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Show Sunday School Sessions Scheduled For Friday Supt. David Lawrence McKay, left, and Eider A. Theodore Tuttle discuss Sunday School. All Sunday School meetings In conjunction with the 139th Annual General Conference will be held on Friday, April 4, 1969. The announcement was made by the general superintendency of the Deseret Sunday School Union. This is a major change in scheduling the General Conference session of the Sunday School from Sunday to Friday, General Supt. David Lawrence McKay said. Elder A. Theodore Tuttle of the First Council of Seventy, will highlight the Sunday School evening program on the new day. Supt. McKay said the change came about through mutual desire and agreement between the Sunday School General Board and General Authorities of the Church. Four meetings will be held on the conference Friday, with three of them being limited to stake Sunday School workers. Meetings for the stake workers will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Stake superintendents and stake junior Sunday School coordinators will meet at the Federal Heights Ward chapel, 1300 Fairfax Rd. Supt McKay will preside at this session. The meeting for stake assistant superintendents who have charge of the youth section will be held at the Seventeenth Ward cultural hall at 141 West 1st North St. under the direction of First Asst. Lynn S. Richards. Stake assistant superintendents who supervise the adult classes will also meet in the Seventeenth Ward chapel with Second Asst. Royden G. Derrick conducting the session. The General Conference session of the Deseret Sunday School Union will be held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. This meeting will be for all Sunday School officers and teachers and the preisthood workers who are assigned to the Sunday school. YMMIA, Primary New Board Members The appointment of J. Richard Ross to the scout committee of the YMMIA general board was announced this week by the general superintendency of the YMMIA. Mr. Ross was serving as senior high councilor in the Holladay Stake when called to the general board. He has been active in scouting for more than 31 years and was presented the Silver Beaver award in 1967 by the Great Salt Lake Council of Boy Scouts of America. Former bishop of Holladay First Ward, the new board member is married to the former Maza Christensen of Richfield, Utah. Their six children are: Mrs. Howard Romero, Mrs. Kathy Spilker, K. Richard, Margaret, John and Mark. Mr. Ross attended high school in Richfield, Utah and was graduated from Utah State University in 1937. He is a research metallurgist for the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Salt Lake City. J. Richard Ross ous Primary positions for the past seven years. First serving as ward Primary secretary in Ogden, 58th Ward, Mrs. Baldwin Primary Board Appointment of Reta Davis Baldwin and Marie R. Anderson to the Primary General Board was announced this week by Gen. Pres. LaVern W. Parmley. Mrs. Baldwin, stake Primary president of South Ogden (Ogden) Stake, is the mother of five children. She has worked in var-- became stake secretary in 1962. She was counselor in the stake Primary until becoming president in 1365. Mrs. Baldwin is married to Preal Angus Baldwin. Their children are Mrs. Lynn A. Cottle, Mrs. William T. Seoffield, Douglas Brent, Russell A. and Matt George, all Ogden. A native of Tropic, Utah, she is the Marie daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ammon Davis. Miss Anderson has taught school in Utah and abroad. She has worked in Japan, New Foundland, Germany and Belgium, and has held various Church positions abroad. A graduate of Brigham Young University, Miss Anderson has also studied at San Jose State College and in Geneva, Switzerland. She appeared in the 1966 edition of Outstanding Young Women of America. She was also selected as an outstanding R. Anderson teacher in the overseas program and has traveled in most countries of the world, including the Holy Land and USSR. Church positions include Sunday school secretary, Primary teacher and Relief Soci(Brusety historian in the Franco-Belgiasels) Stake; Primary president and Relief Society teacher in South Germany (Germany) Stake, and Primary teacher in Newfoundland Stake. Miss Anderson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Anderson. n New Stake Presidency Named For Idaho Stake Quarterly stake conference in Idaho Stake, Sunday, was highlighted by the reorganization of the stake presidency. Robert William Hubbard, formerly first counselor, was sustained as president, with Bishop Dewsnup Redford, of the Chesterfield Ward as first counselor and Bishop Willis Ransom Burton, Soda Springs Fourth Ward, as second counselor. President leased. Wilford J. Dredge was re- Elder Gordon B. Hinckley, of the Council of the Twelve, presided at the conference and officiated at the reorganization. Pres. Hubbard was born April 24. 1916 in Logan, Utah, a son of Alma E. and Mana Williams Hubbard. He married Ashbaker of Grace, Idaho, and they hare six children. Ai-lc- WEEK ENDING MARCH i.l V' i .'i-.- He was graduated from Grace H gh School and studied at Utah State Univer- sity. Following a mission to Australia he has served successively as Sunday School superintendent, bishop of two wards, high councilor, and as a counselor in the stake presidency. He is presently farming in Caribou County, Idaho. Pres. Redford was born Feb. 24, 1908 in Logan, Utah a son of Robert I and Elizabeth Dewsnup Redford. He married Thelma Pratt Van Orden of Bancroft, Idaho and they are parents of five children. He was graduated from Logan High School and studied at Brigham Young High in Logan. 15, 1969 .v.V After a mission in the Western States he has served in the Church in MIA stake superintendency, as president of a Quorum of Seventy, as high councilor and bishop. He is presently a rancher at Bancroft, Idaho. Pres. Burton was born March 30, 1919 in Treasureton, Idaho, a son of George and Mary Ransom Burton. He married Virginia Bryan of Shreveport, La. They are parents of nine children. He was graduated from Thatcher High School and is presently Associate Agency manager in Soda Springs, Idaho. He fulfilled a mission to the Central States and has also served as a stake MIA superintendent, high councilor in two stakes, counselor in the Oneida Stake presidency and in a bishopric. |