Chapter 8Four-Year Aspirations in Rexburg
Hyrum Manwaring's successor, forty-one-year-old John Clarke, held bachelor's and master's degrees from Brigham Young University (BYU). He came to Rexburg, Idaho, in 1944, having started his teaching career in the public high schools. More recently, he had directed two church “institutes.” These institutes were created to offer Mormon religion courses when two former church colleges, one in eastern Arizona and the other in southern Utah, had been given to those respective state governments. The institute buildings bordered the college campuses, allowing students to make religious study a regular part of their higher education as well as to enjoy association with others of their faith, not unlike Jewish ...
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