Last night, in a rival town, rumor has it that the Juab High School basketball team won the game-68 to 66, but it took an overtime and a come from behind effort to do so. It sounded like great skill on the part of the team and the coach's. But just to prevent those potential heart attack victims watching the game, we have an idea. We offer some basketball shouts from the predecessor of Juab High, which was Nephi High way back when. Some explanation is offered about the listed administration. The only real faculty is George A. Sperry, who was the Principal. The others are part of the "Class of 28" students. In fact it was James P. McCune that wrote the school song, and gave permission to modify it from "Nephi High" to Juab High, and the song is still sang. Judge McCune was a decent man as a Freshman, as he helped re-write the yell book of 1924, when one of the songs wasn't quite decent to some folks. It is difficult to see the "N" on the side of the mountain from a hundred years ago, but the "J" remains on what is now called the "J-Hill". Once we get this sent to the world, we will give the songbook to Lisa Blackett, the present "Yell Coach" for Juab High.
Thank you for your words regarding the school song written by my father, James Paxman McCune.
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I re-wrote the blog, as I found another yell book from 1924 when James McCune removed one of the songs. He had enormous insight as the words were not fitting then and now. He was a man before his time, like his mother-Alice Paxman McCune, who taught me how to pull weeds correctly!
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome. Thank you
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