SCHOOL - JALAINE ALBISTON ROBBINS

Park Elementary School - Grades 1-8

Note: There is some discrepancy about Jalaine's teachers. What she wrote in this history doesn't exactly match up with the grades she wrote on the photos. She lists Miss Webb as her 5th grade teacher in her history, but her photo and certificate for her 5th grade year show Mr. Bagley as her teacher. It is possible Miss Webb was her 6th or 7th Grade teacher instead.

1st Grade - Miss Ludella Jensen

2nd Grade - Miss Emma Fisher

3rd Grade - Miss Lucille Fife (my favorite teacher)

4th Grade - Mrs. Louise McCarrey

5th Grade - Miss Webb (From her I learned to love music - she would have us put our heads down on the desks and listen to the music. She would tell us some information about each piece and about the person that wrote the music).

6th and 7th Grade - Mr. Grant Bagley (least like of all the teachers)

8th Grade - Mr. Ballam (The Principal of the school)

One memory I haven't forgotten was when my cousin Seth took me to school with him (Before I had started school). I got to sit in his desk with him then he stood up and introduced me as his little cousin who was one of his best friends (in later years I think they called that "show and tell").

I had a lot of great friends over the years so this made the school days a little easier. All the Richmond girls that were both Church friends and School firends (that was a good number of girls my age).

South Ward Girls - Constance Christofferson (one of my good friends over the years), Anna Laura Funk, Marva Lee Durney, Martel Bright, Jackie Thompson (another good friend over the years).

North Ward Girls - Barbara Bair, Ruth Galbraith, Pat Hendricks, Marva Johnson, Sarah Johnson, Renee Skidmore, Ruth Louise Stoddard, Gayle Thomas. I had these North Ward (Church) girls in both school and church so I seemed to be closer to these girls.

Boys (Richmond) Bob Bullen, Sherwin Bair, Hugh Hicken, Ellis Jonas, Spencer Lawrence, Eugene Spackman, Ray Talbot. - Family and Early Life Biography

1941 - Sprained my ankle, February 7, Fell down Park School Gym steps
1941 - Graduation from Park School, May 22nd, Richmond, Utah

1933-1934 - First Grade

1934-1935 - 2nd Grade

1935-1936 - 3rd Grade

1936-1937 - 4th Grade

1937-1938 - 5th Grade

1938-1939 - 6th Grade

1939-1940 - 7th Grade

N/A

1940-1941 - 8th Grade

School Opera

In grade school I had one of the lead parts in a Opera. I was a Gypsy girl and I sang and had a speaking part. Bob Bullen and I sang a song on the Logan radio station - KVNU. Some of the Richmond people called and said they had heard me on the radio and what a great job I had done. Hazel Stoddard who was attending Utah State University said they had listened to it and said they thought I sounded great. - Family and Early Life Biography

*Note: Jalaine attempted to identify the cast of the opera later in life at the request of Helen, her sister. Helen may have asked for historical records.

Jalaine and Dean Hall in costume for the opera.

Park Elementary School, Richmond, UT

Lewiston Junior High School - Grade 9

I attended 9th Grade at Lewiston Junior High in Lewiston, Utah. - Family and Early Life Biography

1941 - Received a trombone for my birthday, June 24
1941 - Entered Lewiston Junior High School, September
1941 - Appointed Secretary of the Girls League, Lewiston Junior High
1941 - Graduation from Lewiston Junior High School, May 13

*Jalaine center back with yellow shirt

Lewiston Junior High School Yearbook 1942

Girls League

President - Joye Bingham

V. President - Rota Allen

Sec. - Jalaine Albiston

Pr. Chr. - Agatha Hyer

Civ Chm. - Marillyn Tibbitts

Soc. Chr. - Ruth Louise Stoddard

- Page 5, Lewiston Junior High 1942 Yearbook

JALAINE ALBISTON

Jalaine Albiston is the secretary of the Girls' League and is a well known trombonist of the band. She has a refined personality and has gained much through her friendliness.

- Page 12, Lewiston Junior High 1942 Yearbook

1941 - 1942, Lewiston Junior High School, Lewiston, Utah

North Cache High School - Grades 10 - 12

Then we had High School (in Richmond) at North Cache High School. It was a small enough school that you knew everyone - which was a + (plus). I played trombone in the school band. I played basketball on a girls team in our PE class which I enjoyed. Typing and shorthand were two of my favorite classes. I graduated from North Cache High School in the spring of 1945. In my senior year, March of 1945, we got word that Seth (cousin) had been killed on the U.S. Franklin Aircraft carrier - just 60 miles out of Japan. What a blow - this was a hard thing to accept. - Family and Early Life Biography

C.I. Stoddard, North Cache High Principal

1942 - Entered North Cache High School - September

1942 - 1943 - Sophomore

1943 - 1944 - Junior

Progress Cards. Helen Kidd (Jalaine's sister) sent these to her when they were going through (destroying) old records at North Cache High. These are for entire classes, not just Jalaine.

"Band Concert Pleases Students"

1944 - 1945 - Senior

1945 - Graduation from North Cache High School - May 18

1942-1945 - North Cache High School, Richmond, UT

Brigham Young University - Freshman

The fall of 1945 I moved to Provo (172 East 2nd South and lived with the Callahan Family) to attend the BYU. Leora Allen (from Cove), Elene Eskelson (from Cove), Renee Skidmore (from Richmond) were my roommates. We lived in the upstairs of the Callahan home. Carmella Peterson (from Fillmore) lived across the hall, Mary Callahan, a daughter-in-law of the Callahan's, lived in another room, Betty Callahan, a daughter, lived in the room next to our room. This year was so much fun. I enjoyed my classes and the fun we had with the friendship we had with all the girls that lived upstairs and the Callahan Family. - Family and Early Life Biography

1945 - Entered BYU Provo Utah, September
1946 - Registered for the winter quarter - Monday January 7th
1946 - Registered for the spring quarter - Monday March 25th
1946 - Returned home from college, June 6th