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Submitted by BYU student Larry Stewart for his English 391 class. About the unique Hawaiian culture. Contains a cover essay, informant abstracts, and informant items. Items include traditions such as shoes, roaches, Pele and Island forms, how the islands were created and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Margery Stockseth for her Spring 1970 English 391 class. About the architectural difference between doorknobs. Contains a cover essay, and collected items. Items include doorknobs with flower motifs, circle motifs, flowered crosses, animal motifs, Plain, Modern, glass and crystal shape.

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Submitted by BYU student Cherie Stoddard for her Summer 1975 English 391 class. About traditional family folksongs. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketches, list of informants, and informant items. Items include songs like among my souveniers, The honey bees, I am a twin you see, There was a little billy goat, Come dear uncle, Home on the range, Little Joe the wrangler, Old Shep, Two little children and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Sue Stringer for her Spring 1970 English 391 class. About the college fad of telling Polak jokes. Contains a cover essay, list of informants, and collected jokes. Jokes include those about cleanliness of Poles, their stupidity, money, weddings, about the country (Poland), action jokes, and much more.

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Submitted by BYU student Pamela Struthers for her Winter 1975 English 392 clawss for William Wilson. About the songs girls sing at camps. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant list, and informant items. Items include songs such as Take a boy and a girl, AFter the ball, Linstead Market, Saxaphone player, Sippin' Cider, Tom Dooley, Kum Ba Ya, Rose, Rose and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Penelope Sulton for her Fall 1971 English. About the Indian (Native American's) beliefs and culture. Contains a cover essay, list of informants and informant items. Items include Indian rites such as the Rain Ceremony, beliefs such as spirits, and how the plague was stopped, social habits such as hand shaking, legends such as how the Grand Canyon was made, Jesus' tears, Migration to the great continent, and much more.

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Submitted by BYU student Sharry Swanson for her Spring 1969 English 391 class. A collection of songs and slogan ssung by the LDS girls in summer camps held throughout the United States annually. Contained a cover essay, list of informants, and informant items. Items include various songs such as We Quo Money, Found a peanut, Campn' Kits and Kats, Sweet Ivory Soap, I wish I was, Chew Your Food, Rheumatism, Harry Cary and more.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Stephen D. Taylor for his Summer 1969 English 391 class. About the Mormon attitudes towards black people and racial discrimination. Contains a cover essay, list of informants, collection procedure, and informant items. Items include beliefs of Mormons concerning black people and the preisthood, relgious-related beliefs about blacks, general beliefs of Mormons about black people, a freudian slip, jokes told by Mormons about black people, and saying by Mormons about...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Suzanne Taylor for her Sumer 1975 English 391 class. About the stories that Suzanne Taylor's grandfather told her and how they reveal his character and heritage. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants and informant items. Items include stories like Trouble from Brigham's last wife, From Switzerland to America, Our Journey to Camas meadows, the tooth puller, typhoid fever, working ont he railroad, it's cold in Butte, Montana, German socks,...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Laureen Terry for her Winter 1977 English 392 class. About the folklore from the LDS Girls' Camp at Camp Liahona in the Oakland, California stake. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants and informant itens. Itens include initiation rites like snipe hunting, raiding, cleaning the biffs, traditions like red noses, killing the cow, 4-day hike campfire, Saturday morning testimony meeting, stories such as the noice camper, what's that you're...