Snow College - Snowonian Yearbook (Ephraim, UT)

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Some members of the Class of '88 snapped at the close of the Founders Day Program. Front row: Jennie Johnson, Marie Willardson, Sarah Jensen, Fannie Thompson. Back row: Andrew Hanson, Daniel K. Rasmussen, P. C. Peterson. Much credit for the success of this institution is due, I tin sure, to the character of men and women, the boys and girls, who made itf the membership of the original Class of 1888-1889. They came with a singleness of purpose, an earnest ambition to reach the desired goal. Great credit for the success of this institution is likewise due to those who have watched over it with vision, fostered it when adverse winds blew over it and at all times pushed it into the front ranks and maintained the ideals which were the foundation stones on which the institution was founded. —Carrie IIenkie Payne in an address given on the Forty-third Founders Day. Enid Pritchett, Founders Day Queen; and Roland Adams, Founders Day King, were honored at the annual torch-light rally, as the S was being lighted on the hillside. Bruce Jennings, of the class of '28, delivers the address of the day, in the West Ward Chapel, the place where many such programs have been held. 13

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The history of class organization at Snow College is a record of an attempt to adjust to broader social needs. When the school was established, there were two departments, the Preparatory and Intermediate. They would correspond roughly to what is now junior high school. Within this organization there was a women's department, Carrie Iienrie being the teacher. Academic subjects, not the years in school, seemed to have been the basis for promotion. The early journals have frequent entries about awarding certificates of graduation from Physiology, Rhetoric, Geography, Dress Making, Carpentry, Business, and like subjects. A representative entry in the “Excelsior Star” reads: The class in Physio-logy—Martin’s Human Body—has finished the book and has no more to worry about regarding the examination in this study. Last Saturday told the tale, at least the students in this class met at the Academy and told what they knew.” The students of the first year ranged in age from eleven to thirty-two. The larger classes were held in the body of the amusement hall and the smaller ones on the stage. There were few textbooks. The students took notes during lectures from which they prepared their lessons and made diagrams before examinations. The diagrams were sheets of fools-cap paper pasted together upon which was represented weeks and weeks of work or the contents of a whole book. The first time the school boasted of four years of high school was in 1898, when the Institution was ten years old. It seems that the first college work to be added to the curriculum was a normal class in 1912, known as a fifth year normal course. Another was added in 1916. At this point in the history there were three year courses in Carpcn-try, Domestic Science, Domestic Art, and Music, and in addition four years of Commerce. In 1928 all high school work was discontinued and the school became an accredited junior college. In that year there were seven graduated from the college division. For a number of years the college classes were known as Freshmen and Sophomores. During that time frequent outbursts of rivalry were common, including Hag rushes on the Hag pole and the tops of the buildings. With the return of the senior high school classes to the campus in 1987, a four year junior college was organized. Then began the present division of classes. Departments on a college level were initiated in 1928; and associate certificates of graduation have been awarded since that time. 15