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Show Btfl. Heights Conference Elder Theodore M. Burton, will speak at the Bountiful Heights Stake Conference Saturday Sa-turday and Sunday, February 14th and 15th. The visiting General Authority will present the theme of "A Personal History-how it can strengthen the family. The public is invited to attend at-tend the Sunday Conference session at 10 AM in the Bountiful-Woods Cross Regional Center. Stake President, Jesse E. Godfrey will conduct. con-duct. ELDER Theodo e M. Burton Bur-ton is an assistant to the Council of Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. At the time he was called to this position, October 8, 1960, he was a professor of chemistry at Utah State University. Elder Burton was born in Salt Lake City March 27. 1907, to Theodore Taylor and Florence Moyle Burton. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Utah and in 1951 obtained his doctorate at Purdue University. ELDER Burton has spent much of his life in Europe in church and government service. ser-vice. He went there first as a young missionary to the Swiss-German Mission, 1927-30, during which time he was president of the Schles-wig-Holstein District. In 1934, he became technical tech-nical assistant to the U.S. Treasury Attache, U.S. Treasury Department, in Vienna, Austria. In 1937-38 he held the same post in Berlin. In 1957 he returned to Europe to preside over the Church's West German Mission for over three years. FROM January 1962 to 1964 he served as president of the European Mission. In this position he supervised the missions in Austria, Switzerland, Swit-zerland, Germany, the three THEODORE M. BURTON Scandinavian nations and Finland. In January 1964, he was appointed vice president and general manager of the Genealogical Society and now serves as president of that society and as managing director of the Priesthood Genealogy Committee Com-mittee of the Church. Serving with him in the leadership of the mission in West Germany and in his present assignment is his wife, Minnie Susan Preece Burton, whom he married in the Salt Lake Temple, February 23, 1933. They have one son, Robert Preece Burton, Bur-ton, who is married. FROM 1932 to 1934, Elder Burton served as Salt Lake City's assistant city bacteriologist. He taught chemistry, physics and mathematics at College of Eastern Utah at Price. Utah. In 1943 he began teaching at Utah State University where he was professor of organic chemistry. He has served as president of the American Association of University Hroiessors, UbU Chapter, and as chairman of the Utah Section of the American Chemical Society. He is a member of the Sigma Chi. Phi Lambda Upsilon, Sigma Xi and Alpha Epsilon Delta Fraternities. IN CHURCH service he has been bishop of the Cache Fourth Ward, high councilor in the Cache and Utah Slate University Stakes, and High Pnesi Quorum President in the Cache and East Cache Stakes, and as supervisor of various mission areas in western wes-tern and eastern America and in Western Europe. He is now serving as Mountain States Mission area supervisor. |