Show Modem Utes Look Back to Pioneer Times and One Room Beginning By ORLENE JONES It's a far cry from 1850 to and a big change from the parlor of the old John Park home in the seventeenth ward to a hundred acre It's a great change in history from a trek across the plains to fancy But this has been the history of the university which had its beginning some 92 years The pioneers had been in the Salt Lake valley nearly three The days of the crickets were over they had more time to tUn to political and academic This area in which the Mormon pioneers had settled had been designated as the Territory of by the United States government although their application for statehood had been It was at this time the university was begun under the title of the of After a rather short the university was forced to close its doors because there were no students and it was not until John R. Park became president that it became a definitely established It is to these early pioneers in Utah education that Founders' one of the most dignified and least-mutilated celebrations in the is Founders' really had its beginning t back in 1900 when the idea of holding a function to honor the founders of the school was originated and special exercises were held to honor its fiftieth After little was done about it until 1920 when Alphonse who was student body president at the time originated j the tradition as we know it Since this time it has been a custom to set aside February 28 of each year as Founders' 11 a. m. a cannon is fired by the ROTC and a moment of silence is observed by the In 1923 a plan was introduced to have every student wear a flower on Founders' day as had been the custom in many of the Eastern This popcorn balls will replace the usual was introduced to Founders' day in 1940 when the selection of the first of was made and a night dance was held in the spirit of the |