Show The University s Oldest Alum B Sally Recalls Ida May Lowry Allen is a dainty little lady of 97 And as near as the available records she is the oldest living former student of the When the white-haired former coed attended the it was a two-story adobe building standing at the corner of Second West and First North the site of the present West High According to the annual for she paid a tuition of to attend the University of as it was then Her had always been to attend the The summer of the young Miss Lowry taught school and earned Her mother told earned enough for a nice feather But Allen told don't care any tiling about a feather I want to go to the The little lady's brown eyes sparkled as she thought it would be a feather in my Her academic schedule in the years 1883 and 1884 gives depth to the University's Her fondest She closed her eyes and R. my English The University and Utah best remember Park as a dedicated former University president and the first superintendent of public instruction in And she vividly recalls the music classes she had from Evan come down and play the and we'd gather and I especially enjoyed Stephens later organized and directed the first Mormon Tabernacle Choir of large Since the University at that time had no Ida her two other and four men students of the University shared a rented If that doesn't sound as if it pass today's University housing codes That same some students lived for a time in a tent pitched in the mouth of Creek In her long velvet complete with Miss Lowry participated in University social functions which included apron parties and song Now a mother of six and a Allen took her first plane ride at the age of she has never given up declares her youngest Joseph S. |