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Show Newest Apostle Will Address Graduates at BYU Howard W. Hunter, newest member of the Council of Twelve Apostles, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon June 2 at Brigham Young University, it was announced this week by President Ernest L. Wilkinson. The services will be held in the George Albert Smith Field-house. Field-house. An academic procession, with faculty and graduates in cap and gown, will form at the Maeser Building and proceed to the Fieldhouse. Commencement exercises for the awarding of diplomas will be held the following day. Elder Hunter was sustained a member of Council of Twelve in October, 1959. He had served from 1950 to that time as president presi-dent of Pasadena Stake and as chairman of the Los Angeles Church Welfare region. He was first bishop of the El Sereno Ward, 1941-47, president of the Pasadena Stake High Priest's Quorum, and member of Stake High Council, 1948-50. A native of Boise, Idaho, Elder Hunter attended the University of Washington, and worked with the Bank of America in Los Angeles, An-geles, junior officer with the First Exchange Bank of Ingle-wood, Ingle-wood, California State Banking Department and Los Angeles Floor Control Deaprtment before be-fore deciding on the practice of law. Working nights and studying law by day, he attended Southwestern South-western University in Los Angeles An-geles 1934 to 1939. He received the bachelor of laws degree that year and passed the state bar. He married Clara May Jeffs in the Salt Lake LDS Temple in 1931 and during the years he was in law school three sons were born to them. At the time of his call to the Council of Twelve, Elder Hunter was legal counsel to a number of corporations, and was a director direc-tor of the Beneficial Life Insurance Insur-ance Company, the Watson Land Company and Task Corporation. |