For reference only. See Juanita Taft Rogers.

BY Academy High School Class of 1880. ~ ~ BYA Collegiate Class of 1881. Source: The Territorial Enquirer of Provo, Utah, June 22, 1881, "Principal's Report." ~ ~ Faculty & Staff, Training School & Chemistry, 1879-1891. Board of Trustees, 1886 to 1891. ~ ~ ~ ~ Elder Talmage obtained his early schooling in the National and Board schools of his home district in England, and was an Oxford diocesan prize scholar in 1874. He entered the Brigham Young Academy at Provo, Utah in 1876, and followed to completion the high school Normal courses in 1879, graduating in the Class of 1880. At the age of 17 he was a teacher of Elementary Science and English in the institution named. In 1881 James E. Talmage received a collegiate diploma from the BYA Scientific Department, the first such diploma to be issued. His early predilection was for the sciences, and in 1882-1883 he took a selected course, mainly in chemistry and geology, at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennysylvania. Though a special student and not a candidate for a degree, he passed during his single year of residence nearly all the examinations in the four-year course and was later graduated; and in 1883-1884 he was engaged in advanced work at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He returned to Utah in the fall of 1884, in response to a summons from Brigham Young Academy, and served as professor of Geology and Chemistry, with varied activities in other departments, in the Brigham Young Academy from 1884 to 1888. ~ ~ ~ ~ While still a member of the faculty, he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brigham Young Academy. During his residence in Provo, he served successively as city councilman, alderman and justice of the peace. ~ ~ ~ ~ James Edward Talmage was a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, and a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born Sunday Sept. 21, 1862, at Hungerford, Berkshire, England, the son of James Joyce Talmage and his wife, Susannah Preater. He is the first son and second child in a family of eight. He was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the place of his birth, June 15, 1873, and on the 18th of the following August was ordained a Deacon in the Ramsbury branch of the London conference. The entire family left England May 24, 1876, landed in New York June 5th, and arrived in Salt Lake City on June 14, 1876. In Provo, Utah, where the family had established a home, he was ordained a Teacher on December 17, 1877, and an Elder on June 28, 1880. Elder Talmage obtained his early schooling in the National and Board schools of his home district in England, and was an Oxford diocesan prize scholar in 1874. He entered the Brigham Young Academy high school at Provo, Utah, in 1876. He followed to completion the high school courses and graduated, taking the "normal" courses in preparation for becoming a teacher. At the age of 17 he became a teacher of elementary science and English at Brigham Young Academy. On September 29, 1884, he was ordained a High Priest, and was set apart as an alternate High Councilor in the Utah Stake of Zion. On June 14, 1888 he married Mary May Booth, daughter of Richard Thornton Booth and Elsie Edge Booth, at the Manti Temple, and from this union there came the following children: Sterling B. Talmage, born May 21, 1889; Paul B. Talmage, born Dec. 21, 1891; Zella Talmage, born Aug. 3, 1894, died of pneumonia April 27, 1895; Elsie Talmage, born Aug. 16, 1896; James Karl Talmage, born Aug. 29, 1898; Lucile Talmage, born May 29, 1900; Helen May Talmage, born Oct. 24, 1902, and John Russell Talmage, born Feb. 1, 1911. His early preference was for the sciences, and in 1882-1883 he took a selected course, mainly in Chemistry and Geology, at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Though a special student and not a candidate for a degree, he passed during his single year of residence nearly all the examinations in the four-year course and was later graduated; and in 1883-84 he was engaged in advanced work at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He returned to Utah in the fall of 1884, in response to a summons from Brigham Young Academy, and served as professor of Geology and Chemistry, with varied activities in other departments, in the Brigham Young Academy from 1884 to 1888. While still a member of the faculty, he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brigham Young Academy. During his residence in Provo, he served successively as city councilman, alderman and justice of the peace. In 1888 he was called to Salt Lake City to take the presidency of the Latter-day Saints College, which position he held until 1893. ~ ~ ~ ~ He became President of and Professor of Geology in the University of Utah, 1894-1897. In 1897 he resigned the presidency, but retained the chair of geology, which had been specially endowed; and ten years later (1907) he resigned the professorship to follow the practical work of mining geology, for which his services were in great demand. In 1891 he received the Bachelor of Science degree, and in 1912 the honorary degree of Doctor of Science, from his old alma mater, Lehigh University. In 1890 he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Science and Didactics by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and in 1896 was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree by Illinois Wesleyan University for nonresident work. Dr. Talmage was elected to life membership in several learned societies, and for many years was a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (London), Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (Edinburgh), Fellow of the Geological Society (London), Fellow of the Geological Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Associate of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain, or Victoria Institute, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Talmage traveled extensively, having traversed most of this country and of Europe many times in the course of scientific pursuits. He was a delegate from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to the International Geological Congress held at St. Petersburg (Petrograd) in 1897, and was a member of the party that crossed the Urals into Siberia. Throughout the period of his professional career as teacher and professor, Dr. Talmage was particularly active and efficient in encouraging scientific study by popular lectures and writings, and for this labor his deep love for science and his exceptional command of language and ability as a public speaker particularly fitted him. Impelled by the same spirit, he took charge of the little Deseret Museum in 1891, and had the satisfaction of seeing the institution become large and influential. He retained the directorship until 1919, when the Deseret Museum ceased to exist as a unified institution, its collections being segregated to form the LDS University Museum, and the LDS Church Museum, respectively. In his teaching work Dr. Talmage was the first to establish courses in Domestic Science and Agricultural Chemistry in the intermountain West. ~ ~ ~ ~ On December 7, 1911, he was appointed and sustained to be one of the Apostles, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Elder Charles W. Penrose as second counselor in the First Presidency, and on the following day (Dec. 8th) was ordained an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ and was set apart as one of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, under the hands of President Joseph F. Smith, assisted by his counselors and members of the Council of the Twelve. When called to special ministry in the Church he promptly relinquished his profession as a mining geologist and engineer, the practice of which had grown to be extensive and lucrative, and from that time he devoted himself entirely to ecclesiastical service. Dr. Talmage was the author of many scientific and theological works, among which are: "First Book of Nature" (1888); "Domestic Science" (1891); "Tables for Blowpipe Determination of Minerals" (1899); "The Great Salt Lake, Present and Past" (1900); "The Articles of Faith" (1899), a comprehensive exposition of the doctrines of the Church; "The Great Apostasy" (1909); "The House of the Lord" (1912), a discussion of holy sanctuaries, ancient and modern; "The Story of Mormonism" (1907); lectures delivered at Michigan, Cornell and other universities; "The Philosophical Basis of Mormonism" (1915); "Jesus the Christ" (1915); "The Vitality of Mormonism" (1919), and numerous pamphlets and contributions to periodicals. Bishop Orson F. Whitney, author of the "History of Utah", said of him: "Professionally a scientist and a preceptor, with gifts and powers equalled by few, Dr. Talmage is also a writer and speaker of great ability and skill. He is an absolute master of English, both by pen and tongue, and possesses a musical eloquence of marvelous fluency and precision. His style of oratory, though not stentorian, is wonderfully impressive, and his well stored mind, capacious memory, quick recollection and remarkable readiness of speech render him a beau-ideal instructor, in public or in private." Elder Talmage served in the Quorum of the Twelve until his death July 27, 1933 at Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of seventy. [Adapted from the LDS Biographical Encyclopedia.] ~ ~ ~ ~ In 1888 Professor Karl G. Maeser was called as the first Superintendent of Church Schools, although he was not immediately relieved of his duties as Principal of Brigham Young Academy. The following year the Board of Education conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Letters and Didactics at a time when he was busy establishing academies throughout the Church. He was away much of the time, and the B.Y. Academy Board selected James E. Talmage to replace Dr. Maeser as Principal. Talmage, an immigrant from England in 1876, entered the Academy soon after his arrival in Utah and later was employed as a teacher. In 1882 he was given a leave of absence to obtain a bachelor's degree from Lehigh University. Later he studied an additional year at Johns Hopkins University and returned to the B.Y. Academy as teacher of chemistry and geology. Professor Talmage accepted the principalship but never served. He had done little more than outline plans for the ensuing year when he was called by the presiding authorities of the Church to the principalship of the Salt Lake Academy, afterwards the Latter-day Saints College and still later the LDS University. Dr. Karl G. Maeser stayed on as BYA Principal. In 1890 when Benjamin Cluff, Jr., returned from the University of Michigan with his bachelor's degree, he was made Assistant Principal, a position he held until January 4, 1892, when he became Principal. Dr. James E. Talmage went on to become President of the University of Deseret (University of Utah) and an apostle in the Church. Brigham Young University named the James E. Talmage Mathematical Sciences and Computer Building in his honor in 1974. ~ ~ ~ ~ James Edward Talmage was born on September 21, 1862 in Hungerford, England. His parents were Gabriel James Joyce Talmage and Susanna Preator Talmage. He first married Merry May Booth on June 14, 1888 in Manti, Utah. Merry May Booth was his only wife in this life. He was sealed to five other women after their deaths, Zella Lee Webb being the first of such sealings. Zella Lee Webb, a friend, was very seriously burned in September 1886 and was probably bedfast thereafter. Although she and Talmage had a special relationship during the year after her accident, they were not married prior to her death in September 1887. During the months of her illness, she expressed a desire to be sealed to him after her death. He received approval from the First Presidency and was sealed to her after his marriage to Merry Mae Booth. He was sealed after their deaths to Grace Mayhew, Loretta Ann Whitby, Elizabeth ______, and Harriet Doolan. Apostle James E. Talmage died on July 27, 1933 in Salt Lake City, Utah. His interment, Salt Lake City. ~ ~ ~ ~ If The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has ever produced a child prodigy, it is James Edward Talmage.

B. Y. Academy High School Graduate, Class of 1901, Collegiate Class of 1903, Faculty. Susa A. Talmage. She received a high school "Normal Diploma" in 1901. Source: Students Record of Class Standings B. Y. Academy, Book 2, page 61. ~ ~ ~ ~ B. Y. Academy Collegiate Class of 1903. Susa A. Talmage. Received the Batchelor of Pedagogy Degree (B.Pd.) in Spring of 1903. Source: Students Record of Class Standings B. Y. Academy, Book 2, Page 61. ~ ~ ~ ~ Faculty & Staff. Susa Talmage, Training School, 1902-1908, until her death. Susa Amelia Talmage was born on February 11, 1879 in Provo, Utah. Her parents were Gabriel James Joyce Talmage and Susanna Preater Talmage. She married Julian Moses Cummings, who was born on March 15, 1884, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She died on April 16, 1908, at the age of 29. Julian Cummings second married Fay Robertson Brimhall, on August 18, 1909, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

BY Academy High School Class of 1888 and 1889. Caleb Tanner received a Diploma: Bookkeeping and General Chemistry. Source: Deseret Evening News, May 28, 1888. BY Academy Class of 1889. Caleb Tanner received Certificates: Physics, Algebra, Geometry. Source: Utah Enquirer, May 28, 1889. Faculty & Staff. Caleb Tanner, Geometry & Engineering, 1897-1904.

BY Academy High School Class of 1888 & Faculty. Grace Tanner received a Diploma: Domestic Science. Source: Deseret Evening News, May 28, 1888. Faculty & Staff. Grace Tanner, Arithmetic teacher, 1885-1890.

Faculty & Staff. Jennie Tanner, Ladies Department, 1883-1888. Jennie Harrington Tanner, 1857–1916, born in American Fork, Utah. “In 1878 Jennie married Joseph Marion Tanner, a professor at Brigham Young Academy in Provo. Later, Jennie became the superintendent of women at the Academy. . . . When after five years of marriage, Jennie had no children, she agreed that Joseph marry a second wife, Annie Clark, in 1883. Six months later, Joseph married Josephine Snow. In 1888, Joseph and Jennie had a home in Logan where Joseph was principal of the Brigham Young College on the site of the current Logan High School. Jennie was a teacher there. Around 1890, a daughter, LaRue, was born to them. Annie Clark Tanner and Josephine Snow Tanner and their children had gone underground since it was then impossible to live an openly polygamous life following the passage in 1887 of the Edmunds-Tucker Act and the Woodruff Manifesto of 1890. After his appointment as president of the Agricultural College of Utah, [today known as Utah State University] in 1896, Joseph, very likely with Jennie and LaRue, moved back into the Farm House on campus . . . Joseph ultimately resigned his position on Feb. 3, 1900 rather than abide by the Manifesto of 1890 and give up the practice of polygamy. ‘It became clear, all known polygamists would have to leave.’ (Margary Ward, A Life Divided: the Biography of Joseph Marion Tanner 1859–1927. (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1980), 37–38).” See “Utah State University: Wives of the Presidents.”

BY Academy High School Class of 1878. BYA Faculty & Staff. Joseph Marion Tanner, Faculty of the Training School & Commerce, 1879-1884. ~ ~ ~ ~ Brigham Young Academy alumnus Professor J. M. Tanner is the President-Elect of the Agricultural College (Utah State) in Logan. Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 18, 1896. ~ ~ ~ ~ Joseph Marion Tanner was born on March 26, 1859 in Payson, Utah. His parents were Myron Tanner and Mary Jane Mount Tanner. He married five times: The first two were Josephine Snow and Jennie Harrington, married to Joseph on November 15, 1878 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He next married Annie Vilate Clark [BYA High School Class of 1883], on December 27, 1883 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also married Carrie Amelia Peterson [BYA High School Class of 1893, Music] and Lydia Matilda Holmgren. ~ ~ ~ ~ Joseph Marion Tanner died on August 19, 1927 in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. His interment, Salt Lake City, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: Joseph M. Tanner (1859–1927) Born in Payson, Utah. Married to Jennie Harrington, Annie Clark, Josephine Snow, Carrie Preston, and Lydia Holmgreen; 24 children. He attended Brigham Young Academy as a student and later taught there. He served a mission to Europe and the Middle East from 1884 to 1887. Upon his return, he served as principal of Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah. In 1896 he was appointed as the president of Utah State Agricultural College, serving until 1900. In 1901 he succeeded Karl G. Maeser as superintendent of Church schools, in which position he served until his retirement in 1906. Source.

Faculty & Staff. Lucy Tanner, Training School, 1881-1884.

BYH Faculty & Staff. Hal Taylor. Old and New Testament teacher, at least 1960-1961.

Faculty & Staff Early 1960s, including 1962-63 - Seminary Teacher.

BYH Faculty & Staff. Rinda Beatrice Taylor, Teacher at BYH in the 1940s. ~ ~ ~ ~ HER OBITUARY: Beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Rinda Beatrice Taylor Erickson Graves completed a long, fruitful life and returned to her Heavenly Father at age 93 on March 17, 2011. Rinda was born December 1, 1917, in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, the fifth child of Harvey Hyrum and Mary Alice Pierce Taylor. She was reared in the Mormon colonies of Juarez and Dublan, Mexico. Her parents had 12 children and, after the death of her mother, her father married Rhoda Clark, who had a son, to make 13 siblings in the family. Rinda was an excellent student and was valedictorian of her eighth grade and high school senior classes at Juarez Stake Academy. She fulfilled an LDS mission to Mexico City, where she was a translator, in addition to regular missionary work. Her mother passed away while Rinda was on her mission. Rinda attended Brigham Young University, earning a BA in Spanish, with a minor in secondary education. She was a teacher all of her life. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States, and always remained active in the Spanish-speaking community of Salt Lake. Rinda married a fellow BYU student, Evan Keith Erickson, on July 18, 1942. Keith was killed in an explosion at his workplace just two weeks later. Rinda finished her degree and worked several jobs to deal with the sorrow. On December 13, 1946, she married James Vernon Graves, a widower with a young son. They were married nearly 56 years, until his death in 2002. Rinda and Jimmy had four children of their own, and made their home in Rose Park since 1951. They were members of the LDS Mexican Branch, Spanish-speaking wards, and several Rose Park wards over the years. Her wit, wisdom and generosity greatly enriched the lives of her friends and family. Rinda was a talented linguist, teaching Spanish, French, and Portuguese at various times. She taught at Brigham Young High School in Provo during the 1940s, and at Evergreen Junior High and throughout the Granite School District in Salt Lake in the 1960s-70s. She held numerous positions in the LDS Church, her favorite being Relief Society Literature Leader. She was an active member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and a Shakespeare scholar, teaching the subject in Spanish and English. Rinda loved genealogy, and did extensive work on her family lines. She was a master quilt-maker, crafting quilts for each of her children, grandchildren, and others until her eyesight failed. She was an avid seamstress, gardener and stamp collector, and loved doing arts and crafts, puzzles, word searches, etc. Rinda is survived by her brothers Daniel (Mariana), Claudius (Mimi), and Ashton (June) Taylor; children, Rinda Marie and Mickey Wynn; Alice Lynne Bond; Robert Keith and Lanette Graves; James Roger Graves and Jennifer Simmons; and Allen Willard and Colleen Graves; grandchildren, Curtis and Emily, Steven and Julie, Ron and Diana, Jerry and Meghan Graves; Lori and Jim Barkes, Beth and Bill Winsor; Shannon and Chris Moralez; Dale Wynn; Rick and Katrena, Brian and Jessica, Brett and Melissa, Christopher and Alyssa Bond; Kerry, Jim and Martha, and Ryan Graves; Bonnie Graves and Adrian Sexton; Andrea and Jared Bowden; Stephanie Graves and Cody Nesi; 37 great-grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; special cousin Louise Abegg Clarke; numerous beloved nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and stepmother; siblings Leroy, Mennell, Lynn, Maudie, Joseph Taylor; Elizabeth Young, Martha Adams, Mary Alice Turner, Ethel Butterfield; granddaughter Cynthia Lynne Bond; granddaughter-in-law Laura Graves, and great-grandchildren Kaleb, Kelsey, and Cameron Graves. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, March 22, at 11:30 a.m. at the Rose Park Stake Center, 760 North 1200 West, Salt Lake City. A viewing will be held Monday, March 21, from 6-8 p.m. at Larkin Mortuary, 260 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, and at the church on Tuesday at 10 a.m. prior to the service. Interment at Larkin Sunset Gardens Cemetery, 1950 E. 10600 South. Special thanks to daughter Alice Bond, who served as live-in caregiver and made Rinda's final years comfortable. The family also wishes to thank the entire Haven Healthcare & Hospice team for their loving care. [Deseret News, Sunday, March 20, 2011.]

Faculty & Staff. Sarah Taylor, Training School, 1879-1880.

BY Athletic Coach 1905-1908. Coach Clayton Tryon Teetzell was a famous University of Michigan athlete who went on from coaching at BYU in Provo to UAC in Logan in Logan from 1909 to 1916 as Director of Physical Education. He then went to California. His BYU basketball record was 22 wins and 6 losses. In those days, some of the players were BYU students, but many of them were top BY High School students. The teams were called the "White & Blue".

Collegiate Grad of BYU, Class of 1916, & Faculty. William T. Tew, Jr. He received an AB Degree (Chemistry) in 1916. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 8, page 432. ~ ~ ~ ~ BYH Faculty - Seminary. ~ ~ ~ ~ William T. Tew, Jr. President, East Central States Mission, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ~ ~ ~ ~ Elder William T. Tew Jr., Former President of the East Central States Mission" "I am very happy to be here this afternoon and to take the place of my old friend, A. Richard Peterson. We were together in school, preparing for our missions abroad. In years past we both filled missions in foreign lands, and we have also been in foreign lands and at home presiding over missions during the past few years. I am happy to be here today to mingle with my brethren and sisters in this great tabernacle. We have been thrilled today listening to this great choir - the harmony, the volume, the fervor, the enthusiasm, the inspiration that seems to fill these singers has in turn thrilled this audience and the unseen audience that perhaps numbers hundreds of thousands. Since returning home about five or six weeks ago I have been asked many times, "Are you glad to be home?" I can honestly say to my brothers and sisters that I am glad to be home. I was glad when I was in the mission field, but when my mission was completed and I was released, why shouldn't I be glad to be back among my brethren? I believe that when one puts his whole soul into the missionary work for a period of three years or more, he deserves a release. If he doesn't put his soul into it, he deserves a release long before the three years are up. We have had great joy in our mission. The Lord has blessed us with health and strength, and He has increased our testimonies of the Gospel. We have had great joy in mingling with our Saints abroad, many of whom are here today at this great Conference. We have enjoyed the companionship, the loyalty and love of your boys and girls who have been sent there as missionaries. I want to tell you, my brethren and sisters, there is nothing in the world more dear to me than the love of these young people who have filled honorable missions in the mission field. They are an inspiration to those who labor among them; they are the stalwart defenders of the faith; they are the "hope of Israel" because the "hope of Israel" is the youth of Zion. The future of this Church and the salvation of our Church rests with the youth. My brethren and sisters and friends, I have been impressed very much within the last few days studying things regarding our Savior's life. One of the things that occurred to me last evening as well as this afternoon is the experience of our Savior as a boy of twelve in the temple of the Lord. When His mother sought Him she found Him both asking and answering questions among the wise men and lawyers of the temple. His question to her was, "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" I do not know any greater ideal, any greater goal or objective in life that you and I can have, or that young people can have in their souls than the one embodied in that question. We should be about our Father's business, and the question arises in turn, "What is our Father's business?" We have been told that the Lord's work and the Lord's glory is to bring to pass man's immortality and man's eternal life; and eternal life we are told is a quality of life, the kind of life that God Himself lives, that kind of life that Jesus, the Christ, came to give - life abundant, rich and full and joyful. That is the Lord's business; that is my business as one of His children; that is your business, my brethren and sisters, as the children of the Lord. Though we grant the fact that the Lord is Omnipotent, it seems to me that in this realm of His work, bringing to pass man's eternal life, the Lord does need you and me, because I claim -I may be wrong - but I claim the Lord cannot give me eternal life, that quality of life, that degree of joy which is celestial, unless I am willing to do my duty and keep His commandments, assist my fellow men in learning His commandments and encouraging them in keeping those commandments. I am sure the Lord spoke a glorious truth when he said to Oliver Cowdery and others: "If you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!" And so we have rejoiced in the mission field in devoting ourselves to the service of the Lord. We have brought into the Church in the last three years between twelve and thirteen hundred souls, converts and children. We have traveled over a hundred thousand miles. I have attended and preached in more than a thousand meetings. How much good has been done rests of course with the future. My brethren and sisters, we have increased in testimony. We bear our testimony to you this afternoon that this is the work of the Lord, and the only way to bring peace and joy to the world is by knowing the Lord's commandments and by keeping them. My five minutes are up. From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank the parents of those boys and girls who have served in the mission field. I do thank them and am grateful for their lives, for their devotion and for their service. May the Lord bless these young people at home that they may keep in the harness, that they may be kept in the faith, that they may be an inspiration to all those with whom they associate, I pray in Jesus' name. Amen." [Conference Report, October 1940, Second Day-Afternoon Meeting, Elder William T. Tew Jr.]

Faculty & Staff Early 1960s, including 1963-64 - Seminary Teacher. F. Weldon Thacker. @2010

Faculty & Staff. She taught Home Economics at BYH in 1946-47.

Faculty & Staff. Hyrum F. Thomas, Training School, 1879-1880.

Faculty & Staff. Lowell D. Thomson. Twenty-First and final Principal of BY High School, serving from 1964 to 1968. Math and Science teacher 1961-1962. BYHS Curriculum Writer 1962-1963. Married Ruth Morley Thomson. They are the parents of Cynthia Thomson, BYH Class of 1966. ~ ~ ~ ~ Lowell Dee Thomson: BYU BA 1958. Veteran, military service. Lowell Dee Thomson, born 19 Aug 1924, in Eureka, Juab County, Utah. Died 26 Aug 1984, in Provo, Utah. Interment, Orem, Utah. His parents: Niels Kimball Thomson, and Dorcas Beata Olsen Thomson. ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS OBITUARY ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS WIFE'S OBITUARY: Early Life: Ruth was born November 15, 1927, in Santa Barbara, California, to Orlando Isaac Morley and Edith Othine Christiansen Morley. She had one sister. Her father was a butcher and during the depression years their family moved frequently until they moved to Eureka, California, in 1939, where Ruth grew up. Life's Work/Service/Interests: In February of 1945, she met “a tall skinny sailor” and on July 16, 1945, she married Lowell Dee Thomson in the Manti Utah LDS Temple. Lowell and Ruth moved to Utah in 1957 and to Orem in 1959 where she lived the remainder of her life. They have 10 children, 45 grandchildren, and 88 great-grandchildren, with a great-grandchild and their first great-great-grandchild on the way. Lowell passed away on August 26, 1984. Ruth was an accomplished pianist and taught piano lessons in her home for many years. She also was an accomplished seamstress and an avid genealogist; she enjoyed gathering and writing family histories. She was an exceptional homemaker working tirelessly for her family. She also worked in her father’s butcher shop during World War II, and much later, at ZCMI and Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Ruth was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had a firm testimony of her Savior, Jesus Christ, and of his gospel as taught in the LDS Church. She served faithfully in many church callings including Young Women President, two times as ward Relief Society President and as a counselor in a stake Relief Society presidency. Beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Ruth Elaine Morley Thomson quietly passed away at a daughter’s home in Orem, Utah, in the early morning hours of Thursday, July 2, 2015, due to advanced Alzheimer’s Disease. She was 87. Preceded In Death By: Her parents; her husband, Lowell; daughter, Laurie; great-grandson, Ryder Cannon; and older sister, LaVerle Morley Nielsen. Services: Orem North LDS Stake Center. Mortuary: Walker Sanderson Funeral Home. [Provo Daily Herald, July 5, 2015] Source.

Faculty & Staff. Archie M. Thurman, Training School, 1908-1910.

Faculty & Staff. S. R. [Samuel] Thurman, Law Teacher at Brigham Young Academy, 1887, & 1892-1894. Samuel R. Thurman was born on May 6, 1850 in Larke County, Kentucky. His parents were William Thomas Thurman and Mary Margaret Brown Thurman. He was educated in the public schools of Kentucky, including the Locust Grove High School, and in Sonora Academy. He was twelve years of age when Civil War soldiers marched past his home. He came to Salt Lake City, Utah with his mother at age twenty. At a very young age he had decided to become a lawyer, and studied the subject at every opportunity. Arriving in Lehi, Utah, he met and married Isabella Karen. Samuel was a religious man, and he taught school for eight years, principally at Lehi. He studied at the University of Deseret [1875?] and briefly at Brigham Young Academy [1876?]. He passed the Utah Bar in 1878 as was admitted to the District Court of Utah. With this background, he went to the University of Michigan Law School, where he graduated in 1880. Returning to Utah he formed a partnership with David Evans until 1886, when he joined with George Sutherland (as ardent a Republican as Thurman was a Democrat) and they later invited William H. King to partnership, making one of Utah's strongest law firms. He also taught law classes at BYA. The Sutherland King & Thurman law firm lasted until 1890 when a youthful dream was realized and Samuel R. Thurman served an LDS mission to England. Returning to Provo in 1892, Thurman resumed teaching classes at BYA part-time, and together with Sutherland again formed a law partnership until 1893, when the firm became Thurman and Wedgwood, representing major water companies in a wide variety of litigations. The firm moved to Salt Lake City in 1906. Samuel served as the chief assistant in the legal department of the D.R.G.R.R. Co. from 1893 to 1912. From 1893 to 1896 he served out a presidential appointment as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Territory of Utah and was a member of the Constitutional Convention for the new state. He was elected to the Utah Legislature for five consecutive terms between 1882 and 1890, and served as chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee from 1912 to 1916. In March of 1917, Samuel R. Thurman was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Utah by Governor Simon Bamberger. Politics, the law, and the church were the absorbing interests in his life. He had a great fund of stories which he used with expert ability in his speeches and won many arguments with apt illustrations. He loved and joke and told it well. He knew the power of laughter and its punitive values. He was an ardent champion of giving women the right to vote. His expertise in water rights made him one of the most influential people in determining the future of farming in the western United States. He was active to the final days of his ninety-one years. he died on July 12, 1941 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Source: Book, The Sons of Brigham by T. Earl Pardoe, pp. 219-221. ~ ~ ~ ~ ANOTHER BIOGRAPHY: Hon. Samuel R. Thurman, Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah and recognized as one of the ablest members who have sat upon the bench of that court of last resort in the state, makes his home in Salt Lake City, where he has resided since 1906. He is a native of Kentucky, his birth having occurred in Larue county, that state, on the 6th of May, 1850. His parents were William T. and Mary Margaret (Brown) Thurman. The father died during the infancy of his son. His ancestors in the paternal line were preachers, farmers and lawyers, while in the maternal line he is descended from John Yates, captain in the American Army of the Revolution. Judge Thurman came to Utah in 1870. In the meantime he had pursued his early education in the public schools of his native state, becoming a student in the high school of Locust Grove, Kentucky, and afterward in Sonora Academy. For a short time following the arrival of the family in the west he attended Deseret University, now the University of Utah, and for a brief period was a student in the Brigham Young Academy. He took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for eight years in the public schools of this state, principally at Lehi, and during that period he devoted his leisure hours to the study of law. For further preparation for the profession he entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated therefrom with the Class of 1880. With his return to Utah he entered upon active practice at the bar. He had previously been admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Utah in 1878 and later was admitted to the United States District Court of Utah. He commenced active practice in Provo in partnership with David Evans under the firm style of Thurman & Evans, which association was maintained until 1886, when Mr. Thurman became a partner of the Hon. George Sutherland under the firm name of Thurman & Sutherland. They were afterward joined by Hon. William H. King, the firm name of Thurman, Sutherland & King being then adopted. That relation was maintained until 1890. Judge Thurman as a missionary of the Mormon church then spent two years in England, and in 1892 returned to Provo, where the firm of Thurman & Sutherland was continued until 1893, when he entered into a partnership relation with General Edgar A. Wedgwood, the firm of Thurman & Wedgwood being thus formed. In 1897 Senator Joseph L. Rawlins and J. H. Hurd joined the firm under the style of Rawlins, Thurman, Kurd & Wedgwood, and offices were maintained in both Salt Lake City and Provo. In 1898 General Wedgwood withdrew to go to the Philippines, but upon his return in 1902 he again became associated with Mr. Thurman under the firm name of Thurman & Wedgwood. For a brief time he was in partnership with Jacob Evans and W. E. Rydalch previous to his removal to Salt Lake City in 1906. He was then joined by his former partner, General Wedgwood, and A. B. Irvine, at which time the name of Thurman, Wedgwood & Irvine was adopted. In their practice they specialized to some extent in water rights and irrigation law and they were regarded as high authority upon questions relating to that branch of jurisprudence. Judge Thurman also became chief assistant of the legal department of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, thus continuing from 1893 until 1912. Whatever else may be said of the legal fraternity, it cannot be denied that members of the bar have been more prominent actors in public affairs than any other class of the community. This is but the natural result of causes which are manifest and require no explanation. The ability and training which qualify one to practice law also qualifies him in many respects for duties which lie outside the strict path of his profession and which touch the general interests of society. It was but natural that Judge Thurman's fellow townsmen, recognizing his ability as a member of the bar, should call upon him to serve as one of the lawmakers of the state. He was elected to the Utah legislature for five consecutive terms, from 1882 until 1890, and in 1893 he received the presidential appointment to the office of assistant United States attorney for the territory of Utah, which position he filled until 1896. In the meantime, or in 1895, his fellow townsmen had made him a member of the constitutional convention, which framed the present organic law of the state, and in 1888 he had been the Democratic candidate for Congress from the Territory of Utah. He has always been a most prominent factor in shaping political activity in the state and has served as chairman of the Democratic state central committee, filling the office from 1912 until 1916. He has likewise filled local offices, having been Mayor of Lehi when less than twenty-eight years of age, County Recorder and County Attorney of Utah County and City Attorney of Lehi, American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Provo, Springville, Spanish Fork and Payson. In March 1917, he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah by Governor Simon Bamberger and in November 1918, at the end of the term of office to which he had been appointed to fill out a vacancy, he was elected to the Supreme Court bench for a period of ten years. Judge Thurman is the first member of the dominant church of Utah to sit on the supreme bench since Utah became a state and was appointed by the first governor, not a Mormon, since statehood. On the 4th of May, 1872, Judge Thurman was married to Miss Isabel Karren and their children are Richard B., William T., Samuel D., Victor E., Allen G., Mrs. Mabel Davis, Mrs. Margaret Irvine and Mrs. Lydia Reed. The Judge is one of the most widely known men of Utah, possessing a keen sense of humor combined with his marked intellectual force. He has personal magnetism, displays a keen insight into human nature and the motives of human conduct and his analysis of men and situations constitutes one of the strong elements of his fitness for leadership. As a lawyer he is sound, clear-minded and well trained. The limitations which are imposed by the constitution on federal questions are well understood by him. With the long line of decisions, from Marshall down, by which the constitution has been expounded he is familiar, as are all thoroughly skilled lawyers. He is at home in all departments of the law, from the minutiae in practice to the greater topics wherein is involved the consideration of the ethics and the philosophy of jurisprudence and the higher concerns of public policy. Nor is he learned in the law alone, for he has studied long and carefully the subjects that are to the statesman and the man of affairs of the greatest import the questions of political economy and sociology and on all such has kept abreast with the best thinking men of the age. [Utah Since Statehood - Historical & Biographical. Illustrated. Volume II. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1919, Salt Lake-Chicago.]

Faculty & Staff 1950s through 1968, Registrar of Brigham Young High School. Idell Warnock married LeRue Elroy Thurston. Their children: Ann Marie Thurston, David LeRue Thurston [BYH Class of 1965], Kathryn Thurston [BYH Class of 1968], Douglas Warnock Thurston [BYH Class of 1971] ----- OBITUARY, HUSBAND: LeRue Elroy Thurston, 78, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma and former long-time resident of Orem, Utah, died Wednesday, June 5, 1996 at the Silver Lake Care Center in Bartlesville following an extended illness. He was born January 24, 1918 in Annabella, Utah to Edwin Elroy and Martina (Sorenson) Thurston. He was raised and educated in Richfield and Cedar City, Utah and graduated from Richfield High School in 1936. He then attended and graduated from Snow College in Ephraim, Utah in 1938. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Brigham Young University in 1949. Mr. Thurston was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and served a mission for the Church in Denmark from 1938 to 1939, when World War II necessitated his transfer to the Southern States Mission in Florida until his release in March of 1941. He enlisted in the United States Army in June 1941. Mr. Thurston married Idell Warnock in the Manti Temple on May 26, 1942. During World War II, he served 55 months in the U.S., Europe, and the Philippines. Mr. Thurston began work as an interviewer for the United States Employment Service in Manti, Utah in 1946. Later he transferred to the Job Service office in Provo, Utah, where he worked as Placement Interviewer, then Claims Supervisor, and finally Office Manager until his retirement in 1980. Mr. Thurston was an active in his Church and community. He held many Church positions, including branch president, bishop, counselor in a bishopric, and High Councilor. He and his wife, Idell, served an additional mission for the LDS Church in South Carolina in 1981-1982. Mr. Thurston was an active member of Provo and Orem Chambers of Commerce, Rotary International, American Legion, Mountainlands Economic Development and Planning Council, Mountainlands Manpower Planning Council, Industrial Relations Research Association and Foster Grandparents Program of Utah County. He also served on the Advisory Committee for Utah Technical College, the Board of Directors of Utah Valley Industrial Development Association, and was past president of Help, Inc. and United Way of Utah County. Mr. Thurston was an avid racquetball player and sports fan. He enjoyed travel, plays, and musical productions. Survivors include one son, David L. Thurston of Riverton, Utah; two daughters, Ann Marie Johnston of Bartlesville, Oklahoma and Kathryn Thornock of Wenatchee, Washington; four brothers, Morris A. Thurston of Ventura, California; Doyle Q. Thurston of Provo, Utah; Bruce Thurston of St. George, Utah; and Robert V. (Bob) Thurston, of Bountiful, Utah; 15 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Idell; one son, Douglas; his parents; five brothers; one granddaughter, and two great-grandsons. Interment, Orem, Utah Cemetery. [Published in the Deseret News, Saturday, June 8, 1996.]

Faculty & Staff, including 1954-55. Dale T. Tingey. Seminary Teacher. He is involved with American Indian Services. @2010

Faculty & Staff. Joseph L. Townshend, Mechancial Department, 1893-1894.

Faculty & Staff, Late 1950s, including 1957-58. John W. Tucker. BYU BA English 1951. He served as the 17th Principal of Brigham Young University High School, from 1957-1958. He left in the fall of 1958 to take the position of Superintendent of the Idaho Falls School District. ~ ~ ~ ~ John Winn Tucker was born on January 10, 1926 to Wilhelm Paul Tucker & Doris Marie Winn in Salt Lake City, Utah. He married LaVora Murray [BYU 1957] on May 26, 1953 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He died on December 18, 2001 in Wheeling, Cook County, Illinois. His interment, Michigan City, La Porte County, Indiana. ~ ~ ~ ~ John W. Tucker was one of seven BYU graduates honored with the 2001 Emeritus Award, for making a significant difference in his community, state and beyond. Award recipients included Andrew H. Barnum, Max J. Berryessa, Elder Eran A. Call, Grace Guymon Jones, Robert J. Matthews, John W. Tucker, and Grant M. Wilson. ~ ~ ~ ~ John W. Tucker, BYU '51, EdD Harvard, PhD Columbia Pacific, spent most of his professional life in education. He was chancellor of Purdue University North Central from 1972 to 1982, where he also taught until 1991. He served as deputy executive vice president at the University of Utah, and president of the College of Eastern Utah. In his retirement years, this Michigan City, Indiana, resident remained active in a clinical psychotherapy practice in Chicago. He was a diplomat of the American Board of Medical Psychotherapy. ~ ~ ~ ~ 1993: College of Eastern Utah President Michael A. Petersen announced that the first endowed teaching chair has been established at the college, thanks to a $50,000 contribution from John W. Tucker and his wife LaVora. Tucker served as president of CEU from 1962 to 1970 and retired as Chancellor of Purdue University. The endowment is known as the LaVora Murray Tucker Chair of Social Ethics, in honor of Tucker's wife. ``I hope this gift will inspire others to establish similar endowments and assist the College of Eastern Utah to become one of the outstanding teaching colleges in the nation,'' Tucker said. Each year a faculty member at the college will be selected for his/her teaching abilities and will be named the LaVora Murray Tucker Professor of Social Ethics. In addition to their regular salary, the selected faculty member will also receive an annual stipend from the interest earned by the endowment. ~ ~ ~ ~ MEMORIAL RESOLUTION OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY for John W. Tucker, Former Chancellor and Professor of Educational Administration at Purdue North Central. January 10, 1926 - December 18, 2001. John Winn Tucker, 75, Michigan City, died Tuesday, December 18, 2001 in Wheeling, Illinois. He was born January 10, 1926 in Salt Lake City to Wilhelm Paul Tucker and Doris (Winn) Tucker. On May 25, 1953, in Las Vegas, he married LaVora Mae Murray, who survives. Survivors also include five daughters, Kerstin Severin, Shawna Monson, Travis Gunnell, Stacy Andrew and Mylese Reyes; 13 grandchildren; two brothers, Clyde Tucker and Wilhelm (Billy) Tucker; and one sister, Veloy Bollinger. John Tucker felt that learning, teaching and serving were central to his life and career. He was the first in his family to go to college. His long career in education took him to positions in St. George, Utah; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Provo, Utah; Price, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Westville, Indiana. His positions included classroom instructor, school superintendent, dean of students, president of the College of Eastern Utah, vice president at the University of Utah, and Chancellor and Professor of Educational Administration at Purdue University North Central. John Tucker served in the Navy during World War II and returned to Utah to attend Brigham Young University and complete his bachelor’s degree. He received his master’s degree from Arizona State University and was awarded an Ed.D. from Harvard University. He also did postdoctorate studies at Oxford. John Tucker served as Chancellor of Purdue University North Central from 1972 until 1979. His tenure as Chancellor saw the approval and implementation of six technology AS degree programs and the AS degree Nursing program, all in 1972. The Library-Student-Faculty building (LSF) was constructed under Tucker’s leadership. On March 21, 1975, the new building, with library space for 125,000 books and 1,000 periodicals, was dedicated. The campus grew from 1,354 students in 1972 to 2,015 students in 1979. Dr. Tucker also served the North Central campus as Professor of Educational Administration teaching in the Organizational Leadership and Supervision program from 1979 through 1991 when he retired from the academic world. A devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Dr. Tucker served a two-year mission in Sweden, and served during his life as high priest, high counselor, and branch president in addition to many and varied church positions. Since retirement, he commuted to the LDS temple in Chicago over a period of seven years to do volunteer work there. At the time of his death he was completing a full time 18-month mission at that temple with his wife. Dr. John Tucker was a member of Kiwanis Club and Rotary Club, where he served a term as president. He was a member of the board of the Barker Foundation in Michigan City, and was appointed by the governor of Indiana to the New Harmony Historic Commission. He also was named by Dan Valentine in the Salt Lake Tribune as “Best Dressed Educator in Utah.” ~ ~ Richard L. Taylor. ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS OBITUARY: John Winn Tucker. SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Teaching and serving were central to the life and career of John Winn Tucker, who died Dec. 18, 2001. Born on Jan. 10, 1926 in Salt Lake City to Wilhelm Paul and Doris Winn Tucker, he was the first in his family to go to college. He went on to navigate the difficult waters of college administration on the campuses of the 1960s and '70s and was devoted to the idea that learning should be a joyous experience and, that given time, "anyone can learn anything if you want to bad enough." His long career in education took him to positions in St. George; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Provo; Price; Salt Lake City; and Westville, Indiana. His positions included classroom instructor, principal, school superintendent, dean of students, president of the College of Eastern Utah, vice president at the University of Utah, and chancellor at Purdue University North Central. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and returned to Utah to attend Brigham Young University and complete his bachelor's degree. He received his master's degree from Arizona State University and was awarded an Ed.D. from Harvard University. He also did post-doctorate studies at Oxford. He was a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served a two-year mission in Sweden and served during his life as high priest, high counselor and branch president in addition to many and varied church positions. Since retirement, he commuted to the LDS temple in Chicago, Illinois, over a period of seven years to do volunteer work there. At the time of his death, he was completing a full-time 18-month mission at that temple with his wife of 48 years, LaVora. His civic activities included membership in Kiwanis and Rotary Club, where he served a term as president. He was a member of the board of the Barker Foundation in Michigan City, Ind., and was appointed by the governor of Indiana to the New Harmony Historic Commission. He was also named by Dan Valentine in the Salt Lake Tribune as "best-dressed educator in Utah." Family members include wife, LaVora Mae (Murray); five daughters, Kerstin Tucker Severin, Shawna Tucker Monson, Travis Tucker Gunnell, Stacy Tucker Andre, and Mylese Tucker Reyes; 13 grandchildren; two brothers, Clyde Tucker and Wilhelm "Billy" Tucker; and sister, Veloy Bollinger. Funeral services were held on Saturday, December 22, 2001, at the Valparaiso Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Valparaiso, Indiana. The family suggested memorial donations to either the Community College of Salt Lake City, Darrell K. Murray Scholarship Fund, 4600 S. Redwood Road, Salt Lake City, Utah 84130, or to the College of Eastern Utah, John Cronk Scholarship Fund, Price, Utah 84501. [Sun Advocate, Price, Utah, December 25, 2001]

BY Academy High School Class of 1884. Amanda Tuckett. Graduated Friday, June 13, 1884, with a Normal diploma. Source: Territorial Enquirer, Friday, June 13, 1884. Faculty & Staff. Sarah Tuckett, Training School, 1881-1884.