Veterans Center renovated and renamed as the Dale P. Whittaker Veterans Service Center

Nick and Nancy Ward Family

Over 1,100 veterans/dependents attend SLCC each semester, and Salt Lake Community College was the first institution of higher ed in Utah to have a Veterans Center. The current center is the largest and most comprehensive center in the state. In a special Veterans Day Ceremony, the newly renovated space was officially renamed as the Dale P. Wittaker Veterans Service Center.

In 1948, the Salt Lake Area Vocational School, now known as Salt Lake Community College, opened its doors and began serving and training veterans returning from WWII desiring to utilize their new education benefit called the Montgomery GI BILL ™. The first 145 students were veterans, and by the second semester, 589 military students were using their VA educational benefits to pay for school.

Donors Nick and Nancy Ward, set up an endowment for veterans students to receive scholarships at SLCC. In gratitude for their gift, the Veterans Center was named the Dale P. Whittaker Veterans Center in memory of Nancy’s father, who served in the Navy from 1942-1945.

The Dale P. Whittaker Veterans Service Center is located on the Taylorsville Redwood Campus in the Student Center, room 059.

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