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Show Sunday, December 21 Christmas Oratorio 8:30 p. m. O. H. S. Auditorium Saturday, December 20 to Sunday, January 4, Christmas Holidays Wednesday, December 31 Student Body New Year's Dance Thursday, December 11 A. W. S. Christmas Party Friday, December 12 Phoenix Assembly Friday, December 19, Assembly Christmas Oratorio Friday, December 19 Phoenix Snowball Dance W & C O I- t E C I T OGDEN, UTAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1941 NUMBER 7 VOLUME 5 McEntire Wins In S. B. Presidential Election V . Z '. , i W. C. Students Support Ogden Community With Gift Campaign Preservable Foods! Will Be Collected Tonight Students of Weber college are doing all they can to make the "baskets for the poor" campaign a success. Because many families have moved to Ogden expecting work which they have not found, Ogden's relief roll is much greater than the one last, year at this time. Several clubs and organizations around the Weber campus are helping. Tonight the entrance to the worn-ens' lounge in the gymnasium building will look not unlike a misplaced grocery store. The 600 women students of Weber are going to bring canned, non-perishable foods as tickets of admission to the annual Associated Women Students Christmas party. Caroline Hobson is the chairman in charge of the activities. She urges that every girl come and enjoy the fun and at the same time do her part in spreading good cheer. The chairman is assisted by Mildred Taggart, Elizabeth Blair, and Marian Bader, officers of the Associated Women students. Annually the students of Weber participate in some activity of this nature. The happiness given to the unfortunate families will repay the students. Especially this year students desire to do their part in making greater unity and more friendliness throughout the land. Once again the children of the WPA nursery school located on the campus in the West Central building will be the guests of Chan-odo at a Christmas party. December 19 during the noon hour the children will receive brightly wrapped gifts. Toy airplanes will be given to the boys and little dolls to the girls. Gingerbread, candy, and nuts will be distributed. Mary Malinowski, chairman, assisted by Marjorie Christensen, says that the party will be an experience for both the children and the club members. Otyokwa and Skull plan Christmas baskets to be composed of food staples obtained by the club members. A complete dinner including turkey will be served to the families chosen by the groups. Iota Tau Kappa will contribute a double share of canned goods at the A. W. S. Christ- .as party as their share in promoting Christmas spirit at Weber. La Dianaeda is providing a basket for a family of six. The chairman in charge is Charlotte Johnson assisted by Jean Chandler and Alice Snooks. Ogden city welfare groups appreciate the cooperation of the Weber students in helping spread a bit of holiday cheer to a greater number of people. Recent Alumni Gain Army Advancement Fred C. Robinson, '41, Is training for position as an officer in the army air corps In the new air corps replacement center at Kelly Field, Texas. Sergeant Wayne, Private First Class A. C. Cook, Sergeant Clyde Williams, Private David Peters, Private Raymond Kunzler, Private Leonard White, Private Frank Berryessa are now serving in the 222nd field artillery band that was recently moved from San Luis Obispo. They were recent alumni. Byron D. Wood, '41, is also at the air corps replacement center at Kelly Field. He was a member of the Wildcat club and Sigma Delta Pi when he was attending Weber colbge. Frank S. Wilcox, '41, is now serving in the mission field in the northwestern division of the L D. S. missionary service. Kent Baggs, '41, is now laboring in the Hawaiian mission of the Latter-day Saints church. He was circulation manager of the Signpost and a member of Orion while attending Weber college. Ruth Jacobs, '40, former president of the Women's Athletic association here at Weber, recently received a gold medal award for outstanding work in women's athletics at the University of Utah. Mr. David R. Trevithick, English teacher here for several years, (Continued on Following Page) School Officials Sef Xmas Holiday Date It has been announced that the" students of Weber will be dismissed for the Christmas holiday on Friday, December 19. There will be no school until Monday morning, January 5. "This will give the students and faculty a 16-day rest away from school activities and studies. Everyone will return fresh and invigorated to resume the winter quarter," stated Mrs. Clar-isse Hall, registrar. Board of Control Elections To Be Held Soon Two students will be selected from, the freshman class of the student body as members to the board of control. The date has not been definitely set, but the election will be held at the same time as the elections for sophomore class officers. The two deemed worthy to support this position will remain in office for two years. Thus, by this arrangement there will always be at least two experienced members on the committee. Last year LaVon Earl and Robert Bischoff were elected. An amendment to the school constitution provides that this election shall be held every year. Vice President LaVon -Earl states: "Great care should be taken by the members of the freshman class to choose carefully the students who will represent them. Thr election has been put off until now to give the students a ohance to become better acquainted." Annual Yuletide Oratorio Has Musical Coral Effects BY LESBETH LUCAS The annual Christmas Oratorio by Mr. Roland Parry will be presented fojthe Weber student body Friday, December 19, at eleven a. m. in the school auditorium. The public presentation will be Sunday, December 21, probably in the Ogden high school auditorium. Mr. Parry believes that choral musipal effects are the most effective in depicting the story of Christmas. Therefore, his oratorio gives the emphasis to choruses of singers. Five choirs are to be placed at some distance from each other for a distinct effect. Three of the choral numbers will consist of eight part harmonies. An inspiring feature will be a thousand voices joined into one great choir plus the audience. John Piers, high baritone, will sing the role of Isaiah. His fine acting ability and powerful voice will be used to the greatest degree in the dramatic number when Isaiah rebukes the people of Israel for their contempt of righteousness. Weber students are familiar with the deep baritone voice of Earl Johnston. Taking advantage of Johnston's vocal ability, Mr. Parry has written two numbers into the oratorio for him. His number "Song of the Wise Men" with a soft choral background of women's voices will thrill the audience.Forget Realism To create an ethereal spirit of Christmas, Jay Olsen will sing "Silent Night" in a quiet modern harmony aided by the college sextet. A series of tableaux which will follow are expected to make the audience forget the world of realism and to bring them into the true spirit of Yuletide for a short time. Mildred McPhie, Nettie Mearie Oberg, Hendrina Alberts, Robert Butler, Dee Linford, and Charlene Cross will add variety to the performance with solo and quartet parts. A group composed of Mr. Clair Anderson at the console of the organ, Mr. Clair Johnson with .(Continued on Following Page) Debaters Gain Fourth In Pomona Meet Seven speech students and Mr. Leland H. Monson, debate coach, returned last Sunday from a speech meet in California with a fourth place. The meeet, sponsored by the Southern California tournament association, was held at the Pomona junior college, Pomona, California. Rex McEntire, John Vernieu, Maurice Richards, Roy Gibson, La Mar Buckner, Donald Taylor, and John Dixon made up the group which travelled in Mr. Monson's car to the tournament. Three debate teams were entered in the conclave by Weber college. The boys making up the three teams were John Vernieu-LaMar Buckner, Maurice Richards-John Dixon, and RoyGibsorf-Don-ald Taylor. Survive John Vernieu and La Mar Buckner survived five preliminary rounds and participated in the three final rounds. They won fourth place in the meet with 36 teams participating in the division. The other two teams did not finish the first five rounds. John Dixon, John Vernieu, and Roy Gibson entered the semi-finals in extempore speaking. LaMar Buckner was placed in the semi-finals in impromptu speaking while Donald Taylor participated in the semi-finals in oratory.Spend Hours The group visited the Forest Lawn Memorial park in Forest Grove while in California. They spent three hours looking at the statuary and the famous glass windows of the "Last Supper" painted by Leonardo Da Vinci which was stained on the glass by Moretti. By way of lighter entertainment, Mr. Monson, LaMar Buckner, John Vernieu were conducted around Hollywood by Miss Betty Blair, a (Continued on Following Page) -f- Take Leads in Presentation John Piers (left) and Earl Johnston (righr) art busily engaged in practice for their parts in the Oratorio. Piers and Johnston take the leads. Piers appears in the tableaux as Isaiah, and Johnston as the First Wise Man. Alumni May Sing In Oratorio The current Christmas oratorio will be the second performance of "A Son Is Born," written and directed by Mr. Roland Parry, vocal instructor. To make the oratorio more effective, Mr. Parry has invited all alumni interested in vocal music to join the regular group in this year's performance. Supply of Acorns Is Running Low "Students who wish a 1942 Acorn must make a 50 cent deposit before December 19 to reserve one," LaMar Buckner, yearbook business manager, warned today. , "Three hundred and fifty books Aid Your Country Now ... BY DR. H. A. DIXON The welfare and the interests of the individual have almost completely dominated our thinking and our objectives. Our schools and our freedoms have been viewed largely as rights without reciprocal responsibilities .Our nation has given us much. It has asked very little in return. Possibly not in the next decade will we see times that are so kind to the individual, times when so little is asked of him. Almost overnight the point of view has changed. Now the question from millions of throats is not "What can I get out of the government?" but "What do I have to offer my country?" All day long officers representing Weber student organizations and Weber students representing only themselves have besieged the administration with the question: "What can I do?" A crisis is more a situation in which we put our heads together than one in which we lose our heads. Fathers, mothers, instructors, and students must, in a calm and earnest way, put their heads together and plan just what youth of junior college age can do. be found in the word "preparation" and in almost every case for youth in their "teens," the opportunity for such preparation can be found here at home. Total war means that every citizen is a participant. (Continued on Page Four) 1 First Aid Group Gets Start To Help Defense "Prepare!" became the slogan and motto of the Pre-Medics club newly organized yesterday under the leadership of Stomo Ochi. Beginning today at seven a. m. the organization will push its immediate program of producing pre-medical first aid trainees for the war emergency, concluding in three weeks a quarter's work in Red Cross first-aid. Following this intensified training, the group plans to undertake instructors' training, and will mobilize all resources at Weber college for extended training of college and adult students. Organized yesterday, officers elected are Tsutomu S. Ochi, president; Robert Redfield, vice president; and Harry Mitchell, secretary and treasurer. Advisor of the group is O. W. Young. were contracted for, and over half were sold during the first week of sales campaign. Next week, Monday through Friday, December 15 to 19, yearbooks will be sold with a 50-cent deposit holding a yearbook until the quota is reached," Buckner declared. Reservations may be made at the college bookstore. Excelsior Buys Bonds Keeping stop with the national defense movement, the Excelsior club of Weber college, today bought a national defense bond. The club does not intend to limit its patriotism to one bond, but proposes to purchase one complete bond every month for the next seven months. The fellows, in buying these government securities, hope to break the trail so that other Weber clubs and organizations will express their faith in the preservation of American democracy, in the same manner. The Excelsior club has set up a committee which will ask the national government for the privilege of selling defense stamps on the campus, they hope that affiliated and unaffiliated students alike will join them in their endeavor. In most cases the answer will Discussion Is Set for Faculty Meet Weber college is a member of the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools, as are the other col leges in this territory. Each year this association sends out criteria for the guidance of all junior colleges, accredited and non-accredited, with the hope and expecta tion that the colleges will be stimulated to evaluate and improve themselves. Weber has just received this year's criteria, and it will be the topic of discussion at the next faculty meeting. Purpose of the commission is not the standardization of institutions but the development and recognition of colleges which can justify their reason for existence and which to a reasonable degree accomplish their individual aims and objectives. Administration In the criteria under control and administration, it states that "The general control of a junior college shall be by a board of trustees and the college shall not be personally owned or operated for profit. The administration of the college shall be by proper officials appointed by the board of trustees."Admission requirements depend upon the needs and abilities of the students, and the nature of the curricula offered. Students expecting later to transfer to degree-granting higher schools must satisfy the graduation requirements of an approved secondary school or equivalent. The criteria take into consideration the teaching load. They state that the teaching schedule should be arranged so that the total load per week of each instructor shall vary according to the subject taught but ordinarily this load should exceed neither 16 student credit hours, or their equivalent. The criteria also state that consideration should be given to the following factors in the conditions of instructor's service: salaries, retirement allowances, sick leave, sabbatical leave, health insurance, instructional load, selection and appointment, tenure, and provision for recreation and community life. Credit Hours Students, should carry not more than 16 credit hours except in special cases. The programs of students who are gainfully employed should be adjusted according to the number of hours they work a day, with due considera-(Continued on Page Four) Eckhardt Support After Fina Congratulations and Good Luck Now that the Presidential campaign is over ,and voting is tabulated it is. time for the winner-loser hand clasp. Morry Eckhardt and Rex McEntire are shown in this scene after the election returns. McEntire defeated Morry with a 100 vote margin. ; Dormitory Boys Will Return To Old Home Santa is going to bring the students of the N. Y. A. dormitory a grand Christmas present this year, stated Gordon Piatt, newly elected vice president of the dorm, organization, in an interview. Their present will be in the form of a remodeled dormitory, for the reconstruction on the old county court building will be completed and the boys will be able to move from the Armory back into their Twenty-fourth street abode. "Although this won't come until after Christmas, it will be joyfully welcomed," explained one student. The whole roof of the old dormitory has been torn off, including the tower on which the old court house clock was mounted. A new flat roof is being constructed in its place. All the large rooms in the building have been partitioned off into many smaller rooms, which will accommodate four students in each. It has been found necessary to construct these additional rooms (Continued on Pago Four) Students, Teachers Attend Demos Rites At Provo Twenty-five students and alumni of Weber college attended the funeral of J. M. Demos at Provo Sunday, November 29. Two faculty members, President H. A. Dixon and Mr. C. M. Nilsson, and Mrs. John Dixon, mother of the president attended the rites. 4 Afterwards at a reunion luncheon as guests of President Dixon, the group offered its own memorial to the late Signpost editor. Eminent students present were Miss LaVon Earl, student body vice-president; Edward Anderson, Signpost editor; Miss Marjorie Vowles, Signpost business manager; Rex Mclntyre, sophomore class president; and Grant Neute- boom, Reed Coray, Miss Ethel Hogge, and Miss Ardell Russell, office-holding students here last year and friends of "J. M." Coray, probably J. M.'s closest associate at Weber, had by the barest chance learned of his friend's death and was hitchhiking to Provo when he was picked up by Noble DeHart and Ardell Russell.In the chief address for J. M., President Dixon characterized his life as "a denial that the young people of this day and hour are soft." He said that J. M. was tough, spiritually of the strongest fiber, and splendidly representative of his class in that respect. Enlarging upon this theme, President Dixon Pledges Full to Winner Results Friends Attend Funeral of Freshman Girl Members of Sophvita and some of the faculty attended Miss Helen Bodily's funeral Friday in the Syra. cuse church, Davis county. President 11. A. Dixon gave a brief talk in behalf of the college, Catherine Tyler and Avis Wood: members of Sophvita, sang a duet. "In the Garden of Tomorrow." Miss Bodily, a freshman student of Weber, died last Sunday in St. Mary's hospital, Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, following an operation for a brain tumor. She was the daughter of Arnold and Julia A. Tree Bodily. She graduated from Davis high school in 1940, was the president of the Four-H club at Syracuse, Davis county, and had won a number of prizes in sewing. She was a member of Tri Vesta and Sophvita clubs of Weber col lege. declared that J. M.'s reach exceeded his grasp. These sentiments were beautifully put, the Weber students felt and so expressed themselves afterwards.All tributes were obviously beautiful and true, and eased the parents' anguish. Mr. Thomas Demos, the father, said after the interment. "It was all true. Jon was a fine boy. He made good use of his time." President Dixon pointed out also that the educational system and school mates had always given J. M "backing." "Even in the first grade at the Timpanogos school and all through he was accorded the fullest opportunity. At that early date, even, his teachers gave him every chance and his classmates made him their room chairman."The ward bishop, Mr. Victor G. Bird, readfrom a letter sent by J. M.'s bishop in Washington. Among expressions of eulogy, the letter indicated that "Everything was done that could be done." J. M.'s land-.(Conunued on Following Page) Only Fraction Of Students Use Franchise Rex McEntire today took over the reins of student rule by right of a 241 to 142 vote victory over Morhland Eckhardt. This is the second time that McEntire has run for this same office of student body president. Last spring he tied with Jack Larsen in the first vote of the finals but was defeated in the re-vote by a very slight margin. This new campaign came as a result of Larsen's being called to active service with the U. S. army somewhere in the Pacific ocean. In winning this election, McEntire won both a moral and a material victory. In beating Eckhardt, he not only won the office but also defeated the man who managed the campaign of Larsen in the last election. Both parties in the election had Qualifications that would have enabled them to pick up successfully the duties of president where Larsen was forced to leave them. Rex McEntire was junior class and student body president of Weber county high school. He held the office of freshman class president last year and at the time of his current election was sophomore president here on the campus. He is both an orator and an extempore speaker having reached the finals in extempe in the Phi Rho Pi national speech tournament last year. He is also well known for his roles as a thespian. Morry Eckhardt started back to school last year after having laid out for several years. He was the big gun in Larsen's campaign last year and because of his pep was elected president of this year's Wildcat club. He is president of the Sigma Delta club and is a member of the school's swimming team. McEntire's election to this new office has left the office of sopho-ore class president open. This election, along with those which must be held to elect new members to the board of control, will be run off early next week. Assembly Hears President's Historic Talk Students of Weber college listened to President Roosevelt's radio speech before the joint session of congress last Monday in a special assembly. The key-note of the president's speech was based on the following stirring expression. "Remember the character of onslaught before us." American people will win. "This amount of treachery will never endanger us again." Following the president's speech Mr. Clair Anderson played "America the Beautiful." President H. A. Dixon then gave a stirring address, "Make adjustments to this new situation and keep in touch with the authorities of this country." Mr. Dixon pointed out that Weber college offers defense classes so our boys can train ror national defense. President H. A. Dixon concluded his talk by stating: "Pray God that He will help us do our part." The remainder of the assembly was devoted to campaign speeches for president. Frank Walquist Introduced Frederick Eckhardt for president, and Cordelia Nyland introduced Rex Mclntyre. Data On Barker Contest Is Not Available News on the Barker contest is not forthcoming, according to Mr. Thatcher Allred, speech instructor. It has made no further progress, he indicated in a statement last .veekend. The event was postponed originally because of interference with the Western Association of Teachers of Speech tournament, November 17, 18, and 19, |
