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Box 37

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

Folksongs of Mormon missionaries / Marcelyn Smith (see Becky Temperly), 1972

 Item — Box: 37, Folder: 1
Identifier: FA 1 Item 390
Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU students Becky Temperly and Marcelyn Smith for their Fall 1972 English 367 class. About the songs returned missionaries know, and how they reflect on their attitudes towards their missions. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical skethc, list of informants, and informant items. Items include songs sung about themselves (the missionaries), such as "Glad we're Missionaries", "Mormons' Song", "We ask Golden Questions", and more; songs about tracting; the catholic church; songs...
Dates: 1972

A report on some Mormon family traditions / Sara Ann Smith, 1974

 Item — Box: 37, Folder: 2
Identifier: FA 1 Item 391
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Sara Ann Smith for her Fall 1974 English 391 class. About the varied and unique traditions in Mormon families. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include Christmas, Easter and Fourth of July traditions, Summer Holidays, April Fool's Day, Birthdays, Weddings, what people do in their leisure time and special interests, when parents went out, weekly traditions or just every now and then, and more.

Dates: 1974

The peripatetic prophet and other wandering food storage stories / Donald Smuthwaite, 1977

 Item — Box: 37, Folder: 3
Identifier: FA 1 Item 392
Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Donald Smuthwaite for his Winter 1977 English 392 class. About the Mormon practice of obtaining food storage, and peripatetic prophets and various stories and folktales relating to them. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include the elevator stories, such as a disrubing date, in the Hotel Utah, A group, on the elevator, thousands ofd ollars, in the 127th branch, some guy, and then the prophet's warning...
Dates: 1977

Camp and other children's songs / Shirley Snell, 1971

 Item — Box: 37, Folder: 4
Identifier: FA 1 Item 393
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Shirley Snell for her Summer 1971 English 391 class. About the songs that children sing, and camp songs. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include Camp songs like Oh Sinner Man, Ann Marie, Mountain Dew, Kumbyah, Rainbow, Children's Songs include the alphabet song, Smile Brother John, Poor folk and the Ladies of the Court of King Karakakus, and more.

Dates: 1971

Children's folk songs / Sharon Snelson, 1969

 Item — Box: 37, Folder: 5
Identifier: FA 1 Item 394
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Sharon Snelson for her Jan. 1969 English 391 class. A collection of children's folksongs such as jokes, games, rhymes and more. Contains a cover essay and informant items. Items include songs like "Under the Bamboo tree", "Sipping Cider", "The Battle Hymn of the School", "Tra lala boom de ay", Batman, Popeye the Sailor and more.

Dates: 1969

A collection of folklore among some American Fork Junior High language arts students / Sherry Sondrup, 1970

 Item — Box: 37, Folder: 6
Identifier: FA 1 Item 395
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Sherry Sondrup for her Fall 1974 English 391 class. About junior high students' folktales and superstitions. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informants items. Items include superstitions like Ways to Prevent Bad Luck, To Do or Not To Do, Beliefs, and legends or fakelore such as Paul Bunyan stories, Daedalus, Hephaestus, historical legends and fables.

Dates: 1970

Kitchen lore / Sherrie Sorensen, 1977

 Item — Box: 37, Folder: 7
Identifier: FA 1 Item 396
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Sherrie Sorensen for her Fall 1977 English 391 class. About the folkloree that college students use to help with domestic matters, and how it is inherited from their parents. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include a bay leaf n the flour, bread in the brown sugar, and various other cooking tricks.

Dates: 1977

Catholic humor at St. Francis High School / Susan S. Spackman, 1969

 Item — Box: 37, Folder: 8
Identifier: FA 1 Item 397
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Susan S. Spackman for her Spring 1969 Folklore 391 class under Professor Bert (?) Wilson. About humorous Catholic folklore from the senior students and facult at St. Francis High School in Provo, Utah. Contains a cover essay, informant list, and informant items. Items include Father Matthias stories, Changes in the Church, other denominations, anti-Mormon jokes, Anti-Catholic jokes, and miscellaneous stories.

Dates: 1969

The tradition of students' deception and manipulation of teachers / Susan Spear, 1972

 Item — Box: 37, Folder: 9
Identifier: FA 1 Item 398
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Susan Spear for her Fall 1972 English 391 class. About the relationship between teachers and students, and the traditional manipulation and deception on the part of the students. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informants items. Items include "Intention to be baptized", "the Black sheep", "the twenty-four hour flu", "a burned thumb", current events, seminary student, Kidnapped, The Mascara Trick and more.

Dates: 1972

Utah County : early schools (also early buildings) / Sally M. Stead, 1970

 Item — Box: 37, Folder: 10
Identifier: FA 1 Item 399
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Sally M. Stead for her Spring 1970 English 391 class. About the Utahn architecture from 1860 - 1915, mostly school buildings. Contains a cover essay and collected pictures of items. Items range from American Fork Jr. High building, to Benjamin, to Provo, Brigham Young Academy building, the Maeser building, Orem Elementary, Peteetneet, and more.

Dates: 1970