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Show SAGA OF THE UTAH MANIt s written on a parchment-like piece of paper, aged and yellowed, with edges worn by the hands that cherished it. For the Saga or the Utah Man is an old one with its roots buried deep in a log cabin that bleak November day or 1850 where twenty-rive students met to acquire that which seemed vital to them r- an education.Tuition was eight dollars that first quarter and many, eager to attend classes, could not for lack of funds. But with a new culture came new prosperity, and men and women crowded into the schoolhouse to study and socialize . . . and to sign their names with quill pens to the already growing list of contributors to the Utah Saga.A nineteen member marching band was smartly outfitted, sporting at least one of every ordinary band instrument, and supporting the loudly-lauded track team, for track was the athletic attraction when football was new and basketball was a girl s sport.In 1931 a building was dedicated, nearly completing the Circle. And in 1931, on the stage of this edifice, was produced the first Kingsbury Hall production, Materl incK s The Bluebird.The college population tripled in the years following World War II. A four-year college of medicine, a graduate school, and other departments were organized to accommodate the 9,000 students who studied on the lawn, in the library, and over the coffee-stained tables in the old Union. Art students found themselves in the newly-leased barrack buildings of Fort Douglas, and their studios were tiny compartments with shiny floors and greying walls.We are the classes of the 1960 s and we are as much a part of the history as were our predecessors. That which we do shall be recorded and in our minds, remembered. Our homecoming game, the debate tournaments, and the Junior Prom will become important pieces because we are the historians of the Saga of the Utah Man.The Park Building, the Union Building, Orson Spencer Hall, and the Sill Home Living Center take a new aspect from reverse photography.z* r^?S<-^f^P^ilf0^™ |
