Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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Departments Emit Educational Spectrum MR. BENCH explains a simple test for a halide to students Suzanne Reed, Dec Nelson, and Mike McGarry. 'I HE OSTENSIBLE purpose for running a high school is to give its pupils a sound secondary education, and the teachers of PHS made that purpose genuine. In some forty-one classrooms, the lunch room, two gyms, and the library, forty-nine teachers taught sixty-three subjects in eleven subject areas—not at once, of course. Some classes were easy; others were hard. The former were crowded; the latter weren’t. Different teaching devices—blackboards, maps, opaque projectors, log tables, films, teachers, and Physics Bowls—were used, but the result was the same. Students learned. CLASSES BEGAN at eight o’clock in the morning and continued until four in the afternoon, but the student day began with the opening of his secret cache, his locker. Laden with the paraphernalia of education, he would then skitter down the tiled halls, skip up the terazzo steps, and, if he was lucky, land in his first class in time for the second siren. Teachers, denied the thrill of secret lockers and hall-racing, formed a Secret Society with their own Sanctum Sanctorum, the faculty room. In the faculty room, a student’s no-man’s-land they pooled their wits against the same, aired their gripes about the penny-pinching legislature, and formulated the great Lose-the-Pounds contest. Each thick student skull presented a monumental challenge to the S.S. of the S.S.—an educational challenge that was met by radiating a wide spectrum, carefully intensified in the areas to which skulls were partly transparent. -16-

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The busy hands of La Pearl Roberts. Wanda Johnson, Emily Liddiard, Marylynn Peterson. Barbara Patterson. Fay Roundy. Pauline Thorne. and Mary Farrcr arc stilled just long enough to snap this picture. They spent many hours each day preparing delicious noontime meals in a Well-Kept, Smooth-Running Campus Gleaming basins, well-swept halls, and neat classrooms can be attributed to the PUS custodial staff. With their equipment are Edward Siwick. Ralph Scott. Glenn Moulton. Evelyn Jessop, Archie Ward, Grigory Antijuchow. Working as bus drivers arc Mel Kessingcr, Bob Almond. Ra) Almond, and Glen Lee. Their service was greatly appreciated. —15—

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FRANK WHITNEY — Biology. Wrestling, football, athletic insurance, Lettermen’s Gub. Boys’ Organization. DAYTON HUGHES — Psychology. Counselor, student scheduling, testing, Graduation Committee, Ski Club sponsor. Science Classes Prove Demanding but Rewarding “ELECTROVALENCE,” “c a t a 1 y 5 i s,” and “equilibrium” were everyday terms to the chemistry students. They learned what the world was made of, and. working with equations, formulas, and experiments, proved their theories. BEHAVIOR PATTERNS of adults, children and animals was the fascinating science open to Psychology students. Their studies taught them about intelligence tests, processes of learning and personal adjustment to society. PEERING THROUGH microscopes was only a small part of the biology class scene. The theory of evolution was studied, and the students became acquainted with Java, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man. They learned about the digestive and circulatory systems of humans and animals and memorized bones of the human body. GENERAL SCIENCE offered a varied course of study to the students. They learned the relationships between plants and animals and the basic properties of cells. But they also got a taste for modern science when they studied atomic energy, nuclear fission, and radioactivity. The year was highlighted by the annual Science Fair where the students’ work was exhibited and judged. The projects prepared for the fair showed real scientific aptitude. ALBERT JOHNSON — Biology. Co-Chairman Boys’ Dance, chairman Science Department, State Biological Committee. IVAN W. YOUNG — Senior general science. Boys’ Organization assembly. He has served PHS for twenty-nine years REES BENCH—Vocational Chemistry, Chemistry. State Chemistry Curriculum Committee, U. E. A. Board of Trustees. —17—