned for the coming year by the various departments in the school. "In the field of geology and geography there will be numerous trips," Walter R. Buss, head of this department states. These trips are open to all those students who have had or are tak-king a course in geology or geography. In the autumn quarter these students will take a trip lo the Uinta Mountains, Craters of the Moon, and to Bryce and Zion. In the winter the chief trips will be to Ogden, Weber and Little Cottonwood canyons. In the spring quarter the students will visit Book Cliffs. Tlm-panogas Cave and Bryce and Zion. "Some of these plans are tentative," Mr. Buss adds. Sociology These trips are :ilso open to all students who have had or are taking a course in sociology or to any individual with a serious interest in the place visited. Mr. Walter Neville, sociology instructor, plans to visit the Utah State Industrial school. School of the Deaf and Blind and the Utah State Prison during autumn. The chief trips for the winter quarter will consist of the Utah State Training school for the Feeble Minded, the County ENROLLMENT TRENDS ECIAL STUDENTS . . ,"T v'l", SOPHOMORLS 1935-36 1936-37 WEBER COLLEGE soring this year. Besides these opportunities, there will be weekly radio broadcasts, assembly programs, programs for organizations outside the college. Speech Activities for 1939-40 The Department of Speech will continue to furnish programs for station KLO. To further this BETTY MAE NELSON, come dienne of last year, played leading roles in. "The Varsity Show ," "The Grand Chain's Diamond," and "Friend Hannah." She also composed the songs for "The Varsity Show." She plans to be at Weber for another great dramatic season. Infirmary and the Utah State Prison. In the spring the students will visit the Utah State Prison and the Utah State Hospital.Engineers' Club The Engineers' Club also has plans for trips. It will decide the engineering projects to be visited by a vote of the club some time this year. It is also planning some short Irips to places of interest around Utah. Any person who is majoring in science may go on these trips. During the spring quarter a vacation of one week is provided in which some of the longer trips listed above will be taken and perhaps, between now and then, many more of these trips to "nature's laboratories" will lie planned for that period. Collegians to Rush Up Malan's Peak The annual "Flaming W" will blaze for the third vear nn I the charred peak of Old Malan's Heights Monday evening, September 25. The hike will begin at four o'clock sharp from the foot of Malan's. Student officers urge hikers to bring as many private j cars as possible in addition to the bus chartered by the school. An abundance of food will be on hand (provided the hikers bring their own), and a surprise program will be a moonlight highlight of the evening, followed by the ceremonial of lighting the i "W". A half-moon is expected lo light the descent. The cal- 9oo 800 700 600 500 400 BOO hoc 1 937-3 8 1 938-39 "propect, it has added a course in Radio, designed to acquaint the student with the technique of radio speaking and acting. Qualified students will be asked to assist with college broadcasts. Other opportunities for training and experience in public speaking will be continued in the James L. Barker Contest in Extempore Speech, the J. S. Lewis Award for Impromptu Speech and the inter-collegiate Oratorical Contest sponsored by me ugaen junior Chamber of Commerce. The winner of the extempore contest, which is designed to stimulate competition oetween freshmen and sophomores, will be honored by having his class numerals engraved on a silver cup and by an individual cash award provided by the donor, James L. Barker. The winner in impromptu speech Aill be presented with a gold medal provided by J. S. Lewis and the winner in oratory in the interest of American ideals, will receive, as a permanent college possession, a gold cup on which is inscribed the name of the winner together with his class numerals. Students who distinguish themselves in public speaking are given opportunity to qualify for contests held with other colleges both within the state and elsewhere. Students who distinguish themselves in speech activities may achieve membership in the local chapter of Phi Rho Pi honorary forensic society. Profs Brush Up Curriculum Curriculum study group for all teachers, begun at Weber September 7 and continuing to the 21, is proving to be one of the most beneficial undertakings of the faculty this summer, teachers report. This course is under the supervision of President Dixon and Merlon S. Stevenson, Dean of Instruction. The purpose of the Troup has been to study the objectives of education as they affect the junior college and Weber coliege in particular. Teachers are going into their own particular courses to learn how nearly these courses meet objectives and to make alterations where they seem needed. President Dixon states that the aim of the school is to find a curriculum that meets the needs of the community. "Continuous curriculum revision and development is necessary if schools are to pay social dividends and stem the tide l opposition. The study is not for this year alone but for a period of years. Curriculum study has no end; it is continuous. "We want to give the students something that they can take out of school and offer to the community. We find the needs ol the community and then survey the student population, their qualifications and training, then fit the students into the needed occupations." endar didn't agree for a full one. with plans Mortenson, Others Explain New Set-Up For This Year Aeronautics, Carpentry, Art Added; Central Building Brings Improvements Aeronautics, art, and carpentry are the new departments that have been added to the Weber college curriculum for the year now beginning. Mr. Art Mortenson, in charge of the air school, says, "Actual air work will include eight to ten hours of flying National Junior College Debate To Be at Weber Regional Contests On Forensic Docket Western States San Francisco Linfield McMinnville (Ore.) Utah-Idaho Salt Lake City National Phi Rho Pi Ogden These are the tournaments for the Weber college debate squad during the coming year. The National Phi Rho Pi tournament will be held at Weber, and debaters from all over the United States will journey here. The national tournament comes as an honor to the school and Mr. Monson, debate coach, whose efforts have obtained wide recognition for Weber college. Besides its junior college work the Weber debating association will hold the annual Utah high school tournament. High schools from all parts of the state will compete for the Weber trophy. Mr. Monson promises, "Debating at Weber college is for the many and not for the few. The program this year will provide ample opportunity for all who wish to participate." Debater . . . BLAIR BURTON returns for his sophomore year. In 1938-89 he was winner of Novitiate Ex-tempe, Barker Extenipe, took second place in the progress style national Phi Rho Pi tournament and in the Western States tournament. He is president of the local chapter of Phi Rho Pi. Lyceum, Ogden Concert Combined Change Benefits Students The annual lyceum series sponsored by Weber college has been combined with the Ogden Community Concert for this coming season. Because of the union of the two organizations, it will now be possible to have a larger selection of superior music, art, and other culture activities for Weber collegians Ouy H. Hurst, Weber college lyceum director, said today. In the past the lyceum series has been free to Weber students, but the Community Concert has charged an admission price This year because of the merger, Weber college students will be able to attend the new, combined series on their student cards. The concerts will be held at the Ogden high school. Among the world famous art ists to appear are Lawrence Tibbetts. the American baritone; the Jooss European Ballet; the Russian Singers: General Pla-toff's Don Cossack Choir; and Bohumir Kryl and his Symphony Orchestra of fifty selectedmusicians. with one of the instructors. After that the student pilot will be allowed to do between thirty-five and fifty hours of solo flying. When the student has flown that many hours solo, he will be eligible for his private pilot's license."Mr. Mortenson added that each student must undergo the strict "Army 64" physical examination. "We have asked for about sixty enrolled students, but forty will be disqualified because of physical handicaps or other incapabilities." Air School Courses Mr. Merlon Stevenson, dean of instruction, lists the courses and the hours of groundwork in each as follows: Civil Air Regulations. 12 hours; History of Aviation. 2 hours; Navigation, 15 hours; Metcrology, 15 hours; Parachutes, 1 hour; Theory of Flight 15 hours; Engines, 5 hours; In-strumenst, 5 hours; Radio, 2 hours. The total hours spent by each student in groundwork as designated by the government is seventy-two. Collett Outlines Art Studies According to Mr. Farrell Collett, art instructor, besides the two-year vocational commercial art course, there will be full courses of study in landscape sketching, figure drawing and painting, and still life. These courses are designed to give a complete background to those who intend to continue in art schools. New Carpentry Machinery The carpentry course will prepare apprentice carpenters and mill workers. It covers such units as forms, framing, finish, cabinet work, mill work, concrete work, the making of larg6 equipment and power hand tools. There will be other courses in actual shop problems and procedures.Mr. Lorenzo Peterson is the instructor. He is very proud, he says, of the eight large units of power machinery newly installed for his students. He names the cost at over $3500. Centra Building Benefits Governor Blood's allocation of funds on July 1 lo purchase the Central Building has relieved and made possible further enlargements in several departments. It will house the domestic science department, cafeteria, domestic arts, home-making, commercial and fine arts, history and political science, psychology and education, sociology and philosophy, modern languages, economics, vocal music, women's gymnasium, auditorium, and several offices. Clothes Depart men! Crows The department that is most improved by the Central Building is the girls' textile and clothing courses taught by Miss Ruth Peterson. These courses have been expanded and many girls who were disappointed last year because of limited class room space will be accomodated in the new, fully equipped textiles department. Some of the courses (Continued on Page 4) Gea4er A hfi-JeM In order that our freshmen do not enter the portals of higher learning blindly, yea, even unthinkingly, we shall attempl to put forth a few ideas on the subject. "Is College School?" As we are constantly being assailed with questions from prospective Weber students regarding this subject, we shall now lisl some of these questions, together with the answers that seem to solve the problem adequately. Please note that this sevice is without charge. If you are on the brink of a dangerous precipice, if you cannot sleep at night because of worry, if the problem of what brand of tooth paste to buy keeps (Continued on Page 4) I |