Bellingham (WAS) Herald, December 8, 1921, p. 4. NOTE: This item was
accompanied by two photographs, one of Weir and an adult and the other when
he was a child called Willie.
WILLIAM CLARENCE WEIR
The advantage of being born in parts of Indiana is that one is often called,
when he grows up, a "tall sycamore of the Wabash." So confesses William
Clarence Weir who was one of the legs of local community service in its
early days and who organized the first and second Tulip Festivals. He was
born on a farm near Scottsburg, Indiana, the year being left to the
imagination. He became principal of the Fairhaven High School in 1903, the
year he and his family came to Bellingham. He served there until 1917 when
he entered war camp community service. He began this work in Denver and
worked in various parts of the country, finally finishing up with credit in
the Thirteenth naval reserve district. Mr. Weir once studied medicine in a
Louisville institution but quit. He is still director of local community
service despite that he is in his second year on the Bellingham State Normal
faculty where all his time is devoted to extension work and hygiene. He
puts in about every day at community center organization work in Washington
State and has more calls than one man can fill. Mr. Weir is a member of the
tulip cabinet still.