| Show II HISTORY of the seminary program The seminary sys- tem of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Growth j ! beginning in 1912 The first seminary class was established near Granite high school in south Salt Lake had City its This class was such a success that the Utah pro- - I j f i has gradually expanded until currently there are more than 125 senior seminaries located in Utah Idaho Wyoming Of the total number of seminaries Nevada and Arizona gram excluding the Southern California seminaries about 60 5 per 26 Idaho cent in about Utah are cent in per per cent in Arizona 4 per cent in Wyoming 1 per cent in per cent in Alberta Colorado The seminary program has tended to expand steadily Canada 193®H939 In Utah of of State the confines the beyond the number of seminaries in Utah were about 65 per cent of the total with about 25 per cent in Idaho 5 per cent 1 t ! i I per cent in Nevada and 3 - in Arizona per cent in Wyoming and 1 per cent in Colorado The Milton Lynn Bennion Lake City: excluding those majority of these seminaries Deseret News Mormonism and Education Press 1939) P 204 (Salt i j i f ! j j j ! J I j j i |
