In this Alumni Directory, our focus is on the often-forgotten BY Academy secondary senior classes between 1877 and 1903, and on the BY High School senior classes from 1904 to 1968.

In 1881 Brigham Young Academy's Scientific Department broke new ground by awarding a "collegiate diploma" to James E. Talmage, the first such BYA diploma to be issued. This raised serious questions about whether a secondary school could issue a "collegiate diploma" that would be recognized by colleges. James Talmage and others were required to take extra tests at other colleges before their collegiate credential was accepted.

BYU and the BYU Alumni Association keep records of BYA collegiate-level graduates, but have not in the past kept comprehensive lists of BYA high-school-level graduates. That is why our emphasis in this Directory is on high school graduates. Nevertheless, in this Directory we will also track the relatively small number of BYA students who received BYA collegiate degrees between 1881 to 1903, simply to avoid confusing the two groups, and because there is much overlapping. [We have also added the earliest BYU graduates, 1904 to 1935, for the same reasons.]

B. Y. Academy High School and Collegiate Class of 1901.

To date [May 2008], Scott Cowley's research in BYA records in the BYU Records Office has documented 3 collegiate graduates, and 46 high school graduates, along with several possible honorary Class of 1901 members, including Maude McArthur Spilsbury, and they are also listed.

B. Y. Academy Collegiate Graduate, Class of 1901, Faculty. ~ ~ ~ ~ Faculty & Staff. A. Inez Knight [A. for Amanda - daughter of Jesse Knight], served as Academy Matron, 1900-1902. ~ ~ ~ ~ Inez Knight. She received her Bachelor of Pedagogy (B. Pd.) Degree in Spring of 1901. Source: Students Record of Class Standings B. Y. Academy, Book 1, Page 11. ~ ~ ~ ~ Inez Knight married R. Eugene Allen [R. for "Robert" - BYA teacher of Commerce 1900-1902]. The children of Eugene and Inez Allen were: William Eugene Allen, Jesse Knight Allen, Robert Knight Allen, Joseph Knight Allen, and Mark Knight Allen.

INEZ KNIGHT, ONE OF THE FIRST TWO SINGLE WOMEN MISSIONARIES IN THE LDS CHURCH: Amanda Inez Knight and Lucy Jane "Jennie" Brimhall were the first single sister missionaries called in the Church. They were called 1 April 1898 to serve in Great Britain. Sister Brimhall had graduated from Brigham Young Academy in 1895 and had taught school afterward. She was a close friend of Inez Knight, daughter of Jesse Knight and granddaughter of Newel and Lydia Knight, who were prominent in early Church history. The two had planned a European tour, but these plans were interrupted by their mission call.

BY Academy Collegiate Class of 1897, and 1901, Faculty. Ernest D. Partridge. Received the degree of Bachelor of Didactics (B.D.) in May of 1897. Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 27, 1897. ~ ~ ~ ~ BYA, BYH & BYU Faculty & Staff. Ernest DeAlton Partridge, Agriculture, Mathematics, and Theology. 1897-1923. ~ ~ ~ ~ B. Y. Academy Collegiate Graduate, Class of 1901. Ernest Partridge. Received Bachelor of Pedagogy (B.S.) Degree in Spring of 1901. Source: Students Record of Class Standings B. Y. Academy, Book 1, Page 13. ~ ~ ~ ~ [See mentions in profiles of Elva Crosbie, BYH Class of 1921, and his daughter, Ruth Louise Partridge, BYH Class of 1916?] ~ ~ ~ ~ E. D. Partridge served as the first principal of the Brigham Young Academy Beaver Branch, beginning in 1898. Twenty-eight students registered for the opening session under Ernest D. Partridge, principal. By the third year, enrollment had climbed to 215.

B. Y. Academy Collegiate Graduate, Class of 1901, Faculty. William F. Ward. Received Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree in Spring of 1901. Source: Students Record of Class Standings B. Y. Academy, Book 1, Page 201. ~ ~ ~ ~ Faculty & Staff. William F. Ward, Mathematics teacher, 1900-1913.