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Box 72

 Container

Contains 10 Results:

Folklore activities of the Boy Scouts / Timothy Bouck, 1988

 Item — Box: 72, Folder: 1
Identifier: FA 1 Item 776
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Timothy H. Bouck for his Fall 1988 English 391 class. About the folkgroup of Boy scouts, and their songs and folklore. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include practical jokes, games, songs, legends, skits, and more.

Dates: 1988

Folk games of the Mormon pastime / Timothy Boyd Jones, 1988

 Item — Box: 72, Folder: 2
Identifier: FA 1 Item 777
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Timothy Boyd Jones for his Fall 1988 English 391 class. About the types of folkgames of the folkgroup of Mormons. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include folkgames played outdoors in a large area, played outdoors needing a small area, indoor games with physical skill, and mental skill indoor games.

Dates: 1988

The rigors and releases of the marathon of life / John Barrick, 1988

 Item — Box: 72, Folder: 3
Identifier: FA 1 Item 778
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student John Barrick for his Fall 1988 English 391 class. About the trials and common rituals of coming-of-age for men in an American society. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include humorous stories, streotypical stories, provocative or language content stories.

Dates: 1988

Christmas Eve traditions and gift-giving / Reggie Lisle, 1988

 Item — Box: 72, Folder: 4
Identifier: FA 1 Item 779
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Reggie Lisle for his Fall 1988 English 391 class. About the traditions of Christmas Eve and gift-giving as performed by several families. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include Chirstmas Eve performances, the opening of presents, no traditions, and leaving things for Santa.

Dates: 1988

Folklore final project (folklore of the Thomas family) / Rochelle Thomas, 1988

 Item — Box: 72, Folder: 5
Identifier: FA 1 Item 780
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Rochelle Thomas for her Fall 1988 English 392 class. About the folklore of the author's family, the Harold Thomas family. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include songs that her father taught her, games they play, poems and stories and more.

Dates: 1988

A study of racial slurs : the Pollack joke / Michael J. Petersen, 1988

 Item — Box: 72, Folder: 6
Identifier: FA 1 Item 781
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Michael J. Petersen for his Fall 1988 English 391 class. About how jokes reflect many aspects of society, especially the racial slurs. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include Pollacks being worthless to society, good aspects being overshadowed by the bad, Pollack as a big dumb athlete, and the pollack as a dirty filthy person.

Dates: 1988

Ricks college pranks / Tom Snyder, 1988

 Item — Box: 72, Folder: 7
Identifier: FA 1 Item 782
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Tom Snyder for his Fall 1988 English 391 class. About pranks played at Ricks' (now BYU-I) college. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include phone pranks, roommate pranks, general pranks, and more.

Dates: 1988

Lovell and Kane folklore / Shon Williams, 1988

 Item — Box: 72, Folder: 8
Identifier: FA 1 Item 783
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Shon Williams for his Fall 1988 English 390 class. About the culture of town Lovell and Kane in Wyoming in the 1800s. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include the Law, school, religious Mormons, entertainment, transportation, people of the area, and death.

Dates: 1988

The pranks of Brigham Young University students / Gregory K. Tuft, 1988

 Item — Box: 72, Folder: 9
Identifier: FA 1 Item 784
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Gregory K. Tuft for his Dedember 1988 English 39?1? class under Professor Richard Poulson. A collection of pranks that BYU students play on each other. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include bathroom pranks, bedroom pranks, door, and general college pranks.

Dates: 1988

Mining folklore of Park City, Utah / David L. Handy, 1988

 Item — Box: 72, Folder: 10
Identifier: FA 1 Item 785
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student David L Handy for his Fall 1988 English 391 class. About the folklore and culture of miners from Park City Utah. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include ghost stories, practical jokes, foreman stories, folk medicines for miners, other ghost stories, superstitions, and folk stories.

Dates: 1988