Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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FRANK WITNEY — Biology. Wrestling squad, football, athletic insurance committee, sponsors Lettcrmcn’s Club. JOE MARTINEZ — Biology, Health, Physical Education III. Football, track, basketball, Boys' Organization sponsor. ALBERT JOHNSON — Biology. Co-Chairman Boys’ Dance. Jazz Appreciation sponsor, State Biological Committee. Zoology classmates Gayle Rogers. David Blackwell. Dec Halverson, and Vada Smith study a model of the human body in an effort to understand it better. Chans, diagrams, pictures, and models such as this one aided biology and general science students as well as zoology students. -27-

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REES BENCH — Vocational Chemistry. Chemistry. State Chemistry Curriculum Committee, U.E.A. Salary Committee. IVAN W. YOUNG — Senior Science, Health. The Sophomore Class Assembly, one of the Junior Prom Com. members. MELVIN TWITCHELL — Physics, Consumers' Math. Member of the committee for the Boys’ Organization Dance. Chemists’” Experiments Test Laws Dorinda Haines, Bruce Hall, and Dennis Hunter, experiment in the chemistry lab with many acids, bases, and salts. Understanding teachers, good equipment, and patience added to the success of the experiments we did. EVERY DAY OUR biology class learned new and interesting things such as how to draw cells and how to understand the “theory of evolution.” We often shrieked, yelled, and turned pale (boys as well as girls) when we cautiously explored the insides of the wiggly worm and mysterious frog. PLANTS AND ANIMALS were required subjects of the botany and the zoology classes. In botany, we explored the depths of plants and found that under microscopes, flowers possess stamens, pistils, and circulatory systems,, which make them very complex as well as beautiful. By studying the bones and systems of animals, we gained a better understanding of our own bodies. FOR MOST OF US, chemistry was our steady diet. We ate formulas for breakfast, equations for lunch, and theories for dinner. Chemistry was a challenge and many of us worked harder than ever before to grasp its complexities because we knew we were living in a constantly changing world—one in which a knowledge of the chemical world might mean the difference between our total annihilation or our survival. —26—

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For most of us, shorthand is just what it looks like, a bunch of squigglcy lines. But for some like Gayla Clark and Elaine Cox, those squiggicy lines mean something. Shorthand came in handy for taking notes or passing them. “O.K. STUDENTS, GET READY for the timed writing. Ready . . . go!” Day after day our type teachers drilled and tested us on our speed and accuracy. We first year students were taught the positions of each letter, number, and symbol on the typewriter. As we learned to type at a much faster rate, our accuracy and coordination increased. Through constant practicing and drilling in Type II, we prepared ourselves to take important office jobs — or merely to type our school assignments. THROUGH CAREFUL, CONSISTENT study, most of us were able to develop the basic requirements of shorthand. Shorthand I classes were often confused with the strange and foreign sounds of the shorthand language. But as we advanced, we began to understand better what chay-a-s, ish-a-1, and gay-a-t spelled, along with the more complex and confusing words of the English language. Hardly a night passed without homework from that class, and wc studied diligently on our brief forms and letters that we usually transcribed the next day in class. IN BOOKKEEPING, WE MADE entries and balanced the debit columns against the credit, hoping that the experience of managing money might some day come our way. But shorthand and office practice were different. Here we learned to file, transcribe, and run off mimeographed papers. Doing secretarial work for teachers gave us practical experience for that big job wc were training to fill on the outside world. We Gain Typing, Duplicating Skills ROLAND TYNDALL — Type I and II, Shorthand I. Chairman of faculty spring party, typewriters. Boys’ Organization. LANORA ALLRED — Graduated from Brigham Young University. Teaches English II, along with Bookkeeping I. WANDA SCOTT — Teaches Vocational type, and Shorthand I and II. Sponsor of the French Club, Preference Ball.