Alumni

Alphabetical Alumni

Alexander, Maude May
Farmington, Utah US

Maude and Horace Secrist

BY Academy High School Class of 1903. Maude May Alexander also received a Special Certificate in Elocution. Source: Students Record of Class Standings B. Y. Academy, Book 2, Page 98. ~ ~ ~ ~ Maude May Alexander married Horace Secrist [BYH Class of 1903], who was born October 9, 1881 in North Farmington, Utah. ~ ~ Horace and Maude had at least 2 children: 1. Horace Alexander Secrist, born August 4, 1905, and 2. Lee Horton Secrist, born July 13, 1906. ~ ~ ~ ~ BYH Class of 1903. Maud M. Alexander of Provo, a Normal student, BYA [& BYH] Class of 1903 Listing of Fourth Year Students (seniors). Source: Brigham Young Academy & Normal Training School, Catalogues & Announcements, for 28th Academic Year, 1903-1904, pp. 171-172.

Alleman, Helen
Orem, Utah US

Helen and Dick Ajax

Faculty & Staff. Helen Alleman, Home Economics teacher, 1937-1940. Helen Alleman was born on May 1, 1910 in Springville, Utah. Her parents were Charles Albert Alleman and Hannah Dorothea Andersen Alleman. She married Richard Ajax on March 10, 1942 in Pocatello, Idaho. Helen Alleman Ajax died on August 25, 2000. ~ ~ ~ ~ HER HUSBAND'S OBITUARY: Richard Emery "Dick" Ajax was reunited with his beloved eternal companion and other family members on Sunday morning, March 18, 2007. Richard was born in Tooele, Utah on July 22, 1910 to Idwal Ajax and Elizabeth Emery McKean Ajax. He was graduated from Tooele High School in 1928, and attended Utah State and Brigham Young University. He was a Licensed Civil Engineer and a Licensed Surveyor. Richard married Helen Alleman [former BYH Faculty member] on March 10, 1942 in Pocatello, Idaho. They had two children, Susan and Tom. The family was sealed in the Los Angeles Temple in 1962. Helen passed away in August 2000. Richard was a highway engineer whose career spanned almost 40 years and many localities. He surveyed both the InterAmerican Highway in Costa Rica in 1941, and the Alcan Highway in Alaska in 1942 and 1943. He worked in highway construction, surveying, as a resident engineer and area engineer in Utah, Idaho, Montana, California, Oregon, Washington, and Washington D.C. He started with the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads in Utah in 1932, advanced in his career, and worked as Director of a Materials Testing Laboratory for eight years in Vancouver, Washington after which he retired in 1972. Dick loved the outdoors and he spent much of his career outside. Away from work, he enjoyed camping, camp cooking, fishing (particularly for salmon), and gardening. He also enjoyed, and was very talented at leatherworking, woodworking, building and fixing almost anything, and photography. He loved being a father, grandfather, and great grandfather. Richard was a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in various positions throughout his life. While living in Olympia, Washington he served as General Secretary to the Aaronic Priesthood and in the Sunday School Superintendency, two callings which no longer exist. In Vancouver, Washington, he served as ward clerk, stake clerk and stake auditor. In Orem, Utah he and Helen served in the Provo Temple. Throughout his life he was a faithful ward teacher, then home teacher. Dick and Helen started their married life in Utah, but Dick spent most of the first two years in Alaska. After Alaska, they lived in Utah and Idaho, where Susan was born, then to Washington D.C. Not liking the East, they moved back to Utah where Tom was born, and then to Idaho again. In 1952 they moved to Missoula, Montana. They moved from Missoula to Olympia, Washington in 1956 and to Vancouver, Washington in 1967. In 1976, After Susan and Tom had finished college and were living in California and Florida respectively, Dick and Helen decided to move back to their home in Utah. They settled in Orem, and lived there for many years. They loved the area and made many lifelong friends. While living in Orem, they served in the Provo Temple for over eight years. They loved their time in Orem. In 2004, Dick moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to live with Susan and her husband Kenneth Struve, where Susan and her family provided much love and care. Richard is survived by his daughter, Susan Struve, Albuquerque, New Mexico, his son, Tom R. Ajax of Gainesville, Florida, eleven grandchildren, and eight great grandchildren. Funeral services were held on Saturday, March 24, 2007, in the LDS Chapel, 800 East 600 North, Orem. Interment, Springville Pioneer Cemetery. [Provo Daily Herald, March 21, 2007.]

Alleman, Ida Ann
Salt Lake City, Utah US

Ida and George Taylor

BY Academy High School Normal Class of 1891, Collegiate Normal Class of 1893. Ida Alleman. Received a High School Normal Diploma, on May 21, 1891. She served as Historian for her class. Source: Graduation Program of the Normal Class of 1891. She received a Collegiate Normal Diploma, Bachelor of Pedagogy (B.Pd.) in 1893. Source: Students Record of Class Standings, BY Academy, Book 1, page 1. ~ ~ ~ ~ Faculty & Staff. Ida Alleman, Training School, 1908-1909. ~ ~ ~ ~ Ida Ann Alleman was born on March 18, 1872 in Springville, Utah. Her parents were John Henry Alleman and Zebina Starr Alleman. Ida Ann married George Shephard Taylor on June 28, 1911 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ida Ann Alleman died on June 16, 1965 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her interment, Provo City Cemetery, Utah.

Alleman, John William
Salt Lake City, Utah US

John and Emma Alleman

BY Academy High School Commercial Class of 1902. J[ohn] W[illiam] Alleman, received a diploma from the Commercial program. Source: Commercial Graduating Class Program, College Hall, Tuesday, May 27, 1902. BYU Special Collections, UA 1008, Box 1, Folder 2, 1902 Commencement Program. ~ ~ ~ ~ John William Alleman was born on January 26, 1885 in Springville, Utah. His parents were William David Alleman and Martha Jane Reynolds Alleman. John married Emma Maria Magdalena Klinkel on December 11, 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Emma was born on January 12, 1887 in Frankfort on Main, Germany. J. W. Alleman died on October 6, 1936 in Salt Lake City, Utah. His interment, Springville, Utah.

Alleman, Julia Dorothea [Caine,]
Provo, Utah US

Julia and Avery Caine

Collegiate Grad of BYU, Class of 1925. Julia D. Alleman. She received a BS Degree in History in 1925. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 10, page 308. ~ ~ ~ ~ BYH Faculty. Julia Alleman Caine, highly respected Social Studies, American History, Development of Civilization and Religion at Brigham Young University High School, 1940-1965. She married Charles Avery Caine. ~ ~ ~ ~ Julia Dorothea Alleman was born on February 27, 1900 in Springville, Utah. Her parents were Charles Albert Alleman and Hannah Dorthea Andersen Hansen Alleman. Julia married Charles Avery Caine on June 25, 1933. Julia Alleman Caine died two days after her 76th birthday, on February 29, 1976, in Provo, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ Because of Julia A. Caine, the young people in Utah schools were able to receive a better background in the study of economics. Beginning in the summer of 1953, selected Utah educators were given scholarships to attend a three-week workshop, the BYU Economic Education Workshop, to learn more about the field of economics. Julia Caine, a teacher at Brigham Young High School, and Dr. A. Smith Pond (Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1952 to 1955, Chairman of the Agricultural Economics Department from 1938 to 1955, Acting Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1955 to 1957, Dean of the Graduate School at the time of his death, April 1, 1959), recognized that there was a need to have classroom teachers in the elementary and secondary schools who understood the various economic principles and concepts. The workshop was held annually from 1953 to 1966, and Julia Caine served as the Assistant Director of the workshop for several years. During workshop sessions, teachers developed projects, unit teaching plans, and resource units which they could use in the schools. As a result, the young people in Utah schools were able to receive a better early education in the study of economics. ~ ~ ~ ~ Caine, Julia Alleman, was born February 27, 1900 in Springville, Utah, and died February 29, 1976 in Provo, Utah, after a long illness. Her interment, Springville City Cemetery. She is buried near her husband, Avery, who survived her by one year. Charles Avery Caine was born August 24, 1898, in Salt Lake City, Utah. His parents were Charles Arthur Caine and Fannie Mary (Mary) Roundy. C. Avery Caine died January 17, 1977, in Provo, Utah. His interment, Springville City Cemetery. ~ ~ ~ ~ HER OBITUARY: Julia Alleman Caine, Longtime Educator, Dies at 76. Julia Alleman Caine, 76, of 470 North 500 East, Provo, Utah, longtime teacher in the Brigham Young University Laboratory Schools, died Sunday, February 29, 1976 in Utah Valley Hospital following a long illness. She was born February 27, 1900 in Springville, Utah, a daughter of Charles A. and Hanna D. Hansen Alleman. She married C. Avery Caine on June 25, 1933 in Springville, and the marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Mrs. Caine attended schools in Springville and graduated from BYU in 1925 as valedictorian of her class. She later received her masters degree from Colorado State Teachers College and taught school in Sevier County, Salt Lake City, and Idaho Falls, Idaho, before coming to Provo. In 1941 she began to teach at Brigham Young High School. In 1965, Mrs. Caine was honored on her retirement from BYU, after teaching in Laboratory Schools for 24 years. She later returned on an emeritus basis, the first laboratory school teacher to gain that honor. Her total teaching career spanned more than 40 years. A prominent member of the American Association of University Women, she served as local and state president. She was the first educational director of the Utah Economics Workshop for public school teachers. Mrs. Caine was on the commission which authored the charter for the city manager form of government of Provo in the 1950's. She was listed in Who's Who of American Women. Active in the LDS Church, she served as president of the YMMIA in stakes in Salt Lake City, Idaho Falls and Provo. She later was very active in the Stake Relief Society in Provo. Surviving are her husband, Provo; one brother and two sisters, C. Lynn Alleman, Springville; Mrs. Richard E. (Helen) Ajax, Orem; and Mrs. Jack T. (LaRae) Davies, Provo. Funeral will be Wednesday, March 3, 1976 at 2 p.m. at the Walker Mortuary Chapel, 85 E. 300 S., Provo, under the direction of Bishop D. Eccles Cameron. Interment, Springville City Cemetery. [Provo Daily Herald, Monday, March 1, 1976]

Allen, Barbara (1954)
3535 N. 160 W.
Provo, Utah 84604 US

Barbara Allen

Class of 1954. Barbara Allen. Senior Class Social Chair. Chorus, Chorus Accompanist, Soph Class Social Chair, Fauvines, French Club, Notre Maison, Ski Club. @2001

Allen, Barbara (1970)
13422 Grinnell Circle
Westminster, California 92683 US

Barbara Davis

Work: (714) 898-5222

Class of 1970. Barbara Allen. Class Social Chair. Class of 1970 Party Committee. BYU BS Child Development and Family Relations 1974. Married ____ Davis.

Allen, David T.
Leeds, Utah US

David and Katherine Allen

Class of 1960 ~ Honorary. Married Katherine Pritchett, BYH Class of 1960. David attended BYH in 1957, and participated in Junior High Music. Eleven children: six sons, five daughters. Kathy was an elementary special education teacher in Page, Arizona. They have 13 grandchildren. Their children live in many places - from Vermont to California, with the youngest still at home. They had a nice home near Lake Powell. @2006 ~ ~ ~ ~ David (Class of 1960~Honorary) and Kathy Allen moved in 2011 to Leeds, Utah. They are both retired now. They have their youngest child at home, Davy Bob Allen (Down Syndrome, age 25 in 2013). @Aug 2013 ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS OBITUARY: David Taylor Allen, age 77, passed away Tuesday morning, July 28, 2020, in his sleep at his home in Leeds, Utah from ALS. He was born September 12, 1942 in New York City to Robert K and Elizabeth T Allen of Provo, Utah. He married Kathy Pritchett on her 20th birthday, December 25, 1961, at his parents' home in Provo, Utah. David grew up in Provo. He attended Brigham Young High School in 1957. He then went to Provo High, where he graduated in 1960 from Provo High. David was an entrepreneur. He began businesses including Allen-Ward Associates and a TV repair business in Provo, Allen's Camera, Sound and Music in Heber City, and Deseret Computer in Salt Lake City. He received a US Patent for the Sync generator he and his friend Ron Ward invented. David was brilliant and fun to talk to. He could (and did) fix almost anything and he had great faith in God and love for his family. He was always excited to show everyone the most recent thing he had invented, created, or fixed. He graduated in Business Management from Missouri State University in Joplin, Missouri. He most recently was employed by the LDS Facilities Management in Page, Arizona. He is survived by his wife Kathy of Leeds, Utah and their 11 children including: Heather Allen, of Boston, MA. Judy Done of Logan, Utah. Aaron Allen of Allentown, PA. Alma Allen of Mexico City, Mexico, Adam Allen of Draper, UT, Abraham Allen of Leeds, UT, Ruth Waddell of Syracuse, UT, Samuel Allen of Bountiful, UT, AnnMarie Gordon of Alpine, UT, Emily Berriochoa of Phoenix, AZ, and DavyBob Allen of Leeds, UT. David is grandfather to 26 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. He loved his family. He is also survived by his brother, Robert E Allen of Salem, Utah and his sisters, Liz Sherlock of Salt Lake City, Utah and Jane Allen of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Arrangements are made under the direction of Spilsbury Mortuary, 110 S. Bluff St, St. George, Utah. Friends and family are invited to sign his online guest book at www.spilsburymortuary.com Graveside Services will be held at the Toquerville City cemetery on August 8 at 10 AM. [Published by Spectrum & Daily News from July 30 to August 2, 2020.] Class of 1965. Liz Allen. "I left BY High in 1964 under a cloud, expelled for a variety of dastardly deeds. Went to BYU as an early entrant, graduated in 1967 at the age of 19 with a B.S. in Sociology. Went on the first BYU semester abroad to Israel in 1968. Married Louis Berntsen, one child, John, born in 1971. Divorced in 1973. Graduated Cum Laude from J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1976. Spent three years in Navy JAG, stationed for two years in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Married Robert Sherlock whom I met in Navy JAG. Two children, Jeff, born in 1984 and Hilary, born in 1994. Completed a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Utah, became an Air Force psychologist. Did tours in Turkey, England, Spain, Panama, Texas. Retired from Hill AFB, Utah, as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2001. Currently living part time in Moab, Utah and part time in Salt Lake City." @2008 ~ ~ ~ ~ Alternate work address: 1666 Harvard Ave, Salt Lake City, Utah 84105 @2010

Allen, Mark K.

Mark Allen

Collegiate Grad of BYU, Class of 1926. Mark K. Allen. He received an A.B. Degree in Psychology in 1926. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 10, page 396.

Allen, Mary
4271 North Vintage Dr.
Provo, Utah 84604-5669 US

Mary Allen & Robert Redd

Work: (801) 222-9990

Class of 1957. Mary Allen. Varsity Cheerleader. Soph Vice President, Soph Cheerleader, Debate Region, Legislative Forum Region, Childrens Theater, Seminary Play, Pep Club, Notre Maison, Ski Club, Chorus, Girls State, I Speak for Democracy, Model U.N., Scholarship Award, Junior Prom Committee, Graduation Committee. Married Robert Byron Redd, also BYH Class of 1957.

The Cowboy and the Cheerleader. He came to BY High School from a southern Utah ranch. Blue eyes and a cowboy hat. She was a cheerleader, leaping and thumping, hollering a cheer familiar in those days, "Hold that line." Over in 250A he did not glide out on the dance floor, where Gordon Bullock dipped amazingly. In College Hall when the lights shone on the stage, our cowboy didn't stride out there. He was the one up in the rafters making the lights work. She did notice that downstairs by the rattling lockers he was the one making others laugh. And he was awfully handsome. Maybe he could be taught to dance, she thought. He fetched her for the prom in a pickup truck, bringing a sagebrush corsage. That summer he sent a letter from his ranch, enclosing a horny toad. They went camping, and he made fire out of rocks. He could fix anything with his strong hands, hands that were gentle when they touched. But she was a proud sixteen. No man touched her lips. Then one night in a bus station in Monticello, under his desert stars, the cowboy kissed her with his soft lips. It meant forever, although they didn't know that then. They went their diverse ways, the cheerleader cartwheeling off to a life in the East, the cowboy riding back to his red rock ranch. For twenty-two years they did not meet. She had long given up cheerleading, seeing her BY High days as dust. The school buildings crumbled, glass in shards, gone to the dogs. Then something happened. Brave souls wouldn't allow such a death, willing to be chained in front of a bulldozer first. And the cowboy went to find the cheerleader. She was there. Who was this gentleman in cowboy boots? But the blue eyes. The smile. It was that sexy cowboy. A friend from long ago. They now live up the street from Academy Square, with its polished windows, Internet hookups, a world of cyberspace unimaginable once. Yet the same walls stand. The red roof is restored. And the beehive out front surely remembers students gathering there, a cheerleader swinging her legs from the edge, eating a cone from University Dairy, noticing the boy from southern Utah, thinking he would be nice to know. By Mary Allen Redd, BYH Class of 1957, Provo. [Provo Daily Herald, September 7, 2001.]

Allen, N. Eugene

Eugene Allen

Class of 1920. N. Eugene Allen. He received a BYH Business Diploma in 1920. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 9, page 261.

Allen, Norma
Logan, Utah US

Norma and Stewart Williams

Class of 1924. Norma Allen, of Provo, Utah. She graduated in the BYH Class of 1924. Background sources: BYU/BYH Annual Catalogues for the School Years 1923-24, 1924-25, and 1925-26. ~ ~ ~ ~ HER OBITUARY: Norma Allen Williams passed away November 7, 1994 at the age of 89. She was born November 5, 1905 in Raymond, Alberta, Canada to James E. Allen and Stella Speakman Allen. Norma grew up in Provo, Utah, and she attended BYU High School, where she graduated in 1924. She continued her education at Brigham Young University where she majored in home economics and clothing design. She married J. Stewart Williams on September 1, 1927 in the Salt Lake Temple. He died in 1984. September 15, 1927, Norma and Stewart left for Washington, D.C., where they worked and went to school. Norma was an assistant buyer for sport and cruise wear and Stewart worked at the U.S. Patent Office and attended George Washington University. In the fall of 1934 they moved to New Haven, Connecticut where they lived for a year while Stewart did post-graduate work at Yale University. In the fall of 1935 they arrived in Logan, Utah where Stewart had been appointed chairman of the Geology department and later became Dean of the Graduate School. Norma enjoyed the University community. Her interests were in art, politics, economics and gardening. She was an active member of the USU Faculty Women's League, a charter member of the Fine Arts Club of Logan, a member of the A.C. Women's Club, a member of USU Emeritus organization, a charter member of Kappa Delta Sorority, and served as President of the Associated Clubs Library Committee of Cache County. She is survived by daughter, Patricia W. Russell and husband, Roy, Covina, California; three sons, David A. and wife, Carol, J. Stewart, Jr., and wife, Barbara, and A. Thomas and wife, Sue, all of Salt Lake City; two sisters, Ruth A. Robertson and Cheer A. Nielson, Salt Lake City; and five grandsons, two granddaughters, two great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorial gifts in support of the J. Stewart Williams Endowed Chair, Utah State University Department of Geology, Logan, Utah. Private family graveside services and burial were in the Logan City Cemetery. [Published in the Deseret News, Friday, November 11, 1994.] ~ ~ ~ ~ Background sources: BYU/BYH Annual Catalogues for the School Years 1923-24, 1924-25, and 1925-26.

Allen, Pearl

Pearl Allen

BYH Class of 1908. Pearl Allen, a Normal graduate. BYU [& BYH] Class of 1908 Listing of BYH Normal, High School, Commercial, Music, Agriculture, and Arts & Trades graduates. Source: Brigham Young University & Normal Training School, Catalogue & Announcements, for 33rd Academic Year, 1908-1909, pp. 128-130.