Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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Mr. Rigby advised the two very capable editors, Terrie Tuckett and Carolyn Hyde. He gave many helpful hints for yearbook planning and production. Cheryl Clark and Carol Westover, with the help of Mr. Kenner, covered three areas: selling, advertising, and departments. Provost Staff Battled Deadlines Drawing pictures with words was a challenge to copywriters Linda Breckenridge, Anne Higgins, Suzanne Olson, and Fawn Scheuer. Mrs. Taylor gave sound advice. SILENCE FELL OVER the Yearbook Art room as Mr. Rigby stood before the class. “All right! Who just opened the dark room door?” This was one of a maze of problems that confronted the Yearbook staff during the year. Often a visitor peeked into the class, and all he saw was a mass of utter confusion—layouts lying on desks and cabinets, people at the paper cutter cropping pictures, copy writers running to Mrs. Taylor for last-minute corrections, photographers adjusting and readjusting light meters, artists diligently working on the cover design. All had the same objective—meet the deadline or die. Discouraged staff members were gently — and sometimes not so gently—prodded on by the two editors, Carolyn Hyde and Terrie Tuckett. BY THE END of the year, the students had mastered a new language. Yearbook talk. “Never bleed into the gutter unless, of course, you’re using a full page bleed.” Many other small but important details were mastered under the able guidance of Mr. Rigby, the staff advisor. THE YEARBOOK STAFF HAD two principal goals in mind while they worked on Provost ’62 —to receive an All American rating and especially to produce an outstanding record book of, by, and for the students of Provo High School.

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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—

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Artists Chris Tennity and DaLee Clegg designed the yearbook cover. Kathy Thoresen did opening and closing sections. Barbara Peterson labored on activities; Betty Symons did club layouts; and Rusty Thornock covered sports at PHS. Jay Adamson showed cub photographers John Bordeaux and Bob Stringham how to make prints. Richard Merrell assisted with helpful hints for taking good pictures. Lonnie Peterson headed the Sophomore section; Karen Mooney was responsible for the Junior section; and Brenda Peterson capably handled the Senior section. Filing negatives kept Sue Fitzgerald busy. With nimble fingers typists Relva McGarry and Carol Larsen made lists of names to be indexed by Linda Kirkwood. —29—