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Show Meet Your S. H. Chamber Officials ' By Carl D. Hardy Sugar House Chamber of Commerce President M. J. (Mode) Wright is a unique man in his own right. Mr. Wright, better known as 'Mode' by his many friends and associates is no newcomer to the south east area, managing the Sugar House store of the J. C. Penney Company Com-pany since 1951. Bern in Idaho Falls, October 21, 1C02, Mr. Wright moved with his parents to Brigham City, Utah, where he received his education, graduating from Bex Elder high school in the spring of 1922. Mr. Wright began his career with the "Penney company at L'rice, Utah, on November 15, iDZS. Frcm the Carbon county store he was moved up to assistant assis-tant manager at Rock Springs, Wyoming, in 192S. Six years later saw Mr. Wright continuing continu-ing his rise in the Penney organization or-ganization to become manager of the Green River, Wyoming, store. During the intervening twenty years before coming to Sugar House, Mr. Wright served as manager in Evanston, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Richfield, Utah, and Idaho Falls, Idaho, in addition to two years as Sal Lake District manager of the company at which time CI stores were in-chiucd in-chiucd in the district. Besides a busy business career Mr. Wright has found time to serve the several communities lie has been in on a civic level. ; He has headed three separate polio drives in addition to club ! activities in other communities. He served as chairman of the program committee of the Sugar i House Chamber for the year : 1957. ' An active member of the j Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- ter-day Saints, Mr. Wright's (Continued on page 7) Mr. Wright (Continued from page 1) church activities have included everything from singing in the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir to the teaching of every class in the Sunday School. He has served on serval Stake M.I.A. boards, Lymann Stake High Council, and is a Stake Sunday School Superintendency. Mr. Wright considers himself 'not old enough to golf has made fishing his hobby. The new Chamber president i - - " is married and resides with his wife, Velma Holmes Wright, at 3736 Forrest Hills Drive. They have three children, a son, Garth Holmes Wright, Salt Lake; two daughters, Sharon Lynn Nichols, Salt Lake, and Sandra Lee Wright, a junior at the University Univer-sity of Idaho, Moscow. PFC Grant A. Yates, whose wife, Joyce lives at 369 E. 17th South, recently attended a five day religious retreat at the Army's Far East retreat site near Seoul. |