page_title: Alice Reynolds
section_title: Teaching
hierarchical_section_title: Alice Reynolds / Career / Teaching
caption_attribution_description: English: Alice Louise Reynolds faculty photo from the 1914 Banyan (Brigham Young University yearbook)
context_page_description: Alice Louise Reynolds was the first woman professor at Brigham Young University. BYU magazine put her in a list of the 10 best BYU professors of the 20th century. She was the second woman in Utah to be a full professor.
context_section_description: Reynolds was a Professor of English for 44 years. She became the first female to be a full professor at BYU. She taught approximately 5,000 students in 20 different English courses. Reynolds's absent-mindedness was famous at BYU. According to her students, she once walked through a herd of cows while reading a book and brought a teakettle to work instead of her purse.
  Reynolds was an editor for the Relief Society Magazine from 1923 to 1930 and a writer for other LDS magazines. She also served in the General Board of the Relief Society of LDS Church for seven years.
caption: Alice Reynolds in 1914
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