Brigham Young High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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Seasons of the Past 1894 to 1910 The 3righa.T. Young High School, is a direct decendent of a private school which began in 1869 under the direction of Warren and Wilson Dusenberry. The property where the school now stands was purchased by Brigham Young, who executed a deed on October 16, 1875, founding the Brigham Young Academy. In January, 1876, the Academy began with Warren Dusenberry as principal. When he resigned in April 1876, Karl G. Maeser was appointed principal. What is now the Brigham Young High School has been in various locations. As the Dusenberry School, it started in an adobe building on First West and Center Streets. The school later moved to the Lewis Build- ing on Third West and Center Streets. On Sunday evening, January 27, 188 , a fire, which started in the chemistry lab, completely destroyed the build- ing. On a call from the prin- cipal, the following morning, faculty and students fitted up temporary quarters in a Provo Meeting house, the First National bank in a business block completed by A.L. Smoot, and a new store belonging to S.S. Jones. During the summer the Z.C.M.I. warehouse, loca- ted at the south end of Univer- sity Avenue, was remodeled. School was held there until January, 1892, when the struc- ture now known as the Education Building was completed. The plans for this building were drawn by a son of Brigham Young who worked from drawings sub- mitted by Karl G. Maeser. Dr. Maeser had made the plans from a dream in which Brigham Young had appeared and escorted him through a spacious new building. Church and state officials from the entire territory were pre- sent on January 4, 1892, when it was dedicated. Until after this time, little differentiation was made be- tween college and high school students. Men and women from 15 to 50 attended this school which was an academy—a school to teach students who were mostly between the common, or elementary school, and the un- iversity. There were aslo many students in the kindergarten, the primary, and the intermed- iate grades who were members of the elementary deparment of the Academy. Part of these elemen- tary students were taught by older students of the Academy. The Brigham Young Academy in its early stages was roughly the equivalent of our modern high school of today. A de- finite class organization for the Academy was effected in 1891; and in 1895 the High School was established as a separate department of the Aca- demy.. In 1896, a college dep- artment was added; and in 1903, the name of the academy was changed to the Brigham Young University. It was many years before the college enrollment exceeded the high school enrollment. In 1910 there were over 800 high school students comp-red to approximately 200 university students. The high school students and activities fre- quently overshadowed those of the college. The high school class of 1907 started a chain of events v.hich led to the placing of the block Y” on the hill in 1905. The high school class of 1909 published the first yearbook which was later called the Banyan.

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1911 to 1920 The high school class of 1912 built the stone and iron gate on the south- west corner of the campus. Many of the sidewalks surrounding the campus remain as memorials to these various high school classes. Besides the Education Building, which was classed the High School Building until 1922, the High School has used three other buildings—the Arts Building, the Men’s Gym, and the In- dustrial Arts Building. The Men's Gym had its beginning in an article which appeared in the school news- paper in 1899 written by Eugene L. Roberts. This article pointed to the need of a gymnasium. Adequate funds, however, were not available to construct a separate gymnasium; but when the Training School Build- ing was approved, a third floor was added to the original plans and was devoted to a gymnasium. The building was completed in 1902 through the financial assistance of Jesse Knight.