Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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Provost Keeps Time DURING HIS LIFETIME a man dreams of many things: when he is young, he thinks of a time when he will be older; when he reaches the wished-for age, he dreams he were young once more. That is the way with man. All during his life he measures time: his greatest single question in life is “How Long?” To find an answer, he has created many devices known as timepieces. The staff of the Provost has chosen TIMEPIECE as the theme of this edition. The word doesn’t stand well alone, but applied to Provo High School, it can mean much. It can mean this book is simply a device for measuring a school year, or it can mean that the Provost records a piece of time, the 1964 to 1965 school year. The staff, the classes, the campus life—each in its own way contributes a part to the spirit that is our school, a spirit any timepiece would be proud to measure. PROVO HIGH SCHOOL has often been described as a gigantic red “E” or a huge red skeleton key. Its narrow halls, its crowded classrooms, its illogical stairs leading to nowhere—all have been used to show the spirit that is Provo High. But a building has no spirit unless the people in it have l’esprit de corps. To think about a gigantic red “E” with a spirit of its own is as foolish as to be sentimental about a hospital, a garage, or a locomotive roundhouse. Always, it is the people with spirit that matter. THIS GENERATION will, after leaving Provo High School, go out into the world as their parents and grandparents before them did. They will go into a different world ... a much smaller one, dwarfed by the realization of outer space and by the constant threat of death by bombs that make the Hiroshima bomb seem petty. They will solve the ancient problems of enforcing peace, or else the problem will neatly solve them. They may be third to see what really happens when great weapons are used improperly. But atomic death is not the only possible future; other futures hold greater glory for the human race than it has ever experienced before. Time will tell. This year is but a fraction of a micro-second in the history of man; it is a tiny but vital piece of time. The problems of today will seem trival in a few years, but it will be this year’s graduates that help to solve them. In meeting the big challenge of the future, they will make a better world; failure will produce less than no world at all. The torch of hope has already been passed to them. as Provo High School The traditional registration marks the beginning of school. — 4 —

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CURRICULUM AND STAFF are necessary to each other, as Mrs. Jones, Susan Jacobsen, and Cheryl Pope know in the office. CLASSES are usually more fun when not attended; girl-watching, flirting, listening, and pickle-eating make time pass quickly. — 3 —

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Grows. Changes, and Opens Its Doors Again During February the drama department, under the direction of Mr. Ray B. Jones, presents the year’s last play, Green Pastures. All kinds of athletic contests are stimulating to all students at Provo high, especially basketball games like this one with East.