Brigham Young University and its forerunner Brigham Young Academy have been guided by eight principals or presidents in their more than one hundred years. One leader, of course, is the present president, Dr. Dallin H. Oaks. Six of the other seven have been honored with ‘Y’ buildings named for them. Only one hasn’t been thus honored. He was Warren Newton Dusenberry, who co-founded the school that ultimately became B.Y. Academy, and served as the BYA’s first principal before resigning because of his law practice. An important early-day Provo and Utah leader, Mr. Dusenberry was elected mayor of the city in 1892 after a distinguished career that included service as a teacher, principal, county school examiner, county superintendent of common schools, merchant, lawyer, county prosecuting attorney, city attorney, territorial “The Equal Rights Amendment is just as much for men as it is for women. A society that is more just and fair and equitable is going to help men just as much as women.” -Hazel Hunkius Hallinan, an 87year-old suffragette who chained herself to the White House fence some 60 years ago to dramatize the fight for women’s rights. “As a woman, I delight in the knowledge that many of the traits culturally induced in us (and programmed out of the male psyche) are the very traits that may be essential to the survival of business in the future.” -Sharie Crain, author of “Taking Stock: A Woman’s Guide to Corporate Success.” attorney, county probate judge, and Fourth District judge. Judge Dusenberry began his career in education in Provo in 1862 as teacher in the “First Ward School.” He established the Dusenberry school in the old Cluff Hall in 1863. In 1869, after four years devoted to merchandising, a church mission, and serving as a church immigration officer, he and his brother Wilson equipped the Kinsey Building on Center Street and taught a graded school. Pupils came from points throughout the valley. The brothers expanded the school into t.he Lewis Hall at Third West and Center (later the first home of Brigham Yoimg Academy). In the 1869-70 school year, top territorial school officials visited the Dusenberry school. They were so favorably impressed that they took steps to hve it become a branch of University of Deseret. With the establishment in April, 1870 of the Dusenberry School as the Timpanogos Branch of that university, enrollment soon climbed t0 250 or more, according to historical accounts. The school became Brigham Young Academy in the fall of 1875 and Warren Dusenberry stayed on as principal until the term ended April 15, 1876 when he resigned. President Brigham Young, acting for the board of trustees, then asked Dr. Karl G. Maeser to succeed him as principal. The Herald believes BYU should take steps (if it isn’t moving, in that direction already) to honor the BYA’s first principal by naming a building for him when the opportunity is available. We recommend, for consideration of the appropriate officials, a manuscript prepared in 1971 by the late Col. Robert K. Dusenberry, great-grandson of Judge Dusenberry, which chronicles the latter’s biography and gives due recognition for his contributions tio educational, legal, political, public, and social developments of his era.