Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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Provo High School is situated on University Avenue and Twelfth North. From this street to the west can be seen C-wing (left), which houses Here Is Provo High The Pulsating Star The beginning of the school year always brings students flocking to the bookstore. They often have to wait in long lines so they can purchase textbooks. PROVO HIGH SCHOOL is a curious jumble of salmon-pink blocks, thrown together by some giant to form an E-shaped skeleton key. The central section, housing a compatible mixture of English, history, journalism, languages, and administration, has but one irregular projection —the lunchroom. The southernmost houses the auditorium, which rises above and intersects with a two-story block containing speech, art, and homeliving. Mortised into these is a one-story square block, housing shop and music. The northernmost wing is T-shaped; the east-west horizontal arm houses math, science, and office training. The broad leg of the T extending south toward the middle wing houses the two-and one-half story boys’ gym and the two-story girls gym. Almost as an afterthought, the giant skewered all three massive blocks with a pathetically thin, north-south shank—the hall. INSIDE PHS are the classrooms—a silent witness of a life-and-death struggle. The typical classroom has cream-green concrete block walls, green vinyl tile, blond woodwork, acres of windows (with the bottom windows painted to discourage wandering eyes), a heater duct along the outside wall, individual desks, fluorescent lights, and plenty of green “blackboard.” Stacked within the larger blocks, they provide the framework for the teachers and pupils which are PHS.

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Mrs. Hayward, Mrs. Nelson, Mr. Witney, and Mr. Patten, faculty half-time of the faculty vs. Junior Varsity basketball game. Mr. cheerleaders, whoop it up with pom-poms and other zany antics during the Weight in feathered hat. spryly conducts the faculty pep band. Finds Thirteen Hundred Elements in a Star WHEN A NARROW beam of light passes through a glass prism or a diffraction grating, it is separated into thousands of thin, parallel bands of color—the spectrum. By studying the spectrum of a star, an astronomer can tell exactly what elements are present; by studying shifts of position of the colored lines, he can tell its velocity and speed of rotation. PROVO HIGH SCHOOL is like a star. Its core is its administration and teachers, who emit the greater share of educational light. Some of this light is absorbed by students, who carry it for a while and then rc-emit it with higher energy, lighting all their surroundings. Each element in the star, whether an administrator, teacher, student, bus driver, janitor, or cook, contributes some color to THE SPECTRUM OF PHS — a color that can be detected. THE PROVOST is the spectroscope which analyzes THE SPECTRUM OF PHS. Where the accomplishments of its students overlap, one finds large, brilliant bands. Where they are lacking, one finds voids. It is true that there are certain weaknesses in this instrument; for example, it has a strong tendency to overexpose the bright colors and to slight the greys, but all in all. it captures THE SPECTRUM OF PHS — the spectrum of a star. Autographing yearbooks at the end of May was a sure sign that school was nearly out. This sign brought mixed emotions to most Provo High students. —3—

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fine art , B-wing (center), where business is transacted and English is taught, and A-wing (right), featuring science and mathematics. From Which Disperses The PHS Spectrum Ray Christensen. Carolyn Ford, and Barbara Jacobsen pause to watch Grigory Antijuchow The candy machines are always popular places to and Asacl Fisher knock out bricks in preparation for the new door in the lunchroom. meet friends, to primp, or even to buy candy.