Show SOCIETY v tr r 1 Tp 4 l r N fy r r I FOUNTAIN GREEN ROYALTY Left to right Lynette Nielson attendant Kathy queen and Ruth Nielson Nielson Nielson Niel Niel- son attendant I. I High School Graduates Seek Higher Education Approximately per cent of ol the high school graduates over the past nine years pete County went on to enter college at Utah's Institutions of higher education This fact was brought out In Ina ina a Utah Foundation analysis of a 4 study of high school graduate and college freshmen trends In Utah prepared by the Office of Institutional Studies at the University of Utah The Utah Foundation analysis analysis sis shows that there were high school graduates In Sanpete Sanpete Sanpete San San- pete County during the 67 1966 school year compared with In 1957 It Is anticipated that by 78 1977 there will be students graduating from the county's high schools The nine Utah colleges and Universities report that In 1967 there were entering freshmen freshmen freshmen fresh fresh- men from Sanpete County Based on past trends It Is estimated that there will be entering freshmen from Sanpete County enrolled In Utah's colleges during 1970 i during 1975 and during 1978 Foundation analysts point out that throughout the state of Utah the percentage of high school graduates who enrolled In one of Utah's colleges averaged 4 per cent during the year nine-year period 1959 through 1967 This percentage excluded a small proportion of students who en enroll enroll enroll en- en roll In state out-of-state schools A AA AA AA A study made In 1963 by the Us U.s. Office of Education Indicated indicated indicated Indi indi- that approximately five per cent of the undergraduate students from Utah were at attending attending attending at- at tending state out-of-state colleges The study shows that between 1959 and 1967 the total number V 1 T r. I m I o. of high school graduates In Utah rose by 63 per cent During this same period the number of entering freshmen from the state at the nine Utah colleges and universities Increased by 76 per cent In 1959 entering freshmen from Utah enrolled at Ut Utah h colleges colleges col colleges col- col leges equaled per cent of the preceding high school graduating graduating graduating grad grad- class total By 1967 the percentage had risen to cent Altogether the Utah Foundation Foundation Foundation tion analysis shows that there were entering freshmen from Utah enrolled In the Utah Institutions of higher education on last fall Based on the pro pro- project In the study itIs It ItIs itis Is anticipated that the entering enterIng enterIng enter- enter Ing freshmen class from Utah will reach by 1970 by 1975 and hy by 1978 |