This is how I started, but very quickly in my 2nd year, Organic Chemistry kicked my butt hard!! After that experience, Political Science turned out to be much easier for me.
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Wesley Bentrude PhD was my Organic Chemistry Professor at the U. He was the best chemistry professor I experienced
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As someone that is one of, if not the most PC and liberal posters here… That is a good joke, IMO.
As for my graduating classes: late 90s Emery High, early 00s from the U.
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Ronald O. Ragsdale
Also, we were both studying chemistry during during cold fusion.
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I believe I used to work with his son and that he had a grandson on the football team in the ‘08-10 time frame.
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Ah, yes, he was my 1st year professor. I don’t remember who my organic professor was, as I have blocked a lot of the memory.
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Pineview 86’
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BS, Biology, 1978
My biochemistry professor was the Nobel Prize winner, Mario Capecchi. His class was one of the hardest I ever took, and it gave me my love of biochemistry which I took to graduate school.
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Used to bump into him occasionally at the lap pool. Lovely man. Hope he is well.
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I remember the cold fusion debacle. I remember my Utah Physics Professor, Frank Harris seemed less than amused by the entire event.
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One day in the Chrony, the center two pages had one ad saying something like, “There was measurable energy created by the cold fusion apparatus.”
Ragsdale came into class, held the ad above his head, and offered a vehement “Bull crap!” to all of us. He crumpled up the paper and defiantly tossed it in the trash. Probably the favourite moment in my Utah life.
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Other than the time a kid offered me a giant chunk of hash. He said he brought it back from Morocco, noting that you could see a portion of the “M” stamped in my chunk.
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That story reminds me of the kids of some of our tailgating crew showing up with a hookah to smoke “flavored tobacco” while eating the meal. Really they were sitting there getting stoned on some of the dankest weed I had ever smelled burn.
My buddy who was going with me to the game smoked with them and got high as a kite. It had been a long time since I had to wrangle a stoned person around at a game…ok since 1988 -and there were 6 of them. 
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My brother and I grew up with Chuck Schwab and his brother Ken from about age 8 until we all moved away from home. Great family, great men. They had a house at Bear Lake where they spent every summer (until football season). They’d invite us there to water ski. Another great guy, Moroni (everybody called him “Moni”) was always involved with the young men in our LDS congregation, and he was the type of leader with life-long influence. Even though we all lived in the Highland High district all the Schwab boys went to South, where Moni was one of the football coaches. (Alan, the youngest, went to Bountiful High.) They were all fine athletes and good, unselfish friends.
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I have a BS in Pharmacy also; 1970, Phila. College of Pharmacy & Science
I was Adjunct Faculty, College of Pharmacy, at the U.
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I went to HS in Alberta and graduated in 1985. My kids both went to Highland High School in SLC - Class of 2016 and 2023. Go Rams!
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I was a student in the Physics dept during cold fusion. I had a professor (I think it was Frank Harris, but am not sure) who also taught in the Chemistry dept. He came into class shortly after the cold fusion announcement, and told us that if any of us were Physics / Chem double majors, we should seriously consider transferring to a different school. His position was that cold fusion would be an embarrassing stain on our resume’ if we were Chem students at Utah.
I also had another Physics professor (forgot his name, but vividly recall his mannerisms) spend the first class session of a new trimester basically “proving” with the help of energy equations why the claims of Pons and Fleischmann were absurd. He was also miffed that they used a press conference during spring break to tell the world about cold fusion, as opposed to subjecting themselves to peer review.
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I remember that KSL TV’s science reporter had a lot of fun reporting on the cold fusion debacle. He used some Gilligan’s Island video clips from the Professor’s lab ( coconut shells as beakers ) and he had a BYU Chemistry professor debunk cold fusion 
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