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Show 8 Sign Off- Take 3 -- Wednesday, May 31, 1989 hooking yintTSj l - Waldo (1976) s i is-'""' V T F Construction of clocktower 'LA -V ;v;,V, " ' I ' ( v 1 , , , , - : . : . ,- ....... j Temporary Union Building (TUB) Weberfs history is rich with cfc Answering the call of LDS Church President Wilford Woodruff to establish a board of education in each of the church's stakes, Weber Stake President Lewis W. Shurtliff called a meeting of the High Council in his own judge's chambers and set in motion the machine which was to produce one of the largest undergraduate institutions of higher learning in the United States. Weber Stake Academy was founded January 7, 1889 when the first class of 98 students met in the old LDS Second Ward meeting house on the corner of Grant and 26th streets in Ogden, Utah. The early years of the school were years fraught with challenge and adversity both of which the early founders met with unusual dedication and sacrifice. For years Weberites have recounted incidents when many of the school's founders went so far as to even mortgage their own homes to ensure that classes could be held and students taught. It was in 1908 that the name of the school was changed to Weber Academy. Four years later preparatory classes were dropped and only high school classes were offered. Then in 1916, the academy broke into the college ranks when the board of education added two years of college work to the regular four-year high school curriculum. In 1918 the name was changed for t.he third time to Weber Normal College and then f-7 4 i.. . ? rlli nl J : 1 in 1923 the high school department was discontinued and the school became known as Weber College, a name which was to be held for 40 years. A significant chapter in the Weber story came in 1933 when the LDS Church transferred the college, by gift, to the state of QOOOOOO ! Laboratory (1905) Domestic Arts Dep qoooooq: K l Vi I The Moench |