Snow College - Snowonian Yearbook (Ephraim, UT)

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Sixty years of founding and growth! It was November 5, 1888, that Sanpete Stake Academy was organized in the upstairs amusement hall of the Old Co-op Building, now Ephraim Boiler Mills. It was a rustic setting with meager equipment; members of the student body varied in age from eleven to thirty-two. But the Founders had dreams and hopes; they had the stamina to accept the problems of an infant institution and to work toward its expansion. That Institution has grown; it has changed its home from one place to another to satisfy expanding needs. March 2, 1899, the stakes marking the outline for the present administration building were driven; the dedication occured November 5, 1909. The students who contributed the first forty-five dollars toward the Noyes Building were seeing their dream fufilled. The Institution has changed its name from Sanpete Stake Academy to Snow Academy honoring President Lorenzo Snow to Snow College. It has changed its guardian from the Latter-day Saints Church to the State of Utah.

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We offer this Annual as an appreciation for those progressive people who dreamed a dream, who through the years of struggle furthered that dream to build the Snow College of today, for those people who will yet further its expansion into the greater Snow College of tomorrow. The Founders during the Past persisted through hazardous years to establish the benefits we enjoy as Founders of Today. Upon that foundation, we have added our bit by perpetuating the living traditions of yesteryear and by accepting, as did our forebearers, the challenge of building a life in terms of present-day demands. The work of founding a living institution is never completed, and each founder is a torch-l caror who hands the torch to his successor, hoping that the light will bum yet brighter as it is carried forward. 4