--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 23 number: 9 published: 1920-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Record of a Typical High School in Utah,\" *Improvement Era* 23, no. 9 (July 1920): 782." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2309unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2309unse start_page: 782 end_page: 782 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2309unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Record of a Typical High School in Utah 782 IMPROVEMENT ERA but carries on a vicarious work for the dead who have never enjoyed it. The Young Men's and Young Ladies' associations, with a membership of aproximately 100,000 are concerned largely wi the social welfare of the young people of the Church but at their weekly meetings they also feature scholastic and re- ligious activity and study. The Primary, with a membership of 75,020, emphasizes handicraft, thrift, recreation and other practical and sociological features along with its theological instruction. The Religion Class, with a membership of 45,130, correlates its work more closely with the public grade school work and aims to have boys and girls participate in doing those things and learning those lessons that are part of man's everyday religious activities. One of the greatest educational forces in the Church is the system of missionary work carried on. Practically every young man among the Latter-day Saints, and many young women con- secrate two years of their lives to missionary service. Having volunteered to accept the call of the President of the Church, these young. people pay their own expenses into the missionary field and either support themselves while there or are supported by their families. The Church aims to keep out about two thousand missionaries regularly, and sends them to practically — every nation in the world at least to every nation where proselyting may be carried on. The missionary experience not only brings a wonderful development to the young man or woman who enjoys it, but it brings back to the Church the enlightenment of the world. The door is thereby opened to a cosmopolitanism that is rare indeed. The spirit of sacrifice, study, and service, of a mission makes for an educational force one of the most potent in the development of the Church. Record of a Typical High School in Utah In 10 years, there were 248 graduates. One hundred and seventy attended college, 71 of whom (mostly women) became successful teachers. Others entered professional, technical or in- dustrial pursuits. No failures among them. Fifty-six back to the soil, are now intelligent agriculturists. Twenty-two women married soon after leaving school and are success- ful homemakers. None of the graduates ever appeared before the juvenile court. None have been sent to jail. No high school graduate was ever sent to the reform school in Utah. — Utah's Educational Program.