Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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THIS IS OUR SCHOOL, Provo High. It is located at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains in the heart of the Rockies. The setting in which it lies makes Provo High very special and personal to us. In our spare moments we look out of the windows on the east and see the changing colors on the cliffs and the reflections from the sunset which crown the mountain peaks with glory. Just to the north is giant, snowcapped Tim-panogos, the sleeping maiden of the Wasatch. In the summer some of us join in the annual hike to the top, from which we can get a true birds’-eye view of the valley. In the winter we love to ski from her sunny slopes and fall in her tinselled drifts. UNIVERSITY AVENUE, which is just in front of our school, connects further south with Center Street, “the main drag” to most of us high school students. After every game and on most nights you can find us driving up and down Center honking horns and looking for that special somebody. JUST ACROSS THE street, clearly visible from our school’s front lawn, is the B.Y.U. football stadium, where all of our home football games are played by permission of our town’s big university. The buildings of this university are on the hill just above the stadium, and over half of our graduates will probably go there to college when we leave Provo High School. SOUTH OF US is the L.D.S. Seminary. During our three years here about a thousand out of thirteen hundred of our students take classes in this building. The activities and classes of the Seminary help keep the spiritual side of life a part of our every day thoughts. Seminary graduation is held prior to the high school graduation in the spring of the year. OUR SCHOOL BUILDING itself is a new structure with acres of shining tiles and windows — a beautiful plant in a beautiful setting — but our school is more than that, infinitely more. It is the hundreds of teachers, past and present, who have toiled to impart a little learning; the decades of students, some of whom we knew and loved, who have left their mark upon the pages of its history; and the activities that, having been established for the first time, through years of repetition have now grown into the traditions of Provo High.

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New Year THE PROVOST has been published for many years, but this issue records the history of a brand new year, so we, the yearbook staff members, have decided to call our edition “New Year . . . Old Traditions”. This is our school as we knew it way back in 1959 and ’60. On these grounds we met with friends, laughed, and discussed the gossip of the day. Many a noon hour was spent taking in the beauty of our surroundings as we stretched on the lawn. Often we were distracted by school pranksters looking for fun and attention; Pep Club cheers as we saw our teams off to a game with our hopes high for victory; the performance of newly elected club members during their initiations; and pep rallies staged by cheerleaders who led us in enthusiastic songs and yells to arouse our school spirit. OLD TRADITIONS were revived in our halls, classrooms, gymnasiums, and auditorium. New aspirations occupied our dreams. Many of the things we did were the same as high school students always do. We trod the halls the same as ever; we poured over books and “boned up” for examinations; we cheered wildly when our teams won and wept when they lost; we fell in and out of love the same as our parents before us. It was not really so different maybe — but it was new to us. Even though it was new, sometimes it was tiresome and “Vic” discouraging; sometimes it was mad and exciting; but always we were part of it — both a cause and a result. We, who had been molded into patterns by yesterday’s traditions, were now making new molds to shape the destiny of tomorrow’s teen-agers. OLD TRADITIONS — the hundred and one events that followed established patterns — were they unique at Provo High? Not really — but each one had its own piquant flavor that said to the rest of the world: “This is Provo High School as we have always known it!” AS SEPTEMBER ROLLED around, summer topics became secondary to school plans and anticipations. “Hi-Wcck” ushered in our year. We wore “Hi” cards to aid us in becoming acquainted with our fellow class mates. Student sheriffs patrolled the halls in search of “Hi Week” violators who were not wearing their cards. A get-acquainted dance brought the week to a climactic close. “Hi Week” has not always been a custom at our school. It was started several years ago by officers who wished to promote a friendlier feeling. In November our traditional Homecoming game was held in the B.Y.U. stadium, where we faced Murray and lost. The day was highlighted by the presentation of our queen and her attendants at the dance held in our gym following the game. Carbon Bell