Class Schedules for Summer Semesters at Art Barn

One of the challenges I have taken on as an oral historian is to build a comprehensive list of those who had offices or taught in the Barn over its near 100 year history. It has already helped me to track down a few potential important interviewees such as Grayson Osborne who likely operated a Human Behavior lab in the Barn for many years. I have been compiling this list little by little in the Special Collections through USU phone directories, bulletins, and class schedules. I hope to post to the blog or if desired email my finished findings to those who would like access to the research. I thought you might want to see a few items that I discovered, summer class schedules from 1962, 1970, and 1972. I hope to be able to share the finished product as soon as I am done. Until then enjoy the images below and I hope that the effort will be beneficial to all.

-Jason Neil-

On the right hand side of the schedules AB stands for Art Barn. The class schedules are a great way to track who taught in the barn and what classes were taught as well.

Newel Daines and the Horse Barn

On January 28, 2011 I had the pleasure of interviewing Newel Daines, a gentleman of 87, whom many may remember for his longevity in the community both as a doctor of medicine and as Mayor of Logan from 1982-1990. Though the interview was not lengthy it provided some great memories from his childhood about the Horse barn in the 1930's. Here are the main excerpts from his interview, sorry about the lack of picture, we had such a great time together that I forgot in the end to take the picture, it should be coming soon, we can use a picture of the old barn if desired to match his description until then.

- Jason Neil -

Breeding Cows at the Barn:

My first contact with the barn was about the age of 8 or 9 and we were living on 317 E 3^rd North and we had a cow and I would take up the cow up to the corral just adjacent to the barn where I would have her bred by a bull that was a part of the university. And that is when I first came into contact with the barn...adjacent to the horse barn they had corrals. They had cattle and we had a jersey cow and so we’d take her up there to have her bred there by the college bull. I would be about 8 years old, so that would be probably about 1932.

I remember it was a big oval top barn that had a Jackson fork that came out of one end that they would haul hay into the loft of the barn. And it was a beautiful building at that time.

School trips to the horse barn:

I was a student at the Whittier school which is on the corner of 3^rd North and 5^th East or 4^th East and since it was the school we would go up there on trips to examine the barn and see what was going on at that time...we would walk up there and look at the barn and see what was going on in the barn. And see the horses that were in that barn. It was an interesting thing for a 9 or a ten year old to do.

Mother riding barn horse at old stadium:

My mother rode horses in the horse shows that were held in the old stadium. She rode horses that belonged to my uncle, Uncle Laveer. Some of those outstanding horses were owned and operated by the University at that same time.

Description of the Barn:

It had an attic and everything else was on the ground floor. There were stables in there for the horses to be separated.

Impressions about the Barn over time:

The University had kept the barn as a kind of historic building. I enjoyed that because I had seen it when it was containing animals...It is a good example of the buildings that have endured for a long period of time. Certainly they have been transitionalised from a functioning barn and now that it will ultimately be a museum, it seems appropriate.

Still smell the grass hay and horse “biscuits”

George Morrison '66 says that he spent many happy hours on that campus just visiting and playing around on the quad. I attended Boy Scout functions, 4-H functions, church related functions and dozens of dances there even before I eventually became a student. When he heard what was happening to the barn, he sent us his recollections of time spent on campus and in the barn. He wrote:

I grew up in Hyde Park. My parents met as they attended USAC as did I many years later. My father eventually became a faculty member - Ag Econ in 1947. One neighbor in Hyde Park, Jay Hansen, tended horses in the Horse Barn. One fall evening, Jay brought me and a friend with him on his evening chores. The barn was poorly lit back then and the three of us had to carefully move about trying not to spook the horses and get kicked. I can still smell the grass hay, horse "biscuits" and sweat. USAC became USU while I studied Forestry and I met my wife in the library before remodeling changed the edifice to the Milton R. Merrill Library (a distant cousin). I made many trips through the Art (Horse) Barn during my student years as I worked on the custodial staff. I'm delighted to see the old concrete building finding continued usefulness instead of disappearing to make way for more parking slots.

Mr. Morrison along wife Betty '66 divides his time between Quartzsite, Arizona in the winter and Santaquin, Utah in the spring and summer.