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Show Westminster College Reports Expending Facilities, Curricula Increased Enrollment, Revitalized Athletic Program, Faculty Additions at Westminster WeslSinster' College 'this year is heading for b.gger and better things. College officials anounced this week m The Utah Westminster, monthly publication, that enrollment figures fig-ures exceeded those of last year, that football was being resumed at the school for the first lime since 1942, that several additions have been made to the faculty, that "for the first time in many years the college is free oi all indebtedness," and that plans for building the Science building build-ing are going ahead. Enrollment Up The upper division is douuic that of last year. Last year the college had six seniors quality fnr the B.A. degree. This year. biology department. Mrs. C. Lowell Lees will be instructor in speech, part time, this semester. She has been teaching at the McCune School and has several years of high school teaching. Her husband is head of the speech department depart-ment at the University of Utah. Mr. James Farley will be our part-time instructor in business, bus-iness, teaching the courses in accounting, principles of economics ec-onomics and personnel management. 17 seniors are eligible to qualify qual-ify for the degree. Last year there were 21 juniors- This year there are 42. With the music department the enrollment enroll-ment totals over 250. The men outnumber the women. wom-en. Almost two-thirds of the students are men, 65.5 per cent-There cent-There are 70 veterans with one w o m a n veteran, a former WAVE. Church Membership The church membership percentages per-centages are: Presbyterian 24 per cent, L.D.S. 23 per cent, Episcopal 8.3 per cet, Methodist 7.4 per cent, Baptist, 7.4 per cent, Greek Orthodox 4.1 per cent, Roman Catholic, 3.2 per cent, Congregational 2.2 per cent, Christian Scientist 2.2 per cent, Lutheran 1.8 per cent, cent, Christian Church 1 student, stu-dent, Jewish 1 student, no preference, pref-erence, 11 per cent. Vocations . The vocational interests of the group reveal the following: 85 are interested in some phase of teaching: five m the ministry; 12 in some phase oi social work; 12 in medicine; seven in dentistry; 27 in business; busi-ness; seven in music; 11 in law, two '.or three in journalism, h-i brary science, advertising, art, j 1 etc. and 30 undecided. Science Building I The Building and Grounds committee of the board of, trustees has developed an alternate alter-nate plan for the science building build-ing and will be ready to make a report at the annual meeting of the trustees in October. The i new plan is to begin with . one-story one-story unit which is planned in such a way that additions may j be economically, made in lb::, future as more space is re-quired. re-quired. .Student Officers The officers of the student body this year are: Ralph Lu-: beck of Salt Lake City, presi-1 dent; Miss Jeanne Lathrop olj Ely Nev., vice president; Mi--a Marjorie Lough of Peyton, Colo-,1, secretary, and John Brown ot Salt Lake City, treasurer. All are members of the junior clas3. New Faculty The following faculty members mem-bers are new in addition to those announced in August. Mrs. Viola Evans Chapman, Ph D-, is assistant professor of English this year. Mrs. Chap-1 man received her docorate at She has assisted at the Urn-, versity of Utah for several' years, where her , husband is j associate professor of English.' Mrs. Marie Odegaard Wise is the director of physical education educa-tion for women. Among the years of college experience were two at Cornell College, la. Mrs. Wise will also help as laboratory assistant in the |