Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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C A L E N ] A R won llif prize fur nmiposing the best yell. Tlir Iryouts started then an they were surely in:er- estin . Ruth Clark won the leading part. I didn ' t see Lizabeth Ann all the next day an ' Friday when I went into devotional 1 saw her sittin ' with her football crush an ' so nat- urally 1 didn ' t t;o near. Pretty soon, though, he had i go up on the stand as they were awarding the honors that day an ' there she sat all alone. 1 wanted to go up an sit by her. but my pride wouldn ' t let nie go. Y ' know, Epi. sometimes pride is an awful holdbaek. That night the girls leap year dance was held but I didnt go as ' Lizabeth - nn had forgotten to ask me. I sat at home wonderin ' if she was havin ' a good time. The next mornin ' I called her up intendin ' to make it all up with her. but 1 found that she had left for home an she wouldn ' t be bark until the holidays were over. Well. 1 can tell you. Epi. I was feelin ' pretty blue right then an ' more than once 1 thought how true it was that the course of true love is indee l not very smooth. It ' s tough. Epi. when viiu live so far away that yiuj can ' t go home for Christmas. Those two weeks of holiday were the longest I ever spent. Christmas night there was a student body dance an ' New Year ' s night the President ' s ball was held, but they diiln ' t do me much good. The only remedy for me was at home havin ' a good time. At last school started again an ' on January 7 the first play was read in Mask club. Florence Maw read ' Three Wise Fools. ' I went to hear it an ' saw ' l.i .abelh nn siltin on the front row. 1 sal behind her but she just sjioke to me. After the readin ' was over 1 went up an ' talked to her an ' she finally consented to let me take her honie an ' before I left she lunl promised to go with me to see the .Senior play the next night. After we had enjoyed ' The First Year ' together an ' heard the tryouts for the competitive opera Friday aflernocm. we were pretty well made up. Norma Dana an ' Leroy Whitehead won the leadin ' parts. The next Wednesday, that was about lanu ary 14. we went to hear (]amille Crandall reail ' Adam and Eva. ' fler Mask club was over we went up to bear the lclrop(dilan quarlelte sing the (Jrand Uproar ' an ' numerous other classics. They also dramatized the ' Wreck of The Hesperus ' an ' Epi. I ' ve never seen another version like it. When we were leavin we saw Bob Howar l. that ' s his picture right there, an ' we went up an ' congratulated him on bcin made captain of the basketball team. In devotional that Friday .Sherman ( ' hris- tensen dreamed a dream for us an ' in conse- quence won the Irvine Oratorical conli-sl. There was some class to .Slu ' rman. I can tell you that. That night 1 took ' l.izabelh nn to see the high school play. The Little Tea -her. ' It was surely fine but I didn ' t remark on any of the characters in any way an ' thereby I think I saved the day. You know what I mean. Epi. ' Unc. who ' s this minister here? ' Minister.Epi? Oh. that isn ' t a minister, that ' s Carl Smith. That very Friday mornin ' in dcvolional he got up an ' liore his testimony. P ' lC V nrti ' fn

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C A L E N D A R That afternoon he had won the medal for the Leven oratorical contest. His subject was. Peace Cometh From Within. Yknow. Epi. it seemed to me pretty funny that he shou ' d vrin a medal for an oration on peace an ' then go right in an get on the debatin team. Seemed to me like a fiat contradiction. We went to see the Lyceum the next night an we enjoyed watchin Packard cartoon — whatd you say? I said, who ' s that lady right there? Oh. that is Mrs. N. I .Butt. She was made the new dean of women that next Friday. She was made the dean of women the same night that ' Lizabeth .Xnn an ' I went to see the Junior Vodie. I remember on the way home after the Vodie ' Lizabeth . nn said somethin ' about some of her friends goin ' on a hike to Rock Canyon with the Y Winter Walkers— I wish you wouldn ' t keep interruptin ' me. Epi. what is it now? Well. Unc. why did they call ihem Y inter Wal kers? Oh. ' cause. Epi. they walked in the winler. Well, anyway, before I thought. I asked her to go oti that hike with me an then I laid awake all night worryin for fear that it would prove another experience like Timp. But I had cal- culated without takin into consideration the place we were goin . It wasn ' t any climb at all to the canyon an when we got there we skied and coasted an ' had more fun than I ever had before. Lizabeth Ann proved to be more than a good sport an ' I resolved then an there never to doubt her again. The next Tuesday we went to see the Moroni Olson players in ' You and L ' The only thing that spoiled the play for me was that Lizabeth - nn kept admirin ' the heighth of .Moroni Olson an ' me bein ' what I am. only five foot seven. I naturally didn ' t say anythin ' but I guess she noticed how quiet I was on the way home an then she commenced to get quiet an before I knew it we had quarreled without sayin ' a word. Well. I went home that night an thought what a great big boob I was an so early the next mornin I saw her at school an asked her to go to the show with me but she informed me ever so coolly that she was goin to the foot- ball banquet that night with someone else. You could have floored me with a feather an 1 guess I registered dumbness to a certain extent an before I knew it I was standin in the hall an the crowd around me was conspicuous by its absence! I didn ' t know what to do an ' so I went to hear the tryouts for the high school play that were held in the Little Theater that nigiit. While I was waitin for it to commence I saw a Y News an I began to look it over. I noticed that Lenore Johnson had won the prize for the best Christmas poem an ' that Pauline Brunner had won the prize for the best Christ- mas short story. That made me feel a little bad ' cause I had had hopes that my story an poem would win something. I noticed, also that Jordnn Rust that ' s his picture right there, had Pasi Eighteen

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CALENDAR It was a marvelous testimony an ' Til tell you, after liearin what he said about Banyan ' s com- pound as a cure for all ills, we all went down an ' tried some of it at the Larsen studio. We lost our president an vice-president that week-end when they went up to Logan with Jiggs Jenson to attend the first inter-collegiate banquet. They discussed all the weighty prob- lems of all three schools an ' our representatives came back so enthused it was all the whole stu- dent body could do to keep them from reformin ' us. While Merrill an ' Vida an ' Jiggs were at Logan discussin ' our welfare, we were watchin the first basketball game of the season between the Apex Miners an our boys. Of course we beat them, as we knew we would before we started, an ' the final score was 21 to 33 in our favor. Y ' know. Epi. we turned out real basket- ball teams in those days. The next Thursday. January 22. the first girls debate was held. Our negative team, com- posed of Ethel Lowery an Julia Alleman. went to Salt Lake an ' Epi. they surely showed the University what brains we had down there at the B. Y. They won the decision an we had the same good luck that night when our affirmative team, composed of Mrs. Pulsifer an ' Vera John- son, beat the Utah .Aggie team. I ' ll tell you. Epi. our girls were mighty smart an ' they weren ' t the only ones that knew it either. The next night the fellows had their turn at the debatin ' stunt an ' they fared nearly as well as the girls. I took ' Lizabeth Ann lo hear Alonzo Morley. Orval Hafen an ' Walter Clark debate at the U. of U. at College Hall an ' I vowed I ' d never take her to another debate as long as I lived, an ' I didn ' t. I nearly got pounded to death an ' when we lost the decision — well, I thought we ' d have to call the guards. However, when she heard that we had won the debate at the A. C. she felt a little better an ' I stopped worryin ' about how much long er I could live. Y ' know. Epi. that surely was a strenuous week-end! After bearin ' with Lizabeth Ann about the debate. I had to take her over to the . lpha Delta frat — what is it, Epi? Good night, Unc. what in thunder is a ' frat ' ? Oh. Epi, your ignorance is refreshin ' . For a boy of ten years old, you aren ' t as smart as you could be. Well, a frat is somelhin ' you joined to get a pin an ' a good time, that is, some frats included the good time, others just had the pin. Well, anyway, we went over to the commerce fraternity dance an ' in the middle of the dance they announced that we had won our first intercollegiate basketball game with the A. C. in Logan. The score was 26 to 29 an you can bet that that must have been one excitin ' game. After that news. I could hardly keep Lizabeth Ann actin ' right, so to preserve our reputations I took her home. The next night I wanted to take ' Lizabeth Ann to see the junior high school operetta but she couldn ' t go as she had to write up the ac- count of the organization of the Girls Athletic Page Twenly