Snow College - Snowonian Yearbook (Ephraim, UT)

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Student Officers Elect RALPH BLACKHAM Student Body President A Message Students, another year is drawing near a close at Snow. For nine months we have been working and playing together. During this time we have met many new and dear friends that we wish never to forget; in fact, we hope to see many of them returning to school next year. This year views Snow’s last days as a Church college; next year the State of Utah will have direct authority over it. Some may think that under State jurisdiction it will become a larger and better school. We are hoping it will, but we are not forgetting the great opportunities it has held out to the many students who have attended it under Church jurisdiction. Let us pause amid our duties to think over these opportunities and to give humble thanks to our church for its labors in keeping this college so near us. Students, you have elected student body officers for next year. These officers you have chosen because of their established qualities as leaders. Return next year or encourage others to come and give the officers the same fine support you have given us. Let your slogan be On Snow College. Ralph Blackham. Student Officers for 1931-32 Ralph Blackham .... Zoe Jensen ........ Ina Hunt .......... Veola Brienholt ... Lyman Peterson .... Reese Anderson .... Eugene Peterson .... Vernon Christensen Moroni Jensen ..... .......... President ..... Vice President Secretary-Auditor Editor of Snowdrift Editor of Snowdrift .. Forensic Manager ..... Activity Agent Athletic Manager ..... Cheer Leader The man who never makes mistakes loses a great many chances to learn something. Royden Braithwaite Opal Christensen ... Eleanor Peterson ... Dorothy Jessen ... Millie Domgaard .... .......... President .... Vice President .... Secretary-Auditor Editor of Snowonian Editor of Snowdrift Our Opportunity 'The old order changeth, yielding place to new. Vividly the words of Tennyson portray the present condition of our school. When this year’s work has been completed, Snow College will cease to function as a Church institution will “yield to the new in becoming a state junior college. This change does not mean that the traditions and Ideals of the old school will be destroyed. They will be retained and fused with the new, giving strength and power to the young institution. The first year of the new school will be a critical year; it will lie one of experimentation in which the state will determine whether or not Snow will live. The outcome will rest primarily upon the student-body activities, the quality of work of the students, the increase or decrease of student-body membership, and whether or not the school is accomplishing its purpose as an educational institution. Therefore, there is a great responsibility resting upon every member of the school. There is greater opportunity now than at any time for students to prove their loyalty to the school and its cause. Students, when you leave school this year, leave it with a determination to advertise the high ideals and standards of Snow College, to increase the membership of the student body, and to create a spirit that will guarantee to the people of this district a permanent State Junior College. Royden Braithwaite. Sophomore Officers Alfred L. Larson Louise Fowles .... Shirley Ogden .... Wilbur Cox ...... Verl Meyrick .... ...... President .... Vice President Secretary-Auditor . . Activity Agent ..... Cheer Leader Freshman Officers Dean Peterson ................................. President Melba Hansen....................................... Vice President Virginia Isbell .......................... Cheer Leader Dorothy Jessen ........................ Forensic Manager Naomi Nordgren ..................... Secretary-Treasurer Club Presidents Parley Thorderson Ray I. Johansen .. Royal Harward Guy Leonard ...... Reese Anderson ... Louise Fowles .... Kenn Peterson ...... .....Scribbler ........... S .....Sevierian Castle VuUey ..Sigma Dolts ........Arnica ........Tennis Page Eight

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Alumni Activities To Our Patrons Boosting for Snow College has been the aim of the Snow College Alumni Association during the past year. This organization has put forth a united effort to prove that it is an asset to the school. At the present time plans for a homecoming arc nearly completed. This celebration is to take place May 27. in honor of the change in administration of the school from the Latter-Day Saint Church to the State of Utah. The commencement exercises will take place in the morning and the alumni program in the afternoon. At 1:C0 p. m. a banquet will be given in honor of the former students of Snow College and other guests. From 2:30 until 3:00 o’clock, a band concert will be given by the Ephraim high school band. This will be followed by such activities as horseshoe pitching, tennis, mass ball and indoor buscball. At 6:30. the evening program will begin. It will consist of numbers from the college band, musical numbers, readings. Maypole braiding and dancing. Later in the evening, former classmates will mingle together once more in a dance at Dreamland Hall. Members of the general committee on preparations are Francis J. Gurney, president; Melba K. Armstrong, vice president: Chas. A. Wall, treasurer; Anna Jensen, secretary. Members of the executive committee are J. S. Christensen, Udell Jensen, Lyman Willardson, Mary Nielson, Oran Anderson. Mrs. Ruel Christensen. An ideal way to show the value of Snow College is to mention what her alumni has done, for what she has done in the past, she can repeat. During her 44 years of existence. Snow has turned out a great number of worthy graduates who have gone to near and distant lands to help share this world's problems. Artists, authors and singers have received their inspiration and encouragement during their years at Snow College. Business men and women- fathers and mothers have gained a new insight toward life while studying under the guiding influence of the college's instructors. The college has primarily been known as a teacher training institution. Because of this, it may be supposed that our graduates would only be found in the educational lield. That is but partly true for a goodly number have become successful in law, medicine, dentistry. music, art, architecture, engineering, business, agriculture and politics. These are now distributed over the United States, but. of course, most of them arc close by. We point with pride to a conspicuous few, who are now before the public in each of these fields. Among those in educational positions are Dr. C. N. Jensen, state superintendent of public instruction: Dean Thomas A. Beal of the school of commerce, University of Utah; Louis A. Peterson, superintendent of the city schools of Logan: Dr. Chas. A. Smith, superin-tendnt of the schools of Provo, and Superintendent D. C. Jensen of the Jordan school district. In the field of law. Judge Ephraim Hansen of the supreme court of the state occupies the most conspicuous position. In addition we may name D. M. Draper, former state chairman of the Demoncratic party and now special lecturer in the law school of the University of Utah; A. L. Jensen, regular member of the law faculty of the same institution: George D. Casio, prominent practicing attorney of the City of Washington, and Judge N. J. Bates of Sevier County. In art, Professor B. F. Larsen of the B. Y. U. faculty and Professor E. M. Jensen of the same institution are making names for themselves. Fred Jensen, an architect of Ogden, and Alva Armstrong, an engineer of Philadelphia, are rapidly rising to the front. Inasmuch as Snow College leaves the jurisdiction of the Latter-day Saint Church on July 1, 1932. it is fitting and proper that there be given here a word of appreciation to the founders of the institution and to those who have spent their efforts in maintaining this school. The present board of education at whose head is Pres. Heber J. Grant, together with the church commissioner of education. Dr. Joseph F. Merrill, all the previous board, and all the presidents of the church connected with the school since its founding as the Sanpete Stake Academy, November 5, 1868, have encouraged, helped and supported the school. Through the encouragement of the general church authorities, the slake presidency, at that time Pres. Canute Peterson. Henry Beal and John B. Maibcn, organized the school. At present a board of trustees head the Snow College school district, which includes all stakes in Sanpete, Sevier, Piute, Garfield, Wayne and Emery counties. Lewis R. Anderson is president of this board and Soren M. Nielsen, vice president. Within this board of trustees there is an executive committee with Pres. Anderson as chairman, and Soren M. Nielson. Dr. A. J. Nielson. N. E. Noyes, A. B. Madsen and Milton H. Knudsen, sec. This committee does more of the actual directing of the college. Jacob B. Jacobsen, who faithfully Served on this committee as well as on the board of trustees, passed away during the year. These people mentioned have all stood out in the limelight for their services to our college, but there arc many others unmentioned who have worked to keep the school going from its infancy to the present time. To them as well as to all those mentioned, Snow College or today is indeed grateful. To the Founders A garland we would weave For the Founders of Snow College. We would gather old memories. Inspirations and dreams-Flowers of old hopes realized, Branches transplanted from Sanpete Stake Academy, New-rooted in many places --Branches that bore fruit in varied fields Of faith, of love, of high endeavor— Branches that have received recognition In the high places and in the lowly walks of life Branches that have grown into something Of power and of lasting beauty. A garland we would weave For the Founders of Snow College. We would gather for you the gratitude The love, and quiet appreciation Of all the devotees that have followed In that long procession, Beginning in the Sanpete Stake Academy. Advancing with stately, measured steps, To our present institution, Snow College, our Alma Mater. Joyfully and hopefully we shall add to these The sweet perfume of the flowers That are to come— The future accomplishments Aspirations and dreams Of Snow College. - ■ F. Y. Page Seven

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SOPHOMORE CLASS Top picturue. Front Row. left to right: Garn Olsen. Ruby Christensen. Phyllis Olsen, Antone Villard. Louise Fowles, Phyllis Webster, Eugene Peterson, Grace Black-ham. George Smith, Catherine Fowles. Second Row: Lyman Peterson, Vernon L. Christensen, Leland Frost. Woodrow Herbert. Ina Hunt. Myron Mellor. DeOra Anderson, Nell Caffall, Isabel! Grange. Esther Rasmussen. H. Reese Anderson, Louise Larson, Julia Modeen. Third Row: Marlin Nielson, Drews Anderson. Maiben Christensen, Frances Jennings, Astrid Jorgenson, Wm. T. Mathie. Shirley Peterson. Verl Ogden. Kenn Peterson. Middle pictures. Front Row. left to right: Paul Johnson. Eva Olsen. Mable Smyth. Elva Thomson. Faye Rigby. Edward Hansen. Verl Meyrick. Second Row: Ray Aldrich. Grant Mason, Ray Johansen. Dee Madsen. Bottom picture. Front Row, left to right: Meeks Halliday, Viola Madsen. Edythe Swensen, Martha Henrie, Ronald Kjar, Glenn Thomas. Shirley Ogden. Alfred Larson. Spencer Squire. Second Row: Lloyd Whitlock. LaRue Paulsen. J. Bruce Ellis, Vernile Shelley, Duane Anderson. LaVeta Coleman, Lynette Rawlinson. Merl Knud sen, Raymond Allred. Glenn R. Kenner, Parley Thorderson. Third Row: Howard Lund, Veola Breinholt. Anna Jensen. Louise Matson, Christie Rasmussen, Zoe Jensen, Lola C. Pritchett. Ralph Blackham. Sophomores, (Pictures not available): Allen Anderson. Fern Christensen. Marie Christensen. Wilbur W. Cox. Chad W. Cox, Alma Edwards, Grant Harris, Georgia Hou-gaard. Roy Hanson. Varna Johnson. Doriha Jensen. Moroni Jensen. Evan R. Johnson. Ada McDonald, Donald Peterson. Mae Peterson. Richard Peterson. Lyle Peterson. Paul Pratt, Olive Wilson. Floyd Young, Ormus Dut-son. Thelma Dorius. Lucille Roper. Croft Christensen. Reese Bunnell, VanNoy Stewart. George M. Anderson, Charles Schultz. Talmage Lamb. Page Nine