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Show Page Two WEBER COLLEGE SIGN POST Sept 20, 1945 Weber College SIGNPOST A Student Publication CONTRIBUTORS: Douglas Burnett, Jeanette Draayer, Marian Hickman, Teresa Eckenbrecht, Norma Newcomb, Jean Ann Waterstradt, Dorothy Cardon. Greetings and a Drop of Salty Advice-Officially Student body officers wish to extend a word of welcome to all prospective Weber students and especially do we welcome all those fellows who are returning from th armed services. All the committees are organized and functioning. With the capable assistance of students who are heading the school committees, the sophomore class officers who are completing plans for an interesting freshman week, and all the other organizations of the school, Weber college will have an active year. We know the new students will like Weber because it is just one happy, friendly family. Under Dad Dixon's supervision, Weber's family is headed for an eventful year. We sincerely hope you decide to attend Weber and promise all who do an enjoyable year. If any help can be given by the student body officers in helping you plan your year at Weber, we stand ready. Associated Student Body Officers Doug Burnett, president Jeanette Draayer, vice-president Marian Hickman, secretary Grant Wood, treasurer Keith Midgley, busi. man. Weber Helps Plan For Post-War Employment A survey designed to provide information regarding postwar employment opportunities and need for training in the Ogden area has begn completed. The survey was conducted under the direction of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce committee on economic development, with other groups cooperating, including the Utah Manufacturer's association, the state department of employment security, the Utah Power and Light company, and Weber college. The survey had four main parts: 1. Managers of 102 industrial firms in the Ogden nrea were interviewed to determine the number of employees in 1939, 1940, 1944 and in the first post-war year. The managers were also asked to estimate the number of resignations at the close of the war, the number of service men and women returning to their employ, and the net number of new employees which would be hired during the first post-war year. 2. Occupations requiring a four year college education, and occu School Named Guidance Center for Veterans Weber college has been selected as anadvisement-consulta-tion-guidancc center for educational placement and training of tli veterans of World War II M L. Stevenson h as been appointed co-ordinator for the college. He is assisted bv Dr. R. A. Clarke and W. C. Neville. Veterans are assigned to this center from the veterans administration headquarters at Salt Lake Citv. Service is available to all dis abled veterans who have been referred. It is required for those veterans who have been listed under the rehabilitation plan, and who are suffering a vocational handicap due to military service. All other veterans, seeking education ;nd training under the G. I. Bill of Rights are eligible for this service upon request. Disabled veterans may make applications with the contact officer who is the local representative of the veterans adminsitration or the Salt Lake City office, after which they will be assigned to an advisement center. G. L veterans, those not disabled, may apply for serv- ice through the college co-ordina- tor. M. L. Stevenson. president: Jeanette Draayer. vie1 Weber college, because of its past ; president: Marian Hickman, secre-training experiences, shops, fac- j tary; Grant Wood, treasurer, and ulty. academic and professional I Keith Midgley, business manager. pation requiring two years' college training were listed for the 102 firms. The number of the latter type occupations being filled with four-year college graduates was also determined. 3. The occupational distribution of 14,092 workers covered by unemployment insurance and employed by 1,072 firms in the Weber county and north Davis county area was determined in a second survey. 4. A survey of the government depot workers showing the pre-war occupation, the present occupation, and the residence has been completed. The results of the survey are to be made public through the Ogden Chamber of Commerce in the near future according to H. A. Dixon, and R. A. Clarke. Weber college representatives on the joint committee, who are directing the survey. The large body of facts collected regarding over 39,000 of the workers in this area will be of great value in solving demobilization and reconversion problems in this area. programs, as well as extensive vocational training, is well equipped to carry on desired training in various fields. Courses are designed to fit the student into the economic life of the state and to direct students into channels of industrv. Board Functions Members of the board of control who have been meeting regularly during the summer months are the following: President. Henry A ldous Dixon: Merlin Stevenson, dean of men: Dr O. Whitney Young. Mr. Harold Handly: Ruth Henderson, sophomore rperesentative, and Grant Garner, sophomore class president' student officers, Douglas Burnc Discharged service man and wife examine possibilities of school's deluxe machine shop, while Dr. Robert A. Clarke and Walter C. Neville, counsellors, point out special machines. Photography Classes To Be Featured "Weber college courses in photography, wheih, last year were so popular that prospective students lined up at seven a.m. to get their requests in, promises to be even more popular this year," President H. A. Dixon stated. "Extensive plans are now under way to make the photography course one that will embody, not only the elementary phases of the art, but that will also take it into the commercialized fields of micro-photography as applied to the sciences; aerial photography as applied to engineering and the various forms of advertising and portrait work," President Dixon Due to remodeling which has taken place, the photography lab will be capable of accomodating three times the number of students handled in previous years. Each schol quarter the course will be repeated so that new groups of students can enroll. An advanced course is planned to follow next year. The class will handle approximately 30 photography enthusiasts the first quarter. There will be two main functions of the course: first, to give each student a working knowledge of photography; and second, to meet demands of the profession. Fred Rabe, local photographer, at the Rabe Studio will instruct a special photography lab. Dr. Ernest L. Miner will continue his work as regular class instructor. Weber college si looking forward toward making the Photography course so complete that it will serve as a two-year terminal education opportunity for specializing students. Theresa Eckenbrecht. Unrestrained house cleaning and redecoration at the old school climaxes in loving scene between Henry Hanson and Plato, whom he plans to polish off. The stand-in may be Columbus. ' Growing Courses Zoom Nightwork During the summer Weber college had approximately 30 classes operating with 18 regular instructors and 16 visiting instrucotrs. Although this is a good showing for night school classes, John Benson, director of the night school, is confident that the fall quarter registration will far out-do the summer classes. This coming quarter 51 new classes are being offered and many of these classes are already filled. These classes, which include upholstering and flower arrangement, promise to be interesting, the director reported. "There seems to be special interest in personal improvement, as indicated by the growing importance of the night school and popular attendance," Mr. Benson pointed out. Coach Swenson Says Sports Look Favorable The intermountain junior college athletic conference will resume competition this year after inactivity for three years. President Mathew Bentley called the first mgeting of the conference in three years for Saturday, Sept. 15. Representatives from each of the junior colleges were present. Plans were drawn up for the coming year and the organizaiton will begin its peace-time functioning. We are not yet back to normal and the sports to be engaged in officially will not be determined until the official meeting. We regret that Weber college will not field a football team this fall. Attempts were made during the spring and summer months to line up a game, but they were not successful. Basketball within the conference will resume for the first time in three years. Swimming will be directed by Coach Davis and it is expected that some good competition will be arranged. Track and field and tennis will be the other sports that the conference will likely sponsor. Present indications are that a considerably larger number of the men from defense plants and the armed forces will be on hand when school opens. Buildings Fixed Plumbers, carpenters, and others have been busy throughout the summer cleaning and preparing the buildings for the coming year. The gym lobby and ladies' lounge have been painted. All floors and windows throughout the buildings nave naa a scrubbing. The Moench building has been spruced up with a new roof, repaired steps, and new paint job on the front. President Predicts (Continued from Page 1) ulate you to take the right way even if it be the hard way. This idealism will be much accentuated during this, the first school year of peace after a dreadful conflict. Never before have we felt more the need of living above the brute level, dignifying and sanctifying human life, respecting the integrity of each individual and reaching out for hte fine things of life. For more than five years we have thirsted for a restoration of that genuine culture, and those wholesome pioneer virtues that pervaded the campus of Weber college and other institutions in pre-war times, and now it is a joyous privilege to tell you that these blessings have returned. This year we seek only the best in everything. We seek the best in character and conduct. We seek the best scholarship, and expect our graduates to continue to do as they have don, namely, when transferred to higher institutions, to rank higher than the students of those institutions. We seek the best in music and we have provided every student with a membership to the Ogden Community Weber college concert series. We seek the best from the master minds of our country, and the student tuition includes admission to at least 10 of the finest lectures to be held in the Rocky Mountains this winter. We seek the best in student recreation, and the student council has worked all summer long to plan the winter's activities.We seek the best in assemblies and the assembly committee has a fine winter's program under way. We are attempting to keep out of our assemblies everything that is suggestive, cheap, or degrading, and to schedule in these assemblies only the best of music, art, thought and wholesome fun. We seek the best in physical development, and we have at students' disposal a splendid physical program, the state's best gymnasium and outdoor hikes and snow carnivals. We seek the best in social life, and our student organization has availabel to the students nine well organized social clubs in operation; clubs which receive the full sanction and support of the faculty. We seek the best in buildings, and we have just recently completed the purchase of $95,000 property for the extending of the campus. Plans are already under way, although not completed, for the construction of a wonderful new library, administration building, a central heating plant, and a new airport mechanics building at the Municipal airport. All of the above opportunities are open to you, the young People of the Ogden area, and all of these opportunities are given with the earnest hope that they will inspire you to take the "high way" rather than the "low way" or to "drift to and fro on the misty flats of indecision." I welcome you enthusiastically to the Weber college family, because I know full well the happiness, the opportunity and the inspiration that is here for you. School Cafeteria To Be Larger Anticipating a heavy enrollment of girls who will live on the Weber college campus, during the 1945-46 term, plans have been made to operate the school cafeteria on an enlarged scale, it was reported today. Mrs. Angus Kennedy, witJi Mrs. Lena S. Osborn as assistant, will assume operation of the cafeteria under direction of Alta Hirt, college home economics instructor. The cafeteria will be open more hours this year, President D.xon said, with meals being served in the women's dormitory. The cafeteria service will be open to men and women of the campus bit not to the public, he added. |