Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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Joi Holt was amazed when Caro! Clement showed which product outdid Brand X in a speech rendition. Rus Marshall and George Stephenson observed. Speech Classes Triumphed at Region RAY B. JONES — Speech, Forensics. Stage mgr., Thespian, U.N. Club Sponsor, school plays, Asscm. Com., speech meets. Debater Jeanne Duckett listened to her colleague Sharon Hintze give her constructive speech. Douglas Ridge found disproving quotes, while Jim Calder listened for fallacies in the argument.

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THOR LEIFSON—French I, English II, IV, Practical English. Sponsor French Club, Boys’ Org., sponsor Junior class. JENA V. HOLLAND—English II, III. Sponsor of Junior class, Teachers’ Educational Professional Standards Committee. CALVIN BARTHOLOMEW — English II, German I, II. German, Projection and Radio Clubs, German-French Assembly. FRANK WILLES—English II and III, World History. Sponsor of Sophomore class, Provost literary copy advisor. VOIT ROPER—English III, IV, Practical English. Sponsor Key Club, sponsor of Senior Hop and Assembly and parties. PAUL LLOYD—Spanish I, II, Retail Merchandising. Sponsor Spanish, Deca Clubs, Senior class, School Spirit Comm. “NO, THAT SENTENCE STILL LACKS parallel construction . . . polemical means what? . . . you’re sure that’s how you spell “bourgeois?” . . . themes are due Friday . . .” Statements like these were common ones in the English Department. Here sophomores were introduced to such immortal statements as “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.” They thrilled over the wonderful new vistas of great literature and grumbled under the weight of themes and grammar. The juniors were taught the eloquent beauties of poetry and the short story. And in senior English, the teachers groomed harried students for college entrance exams. Research papers and Macbeth and grammar—all these kept them busy. On Fridays, it was a real joy to leave the cursory world and meet new challenges in the aesthetic world of the printed page. IN ORDER TO ESCAPE the grind of grammar and all it entails, many of the students took a foreign language to supplement their knowledge. Sadly enough, however, they found only a greater need for such things as verb conjugation. Grammar doesn’t often come easily, even for the smartest of the students. Mr. Willis explained some important principles to Connie Jeffery and Dave Wright. —25—

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Perseverance Improved Art Forms SPEECH I CLASS DEVELOPED the basic fundamentals of speaking. Talks along such lines as summer vacations, demonstrations, and advertisements were designed to lift the students out of the knee-shaking stage. But the most fun of all was when Mr. Jones sat on the edge of the stage and reviewed the latest movies for the class. EXPERIMENTAL DRAMA WAS tried in the Speech II class this year. An American Fork audience thrilled to the one-act play The Lottery done completely in black and white make-up and costume. A choral reading and dramatization of Lindsey’s The Conzo proved to be fascinating. THOSE PEDANTIC-LOOKING people that used big words and carried little green boxes were formally called Forensics students—otherwise dubbed debators. With the help of Mr. Jones and his vocabulary lists the debate team made a good representation of PHS at debate meets. “AH, THE JOYS OF BRUSHES, paints, pencils, and paper.” These were the thoughts of everyone who signed up for art, but Mr. Rigby soon changed those ideas. There were many days of work: mixing paints, drawing three dimensional objects on two dimensional paper; creating animals and vases from shapeless blobs of clay; spilling water on a just-finished water-color masterpiece. Classes had a lighter side, though. “Look out! It’s a geyser!” One ambitious student in art turned on the faucet, and the top came off. Everyone agreed it was fortunate that Principal Tregeagle hadn’t decided to show off the art room to some distinguished visitors at that particular moment. THE STUDENTS IN TWO commercial art classes were a little disgusted when they discovered it was necessary for them to learn how to write all over again. As they progressed from pencils to pens to brushes, their alphabets began to acquire finished corners, straight lines, and smooth curves. Art students Mike Parcell, Nancy Goff, Charles Fox, and Larry Malmstrom found that good lettering technique took a steady hand and long hours of practice. CLESTON RIGBY—General Art, Commercial Art, Yearbook Art. Provost, art contests, poster advertising, assemblies. Achieving good results with brush and paint —whether in drawing or lettering—was harder than it looked, as Susan Perlman, Lois Ivie, Diane Wilson, Bruce Darling, and Vicki Taylor discovered. —27—