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Show Thursday, May 25, 2006 SPRING VILLE HERALD DUP two-company convention held in Springville Francien Jones The Springville-Mapleton Daughters of Utah Pioneers were joined by the Provo, Utah, Company for their annual an-nual two-company convention conven-tion recently. The convention conven-tion was held in Springville this year. Company presidents Kathryn Brimhall of Provo and Marian Bird of Springville reported on the various activities and accomplishments ac-complishments of their respective re-spective companies. LaVerne O'Reilly, Springville's DUP museum director, shared an artifact with the group - an antique "iron heater-upper," she called it. Kerosene was put in the bottom cavity area, the wick lighted and the iron placed on top. It was used during warm weather to heat an iron when having the stove lit would have made the heat in the home unbearable. Three women of the Springville-Mapleton DUP were honored in a presentation presenta-tion by Company Registrar Lucille Laney. Erma Hjorth, Phyllis Johnson and Genevieve Whiting were all charter members of Camp Union, formed on June 8, 1951. Of the 30 original charter members, these three are the only ones still living. : Erma Mendenhall Hjorth has been active in DUP for 55 years. She has served as camp captain and camp and -company historian. Hjorth also served a mission to Norway with her husband Hugh. She has 60 greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. Phyllis Bird Johnson was born in Mapleton. She married mar-ried Kyle Johnson and said they had to travel to the temple in Salt Lake City in a borrowed car because they didn't have one of their own. They lived in Idaho for many years and she worked as a substitute teacher for 22 years. After returning to Springville, she became a member of Camp Sierra Bonita. Genevieve Bird Whiting, who was unable to attend the convention, was born and raised much of her young life in Payson, later moving to Springville and graduating from Springville High School. As a young woman, she worked at the Remington arms factory in Salt Lake City. She served a mission in eastern Canada and later married Stewart Whiting. She later served as a city councilwoman and in 1973 graduated from Brigham Young University. Each of the three women were presented pre-sented a DUP pin. The guest speakers and representatives from the International In-ternational Daughters of Utah Pioneers Board were Dorothy Matern, parliamentarian, parliamen-tarian, and Bonnie Morton, docent chairwoman for the DUP Pioneer Memorial Museum Mu-seum in Salt Lake City. Matern spoke of the Jubilee held in 1897, a several-day extravaganza celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the arrival of the Mormon pioneers in the valley of the Great Salt Lake. The Jubilees held by the various DUP companies are also to celebrate these early pioneers. Matern also described each ofthe images found on the DUP flag and the meaning mean-ing behind them. Morton spoke of this year's DUP theme, "In Unity There is Strength," and how ' - - . - ' . ' ' ' ' "' : ' : . - : . . J.. .H IHIIP f . . M I i- -r-i-iJL-J.- J i " ' ii 1 i iii mi 1, hi 1 Kl , ai,.i., ,mf, , , Ii.m;,,m i 11 nil il L- , ..... -Jfci..,. , j'i f i Members of Daughters of Utah Pioneers organizations in Springville, Mapleton and Provo met for a convention con-vention recently. Shown are International Daughters of Utah Pioneers Board Member Bonnie Morton, Provo Pro-vo Company President Kathryn Brimhall, International Board Member Dorothy Matern and Springville Company President Marian Bird. Calin Douglas Nielsen, son of Doug and Janice Nielsen of Oklahoma Ok-lahoma City, Oklahoma, celebrated cele-brated his first birthday on May 23 2006. His grandparents are Tom and Robin Wheatley of Mapleton, Utah, and Clyde and Norma Nielsen of Spanish Fork, Utah. that theme relates to the service given in the DUP museums. She told of the beginnings be-ginnings of the Pioneer Memorial Museum in Salt Lake City. The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers organization organiza-tion was started in 1901. In 1911, a fund was established estab-lished to start the Pioneer Museum. Thirty-nine years later, the DUP Pioneer Museum Mu-seum was dedicated, a dream finally fulfilled. She said this year's theme was "inspired by the pioneers' pio-neers' efforts and their need to pull together to survive and get to the Salt Lake Valley." Val-ley." The museums are there to help tell their story, not just or the prominent ones, but of the common man. The musical numbers for the meeting were provided by Cindy Bird and Terry Taylor. A light buffet luncheon lun-cheon was served at the conclusion of the convention. Springville-Mapleton DUP Company Registrar Lucille Laney poses with Phyllis Johnson and Erma Hjorth. 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