Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 18 1934 tin Record Sheds Light on State Progress in Education taken over by the itate It vu opened for pupils November 5 1888 Weber held its initial session according to information from that inatitution January By N L WILSON as a state has recognized UTAH three Junior colleges as a part of her educational system to the extent that it spent approxi- -' mately $37500 of state money in the school year ending June 30 1933 towards the sflpport x)f one such institution the Snow Junior college at Ephraim and is spending1 this school year and —? 1889 These two institutions therefore have a history of 45 years behind them in a state in which the first permanent settlers arrived less than 87 years $ ago Canute Peterson Henry Beal and John'S Maiben formed the stake presidency when the Ephraim school opened Alma Greenwood was principal with Mias Carrie Henry laten td become the mother of Chief W L Payne of the Salt next $51750 annually toward the support’ ST ’Snow the Weller college 'if Ogden andthe Dixie college at St George Lake police department was assistant They1 we're'suceeedeS fhhee years lalerT by George Christensen now judge of A Panorama of the Dixie college campus-i- s shown above On the left are shown the educational building the gymnasium building and the L D S stake tabernacle Below from left to right M Woodward first president of the institution Joseph JK Nichols and Edgar other leaders B M Jensen deft Smith the present president and the late Erastus S Romney second president are-Hu- gh regular" roTirsesprev' was offering scribed in the high school curriculum Enrollment for the first year was so all-(h- e preparatory cial course eotrrse- - I wo-yea three-yea- r commer- normal course normal course' a general science course and a course in letters a four-yea- r three-yea- r three-yea- r Many Principals Weber had many principals Mr r fn Moench however with' a lerval served until 1902 and David O McKay succeeded him until 1908 The present president Aaron W Tracy as sumed the duties of that office in 1922 In the meantime the academy grad ually evolved into a junior college In 1918 college work was added to the curriculum dealing especially with teach ers’ preparatory training The name was changed to Weber Normal college the first presiand Owen dent His predecessors had been known two-yea- as "principals” 1922 President Joel E Picks organdistinct departments a senior high school and a junior college At the close of the school year the highsphool was discon- In ized the school into two 1922-192- 2 Snow tinued at Weber As has been seen the present plant at Weber contains parts that are 40 years Old President Tracy toid a state pub- - Snow junior college the first established by the L D S church in Utah and recently taken over by the state was Jic works committee planning a stata building program that there isirfimedi-at- e need for the expenditure of $400000 to house tby junior college Stata Provide $31500 As against the $36500 per year afforded by the state legislature for operating costs this school year and next the church for the three-yea- r period ending in June 1932 contributed an aver- There was anage of $49583 annually other $18383 from atudent fees and enough miscellaneous revenue to bring the total to $69107 annually How Weber has existed iduring tha three-yea- r period reported to the committee of nine is shown by the fact that it kept Ha expenditure for aalariea -- down to $3847V or about $1300 year more than Snow and about $4000 a year more than Dixie Yet the statements show Weber to have a faculty of 35 as against' 24 at Snow and 18 at Dixie The average registration for the three-yea- r period at Weber of student of college grade was 497 of whori) 338 were freshmen 127 sophomores' and 32 special Official reports show Weber had 11 men and 93 women registered in arte (Continued on Paso 81s) ' founded in 1888 at Ephraim Above at the left is the main college building At the right are Alma Greenwood first educator to head the school Milton H Knudsen a former leader andI O Horsfall present president Below are Judge George Christensen Wayne B Hales and Newton E Noyes former heads of the school All are formally state institutions' though Dixie does not participate in the meager appropriation The state has long had a fourth junior college in the Branch Agricultural college at Cedar City This however while limiting itself to two years of college work plus high school courses has so far k'ept or been kept aloof from the newcomers in the junior college field It is operated as a branch and is under control of the board of trustees of the Utah State Agricultural college The Weber Snow and Dixie junior eofle ges" as they iar T officially "Fnownr" all have the state board of education v a tlieir board of control Alike The three junior colleges are also all alike in their history in that each was founded as an institution of higher education by the L D S church Each began la an academy designed largely to meet local educational needs as well as to- provide religious training for the Each as youth of that denomination it greW advanced the standard of the courses furnished by it providing at later dates courses of college grade and in most instances as public high schools were more generally provided throughout the state each devoted itself largely to college work Normal or teacher training has been emphasized in each In this work they cooperated with state authority accepted inspection by the state and qualified their graduates to teach in its public schools Some of the most successful instructors in Utah are alumni of church normal colleges Graduates of these institutions also have won recognition in the state and in the nation along many other lines of endeavor in the arts and professions in acience and in business r"“‘F6uaded as Academy as Each of the three was' founded what was known as a stake academy Snow and Weber were established in 1888 On instructions from President Wil- ford Woodruff of the church to each ttake president Dixie was set up by the church in "1811 substantial contributions having been received also from the people of state of the the southern part s Snow College tnow appears to ba the oldest of the institutions which now hav been I the Seventh judicial distgiftt with his home in Price and Professor Anthony C Lund now director of the Salt Lake tabernacle choir One year latbr in 1892 Newton E Noyes became principal With John Peterson as assistant i Mr Noyes guided the destinies of Snow for 29 years until 1921 He found the institution occupying makeshift headquarters in the room also used as the town's amusement hall in the upper story of the atone- - building which stilL stands at First North and Main streets in Ephraim He left it organized as a college though still giving high school work in a plant of its own including main building and gymnasium which the plant that was turned over to the state board of education in 1932 The main building was completed in 1904 The gymnasium was constructed eight year later Become College Mr Noyes was in charge in 1900 when" the institution" had so enlarged its curriculum that the Sanpete stake academy took on the name Snow college in honor of President Lorenzo Snow of the L D S church He was still in charge in 1917 when Snow col- lege became Snow Normal college At r that time it was offering a r normal high school course a course a three-yea- r course in domestic science and domestic art and a three- year course in agriculture Four years later indicating a change in policy Snow Normal college became Snow college again and added arts and sciences to- its courses The school was admitted to the American Association of Junior" Colleges In 1923 all high - school werk—was discontinued and for the last 10 years Snow has been strictly a junior college Milton H Knudsen became president in 1924 and continued until the beginning of the current school year when Dr 1 O Horsfall was appointed to the presidency Financial Support Average suppbrt from the L D S church for the last three years under its management according to data furnished officially 1o the states investigating committee of Utah governmental units was a little less than $37000 a year Senator Paul H Hunt of that corn-four-yea- two-yea- -- brought the total revenue of the college to more than $49000 During the same period it expended $37000 plus in salaries $5000 plus in supplies and equipment and had total average annual expenditures of its total revenue For the it had a total registration'year 1931-3of 219 of whom 111 were in the sophomore class and 121 Vere men Assuming that the last year's registration was about average Snow was expending just utider$225 per student year The faculty which began with a principal and an assistant about 45 years ago Wad"fbwn "to" 24' by' the rtims the "State took it over and some 160 college courses were offered ' This shows 9 plus students per faculty member as compared with 15 plus at the University of Utah ‘the Utah State Agricultural and colleger Fifteen en Faculty The present faculty includes 15 mem-- ’ bers not counting a training school faculty of six teachers The school it is pointed out by its friends is situated in a strictly rural community where living expenses are low Its maintenance in Ephraim it is argued will afford a junior college education to hundreds who would otherSchool wise be denied such opportunity frusejc'eaeb-- d ay br in g students from both north and south so that nearly half the Students live at their own homes while attending the school - j2at Weber College - that Weber was opened later than Snow but being in a more populous center its growth in numbers of students was much more rapid The stake board of education at the start included Lewis W Shurtliff Weber t his counsellors Charles We have seen to classes a few weeks stake-presiden- F Middleton and N C Flygare Joseph Sanford Louis P" Moench who was instructor in Weber schools and became the first academy principal T J Stevens Robert McQuarrie and David McKay Opened in Chapel School was held first in the Ogden Second ward rhapel It offered inter- mediate preparatory and academic courses the "youngest student being 9 years old The academic courses were about equivalent to those of the high choel nowadays and soon tha academy s "C - “’I t now the property of the state was established by the L D S" In the upchurch m 1889 Weber college per left is a view of the college campus George Frances Philipps and Owen F Beal former heads of the school are shown in the upper right Below top row left to riglit are W Williams Henderson W M McKendrick David O McKay and Joel E Ricks former leaders Second row left to right are Henry Ar Dixon James Lewis Barker former leaders Aaron Tracey present president and Emil B Isgreen a former president large that the Ogden tabernacle was procured for classrooms By the second year there were 192 students and the Ogden Fifth ward was used as the school building By 1891 the church authorities recognized the need lor a new home for the academy immediately and the Moench building was built in 1R92 It is the old section of the jArsent mam building By 1896 when the academy was Sevan r years old it offering a vu two-yea- A |