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Would you like to write up a favorite BYH recollection or story, but need some ideas to jog your memory? You have reached the right page! The following words are not intended to inspire an essay on that general subject, but instead to help you write about a very specific personal experience, whether funny or sad or heartwarming or life changing. Please mention the date or at least the year, and the names of others involved in your experience:

Absence
Accident
Afternoons
After school
Apology
Art
Assembly
Athletics
Award

Band
Baseball
Basketball
Bonfire
Bookstore
Bowling
Boxing
Building

Campaign
Catwalk
Championship
Cheers
Cheerleaders
Chemistry
Cher Amie
Children's Theatre
Chorus
Coach ...
Comedy
Comment remembered
Contest
Conversation with ...
Curriculum

Debate
Decorating for ...
Deja Vu
Drama

Early Arrival
Elections
Elementary Training School
Examples - Bad
Examples - Good
Expelled

Faculty
Faculty Meeting
Fast Food
Fauvines
Favorite ...
FHA
Field Day
Fieldhouse
Field Trip
First Day
Football
French Club

Generosity
German Club
Golf
Graduation
Gremlins
Guidance Counselor
Hallway
Homecoming
Homework
Honesty
Honor Society

Illness
Initiations
Injury

Junior High School
Junior Varsity
Junior year

Kindergarten
Kindness

Last Day
Late Arrival
Lettermen
Library
Lunchtime
Lunch Room

May Day
May Pole Dance
Meeting of ...
Men's Gym
Mornings
Music

Newspapers ~
The Y News, Banter,
Y'ld Cat, Brigadier,
Daily Herald, etc.

Notebook
Notre Maison

Officers
Orchestra
Orem

Parents
Party
Pearly Gates
Pep Club
Pep Rally
P.E.~
Physical Education
Photograph
Photographer
Photography
Plans gone right
Plans gone wrong
Play
Playing around
Poem
Poetry
Posters
Practices
Pranks
Preferred ...
Principal
Prize

Queen
Quill & Scroll
Radio Club
Radio Reporter
Refreshments
Rehearsal
Rockets
Roller Skating

Sadie Hawkins' Day
Sand Dunes
School Song/s
Science
Seminary
Senior class
Shock
Sign/s
Silence
Ski Club
Sleeping in class
Snow
Snowball
Spanish Club
Stage Sets
Student Council
Student Teacher
Substitute Teacher
Summer
Surprise ...
Suspension
Swimming
Swings

Tape recording
Teacher
Tennis
Thespians
Tough Decision
Track & Field
Training School
Transportation to school
Trees
Trip to ...

University Avenue
University Upper Campus

Varsity
Vending machines
Visitor

W.A.M.S.
Wardrobe Room
Water fight
Water balloons
Willie the Wildcat
Winter
Winter Nights
Winter Sports
Women's Gym
Women's Sports
Workouts
Wrestling

Xam

Yearbook - Wildcat
Yearbook Carnival
"Y High" on Mountain

Zemp

Kent G. Jarvis '60, one of our most successful repeat BYH authors, said:
"I am glad I may have inspired others to tell of their BY High experiences. You almost need to become a kid again mentally, in order to have the courage to admit to actually being one once. That can be very hard after you have spent a lifetime finally becoming a mature and responsible adult.

"It is really good therapy for the mind, however, because those high school years may be the last time that society allowed us to really be ourselves, and not so politically correct and structured."
Steve Thoreson '66, another recollector, described a similar experience. He said:
"I forgot to mention one other thing. Embellishing my remembrances last evening took about an hour and a half. When I finally stood up from the computer, I realized that I had truly just drifted off to a different time and place. I lost all track of time and place and had to recalibrate with life for a while afterwards. It was a very refreshing respite."
Just recently, Dallan Olson ' 67, wrote a story about a catcher's view of a classic BYH baseball season. He wrote:
"This story has given me a joyful trip back into the past. Thank you for inviting me to write about BY High baseball."
We challenge you to seize this delightful opportunity to truly travel back in time. Then email your stories to the BYH website.

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