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Show Life as an Adolescent 43 able skill. A regular contributor to the student literary maga zine, Gold and Blue, her most exciting moment, according to her diary, is receipt of an invitation in January 1919 to be the editor of Gold and Blue.' She was also a member of the Year Book staff. From these experiences she resolved to become a teacher of literature. She published a story in Gold and Blue in May 1918, "A Modern Joan," about a girl martyr on a sinking ship; another in the October 1918 issue on "The Meadow Lark's Song," about a girl showing courage in playing in a concert. A third story, published in the March 1919 issue was "The White Satin Slipper," about a girl playing detective and proving that the spot of supposed blood on a girl's slipper was really fruit punch. Considering her wide reading, did she have problems with her faith? Intellectual problems? Her diary does not suggest any such struggle. In later life she made much of the fact that her Sunday School teacher in the teenage years was William H. Folland, an attorney and later Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who was, she wrote, "a logical, sound thinker, ideal to lead discussions of doubting adolescents. He might have helped her over many a hurdle and satisfied her inquiring mind. And in the background were her well-read father and mother "2 and Aunt Annie. Madelyn was not all serious student and poet. Her high school diary, which gives the impression of being modeled on Little Women describes her many dates and girl friends. She attended Sunday School and Mutual, went to the theater, drove to basket parties with friends in their Hudsons and Model- T Fords, and took train rides to Saltair, the pleasure resort on the shore of Great Salt Lake. There were class parties, ward dances, bob sleigh excursions, canyon picnics, New Year's Eve get togethers, and Founder's Day dances. Very important to her was the annual February Prom, for which she always had a new out fit and a "best" boyfriend. Madelyn was vice president of the Junior Class. At home, Madelyn did some sewing and, above all, read "good literature." Only occasionally, with the strong discouragement of her mother and Aunt Annie, did she "waste her time" in reading the normal girl's fare of her age: romantic |
