Faculty & Staff. Susa Jackson, Training School, 1879-1884. ~ ~ ~ ~ 1880 CENSUS: Susa Jackson is listed as the daughter of Susan Jackson, who was head of their household, Provo, Utah. Susa was born circa 1863 in Utah, now age 17. She is "At School" and is single. Her father was shown to have been born in the U.S., and her mother in England. ~ ~ ~ ~ Susie [Susa] Jackson was born on March 7, 1863 in Payson, Utah. Her parents were Thomas Jackson [actually born in Blackley, Manchester, Lancashire, England], and Susan S. Martin Jackson [one of three wives of Thomas Jackson: 1. Alice Crompton, married 1842; Susan S. Jackson, married 1862; and Dinah Burrows, married 1871.] Susa Jackson married William Davis Sutton on March 1, 1884. Susa Martin Sutton died on May 1, 1900, in Carbon, Utah, at the young age of about 37. [Today there is a town called East Carbon, in Carbon County, Utah.] Her interment, Provo Cemetery, Utah.

Reference Only: Maude M. Jacob, see Maude Mary Beeley. Training School, 1909-1913.

Faculty & Staff, BYU Training School. Emma Jacobs Farnsworth, 88, died January 31, 1998, in Provo, Utah. She was born in Sulphurdale, Beaver County, Utah, on January 17, 1910, to Murray Kimball and Charlotte Baldwin Jacobs. In her early life, her parents moved to Riverdale, Weber County, where she was reared. On January 11, 1951, she married Norman W. Farnsworth who preceded her in death. Emma was a prominent church worker and educator. For over seven years she worked on the Primary General Board, was president of YWMIA in three different wards, was R.S. Counselor in Mar Vista, was ward and stake in-service leader in both Salt Lake and Santa Monica. She taught in all auxiliary organizations of the LDS Church. She worked in the Provo LDS Temple for several years. For 13 years, she was an elementary supervisor in the Granite School District; she taught in the BYU elementary training school and she taught with distinction in Weber County, Los Angeles City, and Granite School Districts. She is survived by her children, Norman R. (Marilyn) Farnsworth, Borego Springs, California; Helen (Robert) Paxton, Noristown, Pennsylvania; Merrilyn (Harold) Webb, and Charlotte (Gordon) Loveless, Provo, Utah; Gary F. (Carole) Farnsworth, and Dr. Briant J. (Glenna) Farnsworth, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Paul J. (LynnAnn) Farnsworth, Denver, Colorado; brothers and sisters, Mrs. Charles B. (Retta) Watkins, Modesto, California; Mrs. Derold P. (Sue) Romney, Salt Lake City, Utah; Grant B. Jacobs, Uintah, Utah; and Wayne C. Jacobs, Concord, California; 41 grandchildren and 60 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Wednesday, February 4, 1998, in Orem. Interment, Beaver City Cemetery. [Deseret News, Monday, February 2, 1998.]

Faculty & Staff. Margaret Jacobs -- See Margaret SWENSEN.

Classes of 1913 and 1914, and Faculty. Rufus Jacobson. Graduated from Brigham Young High School in 1913. Name on list, but no photo. Source 1: 1913 BYU Banyan yearbook, BYH section, pages 63-81. ~ ~ ~ ~ Class of 1913. Rufus I. Jacobson. He received a High School Diploma in 1913. Source 2: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 5, page 423. ~ ~ ~ ~ Class of 1914. Rufus I. Jacobson. He received a BYH Normal Certificate in 1914. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 5, page 423. ~ ~ ~ ~ Faculty & Staff. Rufus Jacobson, Training School, 1917-1919. ~ ~ ~ ~ Collegiate Grad of BYU, Class of 1922. Rufus I. Jacobson. He received a BS Degree in 1922. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 5, page 423.

B. Y. Academy High School Graduate, Class of 1901, BYU Graduate Class of 1904, Faculty. Clarence S. Jarvis. In Spring of 1901 he received a "High School Diploma & Special Certificate in Plane Surveying". Source: Students Record of Class Standings B. Y. Academy, Book 2, Page 32. ~ ~ ~ ~ Brigham Young University Graduate, Class of 1904. Clarence S. Jarvis. He received the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree at the 1904 Commencement, Spring of 1904. Source: 1904 Commencement Program, BYU Special Collections, UA 1008, Box 1, Folder 2. ~ ~ ~ ~ Source 2: Clarence S. Jarvis. He received a B.S. Degree in 1904. Students Record of Class Standings, B.Y. Academy, Book 2, p. 32. ~ ~ ~ ~ Faculty & Staff. Clarence S. Jarvis, Mathematics and Science teacher, 1901-1904, Engineering 1906-1909. ~ ~ ~ ~ Clarence Sylvester Jarvis was born on February 17, 1880 in St. George, Utah. His parents were George Frederick Jarvis and Eleanor Cannon Woodbury Jarvis. Clarence married Jean Clara Holbrook of Fillmore, Utah, on December 16, 1903 in Salt Lake City, Utah -- she died on May 19, 1963 in Watsonville, California. Clarence Sylvester Jarvis died on March 28, 1970 in Watsonville, California. His interment and hers, Pajaro Valley, California. ~ ~ ~ ~ Author of at least two books: 1. Inventory of Unpublished Hydrologic Data, etc (U.S. Geological Survey. Water Supply Paper. no. 837.) by William T. Holland and Clarence Sylvester Jarvis (1938), and 2. Floods in the United States. Magnitude and frequency (U.S. Geological Survey. Water-Supply Paper 771.) by Clarence Sylvester Jarvis (1936). ~ ~ ~ ~ The town of Ivins, Utah, came about because of the fulfilled dream of several men to bring water to the Santa Clara bench. This was not easy to accomplish. An eight-mile canal had to be built from the Santa Clara creek near the Shem smelter to the bench. This was not an easy undertaking, the route took them over steep mountain sides and deep ravines that needed to be syphoned or plumed. Work began in 1911 and the canal was completed in 1914. Ivins Reservoir was built to store the water in 1918. Civil Engineeers, Leo A. Snow and Clarence S. Jarvis, were the men who first conceived this idea in 1909. ~ ~ ~ ~

Faculty & Staff. Physical Education: Girls' Sports Coach, 1967-68. [Is Jensen her maiden name or married name? Middle name, parents' names?] [TM]

Faculty and Staff. C. LaVoir Jensen [male], Mathematics teacher and Athletic Advisor, known years 1926-1948, perhaps earlier. C. LaVoir Jensen supervised the "Y" High basketball team for the high school faculty in December of 1926. He was Principal of the Junior High, including 1934-1935. He was Acting Principal of BYH, subbing temporarily for Golden L. Woolfe, 1938-1939. He served as Business Advisor to the 1947 Wildcat Yearbook. He "inflated the egos" of the students in each of his classes by telling them they were the worst Algebra class in ten years. Alfred Hitchcock lookalike. His hobby: German. Nickname: "C.L." Mr. C. Lavoir Jensen was an excellent math and physics teacher. He would often go to Calder's Ice Cream for dinner. ~ ~ ~ ~ Cannon LaVoir Jensen was born on July 8, 1891 in Ephriam, Sanpete County, Utah. His parents were Daniel Christian Jensen and Mary Elizabeth Anderson [or Andersen]. He married Florence Hibbert, of Union, Oregon, after she graduated in the BYH Class of 1911. They were married on May 21, 1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah. C. LaVoir Jensen died on November 3, 1952. Interment, Midvale, Utah. Florence Hibbert Jensen died on June 27, 1978 in Provo, Utah. Interment, Midvale, Utah.

Faculty & Staff. Cecelia Jenson [actually Jensen], BYH faculty member in 1933-1934, subject? ~ ~ ~ ~ Cecilia Ruth Jensen was born on August 28 [or 29], 1910 in Elmo, Emery County, Utah. Her parents were Soren Peter Jensen, Jr. and Eliza Ann Cornwall Jensen. She married ____ Tucker on May 3, 1937, in Price, Utah. She died on April 15 [or 25], 1994 in Cleveland, Emery County, Utah. Her interment, Cleveland, Utah.

Faculty & Staff. Lillian Jensen Peterson, Training School, 1920-1923. ~ ~ ~ ~ Collegiate Grad of BYU, Class of 1927. Lillian Jensen. She received a BS Degree in Education in 1927. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 10, page 378. ~ ~ ~ ~ IS THIS? Lillian Jensen, who was born circa 1902, of Ephraim, Utah. She married Sidney Martin Peterson on June 10, 1925.

Faculty & Staff. Peter Joseph Jensen. Training School, Mathematics, & Pedagogy. 1895-1900, 1903.

Faculty & Staff. Edgar Milando Jensen, M.A. Education teacher, 1916-1917, 1927-1959. Ninth Principal of BY High School from 1928 to 1935, and also Art Instructor. Served as Director of Training Schools after being Principal. ~ ~ ~ ~ Collegiate Grad of BYU, Class of 1919. Edgar M. Jenson. He received an MA Degree in Educational Administration in 1919. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 9, page 178. ~ ~ ~ ~ According to conflicting records, Edgar Milando (or Malenda) Jenson was born circa 1890-94 in Pine Valley Mountain, Utah, or on Apr 6, 1888, in Ephraim, Sanpete County, Utah. On September 4, 1918, he married Ivie May Gardner [BYU AB Degree 1918] (born 15 Dec 1894 to her parents: Reuben Gardner and Lucy Almira Snow). The children of Edgar and Ivie Jenson included: Nellie Jenson [BYH Class of 1937] (Herman) Adams of Parowan, Utah; Beverly Jenson [BYH Class of 1941] of St. George and Provo, Utah; and Gloria Dawn Jenson [Class of 1946] of Provo. ~ ~ ~ ~ Edgar Jenson was an artist, teacher and educational administrator. Edgar employed Floyd E. Breinholt, artist, to make visual aids for him during depression years. Jenson Publication: Sanpete Tales: Humorous Folklore from Central Utah / by William Jenson Adams; with stories collected by his grandfather, Edgar M. Jenson; and illustrations by Edgar M. Jenson. Call #398.2089 J453s (Snow College - Phillips Library.) ~ ~ ~ ~ Edgar M. Jenson died on May 25, 1958. His wife, Ivie May Gardner Jenson, died on July 21, 1966 in Provo, Utah. [Note: Correct spelling is JENSON not JENSEN.] ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS OBITUARY ~ June 6, 1958

Faculty & Staff. Wilma Jeppson, BYH faculty member 1933-34, subject?

Faculty & Staff. Don Jesse. Seminary Teacher 1966-68.

Faculty & Staff. Alva Johanson (male). He was on the BYH faculty during the 1935-1936 school year.

Class of 1921. Celestia Johnson. Source 1: Photographs of the BYH Class of 1921, one taken in 1918, and the graduation photo taken in 1921. ~ ~ ~ ~ Class of 1921. Celestia Johnson [Taylor]. She received a High School Diploma in 1921. Source 2: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 10, page 158. ~ ~ ~ ~ Collegiate Grad of BYU, Class of 1925. Celestia Johnson [Taylor]. She received an AB Degree in Dramatic Arts in 1925. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 10, page 158. ~ ~ ~ ~ Celestia also served on the BYH Faculty & Staff from 1953-58. ~ ~ ~ ~ Celestia Marguerita Johnson Taylor was born on April 8, 1903 at Alpine, Utah, and died 28 July 1996 at Provo, Utah. Her interment, Provo City Cemetery. Husband, Lynn Dixon Taylor (died 1967). ~ ~ ~ ~ HER OBITUARY: Celestia Marguerita Johnson Taylor, age 93, died Sunday, July 28, 1996 in Provo, Utah. Celestia was born in Alpine, Utah, April 8, 1903, to Jesse Wanderus and Deseret Nash Johnson. She received her education at Brigham Young High School [Class of 1921] and graduated from BYU in 1925 with a B.A. Degree in music and education. She taught in the Grantsville, Utah school system for three years. In 1925 she attended Columbia Teachers College in New York City. In August, 1927, she married Lynn Dixon Taylor in the Salt Lake City Temple. She joined the faculty of BYH and BYU after having received her M.A. degree in 1953, and she taught English and Literature for 21 years until her retirement in 1974. Throughout her days, Celestia was involved in church and community service. In 1962 she was called to the General Board of the Relief Society where she served for 13 years. During the 1970's she prepared the homemaking lessons that were published in the Relief Society Magazine over a six-year period. While on the Relief Society General Board she traveled internationally, having many assignments in Europe, England, Australia and New Zealand. At BYU she was a lecturer in many Education Week programs and Continuing Education Seminars. She served as BYU Alumni Association Vice President, as BYU Women president, on the Executive Board of the Friends of BYU Library, and as Vice Chair, Faculty Emeritus Alumni Association. She was a member of the Administrative Board of the LDS Church Teacher Development Program. She served as a Provo Temple ordinance worker for ten years. Celestia was a charter member, Literary League of Provo, and a participant and officer of the Utah Opera Association. She was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Utah Trade Technical Institute, Provo, Fine Arts Chairman of the Federated Women's Clubs of Utah, a member of the Utah Poetry Association, and of the League of Utah Writers. In 1980-82, she was State President, National League of American Pen Women. Celestia was preceded in death by her husband, Lynn and her daughter, Kathryn Dee Brockbank, wife of A. Brent Brockbank, Hollister, California. She is survived by sons and daughters, John A. Taylor, Provo; Janice (Mrs. Monte B. DeGraw), Solana Beach, California; Lynn Anne (Mrs. H. Bryan Richards), Manchester, England; and George T. Taylor, Provo. Celestia had 29 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren at the time of her death. Funeral services were held Wednesday, July 31, 1996 in Provo, Utah. Her interment, Provo City Cemetery. [Published in the Deseret News, Monday, July 29, 1996.]

Brigham Young High School, Class of 1908 and 1909. Charles Robert Johnson. Brigham Young High School, Class of 1908. Charles Robert Johnson. In 1908 he received a Normal Diploma. Source: Students Record of Class Standings B.Y. Academy, Book 2, Page 273. ~ ~ ~ ~ BYH Class of 1908. C. R. Johnson, a Normal graduate. BYU [& BYH] Class of 1908 Listing of BYH Normal, High School, Commercial, Music, Agriculture, and Arts & Trades graduates. Source: Brigham Young University & Normal Training School, Catalogue & Announcements, for 33rd Academic Year, 1908-1909, pp. 128-130. ~ ~ ~ ~ Brigham Young High School, Class of 1909. Charles Robert Johnson. He received a Music Diploma. Source: Students Record of Class Standings B.Y. Academy, Book 2, Page 273. ~ ~ ~ ~ Faculty & Staff, Music, 1908 to 1915: Charles Robert Johnson. ~ ~ ~ ~ Obituary: Clover Johnson Sanders, daughter of Charles Robert Johnson. KAYSVILLE - She was a beautiful, charming, caring and gracious person who personified achieving the American dream, beginning her career an a high school teacher and ending it as Chairman of the Board of one of the Intermountain area's most successful companies, Clover Club Foods, a company she and her husband, Hod, built together. Clover J. Sanders died Friday, December 24, 1999, at the age of 96. She was born in 1903 in Price, Utah, to Charles Robert Johnson and Deseret Aldridge Johnson. After living in Price and Huntington, the family moved to Provo in 1908, where her father received his Music Diploma in the BYH Class of 1909 and taught music at what was then Brigham Young Academy [actually it was Brigham Young High School -- Brigham Young Academy ceased to exist in 1903]. Because of his association with the school, Clover was allowed to attend and began her education at the age of 5 at the BYA kindergarten [BYU Laboratory Elementary School]. In 1916, the family moved to Logan and Clover graduated from Logan High School. At the age of 16, she enrolled at Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University) where she majored in music, drama and physical education. In 1923, she was the first student - male or female- to graduate in Utah State's physical education program. She taught at Morgan High School, and it was there that she renewed a friendship with a man she had met at Utah State, Newell V. "Hod" Sanders. The couple was married on May 28, 1928. After working at various jobs In New York and California, the couple decided they wanted to have their own business; so in 1938, armed with little more than enthusiasm, Hod and Clover moved back to Hod's home town of Kaysville with one simple desire to work for themselves. Taking their life savings, experiences learned while working at other snack food companies, and with a few pieces of second-hand equipment, they rented a "back room" in a vacant warehouse in Kaysville, and Clover Club Potato Chips was born. It was Clover's job to do the cooking. Hod delivered the chips door-to-door and store-to-store hoping to sell enough to be able to buy the potatoes they needed for the next day's batch. When a shortage of money became critical, Clover sold her prize piano to keep the fledgling company going. From this humble beginning, Clover Club grew into a major snack food company with distribution in 11 Western states. Clover credits the success on hard work, determination, and always providing a quality product. Hod died in 1980 and Clover assumed the responsibilities of Chairman of the Board, a position she maintained until 1983, when the company was acquired by Borden, Inc. Over the years, Clover has been active in many civic and church activities, including the development of the LeConte Stewart Art Gallery in Kaysville. She was one of the first two women to serve on the Davis County Health Board. And in 1989, at the age of 87, she worked to create a community center for the older citizens of Kaysville. She in survived by two sons, Robert V. (Gail), Salt Lake City; John N. (Sheryl), Bozeman, Montana; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, Barr; two brothers, Reed and Lund; and a sister, Dixie. Graveside services were held Wednesday, December 29, 1999 in Kaysville. She was truly a remarkable woman, and she believed that (in her own words) "Life is what happens when you're planning something else." The family suggests donations to the Kaysville Autumn Glow Senior Citizens Center, 81 E., Center, Kaysville, Utah, 84037. [Published in the Deseret News, Sunday, December 26, 1999.]

Faculty & Staff, mid-1950s. Douglas E. Johnson. ~ ~ ~ ~ NEWS ARTICLE: Douglas E. Johnson will be celebrating his 80th birthday on March 5, 2006. He was born in Union, Utah on March 5, 1926 to Henry Edwin and Almira Beckstead Johnson. He was the youngest of eight children, and the only son born to his parents. Doug spent his early years in the Sandy area. He graduated from Jordan High School in 1944. After his completion of high school he volunteered for the Reserve Cadet Program. He was trained as an armament-gunner on a B-29. Upon completion of his training he was stationed at Tinian Island Air Base in Mariannas. When the war was over Doug returned to Utah and attended the University of Utah. He was active in the ROTC program at the U and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1950. He was also active in the LDS fraternity, Lambda Delta Sigma. He received his bachelor's degree with a composite major in history, economics, and sociology with a minor in Secondary Education in June of 1951. While attending the University of Utah he met and fell in love with a beautiful coed, Ruth Monson. They were married on August 25, 1949 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. After college graduation, Doug was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma for three years. While at Fort Sill he was the battalion supply officer for the 469th Field Artillery. The 469th Field Artillery provided the men and equipment for the training in the gunnery and officer's candidate schools (OCS). In January 1954 Doug and Ruth returned to Utah. Doug enrolled at BYU to begin his Master's degree. He taught history at Spanish Fork High School for a short period of time. He taught history for one year at BY High School as a graduate assistant. Then went to American Fork Jr. High School where he taught American History, Utah History, geography and English. In 1968 Doug was awarded the Freedom Foundation Teachers Award at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. He taught for Alpine School District at American Fork Jr. High School for 37 years. Doug has always been a life long learner and has enjoyed studying a variety of subjects. Doug continued his affiliation with the military through his service in the Army Reserve. During his summer months, he taught at the 6th Army Area Intelligence School. His assignment was at Fort MacArthur, California. He taught Infantry, Artillery, and Intelligence subjects as well as the Nuclear Weapons refresher coarse. Throughout his 24 years of reserve service he commanded artillery batteries and infantry companies. He was a staff member of the 4th Rocket Howitzer Battalion Eleventh Artillery at Salt Lake. He retired as a Major. Doug has been involved with Barbershop Quartet singing and the Utah Valley Skyline Chorus for 34 years. He has performed with several quartets and has won several competitions. It has been said that he would "sing at the drop of a pitchpipe." Doug has always been hard working and industrious. He has stayed current with politics and political affairs. He ran for the Utah State Senate during the 1970s. He also drove tour bus for Lake Shore Motor Lines for 20 years. Doug is an ordinance worker in the Mount Timpanogos Temple. Doug and Ruth have celebrated their 56th anniversary. They have seven children: Karen (Mark) Tuttle, Lynette (Les) Lovell, David (Karen) Johnson, Boyd (Jina) Johnson, Mark (Evie) Johnson, Gordon (Shauna) Johnson, Greg (Jana) Johnson. They have 26 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. [American Fork Citizen, March 1, 2006.] ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS OBITUARY: Douglas Edwin Johnson of American Fork passed away peacefully at his home on March 16, 2015. He had just celebrated his 89th birthday. He was born in Union, Utah on March 5, 1926, to Henry Edwin and Almira Beckstead Johnson. He was the youngest of eight children and the only son. Doug spent his early years in Sandy. He graduated from Jordan High School in 1944. He volunteered for the Army Air Corp. When the war was over Doug returned to Utah and attended the University of Utah. He was active in the ROTC program and was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in 1950. He received his bachelor’s degree with a composite major in history, economics, and sociology in June of 1951. While attending the U of U he met and fell in love with a beautiful young coed, Ruth Monson. They were married on August 25, 1949 in the Salt Lake Temple. After graduation, Doug was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma for 3 years. In 1954 Doug and Ruth returned to Utah. Doug enrolled at BYU to begin his Master’s degree. He taught history at Spanish Fork High School. He taught history for one year at BY High School in Provo as a graduate assistant. He then taught American History, Utah History, Geography, and English at American Fork Junior High until his retirement in 1991. Doug continued his military affiliation with the Army Reserve and retired as a Major. In Doug’s 43 years of involvement with Barbershop Quartet singing and the Utah Valley Skyline Chorus, he blessed the lives of many through his music. He has always been hard working and industrious. He ran for Utah State Senate in the 1970's. He served as an ordinance worker at the Mt. Timpanogos temple for eight years. Doug is survived by his beloved wife Ruth and his children Karen (Mark) Tuttle, Lynette (Les) Lovell, David (Karen) Johnson, Boyd (Jina) Johnson, Mark (Evie) Johnson, Gordon (Shauna) Johnson, and Greg (Jana) Johnson. He also has 26 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren. A viewing will be held Friday, March 20, 2015 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at Anderson Mortuary (49 East 100 North, American Fork) and at 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, March 21, 2015 at the American Fork 14th ward building (1100 East 400 North ). Funeral services will begin at 11:00 a.m. following the viewing. Interment will be in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Source.

BY Academy High School Class of 1889. John Johnson received a Certificate: Bookkeeping. Source: Utah Enquirer, May 28, 1889. Faculty & Staff. John Johnson, Orthography, 1885-1890. The orthography of a language is the set of symbols (glyphs and diacritics) used to write a language, as well as the set of rules describing how to write these glyphs correctly, including spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. The term is derived from Greek ορθο ortho- ("correct") and γραφος graphos ("that writes"). Orthography is distinct from typography. Orthography includes the writing system of a language. English, for example, has an alphabet of 26 letters for both consonants and vowels, but no glyph for stress. However, each English letter may represent more than one sound, and each English sound (phoneme) may be written by more than one letter. An example of an orthographic rule describing how letters are used is i before e except after c; another is that the plural is written with the letter s regardless of whether it is pronounced as an [s], as in cats, or as a [z], as in dogs. In addition, combinations of letters called digraphs, such as th, represent single sounds in English orthography. Other languages which use the same alphabet as English may not use the same digraphs.

Faculty & Staff Early 1960s, including 1963-66 - English Teacher. BYU BS Secondary Instruction 1958.

Faculty & Staff. Stephen Johnson, Training School, 1879-1880.

Faculty & Staff. Louisa W. Jones, Training School, 1902-1904.

Class of 1952. Jean Jorgenson. Notre Maison. Also Faculty & Staff, 1955-56, Mathematics. Married Kent A. Pedersen on May 31, 1956 and we have two children, Chris Pedersen (married Suzanna Shurtleff) and Jennifer Pedersen Hooper (married Richard Hooper). ~ ~ ~ ~ Jean taught mathematics at BY High School during the 1955-56 school year. She is now professor of Mathematics & Computer Science at Santa Clara University. @2006 ~ ~ ~ ~ HER OBITUARY: Jean Pedersen passed away on January 1, 2016, at the age of 81. She was a professor at Santa Clara University until her retirement, and she was a member of the MAA for 49 years. Pedersen was known for her research, writing and speaking on polyhedral geometry, combinatorics, and number theory, and with Peter Hilton, Pedersen co-authored A Mathematical Tapestry: Demonstrating the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics. For the MAA, she served on the Spectrum editorial board, and she was awarded the Golden Section’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997. Much more information about her life and career can be found on this page of remembrances from Santa Clara University. There is also a wonderful photograph of Pedersen posted on the SCU web site. ~ ~ ~ ~ ADDITIONAL TRIBUTE: Jean Pedersen It is very sad and unusual to lose an active member of the faculty during the academic year, and so I acknowledge the passing of Jean Pedersen of our department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Jean arrived at Santa Clara in 1972 and made this her academic home. Jean was a popular professor and the author of 214 research papers, reviews and pedagogical works, 13 books, 3 translations, and 8 videos. She touched many lives, as I heard at her funeral from her departmental colleagues and from present students and alumni. As a member of our Santa Clara family, we remember her with deep appreciation. .... It is with sadness that I announce the death of longtime math professor Jean Pedersen, who died on January 1 with her family by her side. Our hearts go out to Professor Pedersen's children, Jenni and Chris, for such a loss, and one so soon after their father's passing. Professor Pedersen was a true pillar of the University and of its math department. Known for her kindness in welcoming newcomers to the University and her collegiality among her fellow faculty, she had a great love for Santa Clara University and a passion for teaching math. Professor Pedersen began her teaching career at Santa Clara in 1966 when she became the first woman to teach mathematics here. She later became the first woman to be granted tenure in the Mathematics Department. A published author, guest lecturer for numerous professional programs and associations, and generous member of the University community, she modeled the best of the teaching scholar. Santa Clara University has lost a leading light in Professor Pedersen, and while we mourn her loss, we remember the great gift of her life. .... Jean J. Pedersen, a long-time professor of mathematics at Santa Clara, died on New Year’s Day 2016 in a Los Gatos hospital after a long series of medical problems. She was born into a family in Provo, Utah; her father was an ophthalmologist, her mother a teacher. She had a younger brother who became an architect in Seattle, and a son and daughter, Chris a Silicon Valley engineer and Jennifer, who teaches mathematics at Utah Valley University in Orem. She had six grandchildren. Jean attended college at Brigham Young University where, given the culture of that time, she majored initially in home economics, only later discovering the beauty of mathematics. So thus motivated when she moved to the University of Utah at Salt Lake City for graduate study, she switched to mathematics. Ultimately she wrote a thesis on algebra under the direction of E. Allen Davis, a well-known mathematician at the University. There she had as a student in one of her classes, an engineering major, Kent Pedersen, whom she later married. Soon after their marriage and Kent’s accepting a position at IBM, they moved to San Jose where they remained. Kent died roughly one year before Jean’s death. After starting a family, Jean joined the Santa Clara University mathematics faculty initially teaching only part-time. Proving herself to be such a spectacularly good teacher, she was transferred to being full-time and eventually to the rank of full professor by 1996. Under the guidance of the legendary mathematician and teacher, George Polya, at Stanford University and later a long series of collaborations with the internationally known British topologist, Peter J. Hilton, Jean performed mathematical research, writing and speaking on polyhedral geometry, combinatorics,and number theory. Hilton had held positions at Oxford, Cambridge, Case Western Reserve, and Cornell, and had been one of the mathematicians that cracked the enigma code at Bletchley Park, led by Alan Turing. Pedersen’s list of publications runs to 214 research papers, reviews and pedagogical works, 13 books, 3 translations, and 8 videotapes. Others await publication. She was eventually to become an Erskine Fellow at the University of Christ Church in New Zealand, a repeated visitor at the University of Capetown in South Africa, and a repeated short-term visitor at the Forschungs Institut für Mathematikc at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule/Zurich. A populist lecturer, Jean was often asked to speak at meetings from departmental colloquia to regional meetings to international congresses. These talks spread from the Bay Area to Australia, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Kuala Lumpur, Delft, Haifa, and many other locations. These presentations often led to collaborators in mathematics (Glenn Appleby, Astrid Bonning, James H. Foster, Walter Gross, Michael Hendy, Bruce Love, Larry Somer, Jurgen Stigter, Tibor Tarnai, Byron Walden, Hans Walser, Tamsen Whitehead); in mathematics education (Franz O. Armbruster, Diane Mendence, E. Allen Davis, Derek Holton, George Polya, Peter Ross, Martin Gardner); general mathematics (Youseff Alavi, Ronald Graham) and algebra (Tibor Tarnai, Carlos Sequin). Jean was a member of numerous MAA and Association of Women in Mathematics, was a one-time member of the Editorial Board of Mathematics Magazine, and was a pioneer director of a “Women and Mathematics” lecture series to attract women into mathematics majors. She was the advisor of our own chapter of AWM. Jean always gave people the impression that being on the mathematics faculty, as teacher, advisor, and friend, was a profession that is just as good as it gets. And as members of the faculty in mathematics at Santa Clara, having Jean as a colleague, we feel that that’s just as good as it gets! Source

Faculty & Staff. Osmond Justesen, Training School, 1903-1904.

Original BY Academy High School Class in 1876, graduated Class of 1880. Joseph B. Keeler. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. He is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. Also BYA Faculty & Staff. Joseph B. Keeler, Theology teacher, 1884-1920. He appears in a photo of the first faculty to serve under Principal Benjamin Cluff in 1892. He married Martha Alice Fairbanks, who was born June 29, 1860, and married to Joseph on May 17, 1883. Her father was David Fairbanks. Joseph was born September 8, 1855 in Salt Lake City, Utah. His parents were David Hutchinson Keeler and Ann Brown (widow of Benjamin Taylor, by whom she had five children: James Taylor; Sarah Taylor; Ann Taylor; Mary Jane Taylor; and Martha Tayor, who died early). Fleeing Salt Lake Valley from Johnston's Army in 1858, the Keeler family reached Provo where the family located, and where Joseph grew into young manhood. His desire for education and the opening of Brigham Young Academy coincided, and he was one of the very first students to enroll. He concluded his studies at BYA in 1879-1880, and in 1880 he was appointed editor of the local newspaper, The Provo Enquirer. He held the position for only a few months, because he was called on a mission in the Southern States, where he served until March of 1882. After holding several public offices (City Assessor, County Recorder), he accepted a teaching position at Brigham Young Academy to be head of the Intermediate Department. Joseph's new work at the school was to begin on January 28, 1884, but on the night of the 27th the Academy's Lewis Building burned to the ground. The school missed only two days, and Joseph began his teaching on January 30th, in temporary quarters. He was instrumental in handling financial affairs so that the struggling school did not close, including helping to start and maintain a boarding house for out-of-town students. In July of 1888 he was described in the Deseret News as, "Joseph B. Keeler, 1st Counselor to Karl G. Maeser, is head of the Academic Department: Bookkeeping, History and Civil Government." Over the years, J. B. Keeler was a vital teacher and administrator, and mainstay without which the Academy could not have continued. He deserves his own unique memorial in the history of Brigham Young Academy and later Brigham Young University. When he retired in 1921, he had accumulated 37 years of service to the school. ~ ~ ~ ~ Joseph Brigham Keeler was born on September 8, 1855 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died on December 21, 1935 in Provo, Utah, at the age of 80. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.