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Show San Juan Stake YWMIA To Honor Past Presidents San Juan Stake YAVMU will honor all past and present pres-ent Young Women Improvement Im-provement Association officers of-ficers and teachers Saturday November 22 at the Cultural Halt of the LDS church in Monticello. The affair, consisting of a reception and program, is part of the festivities commemorating com-memorating the lOOh anniversary anni-versary of the organization of the YWMIA in the year 1869. This event is being observed ob-served world-wide, where-ever where-ever there is a MIA organi zation. San Juan stake is making an effort to make the evening a memorable one. It is no coincidence that this centennial falls in the same year as the "Wedding of the Rails" of May 1969. Both events were red letter days in the history of Utah. The transcontinental railroad rail-road was completed in May 1969, and was duly celebrated celebrat-ed with great ceremony at Conine, Utah. The YWMIA, . or "Retrenchment Association", Associa-tion", as it was first called, was organized sewn months later in Salt Lake City at the Lion House, home of Brigham Young. President Young was an enthusiastic supporter of the completion of the railroad, but at the same time, he foresaw that it would end the comparative isolation that the - Mormon pioneers had . experienced the previous 20 years in the western valleys and mountains. moun-tains. He was especially concerned con-cerned about the young women, wo-men, who wculd now be exposed ex-posed to "worldly" influe-ences influe-ences in dress and manners. He also thought it was rim'-they rim'-they were organized to develop de-velop social graces, become better educated and increase their knowledge of gospel principles. Consequently, he called his own family toge ther, November 28, 1869, to organize the first "Retrenchment "Retrench-ment Association". A reception will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed follow-ed by a program and lighting light-ing of the birthday cake. Past Stake YWMIA presidents presi-dents will stand in the reception recep-tion line to welcome guests. ' A committee composed of Stake Board members and MIA girls from: each ward and branch in the Stake are working out the details of the evening. They are Tharla Holyoak, Stake YWMIA president, pres-ident, her counselors: Sandra San-dra Erickson and Jolene Bailey; Committee chairman Norma Young with Donna Redd assisting, and the girls are: Liz Whitney, Paige Porter, Por-ter, and Debbie Arehart from Moab; Trudy Elkins from Cahone, Colorado; Kar-la Kar-la Redd and Paula Heaton from Monticello; and Calli? Harris, Jayne Tree, Lei a Perkins, and Ann Hawkins from Blanding. An effort has been made to contact all past and present pres-ent YWMIA workers, but as records have not been available avail-able name lists are not complete. com-plete. Everyone who has served ser-ved is invited to attend this gala affair. |