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Show Maeser stake conference to feature authority The Maeser Stake LDS Conference will be Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 17 and 18, with Dr. G. Homer Durham, member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, presiding. Leadership meetings will begin Saturday at 4 p.m. for all priesthood leaders, Melchizedek and Aaronic. At 7 p.m. all adult members, including single people ages 16 and older, are invited in-vited to a meeting at 7 p.m. The General Session of conference will be at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Maeser Stake Center. Dr. G. Homer Durham, educator and author, will speak at the general session. ses-sion. Dr. Durham retired in 1976 after seven years as the first commissioner and chief executive officer of the Utah System of Higher Education. He returned return-ed to the University of Utah where he has served as vice president, director, Institute of Government and chairman, Department of Political Science. From 1960 to 1969 he was president of Arizona State University at Tempe. During his tenure, university enrollment enroll-ment 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 in- 1 - " 1 , j I " 1 f " ' - . I "4 1 I 1 jfk i lf , ' ' 3 , S. , , ELDER G. HOMER DURHAM, conference speaker. stitutions of higher education. Active in professional organizations, he was president of the American Society Socie-ty for Public Administration, 1959-60, president of the Western Political Science Association and founder of the Western Political Quarterly. He has been a consultant in public administration ad-ministration to the states of Utah, Nevada, and Montana, and various inter-state commissions and municipal associations. |
