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Show BRINGS THANKSGIVING lb Vol. 9, No. 2 B. Y. U. Assembly Presented, Harvest Ball Scheduled Tonight at Nov. 21, 1951 High School ACTIVITIES GALA In the harvest spirit the Har- Sophs Honored Sophomore Week, highlighted by the sophomores dinner party and a senior high dance, gave B.Y. high a week of greatly varied entertainment. The Week, starting Monday, Nov. 12, was opened with an assembly which featured a skit for 'each letter in the word sophomore. Following Mondays assembly basketball was a season-openinover game with the Grey winning the Gold by a score of 24-1By the time Wednesday rolled around the sophs carried out their scheduled roller skating party at the Riverside Roller rink. Since this activity was for sophomores exclusively, the rest of B.Y. high prepared for the viewing of Thursdays funny clothes worn by sophomores and the Sophomore Ball which was held Friday, Nov. 16, the concluding day of Sophomore Week. The people and their accomplished jobs who were main factors in putting over Sophomore Week are as follows: Mrs. Anna Hart, Mrs. Julia Caine, Mrs. Virginia Poulson, faculty advisers; Tom Macmillan, the weeks supervisor of soph social affairs; Kenneth Hickman, assembly chir-man- ; Jarret Anderson, basketball game promoter; Charles Peterson, party planner; and Barbara Allen, chairman of Fridays soph-sponsore- d g journalism Conference The 16th annual Intermountain Journalism Conference will be held at the Brigham Young University, Saturday, Dec. 1. The conference will begin at 9 a.m. with registration, after which a tour through the B.Y.U. Press will be conducted. A talk by President Wilkinson of the B.Y.U. will be followed by Shop TAlps by visiting experts, to be concluded about 12:15. The conference will readjoin at 2 p.m., fbllowing a short lunch period and some special exhibitions at the Joseph Smith building. Prizes will be awarded the winners of the contest for news, feature, and editorial articles of high school papers throughout the intermountain region, at 2 p.m. There will be six $50 scholarships for first prize, to Abe divided between the class and B schools. A copy of a be special journalism book will awarded the runners up. Honorable mention will be made for those articles of special merit. and workshop Special discussions sessions from 2:30-- p.m. will conclude the conference. 4 vest Assembly and Preference Ball are being presented at B.Y. high. The essembly was at 11 a.m. today in College Hall. The theme of the assembly was Harvest Moon" with an autumn background in the patk. It was a one-ac- t play with musical numbers carrying the story. The Preference Ball is to begin at 8:30 in the Social Hall. The sponsors are Mr. Spaiks, Roger Bown, and the House of Representatives. A committee from the House has paired off the couples from cards sent in by the girls. Each girl listed three lellows she would like to go with. For first choice a boy got three votes, tvyo for the second, and one for third. The lucky boy with the most votes is Preferred Man at B.Y. high, and he will be crowned at the party, To suggest a theme and serve as a background in the Social Hall will be the serving table. On it will be pumpkins, squash, vine leaves spilling from a toy wheel barrow, plus trio of orange tripod candles, alternating lime and orange napkins and an olive geen cloth. All this is designed for the delicious food which is to be served. Girls will come in heels and hose, and the boys will come in dress-uclothes. The dance music will be furnished by the Orchettes, and to top off the evening a floor show has been planned. p Xmas Concert Scheduled NEWS FLASHES 26. 31. National Nichols. OCTOBER Assembly, Halloween Assembly. ween Dance. John Hallo- NOVEMBER Homecoming. B.Y.U. High Schools band and float appeared in the parade. Sportsmanship Assembly. Sadie Hawkins Day Assembly. First PTA meeting. Junior-HigSadie Hawkins Dance. Day Senior High Sadie Hawkins Dance, highlighted by Marry-iSam. Sophomore Week. Snow Childrens Theatre White. Junior Class Party. Ninth Grade Party. Thanksgiving holidays begin with assembly and Preference The band and chorus of B. Y. high school will combine on Dec. 17, 1951, at 8:15 in the Joseph Smith building to present their third annual Christmas concert. The band, directed by Farrell Madsen, will play, Egmont Overture by Ludwig Beethoven, Syn- Speech Contest Winners Chosen Patricia Watts of Provo high, won the annual I Speak for copated Clock by LeRoy Ander- Democracy contest held during son, Marcho Poco by Donald S. the week of Nov. 12. The speeches 6. Moore and Noel, a Christmas were given before the Rotary Prescott.' 7. medley by club at noon Friday. The chorus, under the direcThis is sponsored by the Provo 9. tion of Fredrick Webb, will sing Junior Chamber of Commerce to Record Forever Shall My Song the students a love and ungive 10. Bless Ye the by Lundquist, of the United States. derstanding Lord, by Welhousky, Kallys school students from all High Dilemma, a Russian folk song, over the United States are enA. Von Fielitz, and 12. Hymns by couraged to enter. From these 14. Ballad of Brotherhood. hundreds of thousands, four national winners are selected. These 17. committee, this parade will equal four receive an expense free trip and maybe even surpass last to Washington, D. C., and a col21. years parade, which was the lege scholarship. largest staged in the past several One hundred fourteen students BaU. years. B.Y.U. high will have one of 20 entered this contest. Ten of these as winners and eight floats entered in the affair. The were chosen Provo Stages Parade were speeches given over the band will be among several other radio. and bands school singing groups. Brigham Young University The parade, as usual, will beNancy Briggs and Jean Anderhigh school will feature a float and the band in the Christmas gin at Fourth West on Center son represented the B.Y.U. high. street and go east until it reaches They competed against Miss parade on November 28. University avenue; then it will Watts and Mary Lou Thome of. According to Dr. Loyd C. Whitcontinue the of through to Eighth North. Provo high. lock, chairman parade 3. B.Y.U. h n 1 ff |