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Show Page 2 THE SIGNFOST Jhs. ShptpDAi Editor In Chief Jacob Weese Editoral Assistants Pauline Rogers, Stanley Johnson business Manager Orville Nielsen; assistant, William Chase Society Editor Norma Pantone Athletic Editors Jack Syphers, Melvin Manlull Features Norma Barrows, Ted Collins, Stanley Johnson, Josephine Kunz, Everal Harris, Mary Peterson, Harold Benson. Contributors Dwight Williams, Eva Rogerson, Constance Ford, Hugh Carner, Beth Cardon, Reed Alexander, Knolyn Hatch. Circulation Chet Gilgen, Barbara Reeve Typists Verna Watts, Thekla Holmes Published every other week by the Associated Students of Weber College Intcrmountain Publishing Co. ' ' OFFICERS OF 1938-39 We feel that the student body officers of this past year have discharged their offices faultlessiy. In the award assembly their speeches for the most part had a merit symbolical of the worth W. C. has found in Merle, Beverley, John, and Aurline during the year now finished. They have fostered marked advances in many student activities and maintained others without losses. They have done these things by building a Weber spirit friendly, active, and ambitious by .judicious allotment of student body funds; by cooperation with President Dixon, Mr. Jones, and faculty; by being themselves all the personal things implied by the word "leader." In exchange for what they have given, they have the comforting memory of a job well completed and we modestly believe of a great junior college We are aware that these statements may seem overdone. We are also aware that self-evident things are often hardest to see. THE EMBARKMENT Students the country over are currently going through the rigors of graduation. There are new suits, presents, flowers, banquets, all making it a festival, a celebration, in honor of the neophytes about to lock horns with the world. To those not intending to attend college again it is a momentous step. From babyhood they have been in preparation for this very stride. Their failings have been glossed over, bodies and limbs have been trained and made adept at a number of things, brains have been geared up to a high speed of efficiency and been fed with things intended to be of some use. Graduation speakers will intone the commandments of right doing from their pulpits of security and influence. The speakers will have been chosen because of their position in life, degree of success, and moral fibre. Naturally those' rating highest in these values will be first choice. It is imperative that the figure at the top of the success ladder be surrounded with a halo of attainment so that the aspiring ones will not be inhibited by a lack of idols to imitate. The graduates will be told not to find a position in life, but to make one; not to accept life as it is, but to make it better, and to drive straight and hard at an objective. They will be told that they are the backbone of the nation, that what the youth are today so will the nation be tomorrow. They are to march ever onward. Fighting is their heritage, the spoils and riches of the world their due. The question is, will they be encouraged, will they be inspired enough to take what is offered? Or will they be so cloyed by the praise and high promises ringing from every side that they will rest supine while the world struggles by without their aid? For the graduates themselves this question will be answered years later. But it is also being answered now. All about them are men who had that same question to answer. Some have answered and met it. Others still find it as intangible as it was then. Each of today's graduates no doubt is asking himself, "Just how will fate decree that I answer this supreme question of the years?" But a more pressing, more puzzling question is, "How should I direct swift-flowing time so as to get the best from what I am and from what I might become?" DEAN OF WOMEN Mrs. Lucile Petty has been Dean of Women since that office was first found to be necessary three years ago. And for three years before that, she was head of the women's division of the gymnasium and of women's physical education. She has continued these latter duties along with those of dean. We should like to recognize here her service to our school during this period. As dean she has been a pattern of good taste for the girls of Weber college, and the girls have always been conscious of her influence in such matters. Mrs. Petty's introduction of Charm Week is representative of her work. We trust that Mrs. Petty will keep her interest in W. C. even though she has responsibilities at home. TO FILL NEW POST College registrar, president of the University Club, Soroptim-ist regional secretary, committee chairman on innumerable occasions, adviser to La Dianaeda, confidante of a multitude of per-. sons about school and elsewhere, Mrs. Clarisse Hall is the fitting successor to Mrs. Petty in the position of Dean of Women. Mrs. Hall is all that the foregoing titles imply. As registrar she has kept the machinery of the school running smoothly for three presidents and many student bodies She is active in affairs that extend beyond the school but yet affect it. And the teacher or student who has not learned to consult with Mrs. Hall has the same as crippled himself in his work when he might have been made stronger. This last year, as in other years, a special project has been the advising of the active La Dianaeda girls' club. Mrs. Hall engages in every activity the girls engage in and so is most at home with a lively crowd of Weber coeds. This seems a foreshadowing of her success in her new work. For students and faculty, the Signpost wishes Mrs. Hallsuccess! Stop at . . . The NEW Well 2208 Grant Avenue BEST HAMBURGERS IN TOWN! Sabbatical Leave Lullaby By MRS. THATCHER ALLREI) (Delivered as a Toast at Faculty Women's .Meeting;, May 22) Hush, my little ones, don't you cry: You shall go to a lecture by and by; Learned discourses shall be your . resources. To fight off the wolf hovering nigh. There's not any butter to put on your toast, And nothing left of the Sunday roast ; The rent, of course, is long past due. But there's nothing the matter with father's I Q. ! Plush, my daughter, study your books: Only light-minded people care about looks; Don't worry father, he's lessons to do. And mother must work on a book review. Oh, what do we care if the bills fall due, If there's nothing to eat but mulligan stew; We all know the classics in brief synopsis, And even the baby declaims Thanatopsis. I know, my lambs, there's no milk in the bottle. But try a few pages of Aristotle ; When the larder's devoid of fish and fruit, Wisdom must serve as a substitute.There, my little ones, cry no more, Though the big, bad wolf stands at the door; Father, with undaunted heroism. Will shoot from the hip with a syllogism. L'Envoi Home is the hunter, home from the hills, And the sailor home from the sea, Would father were home again paying the bills, And to heck with a Ph. D.! Honors Granted In Assembly (Continued from Page 1) Jack Thomas, Verna Watts, Dean Williams. Sam Anderson Silver medals were awarded to: Sam Anderson, Helen Blood, Elmer Boyle, Sam Burton, Doris Bybee, Marie Chevers, Emmett Clayton, Raulston Zundell, Ted Collins, Irene Coombs, Edgar Driver, Grant Foulger, Floyd Giles, Val Goddard, Vern Had-lock, Ralph Hancock, Wendell Hansen, Everell Harris, Don Hatch, Knolyn Hatch, William Havenor, Marie Hayden, Weldon Heslop, Josephine Kunz, Perry Leavitt, Betty Jean Light, Paul Limburg, Nadine Madsen, Thel-ma McComb, Welling McFar-lane, Orville Neilson, Oliver Persons, Robert Pell, Darrell Peterson, Mary Peterson, Mar-jorie Robbins, Fred Robinson, Eva Rogerson, Ernest Rowett, Vern Stromberg, Jack Syphers, William Thomas, Doris Ward, Carl Warden, Dee Whitesides. Darvil Wilcox, Irving Wilcox, Charles Woodcock, Raulston Zundell. Freshman certificates were given to seventy-one freshmen. EVERSHARP PARKER WATERMAN ) FOUNTAIN PENS j and PENCILS j At STEVE'Sj Office Supplies j 2414 Washington Blvd. i Teachers Unwind For Summer By A. H. and J. K. We just came back from a trip down west. While there, we ran across the Weber college trades building. There were a lot of strange men around there, and so we interviewed them and found out that they were teachers. They even told us what they are going to do this summer. We found that . . . Mr. George McPheeters is going to attend summer school at either Logan or California. He also plans a trip to the San Francisco fair. Mr Ernest Jeppson will teach at the A. C. for a month. After that he will "run President Dixon a close second in fishing up in the canyon." Mr. A. Z. Nielsen will attend summer school at the A. C. for two weeks and then for another three weeks at St. Louis, Missouri. He will spend the remaining time working for a garage in Ogden. Mr. LeRoy Blaser is "going to take care of his new little daughter." If she is awell-behaved baby, he might find time to attend summer school and also look for prospective students for trade school next fall. Mr. McCormac contemplates summer school at Logan and a month's vacation in Canada. Mr. Garnett Littlefield will work on an engineering project at Duchesne, constructing a power plant. Late in the summer he plans a trip to the fair in San Francisco. Now we come back to the Moench. Dr. Anderson, a man after our own hearts on account of he's going to spend his vaca tion vacationing, looks forward to a trip to the San Francisco fair. He may also build a new home. Mr. Losee (incidentally, he was all wet when we talked to him) will leave on June 1 for Oakland, where he will enter Miss Virginia Nelson in the national tournament. He will serve as a member of the American Red Cross faculty at Como Springs and at Blue Lake in California, each for a period of ten days. The rest of his time will be spent working for the Alma Mater. He also plans building a new abode. As a climax to our literary attempt, we offer President Dixon. Flies and worms are ready for fishing on June 5 and 6. He will afterwards take time out to attend the National Educational association meeting in California in July, and the administrators' conference at Stanford in August I Specialize in Cleaning; Suede, Gabardine, and Any White Shoe At LY VERL BARBER SHOP Joe in action gives Special Attention to Everyone DOKOS 2522 Washington Blvd. THE COLLEGE Thanks You For ESTABLISHED 1870 qbrn. Blob Supports Local Athletics Events, Persons of Year Rated (Continued from Page 1) plays, a program of one-acts, and the new varsitv show. "Friend Hannah" and "Let Us Be Gay" received almost the same amount of publicity. 3. Debaters and debating earned ample space by getting ' the national debate tournament sponsored by Phi Rho Pi, for next year; by placing Blair Burton second in national panel debate; by placing Burton and Raulston Zundel fifth nationally in Oxford style debate; by trips to tournaments in distant centers.Lyceum Merited 4. In basketball and football Weber's teams received leading stories both on the front and the athletic pages. In two issues much space was devoted to the basketball team's Denver trip and tournament in the national A. A. U. The footballers got one front page story when they tied for th jaycee championship. 5. The extensive lyceum program merited general write-ups. Most space was given ever to Theodore Dreiser. Percy Grainger, and the Welsh imperial Singers. Ted Shawn, rated high bv Lyceum Director Hurst and others, had brief stories in two issues, was therefore underrated, or else obscured by the press of other news. 6. Sociology club functioned actively. Its lectures and trips were featured. Figures of statewide importance enhanced the news value of its lecture series. Music Was Subject 7. Music, sponsoring performances of various kinds, was subject for several news articles. 8. Scribulus which . . . created a literary furore, was noted in stories as it made its quarterly appearance. 9. Two special celebrations, those for Homecoming and for Founders' Day, the latter featuring the dedication of the new building, were headline stories. Likewise such special dances as Mardi Gras, Sweetheart dance. Snowball Frolic, and Hayseed Hop were prominent front page stuff. Recently the panel assembly made headlines, and its repercussions are still sounding: student activity, school laundry, successful repression of theft, and so on. Dr. Dixon will also study with Dr W. C. Eells at the University of California. In August he will return to Ogden to pave the way for another great school year in 1939-40. BOOK STORE 7 Your Cooperation j OUR SPORT PAGES COVER THE SPORTING j j NEWS OF THE WORLD j |