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Show Authority to speak at Vernal stake conference Vernal Utah Stake LDS semi-annual conference will be held Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26 with Elder G. Homer Durham of the First Quorum of the Seventy presiding, announced President Irvin Haws. Conference meetings will include a Priesthood Leadership session Saturday, at 4 p.m. in the Stake Center. Those who are to attend this meeting are Stake High Council, Executive Secretary and Clerks, Ward Bishoprics, Executive Secretaries and Clerks, Melchizedek Priesthood Quorum Presidencies, Group Leaders, Secretaries and assistants and Aaronic Priesthood advisors. At 7 p.m. in the Stake Center the Saturday evening session of the conference con-ference will be held, and is for all adult members of the stake and single young men and women ages sixteen and older. The theme for this meeting is, "The Blessings of Friendshipping." Special music will be provided by a returned missionaries chorus. Sunday, the general session of the stake conference will be held in the historic Tabernacle at 5th West and 100 South. All members of the Stake are invited along with their friends. The session will convene at 10 a.m. with business of the conference being conducted by President Harvey Madsen. Special music will be by a Primary Chorus, talks by members of the Stake Presidency, two youth speakers and Elder Durham. Music for the conference is under the direction of Ruth Walker. A "Primary Conference Session" will also be held at this time for primary children, in the stake center. Elder Durham, educator and author, retired in 1976 after seven years as the first commissioner and chief executive officer of the Utah System of Higher Education. He returned to the University of Utah where he has served as vice president, director, Institute of Government and chairman, Department Depart-ment of Political Science. From 1960 to 1969 he was president of Arizona State University at Tempe. During his tenure, university enrollment jumped from 10,640 to 26,000. A graduate of the University of Utah, he received his doctorate in political science at UCLA. In 1967, Elder Durham was chairman of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the nation's largest and oldest organization of institutions in-stitutions of higher education. Active in professional organizations, he was president of the American Society for Public Administration, 1959-60, 1959-60, president of the Western Political Science Association and founder of the Western Political Quarterly. He has been a consultant in public administration to the states of Utah, Nevada and Montana, and various inter-state commissions and municipal associations. 4 3 t i I i ?i - i y. l S ' ' A . i Id, - - ..;-iSjU J ELDER G. HOMER DURHAM conference visitor |