Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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AS WE FORGED our way down the main hall during September, a hall bristling with juniors and seniors and bubbling over with an effervescence of new sophomores, we all became aware of the new problems and the new conditions that faced us. Our school was not as we had left it in the spring of '63. More classes were being offered; Provo High had revived an oil painting class which had been dormant for many years, and never before had our school known the exist-ance of two bands. The traditional problem of sitting around the main hall on the edge of the planter box and in the window sills was at least partially alleviated by the installation of the green chairs we have enjoyed these months. Study halls, illegal at Provo High in previous years, proved to be both an asset and a great nuisance; they gave us invaluable study time—especially well-used during test weeks and cram periods— but also they seemed to encourage the hall parties that occurred very frequently. This year, the bookstore hours, second period and seventh period only, didn’t hamper our steady demand for school supplies, such as pencils, pens, and typing and theme paper as they have in the past because of the vending machines that we found conveniently placed just outside the glass door. Three Springville “devils” try unsuccessfully to block a shot by Carvel Allen as teammate Steve Martin assists in a hotly-contested battle on our floor. A record-breaking number of fans watched In the Senior Gass Assembly, the King. Mark Collier, gives a trophy to Paris, Doug Wing, who has just won a race in which the first prize is the King's daughter, the beautiful Minerva, Linda McFadden, and half of the large kingdom. Changing Activities Distinguish Year Just having been hit over the head with a lute by Bianca, Hortensio is consoled by Baptista, Bianca’s .father, as other townsmen laughingly observe in this scene from the Shakespearean comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. Producing one play by William Shakespeare each year was a traditional activity that the students at Provo High School especially enjoyed attending and participating in.

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TO OUTSIDERS, Provo High was just another average high school: sporty dress, a litter problem, crazy signs in the hall. But they didn’t really know us at all. For one thing, they only saw the building from the front, if they came by the most popular streets, and they did not see our most dramatic sign of change— that funny looking pile of cement and brick behind “B” Wing. How could they know that our giant “E” was sprouting a new limb. Moreover, our building wasn’t the only element of change on our campus. We were the happiest and proudest students in the state of Utah when we topped Bingham in our first home game—ON OUR OWN FIEI.D. Our teams had never played on real Bulldog soil before in the history of the school. A new wing, a new fence, bleachers, parking lot lights, and soon new stadium lights and scoreboard were the external signs of change. And the external reflected the internal, in our case. During some forty years, our faculty had grown from twenty to over sixty. The new teachers had brought new methods and ideas with them and the effect was seen in good marks and higher attendance. Of the three major play productions, produced by the speech department, the most colorful was The Taming of the Shrew. The feast scene, pictured here, brought the complete cast on stage and fittingly climaxed the lively Shakespearean comedy.