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Associated Women Students of Brigham Young University : report / compiled by Lillian C. Booth and Arnolene Snow

 Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: UA 592

Scope and Contents

Report lists the officers of the Associated Women Students of Brigham Young University for the years 1922-1956.

Dates

  • Creation: 1956

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to use material from this collection must be obtained from Reference Services at specialcollections@byu.edu.

Administrative History

Associated Women Students of Brigham Young University was established in 1922. The group was active in the late 1950s to the 1970s, with responsibility for planning Preference Dance, Homecoming, and The Preferred Man Contest. They also sponsored activities such as Big and Little Sisters that matched incoming freshmen women to upperclassmen to aid in the transition to college. The Associated Women Students of Brigham Young University organized Women's Week, which was to provide an opportunity to strengthen bonds between themselves, their mothers, and other women.

Biographical History

Lillian C. Booth (1894-1967) was an academic administrator and counselor in Utah.

Lillian Clayson was born on November 1894 in Lake Shore, Utah to Eli J. Clayson and Ann E. Hawkins. She attended Brigham Young University, earning her normal certificate in 1915. She took a teaching position in Provo, Utah, where she remained until 1924. In 1919 she married Wayne Chipman Booth in the Salt Lake Temple. They had two children before the untimely death of her husband in 1927.

On her own, Lillian Booth returned to teaching to support her family. She first taught at Harrington Elementary School in American Fork, Utah in 1928. In 1937 he was made principal of the school, becoming one of the first female principals in the state. During this time she completed her bachelor's degree at Brigham Young University, and was active in the American Association of University Women.

In 1945 Booth replaced Dean of Women Nettie Neff Smart at Brigham Young University, with the title of Counselor of Women. During this time, she also acted as the advisor to the Associated Women Students on campus. She resigned from the university in 1959 to marry Ray J. Davis, a professor of botany at Idaho State University.

Booth passed away on March 21, 1967 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Biographical History

Arnolene Snow (b. 1934) is a Mormon woman in Utah.

Arnolene Snow was born in 1934 in Castle Gate, Utah to Arnold W. Snow and Bessie Arilla Robertson. She attended Brigham Young High School, graduating in 1952. She then attended Brigham Young University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1956 in secretarial practice. She married Norman Dean Anderson, and was active in her local congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Between 1999 and 2002, she accompanied her husband in his service as president of the Church's Argentina Salta Mission.

Extent

1 folder (0.01 linear ft.)

Language of Materials

English

Appraisal

Office files (University Archives collecting policy, July 2003).

General

Physical description: 6 pages ; 28 cm.

Title
Register of Associated Women Students of Brigham Young University : report / compiled by Lillian C. Booth and Arnolene Snow
Status
Completed
Author
Rose Frank
Date
2011 August 3
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English in Latin script.

Repository Details

Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives Repository

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