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Show The Staff DESMA HALL EDITOR ALICE BENTLEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR H. GRANT TERRY SALES MANAGER FLOYD ATKIN PHOTOGRAPH EDITOR NELLIE SNOW COVER AND CALENDAR J. R. LAURITZEN HUMOR CLASSES: Erma Bentley, Fern Starr, Champ Cuff Dessie Jones, Ralph Harris, Murray Harris, SALESMEN Grant McMullin, Afton Isom B. Glen Smith, John T. Woodbury, Jr., SPECIAL WRITERS: D. Elden Beck, Doris Tobler, DeVora Whitehead, Bernard Seegmiller. . . . . . . . . Silver Jixie Junior College had its birth as an L. D. S. church high school, St. George Stake Academy, later called Dixie Academy. On the nineteenth of September, 1911, its doors were opened to students of high school standing, with Hugh M. Woodward as principal. The students during the first few years were much older and more mature than students of like grade today. This was the result of scarcity of opportunities for higher education. These opgrade students flocked in to take advantage of the newly-foun- d portunity to satisfy their native desires for learning, for Dixie pioneers were education-minde- d from the beginning. In the fall of 1916, the academy added to its curriculum two years of normal college work and the school was rechristened, Dixie Normal College. The spirit of the first mature, stable, earnest, successful students was carrying their hopes to fruition in this dreamed-o- f advancment. The growth of this temple cf learning was keeping needs of our south-lan- d with the pace youth. In 1923, Dixie Normal College became a regular Junior College, and was renamed Dixie College. This same year she was formally accredited1 by the Utah State Board of Education and all Utah Universities. Further, the spring of this year saw her admitted to membership in the American Association of Junior Colleges, a consummation devoutly to be wished. Just ten year later, in 1933, the Utah State Legislature accepted Dixie Junior College as a state institution. As a fitting climax to her growth and recognition, she was accredited by the Northwestern Association cf Secondary and Higher Schools in April 193 4. Today she is in a sisterhood of splendid institutions. Even more than this formal recognition, however, does the record made by her graduates reveal the worth of our college to the community and to the nation. Though her pathway has not been free from dangers and turbulent storms, this record paints a silver lining on all the clouds. John T. Woodbury, Jr. C 1 Ls older-than-tlre- ir |