Plaque Relates Hike Three alumni who made the original Weber Academy hike to Mt. Ogden Oct. 4, 1922, to place a flagpole on the peak made a return trip to the spot to commemorate that event. Junius Tribe, 71, Floyd Barnett, 75, and William Terry, 70, sat on the high granite peak in midAugust and reminisced about the original hike S years ago. A plaque, picturing a flag unfurled in the wind and relating the story of the first ““Mount Ogden Hike,’”’ was bolted and cemented to the rock outcropping near where the flagpole had been. The placing of the plaque was planned by the WSC Alumni as an event during Homecoming last year but was postponed because of rain and snow. In addition to the three men mentioned, seventeen others were there including alumni, U-S. Forest Service and Weber County Sheriff’s Hall, Jeep WSC Patrol. executive Alan E. alumni director, organized the activity. The group was taken to the top by jeep, which was different from the long, arduous hike of the first up. “‘The students that morning in 1922 caught a special run of the trolley up 27th Street to Harrison and then walked to the mouth of Taylor Canyon for the hike,’ said Junius Tribe. Floyd Barnett said that he got up very early and rode a horse from his home in the north end of the valley to Taylor’s Canyon to join in the hike. . “Horses carried the sections of flagpole, sand and cement. One horse was so frisky when we tried to load the top section of the pole on him that we ended up tying him to a tree in the shade and took turns carrying the pole ourselves,”’ said Mr. Terry. “A buddy and I carried the pole up the last steep section.”’ Mr. Terry found it difficult to believe, now, a " aaet ee ed een eer that they had actually been able to carry the 200-pound pole up the rugged peak to the top. During the day the original group was able to keep track of the time by the factory whistles shrilling at various hours down in the valley far below them. Mr. Tribe said, ‘Fifty-four years ago I never thought there would be so many cars, houses and freeways. It was a small community then, with hardly a car.” In keeping with the spirit of the first hike the group vigorously sang “‘Purple and White’”’ and a dedicatory prayer was offered by Mr. Terry. He urged college associates “to hold during things . . .” fast to en- LOOKING OVER the plaque which tells the story of the Mount Ogiay Hike are three alumni who made the original hike in 1922, left to righ Junius Tribe, Floyd Barnett and William Terry. Notice the college inte valley, left-hand side. ,