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New Lists of BYH Graduates Discovered
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Including Previously Lost Classes From the Late 1920s & Early 1930s
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Steven M. Law, a librarian at the Provo City Library at Academy Square, recently uncovered the only known lists of graduates still extant of several Brigham Young High School classes.
A busy reference librarian, Steven Law found rare moments to search microfilms of early Provo newspapers. The results are remarkable. As of January 2008, he has found lists for four previously undocumented BYH classes: 1928, 1930, 1931 and 1932. This adds 146 names of confirmed BYH graduates to the Directory.
These classes came along when BYH classes were no longer included in the BYU Banyan, and before BYH yearbooks became an unbroken annual tradition, from 1933 to 1968.
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The Evening Herald, Provo, Utah Wednesday, May 23, 1928
Graduation: Thursday, May 24, 1928
BYH Principal: Asael Carlyle Lambert BYU President: Franklin Stewart Harris, Sr., BYH '04
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The Evening Herald, Provo, Utah Wednesday, May 28, 1930
Graduation: Thursday, May 29, 1930
BYH Principal: Edgar Milando Jenson BYU President: Franklin Stewart Harris, Sr., BYH '04
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The Evening Herald, Provo, Utah Tuesday, May 26, 1931
Graduation: Thursday, May 28, 1931
BYH Principal: Edgar Milando Jenson BYU President: Franklin Stewart Harris, Sr., BYH '04
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The Evening Herald, Provo, Utah Wednesday, June 1, 1932
Graduation: Thursday, June 2, 1932
BYH Principal: Edgar Milando Jenson BYU President: Franklin Stewart Harris, Sr., BYH '04
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The next time you are in the Provo City Library at Academy Square, please look up Steven Law, and thank him for all of us. Give him a plate of cookies, a favorite book, or send a note of thanks. He deserves it!
~~ Larry Christensen January 2008
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Newly found class lists:
BYH Class of 1928
1. Burnell Aagard 2. Joseph Allen 3. Atha Baum 4. Eliza Bjerregaard 5. Joseph Bown 6. Sina Brimhall 7. Don Candland 8. Charles Carroll 9. Antone Clark 10. Zella Cox 11. Madeline Davies 12. Vesta Dixon 13. Mary Dunkley 14. Wilma Eldredge 15. Nellie Elliott 16. Harry Forsyth 17. Helen Forsyth 18. Alma Hansen 19. Franklin S. Harris, Jr. 20. Ada Haymore 21. Tubou Hettig 22. Mary Holbrook 23. Euphamia Hunter 24. Elmer Jacobsen 25. Norma Jackson 26. W. Kent Johnson 27. Vearl Johnson 28. Frank Jorgensen 29. Veda Kartchner 30. J. Crede Kindred 31. Raymond Lewis 32. Rose Liechty 33. Anne Lovell 34. Walden Menlove 35. Edith Murdock 36. Cleona Alsen 37. Grant Penrod 38. Anne Snow 39. Rowlee Smart 40. Kermit Sorensen 41. Louise Swenson 42. Henry M. Stewart 43. Emma Taylor 44. Merle Vance 45. Virlie Vincent 46. Leona White 47. Maxine Wimmer 48. Zela Winterton 49. Hulda Young 50. Robert Bushman
[Prior to receiving these lists, we had found only 11 of the 50 classmates from 1928, primarily from obituaries. Robert Bushman, listed only as a member of the senior quartet, definitely graduated in 1928.]
BYH Class of 1930
1. Jack C. Bailey 2. Mark J. Brockbank 3. Bessie Burch 4. Clinton Burnham [sp?] 5. Kyle Clark 6. Aline Coleman 7. Aneita [sp?] Crowther 8. Thora Duke 9. Merrill Hammond 10. Chauncy D. Harris 11. Ruth Holbrook 12. Leona Jackson 13. Ruth Kartchner 14. Grant F. Larson [sen?] 15. Donna Lea [or Lee] Master 16. Ethel Lewis 17. Dixie Mangum 18. William P. Martin 19. Alta McEwan 20. Harrison J. Merrill 21. Vera Merrill 22. Vivian Merrill [Morrill?] 23. Helen Newell 24. Drayton Nuttall 25. Niels A. Ogden 26. Minne Payne 27. Louise Reynolds 28. Edith Slack 29. Alta Snell 30. Myrtle Sowards 31. Wilma J. Swapp 32. Delenna Taylor 33. J. Reed [Read?] Thornton 34. Clarence Tucker 35. Virginia [not Virgiina] Weight 36. Helen Worsley
[Prior to receiving these lists, we had found 23 of the 36 classmates from 1930, but had listed 9 in wrong classes, with question marks.]
BYH Class of 1931
1. May Bennett 2. Russell Bonnett 3. Devoe Brimhall 4. Vernon Condie 5. Faun Greer 6. Rex Ingersol 7. Ellen Jackson 8. Paul Jacobson 9. LaVieve Jesperson 10. Zoe Johnson 11. Vadis Liddle 12. Wayne McIntyre 13. Marie Morgan 14. Miriam Mullner 15. Louise Ollerton 16. Lyman Partridge 17. Jesse Richins 18. Frank Roberts 19. Elma Robinson 20. Ruth Robinson 21. Rinda Rowley 22. Seth Smoot 23. Willa Sowards 24. Joseph Swenson 25. Susan Whitaker [Plus others?]
[Prior to receiving these lists, we had found 15 of the 25 classmates from 1931, but had listed 8 in wrong classes, with question marks. Three listed on the program: Eugene Jacobsen -- violin solo, Cecile Clark -- prognostication, and Erma Gines -- vocal solo, appear also to be graduates of the Class of 1931.]
BYH Class of 1932
1. Anne Bonnett 2. Myron Bown 3. Smoot Brimhall 4. Arland Brooksby 5. Ruby Cox 6. Webster Decker 7. Lucy Dudley 8. Thomas Eastmond 9. Hatch Farnsworth 10. Roy Hammond 11. Elma Hansen 12. Neva Hansen 13. Muriel Harris 14. Robert Harris 15. Keith Hatch 16. Maxine Henroid 17. Margaret Hill 18. Elizabeth Holbrook 19. Alice Huckins 20. Lenila Jackson 21. Verdis Johnson 22. Ronald Jones 23. Fred Kartchner 24. Vernon Kirk 25. Lewis Ludlow 26. Althea Marsden 27. LaPrele Morley 28. Eldon Nielson 29. Beth Astler 30. Darlene Owens 31. Harold Perlman 32. Thurber Prows 33. Marjorie Smith 34. Woodrow Wison [Wilson?] 35. Florence Woodhouse
[Prior to receiving these lists, we had found 17 of the 35 classmates from 1932, but were unsure the graduation year of 6 of them. The Dick Johnson listed on the program was Verdas Dick Johnson, listed above.]
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The following was added in 2011:
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The Salt Lake Telegram May 7, 1935
Graduation: May 23, 1935
BYH Principal: Edgar Milando Jenson BYU President: Franklin Stewart Harris, Sr., BYH '04
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Class of 1935 list ~ Salt Lake Telegram:
1. LaVell Bigelow [Mid: Meldrum] 2. James Malcolm Booth 3. Ruth Candland [Mid: Hannah] 4. Marguerite Christensen 5. Margaret Christensen 6. Clida Cope [Clyda] 7. Darlene Earl 8. Leah Harris [Mid: Dorothy] 9. Vira Henrie 10. Nellie Hughes 11. Ivan Iverson 12. Mabel Jensen 13. Beulah Jensen 14. Helen Johnston 15. Richard Keigley 16. Velma Madsen [Helen] 17. Paxman Martin [First: Thomas] 18. Paul J. Merrill 19. Max M. Nicholes 20. Monte Neilson [Jay Nielson] 21. Cora May Olsen [Mid: or Mae] 22. Reed Oldroyd, Senior Class President 23. Marjorie Olson [Student Body Vice President] 24. William E. Pardoe [Mid: Edward] 25. LaRue Quinn 26. Virginia Redd 27. Vir Richins [Mid: Schofield] 28. Marden Roper [Mid: Delos] 29. Helen Robinson [Student Body Secretary & Historian in 1933-1934] 30. Edwin Smart [Student Body Head Cheerleader in 1932-1933] 31. Earl Thomas 32. Barney Wallick [Student Body President] 33. Verdun Watts 34. Aenone Woolf
Addendum: In the obituary of Leah Harris is the following line: "Leah grew up in Provo, Utah and attended BYU training school, graduating from BY High School in 1935 as valedictorian in a class of 39 students." The Salt Lake Telegram news article, May 7, 1935, includes a preliminary list with 34 names. "Several more applications are pending," according to Principal Edgar M. Jensen. From various other sources, we have been able to add 7 names, for a total of 40:
34. Clyda Mae Hammond [Student Body Secretary & Historian in 1934-1935] 35. Clyde Lyman Anderson 36. Stephen Glasscock 37. Veda Hicks 38. Jack Reynolds 39. George Billings Robinson 40. Lynn Wilson
Another senior, Helen Evelyn Matthews, a member of the BYH Class of 1935, graduated with the BYH Class of 1936.
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