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Show “\. ze COMMENCEMENT. | = IS THE. “BEGINNING ‘WE DID If Y— Anne Sheryl] Sandbur Suzanne Olson and aduating Provo High gram, as they clean out t Suzanneand She will be Commencement | pro's for the last time. at the Tuesday night as secretary of the School Seniors, graduation A Breinholt, i and Annie Senior Class. has sy | 1 1 te STUDYTIME IS NOT‘THE QUIET HOUR’—Manyhands make lots of work for Mrs. LaMar Boren, as she| compietes a Brigham Young University class signment. Despite the disadvantages of so much “help” from eight of her ten children, Mrs. Boren will graduate with a B.A. degree in Friday’s commencement exercises. end—s RADUATION marks a beginning—an crossroad in living. or women this is especially true ns in ‘many directions: more riage, career. 5 mature WOman, education is some late gift with the earning of a dl 2n combined with homemaking, rear family or furthering a career. or younger college graduate it mezns farewell to the academic mode oflife says she’d rather be at his graduation than her own. | She may be able to “squeeze” both of them in, but if not she is likely to be officially excused from BYU exercises for one of the most unique reasons in commencement history. | Mrs. Boren, whose first name is Myrtle, started college in 1935 andreceived a three year normal certificate from BYU in 1938. She taught school for two years before settline down to raise a school-room-sized family of her own. she graduates from Brigham Young University Friday with a B.S. degree in elementary education. She ‘has 10 children. ~ But Mrs. Boren may not attend commmencement exercises,-unusual as her graduation maybe. Her third oldest child, Robert Ray, 18, is graduating from American For the next 20 years she was busy changing diapers, doctoring skinned knees, making costumes for school plays and baking cookies for the PTA. But she never lost the desire to continue her education. So about two years ago, when her oldest child was 20, and her youngest was two, Mrs. Boren returned to BYU to complete requirements fpr a bachelor’s degree. The whole family cooperated. Her husband LaMar, a machine lube operator at Geneva Steel Co., cared for the smaller children while Mrs. Boren attended evening school. The children themselves helped by keeping the house quiet while “mommie was studying.”’ She also had a ready made laboratory for testing theories she learned in child psychologyclasses. & Fork High School Friday, and Mrs. Boren (See GRADUATION PAGE 2A) an stepping into the competitive society of business or profession or the assuming of the responsibilities of a wife and mother. For many high school graduates, commencement brings a moment of -decision, with a choice to be made about the next few years which will influence all the remainder of their days. Mrs. LaMar Boren, American Fork, will have a ready made cheering section when _ PASSPORTS ACCOMPANY DIPLOMAS—As they plan for graduation from BYU, > these four Provogirls also share plans for a trip to Europe they will make after being awarded their diplomas. Fromleft, Karen Bullock, Maryana Hatch, Maralyn Dayneg =, and Janet Calder, check their passports and travel guides as they anticipate a wonder- \ ful summer abroad. | ~—— . a ee ea sy atcaly Sys |