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Show Sanpete Students Attend Alpine Summer School A 12.000 foot mountain! is the campus on which Reid H. Allied of Spring City, Lavell Johnson and Leon Lund of Fountain Green', Faye Rigby and Georgia Olsen of Fairview, J. Seymour Jensen and Miss Flossie R. Staker of Mount Pleasant are now studying. With 139 others, he is enrolled in the Alpine term of Brigham Younjc university. The muin campus of thi. University is i..t Provo but the Alpine term is held 18 mll6s awav, al A;pen Grove, 6800 feet up on the wooded shoulders of Mt. Tlnipan-ogas, Tlnipan-ogas, dominant peak of the Was-atcli Was-atcli range. The students live in rustic cabins among aspens and evergreens on the moraine of a ancient glacier. They attend lectures in the open air or under large canvas flies-They flies-They hold programs in a huge lock and log amphitheatre. Their labo: atorrs are rti earns and lakes, fir wer-filled meadows and forests, dills full of fossils and faulU By going to the valley 2000 feet below and climbing to the summit they can ree within a few hours how" plants live under climatic conditions condi-tions varying from warm temperate temper-ate to uictic. Sixty nine towns In eight states, Canada and Mexico are represented among the students. The term will end Aup.ust ?9. i |