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Show H.R. MERRILL 'ERAVEDITOR Popular Member Of "V" Faculty Fac-ulty Receives Appointment, Succeeding Cannon. Harrison K. Merrill, professor of journalism at the Brigham Young university, has been appointed editor edi-tor of the Improvement Era, M. I. A. and L. D. S. priesthood magazine, mag-azine, according lo an announcement announce-ment made Saturday from the office of-fice of the first presidency of thi church. Prof. Merrill succeeds the late Hugh J. Cannon in his new position. posi-tion. The appointment comes as a happy surprise to Prof. Merrill's many friends, not only in Provo but throughout the intormountain country. He will assume his new duties at once, although some provision will be made to allow ' him to taki care of his classes at the university univer-sity until his successor is appointed. Prof. Merrill has been one of the most frequent fre-quent contributors con-tributors to the L. D. S. church mag azines and the newspapers i n recent years. He is the au-t au-t h o r of "Barth of Kane Coun- ty" and collaborated with Dr. Lowry Nelson in publishing a book, "Poems of the West." He has also prepared lesson books for the Religion Re-ligion Classes. ; ' Prof. Merrill is a native of Smith-field, Smith-field, a son of Orrin J. and Elizabeth Eliza-beth White Merrill. The family moved to Idaho where young Merrill Mer-rill spent his early manhood.' He served a two-year mission tc' Ireland where he served as mission; secretary. He taught upon his re-: turn in the Preston grade schooU and later in the Oneida stake academy acad-emy at Preston. He studied at the University of; Idaho and the Utah Agricultural college where he gained a B. S. de-I gree in English. He did post-grad-; uate work at Northwestern and Columbia, being awarded his M. S. degree in journalism from the latter lat-ter institution. 1 He moved to, Provo in 1921 and ever since that time ha& neen connected con-nected with " the Brigham Young university. He is extremely popular popu-lar with his fellow teachers, ; students stu-dents and townspeople alike, all of whom regret his leaving Provo. |