Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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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.

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AFTER nearly thirty years, Provo Ctiy Schools are losing Superintendent J. C. Moffitt. Provo High School, especially, will feel the loss because Dr. Moff.tt has always been very considerate and kind to our students. He was, in fact, our principal from about 1931 on to 1937. He began his career with us when our old plant down on Third West and First South was in use. Since then, he has helped us build a sizable faculty (over sixty), and he has helped Principal Tregcagle in the directing, designing, and building of our new plant. Early in the fall before digging, those of us who took physical education saw Mr. Tregeagle showing the superintendent around the groundwork for the new wing. EVEN CLOSER to the axis of our school and to the devel-opement of us students was Principal D. V. Tregeagle. He and his assistant, Kenneth Weight, Jr., served our school expertly and efficiently. Mr. Tregeagle handled executive affairs, while Mr. Weight worked with us personally in presiding over our Board of Control, giving advice to individuals and groups and repeating numerous announcements over the public address system. Seated: Clinton E. Harding and Shirley Paxman; Standing: Bliss Crandall, Merrill Christopherson, and Arch Bowden, members of the Provo Board of Education, pause a moment during a regular meeting to oblige photographer.