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Show BOARD VOICES APPRECIATION i Weber College Trustees! Give Thanks to Citizens in Gym Drive Thai tho work on the Weber gymnasium gym-nasium will ie pushed through to completion is indicated In a statement of the Weber college board of trustees, I' 0 Mi Kay, president, Issued today.1 The statement: On June is. the business men ( Ogden i,PQn a financial drive with a view of raising 50,000 for the I Webt r gymnasium fund. The central committee, of which Orval Adams Is chairman reports more than half the ai lount subscribed, and it Is fully an-; an-; tn Ipatr-.i tlvil complete reports from the subcommittees when each part Of the drive s,a have been Finished,! Will show that the $.".0 000 lias been contributed. II Wl ( OM 1 1 - N I "With the money now in the bank, I the amount i , . u-,.,i k ti,.. ar.d thia (50.000, and having absolute confidence in the good faith of to riendv who have pledged their sup-fort sup-fort m various amounts nnd that their pledges will be redeemed when called on for the funds promised, the bond has felt Justified in awarding contrails to the Successful bidders for ,! mixtion of the structure "So general has been the support, so numerous the donors that it is almost al-most unfair to the many to attempt to name even a few who have carried the greater responsibility of leadership leader-ship and organization; but at the risk of omitting some perhaps equally worthy Of Snedla.1 mention we rle- ' 1 mniend particularly the able services rendered by Messrs. Orval Adams. James II. Douglas, James V. O'Brien, Krank E. lllgBlnbotham, i Ernest W. Wilkinson, Warren L. U;it-tls U;it-tls and N. T Williams, who composed com-posed the central committeee; also Harmon Pecry, oilc Reeves and the (.'immunity orchestra, J.-smo ft , hards, secretary of the chamber of com-j com-j merce, and every member of the sub-committees sub-committees who has given his time : anil his means lo make this drive so encouragingly successful. In this con-' j nectlon, Joseph v. Goss. manager o? I the Orphcum, also deserves special mention for his willingness to place the Orpheum, free of charge, at the disposal of the board for one week. Though the conditions prevented our accepting his offer at the time, tne favor was none the less appreciated ( 1MPAIGN M ESS. "The campaign so far has proven not only a success financially, hut also an expression of community sup-port sup-port so opportune and go genuine that even the doubters have accepted tho possible early completion of the 'gym' as an assured fact. The faithful performance per-formance of the pledges given means Buch completion and dedication of th 'gym' to the community physical wel- , tare. "Me it resolved, therefore, that wk i express our hearty appreciation of the services thus rendered by the business bus-iness firms and individuals who have . responded so willingly and maghani- mously to this worthy cause; and be , it further "Resolved, that while we sense the value of the amount subscribed and y. t to be subscribed, we also note ns bi tng of even greater importance to the future welfare of the college, the commendable spirit of cooperation and good will manifest by the citizens citi-zens of this community "Thanks to one and all! "Board of Trustees, Weber College ' By DAVID O. M'KAY. President." oo |