Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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One of the outstanding events of the school year was the presentation ladies-in-waiting watch as John Ashton, who portrays the Prince of of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Here, the servants and Aragon, chooses the silver box to hand to Sheryl Sandberg (Portia). Student ActivitiesSprinkleSpectrum with Fun FOR NINE MONTHS of the year. Provo High School was something more than a building. It was a people. And because students in 1%3 outnumbered teachers twenty-five to one, it was essentially a teen-aged people. In that year, every United States youth had a body, possessed a mind of sorts, and spoke some variation of the English language. Boys wore shirts, pants, and short haircuts; girls wore dresses and long hair. How then, could PHS’s studentbody be distinguished from other conglomerations of Yanks? THEY WERE KNOWN by their works—by the things they did together for fun, profit, or the sake of peculiar tradition. These began with Bullpup Day and culminated with Senior Sluff Day, three years apart and on the same day. In between were Hi Week, with its badges, badgering, and bathtub-dunking; cleverly-planned and spiritedly-produced pep rallies; assemblies galore; ball games; nickel noon movies; and parties, parties, parties. Less plentiful were some unofficial, tenaciously traditional activities—water, berry, and ketchup fights, candy machine kicking; planter sitting; coin lagging, and sophomoring. But offsetting these grey colors in The Spectrum of PUS were some new, brilliant additions, an example of which was the repentant FFA Assembly—cultural and short. An East High player tries to stop Tommy Anderson from scoring during a pre-season home game which Provo won 77-62. Suzanne Reed. Linda Kai Jensen, and Jan Zumbrenncn were the “stars” of the Senior Assembly. They played the parts of Devi, Tane, and Kori, who live in the “land of the midnight sun.” This assembly introduced the Senior Hop. —7—