Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1927 (4)

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:29:16 +0000

These were all in 1927 publications. It's possible that some were taken in 1926 and were in the pipeline for a few months, but I don't have any reason to suspect that any were taken that many years before publication.

By: Jpaul

Jpaul — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:23:14 +0000

those LDS Scouts in the Swiss German Mission,
was that by chance 1914?

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:07:58 +0000

“Osdick”? All I could think of was Al Capp’s famous cartoon character, from the day the F key on his typewriter was broken: “earless osdick.”

I think the “Rainbows” continued down into the time I was in Primary–but Moonbeams may have arrived after I did. I was a Sunbeam and Star and Rainbow and Co-Pilot and Top-Pilot (complete with a plastic wing badge!), and then when we left the girls behind it was on to Blazers and Trekkers and the Guide Patrol. Those were, as they say, the days, my friend.

And, there’s still a congregation at Logan Square in Chicago. That name brought back a flood of dimming memories!

By: Ola Senor

Ola Senor — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:16:14 +0000

here is an interesting bio of someone from Osdick (now Red Mountain) born there in 1928. Perhaps he is the little one in the far right of the picture.

http://jelly-pepektheassassin.blogspot.com/2006/11/brother.html

By: David Y.

David Y. — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:27:28 +0000

Hurray for the cool photo of the BYU music faculty (says this proud graduate of the BYU music department). Especially fun to see a young Leroy Robertson, composer of numerous hymns in our hymnal, as well as the colossal "Oratorio from the Book of Mormon" (more here).

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:14:30 +0000

I still have a hard time not calling 11 year old scouts Blazers.

I really do wonder why we had the change to the current names. Sunbeams seem to be the only name that really means anything.

Julia
poetrysansonions.blogspot.com

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:03:46 +0000

I loved the old Primary names: Moonbeams, Sunbeams and Stars; Co-Pilots and Top Pilots (there was another one now, briefly, that I can’t think of — spaceship related) — together these were referred to as the Skylet-Pilot classes. Depending on era, there were Larks, Bluebirds and Seagulls, or Gaynotes, Firelights, and Merrihands (collectively the Lihomas, or LIttle HOme MAkers), or Merrie Miss. There were Zion’s Boys and Zion’s Girls — the ZBs and ZGs — and Targeteers, and Valiants, and Rainbows. The boys were Trekkers and Blazers and Guides. There were probably others I’m not remembering at the time. Each class had its own song, and symbol and motto, and sometimes colors, and sometimes uniform elements (bandlo, or beanie, or shoulder patch, or flight wings, or jewelry). I think that probably all originated from the adult club movement of the early 20th century, where you “belonged to” a club or class or lodge that had all of those trappings of membership. Now we have only the anemic vestiges of that colorful early and mid 20th century world.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:56:29 +0000

TOClark, the girls’ classes did sometimes have elements of uniforms (hat, or headband) but not usually full uniforms (some Beehive classes of that era *did* wear class uniforms). There are differences in the collars and necklines and sleeve length of the outfits in that picture that make me suppose that they weren’t uniforms, per se, but that since they were going to have their picture taken that day, maybe the girls all agreed to wear their best white blouses, probably something that was standard for school clothes, just so they’d look nice. (Kind of like the Relief Society Singing Mothers always wore dark skirts and white blouses because they were all presumed to have such basic items, even though no two blouses matched each other.)

By: The Other Clark

The Other Clark — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:12:26 +0000

That last photo of the 10-year-old girls prompts the question: Were there uniforms for primary?

By: kevinf

kevinf — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:07:41 +0000

Always fun to look at, but I would please ask you to send me a copy of the Burley picture. Looking for more of my wife’s relatives, including possibly her grandparents.

I’ll also echo the dull primary class names. I remember for the boys Trekkers, Blazers, Top Pilots, and Co-Pilots amongst my childhood memories. Yes, I really am that old. I just don’t feel like it.