Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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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

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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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 “Of course they ain't so bad. They wuz elected about October 4. Of course Faun Bunnell bein’ vice-president of the student body wuz automatically president. Zola Martin, Eloise Myrup and Evelyn Startup are the others. That nice, friendly lookin’ lady there is Mrs. Wakefield, dean of girls. “You know, it seems like about all they did around there then wuz to have elections. On Tuesday, October 5, the Home Economics Club met and elected officers, and on Wednesday the Forensic Club held a meetin’ and elected officers. “Ya know, Gidy, there shure wuz some excitement down there when the band got their new uniforms. Talk about proud! They certainly wuz. “The next day after that wuz Thursday. We had a football game with Tintic. It wasn’t very exciting though, for them, ’cause their zero didn’t look much to the side of our 23. That night they had Dramatic Art Club. On Friday, October 15, there wuz a Mr. Joseph Nelson that gave a speech in chapel. “Ya know, Gidyanthean, that Girls’ Organization wuz a mighty peppy bunch. They wuz always doin’ somethin’. If it wasn’t working out some project for the school it wuz havin’ a party. On Saturday, October 16, they had their annual get-acquainted party. Everyone came, including families, and talk about wild parties—well, what they did at that party would hardly do to tell.” TWKVTY-TIIHKF