Provo High School - Provost Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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JOYCE NELSON — English III. English IV. FTA Advisor. Senior Hop. Senior Party. ANNA TAYLOR—English III, English III AP. Quill and Scroll, Provost copy advisor. LEON ROWLEY—English III. IV. His hobbies are music, sports and teaching. grammatical .rror Placfue Readier Sharee Anderson, Kim Cherringlon, and Joe Cunningham absorb Emerson’s essays and Hemingway's short stories from Mr. Roper. ENGLISH II students, racking their brains to recall the difference between predicate adjectives and predicate nominatives, often shocked teachers with their meager knowledge of basic sentence structure. SOME ENGLISH III students groaned at the poetry-unit monster, while others were thrilled. Everyone delved enthusiastically into “Our Town” and weeded dangling participles out of his scrambled theme. ENGLISH IV students quickly made the jump from the war scenes in “The Iliad” to symbolism in “Pygmalion. Late nights plagued frantic seniors for a week before research papers were due. “Hallelujah” resounded when no homework was given. Juniors in English can hardly wait until the theme assignments have been given and they can go watch the afternoon football game. 20

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Among the many agricultural projects that amuse the Future enthusiasm. By graciously toiling away in an open field to Farmers is the opportunity to perform public services with rake up weeds and other brush, the boys beautify the school. Jrocfd and J-aticfue edlmateur BIOLOGY boys dissected frogs, opened worms, and studied plant cells under the microscope while the timid girls drew what they saw for their journals. NO ONE will forget the day in CHEMISTRY when venturesome scientists poured sulfuric acid down the drain; it leaked through the floor to the biology room below, with disastrous consequences. PHYSICS students, attempting to measure the number of cycles in a radiation wave-length, observed the reflection of light off a convex lens to a concave lens. AG and LANDSCAPING classes labored in the two-acre garden west of the school, visited various farms in Utah County, and even appeared on Channel 7 television. A group of students from the zoology class, searching for microscopic specimens of protozoa and amoeba in the biology pond, reminisce about the time when Mr. Wilson slipped and fell into the slimy water. John Rick's attention is distracted from class by the dead creature in the glass jar. “Smile! You're on Candid Camera. Two of the Ag boys turn their heads to face the photographer hile Mr. Cornaby tries in vain to get their attention. The interruption did not last long. 19

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KENT LOTT—English II and Business Law. Chairman of the Senior Hop. DALE JARMAN — Spanish I and English II. Advisor to Key. Spanish and Archery Clubs. GLADYS NELSON—Speech I. English IV. English IV AP. Quill and Scroll Club. CHRISTINE EDWARDS—English II and III. Sponsor of FTA Club and Preference Dance. Mrs. Taylor discusses questions from Moby Dick with her Junior English Advanced Placement class. The class is trying to discover how Starbuck is a foil to Captain Ahab. What did she say? Paul Urie asks Irene Thurston, who is also puzzled. Answering questions as they read Beowulf, Miss Nelson's senior English classes are fascinated by Grendel's fight with Beowulf. 21