“There is properly no history; only biography.”
~~Ralph Waldo Emerson
We encourage you to:

Gather and send in life stories and photographs of people who attended or taught at BYA or BYH ~ with particular focus on their BYA~BYH school days; and

Please understand that this collection is still under construction, and that names listed below without links often have extensive biographical information listed in the Directory which is an important part of this website.

"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons.
No true biography can ever be written."
~~Mark Twain

Dallin H. Oaks
Class of 1950
2018

Merrill C. Oaks
Class of 1954

Robert C. Oaks
Class of 1954

Dallan Olson
Class of 1967

Rex A. Olson
Coach

Monroe Paxman &
Shirley Brockbank Paxman
BYA Foundation

Carol Lynn Wright Pearson
Class of 1957

H. Corry Perkins &
M. Kistin Adams Perkins
Classes of 1907 & 1911

Charles E. "Chuck" Peterson &
Harriett Robison Peterson

Grethe Ballif Peterson
Class of 1950

James Winter Petty
Class of 1966

Ed Jolley Pinegar
Class of 1952

Frank Rasmussen
Class of 1908

LeRoy J. Robertson
Class of 1916

Dorothy O. Rea
Reporter

Charlie Redd
Classes of 1911 & 1914

C. Hardy Redd
Class of 1954

Allen K. Reinhold
Class of 1954

Alice Louise Reynolds
Class of 1890

Alma W. Richards
Class of 1913

J. Keith Rigby, Jr.
Class of 1964 / Class of 1965

Thomas R. Ryan
Class of 1953

Kiefer B. Sauls
Class of 1915

Iris Ramey Seyfried
Class of 1943

Morris A. Shirts
Principal XV - 1954~1956

Aline Coleman Smith
Class of 1930

George Albert Smith
Class of 1888~Honorary
President, LDS Church

Joel Smith
Class of 1947

Sherman C. Smith
Class of 1966

Abraham O. Smoot
Board of Trustees, Founder

L. Douglas Smoot
Restoration Leader

Reed Smoot
Class of 1880

Reed P. Smoot
Class of 1965

E. Donald Snow, Sr.
Class of 1938, Coach

Edward H. Snow
Class of 1883

Wayne L. Sorenson
Principal XIII - 1950~1952

John Benjamin "Jay" Staker, Jr.
Class of 1910

O. Leslie Stone
Class of 1920

Rowan C. Stutz
Principal XIV - 1952~1954

George Sutherland
Class of 1881
Justice, US Supreme Court

James E. Talmage
Class of 1880

Annie Clark Tanner
Class of 1883

Joseph Marian Tanner
Class of 1880

Adrianne Taylor
Class of 1954

Delenna Taylor
Class of 1930

Thomas Nicholls Taylor
Class of 1889~Honorary

Henry D. Taylor, Sr.
Class of 1921

Douglas H. Thayer
Class of 1947~Honorary

Lowell D. Thomson
Principal XX - 1964~1968

John W. Tucker
Principal XVII - 1957~1958

Donna Lee Turley
Faculty 1962-1968 ~ School Guidance Counselor

John Waldemar Van Cott
Faculty

Paul Gerrit Van Wagenen
Class of 1963

John T. Wahlquist
Class of 1918

Gordon D. Walker
Class of 1961

Arthur V. Watkins
Class of 1906

Fredrick Nathan Webb
Music Faculty

David Henry Weech
Class of 1893

Joseph A. West
Class of 1968

Valene Camenish Wilcox
Class of 1943

Douglas D. Wilkinson
Class of 1961

Harold O. "Hal" Williams
Faculty

Alan R. "Pete" Witbeck
Class of 1947

Hugh McCurdy Woodward
Class of 1908

Golden L. Woolf
Principal X - 1935~1946

Blaine M. Yorgason
Class of 1961

Brent G. Yorgason
Class of 1963

Brigham Young
President, LDS Church
Founder

Joseph Don Carlos Young
Architect, Faculty

Kimball Young
Class of 1911

LeGrande Leonard "Grit" Young
Class of 1954

Louise Leonard Young
Faculty

Michael K. Young
Class of 1967

Noel Reynolds Zabriskie
Class of 1966

&

Notable Living Alumni
with links to profiles