Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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 “The what, grandpap?” “Why Gidyanthean, ye don’t mean to tell me ye don’t know what oratory means, do ye? Why, oratory is where they get up and talk without saying anything. Anyhow, I reckon they talk. Yes, Gidyanthean, and you know there wuz a man named Barnett down there, yep, that’s him right up there, and he sure did make everyone sorter clear out of the halls and quit sluffin studies. 1 reckon that man wuz some go-getter or else go-outer, all right. “By the time Friday September 17 come around, we wuz gettin’ down to business. They had the first chapel program. Yep, and they had their first council and appointed James Poulton yell master. Ya know, Gidyanthean there wuz somethin’ funny about Jim, seemed like he never had no trouble at all with the women, now me, I wuz always havin’ trouble, but not Jim, nope, he wuz a regular shiek. “The next Tuesday they decided to start up a little excitement by announcing the locker sale, but they had to postpone it after the students had stood in gang formation for about an hour. By Wednesday they wuz all practiced up, and yes sir, Gidyanthean, that locker sale wuz some sale. I still have some scars. “They wuzn’t satisfied with havin’ a locker sale and another assembly Friday, but they gave us a handshake. That wuz some hand-shake all right, Gidyanthean. After the experience they’d had with mob TWKSTT.OKK

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 yep it was this luay— “Wal now Gidyanthean what have you there? Give it to your grandpa. I reckon it looks like ut wuz the old Provo High School year book for 1927. Where did you find it? “Oh, it was in amongst them there old things of yours. 'Pell me about when you went to school there grandpa. What do all these funny pictures mean anyhow?” “Wal now, I ain’t got much time ’cause them there traps of mine need tendin’ to but I reckon I kin jest tell you a little. “You see we had had about three months of fine vacation and when the 13th of September came we were all ready for school. Of course we were down to school bright and early in the morning and believe me, Gidyanthean, it shore did seem good to see all the old faces again. 1 reckon ’bout all we did wuz say “hello,” but we finally ended up by gettin’ all registered up for a year of study. “By September 16th school wuz really started, at least they were holdin’ classes. There w u z one bunch that called themselves the Dramatic Art Club. They held their first meeting Thursday, September 16, and decided to meet every other Thursday. By about Friday we wuz a gettin’ used to all the rooms changed around and they had their first assembly. After Mr. Harmon got through welcoming everybudy, why then there student body officers, yell, that’s them right there, had their chance at oratory. TWK.VTV

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■V? violence they never had no trouble at all at the hand-shake. “'I'he next Wednesday they had another council and appointed Iceland Spencen Dramatic Manager. Lessee now, it wuz about this time that they had class meetings and elected class officers. Of course I wuz nominated for president of the Senior class—what’s that?” “Oh, 1 wuz just a saying they sure did have their taste for knick-knacks, then grandpap.” “Well, Gidyanthean they did show good taste when they nominated me, if that’s what you mean, but as I wuz a sayin’, I wuz too modest to run and I jest thought I’d stay out of the limelight, and so they gave it to Barr Washburn. 1 hey elected Joe Allen president of the Junior class; Max Bown, president of the Sophomore class, and Max Zabriskie president of the Freshman class. “Friday we had the first football game of the year with Granite. It wuz some game too. The score wuz a tie. 6-6. Well, dern it, what are you laughin’ at now?” “Oh grandpappy, these here pictures is a scream. Don’t tell me that the originals wuz as funny as these.” “Wal, now, I don’t know as they are so funny. Look at this picture of the officers of the Girls’ Organization. I reckon you wouldn’t call them funny, would you?” Nope, they’re not so bad, who are they?” 6 TWKXTV-TWO