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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 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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