Snow College - Snowonian Yearbook (Ephraim, UT)

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HELEN A. NELSON Speech EMMA B. SORENSEN Horne Economics LaPRELE CRABB Librarian LUCY A. PHILLIPS English GLADYS H. YOUNGBERG Education FERN A. YOUNG English MARY WILLIAMSON Education H. E. JENSEN Biological Science WM. G. BARTON Social Science H. R. CHRISTENSEN Exact Science F. J. GURNEY Science CHARLES A. WALL Business HEBER C. SNELL Education FRED .1. FJELDSTED Music IVAN W. YOUNG Physical Education M. K. KNUDSEN Agriculture J. S. CHRISTENSEN Registrar DAVID CHRISTENSEN Custodian CRITIC FACULTY (Pictures not available) MARY NIELSON. Principal, third grade; LUCILE JOHANSEN, fifth grade; VILATK JACOBSEN, first grade; INEZ D. ADAMS, fourth grade; AUDREY LARSEN, second and third grades; VONDA HARRIS, second grade; MARIE LARSEN, sixth grade; BLAIN ANDERSON, fifth and sixth grades. 3n fflrnuiriam JESSIE ARMSTRONG She continues in the lives of her students. Page Six

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JOSEPH F. MERRILL Commissioner of Education A Word of Appreciation All friends of Snow College will rejoice greatly that the college Is to continue, that the impending change is a transfer and not a closing. But from another point of view, even a closing would not mean the end of the college, for as long as memory lasts. Snow College will continue to live in the minds and hearts of its loyal sons and daughters. Death is pronounced only upon things of the earth, not upon things spiritual—the things characteristic of the Snow spirit. But the college is to continue and its doors will still swing open to the fine type of young men and women who have entered in the past. This fact is a source of joy to us all. For the good work that Snow has done during each of its years under church auspices, for the loyalty of its officers and teachers to the finest of educational ideals, for the ready responsiveness the students have always shown to the requirements of the college, the General Board of Education is deeply appreciative. Snow passes to public auspices with the best wishes and blessings of the General Board. JOS. F. MERRILL. College delights in revealing how little students really know. John C. Swenson of the State Board of Education was a campus caller Friday. DR. C. N. JENSEN State Superintendent of Public Instruction An Appreciation The institution which by provision of law is now designated as Snow College has been operating since 1888. Forty odd years is a sufficiently long period to permit of the establishment of a number of fine traditions. We shall mention but one in this very brief article. The college has always been exceptionally careful to ascertain the needs of the people it has had to serve and it has been equally careful in planning its work to meet these needs. Largely as a result of this policy its graduates have gone into the schools of the state equipped to give intelligent and needed service right from the start. It has been the exception, not the rule, for a district to wait for the graduate to pass through a more or less extended probationary or experimental period before receiving good work from the beginning teacher. To give the best possible service to the communities, it serves has become a fine tradition of the Snow College. The recent action of the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools in placing the college on its accredited list of junior colleges is evidence of creditable standing, brought about by a long continued progressive policy. Let us hope that under state control the college may continue on in its good work. DR. C. N. JENSEN. There is no other place like Snow. Isn't it friendly, democratic, challenging? Page Five

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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