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Show Life as an Adolescent 41 doings, particularly those relating to school. She was a high school freshman during the first year of this diary. Entries con tinue until 1927, when she was twenty-six. (Other diaries, of course, followed.) As with many of the children and grandchildren of Mormon leaders in Salt Lake City, Madelyn attended LDS High School, or, as it was originally called, the Salt Lake Stake Academy. This secondary school was established in 1886; Madelyn's grandfa ther, Angus Cannon, had served as president of the Academy's board. Classes were held in the Brigham Young Memorial Building, located on the east side of what is now Main Street between South Temple and North Temple streets. Classes in home economics were held in the Lion House, former residence of Brigham Young on South Temple Street (originally Brigham Street). During Madelyn's early years there, the principal was Willard Young, son of Brigham and an engineering graduate of West Point. In 1916, when he resigned to become president of the Logan Temple, Young was replaced by Guy C. Wilson, one of Utah's foremost educators, who was serving as president when Madelyn graduated in 1920. The philosophy of LDS High School, as with other LDS academies and high schools at the time, was to combine reli gious and secular training in educating young Latter-day Saints. Coeducational, the school enrolled almost as many women stu dents as men. The day's exercises began with "chapel" that included singing, prayer, and short sermons by the principal, faculty, and students. School regulations prohibited profanity and obscenity, tobacco and strong drink. A "Field Club" visited places of importance for practical study; a "Student's Society" gave the students experience in conducting meetings and par liamentary procedure. There were evening lectures, musical and literary exercises. Students were given a firm grounding in the doctrine and history of the LDS Church, as well as in core sub jects taught in publicly supported academies. Course work included classes in literature, world history, geology, physics, chemistry, physiology, domestic science, bookkeeping, mathe matics, biology, theology, rhetoric, elocution, Greek and Latin, and French and German. Madelyn was very much taken with |
