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Show Class of '31 reunion In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the LDS High School, the alumni of the class of 1931 are holding their class reunion on Saturday, May 17 at 4 p.m. on the 26th floor of the LDS Church Highrise Office Building, at 50 E. North Temple. ALL MEMBERS of the Junior and Senior classes of 1931-32 are invited to participate in an evening of meeting, remembering and social activity, including dinner and program. This event marks the 55th year since graduation and the closing of the LDS High School. Reservations should be made by May 1 with Helen B. Johnson, 261-3499. Marvin J. Ashton, an alumnus, is honorary chairman with Dale R. Curtis serving as acting chairman of the committee planning this class reunion. IT IS significant that the reunion will be held in a building occupying the area on which stood the Smith Memorial Building, Build-ing, the upper floor of which was a "roof garden" where many, social activities of the school were held. A Deseret News account, dated Nov. 15, 1886, noted that the Salt Lake Academy held its first classes in the basement of the Social Hall with Willard Done, a young man of 21, as teacher of all classes. There were 88 students enrolled that first year. CHANGES in name, location, curriculum, and size of enrollment enroll-ment followed. The school was moved to seven different buildings build-ings before it found permanent housing in the first of several buildings to be erected on the corner of North Temple and Main Streets in downtown Salt Lake. This was in 1901. By 1918 the campus was completed with the erection of the Smith Memorial. Memo-rial. First called the Salt Lake Academy, then the LDS College and then from 1891 to 1927 the school was known as the LDS University. In 1927 the name reverted back to the LDS College which included both high school and business college. With the depression years of 1928-31, the church recognized the double burden on its membership in supporting both public and church schools. The LDS High School was the last of the "church academies" to be closed. Education on an elementary and high school level was turned over to the state. THE CLASS of '31 was the last class to graduate from the LDS High School. Wayne Richards |
