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Show Specialists For All Your insurance AutoHomeLife Business 756-964- -- 307-pag- - the church, and the personal trauma with associated often plural marriage. "What emerges is a portrait of polygamy that neither discounts nor exaggerates the historical evidence but presents it as sympathetically as possible in the context of the times. Van. Wagoner offers neither condemnation nor apologetics. All relevant contemporary accounts are examined and interpreted, and no period of Mormon history is emEven another. over phasized present-da- y polygamous splinter groups are examined. The result is a systematic view unavailable in studies of isolated periods or repetitions of folklore which disguise the ubiquitous and fascinating story of polygamy as it really was." This is not a book for idle, passive reading. Each page's offerings are so detailed, so comprehensive, that it takes total concentration to absorb inthe wealth of formation. From the inception of the practice of polygamy in Joseph Smith's time, to the disastrous effects of the "Manifesto," Van Wagoner has opened a door of understanding to a previously little-understo- Melvin T. Smith, director of Utah to explain Mormon polygamy! A Sate Historical Society, Division of finely crafted study of America's social exmost misunderstood State History, stated: "This is an excellent history of periment, this book places it in the Mormon polygamy. Van Wagoner context of its turbulent times and has made a major contribution to illuminates for us all a once rejected our understanding of the history of portion of our heritage." Van Wagoner, from Lehi, is a polygamy and of the Mormon church, whose struggle with it now clinical audiologist with B.S. and spans more than 150 years. He has M.S. degrees from Brigham Young been through in his coverage of the University. He is maarried to Mary topic, beginning with the earliest Carter and has five daughters. of "A Besides being Mormon 'practices' and those scriptural and religious traditions to Book of Mormons," he has authored which the Mormons were heirs. The several important historical articles work is carefully documented and appearing in "Dialogue: A Journal "Utah reflects familiarity with the best and of Mormon Thought," most recent scholarship in the field. Historical Quarterly," "Sunstone," Here is the first and only account : "Utah Holiday" and "Brigham that consolidates long-hel- d perYoung University Studies,"' inthe best with scholarship cluding "Joseph Smith: The Gift of ceptions currently available to give readers a .Seeing" and "Mormon Polyandry in view of polygamy - what it was, who Nauvoo." The latter article placed first in the primary players have been, how the rules have changed, and what it Dialogue's 1984 historical writing has meant for mainsteam Mor- contest. , A student of early Lehi history, mons." Van Wagoner has joined a group of Another review by Valeen Tip-pet- historians who are dedicated to of Mormon 'writing and preserving the histories Avery, Lehi personalities and Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, and of early-da- y Center for Colorado government leaders. director, "Mormon Polygamy" is available Plateau Studies, Northern Arizona University, said: "This book begins at most bookstores in the area . , ts Three BYU students from Lehi initiated into Phi Kappa Phi Three BYU graduate and undergraduate students from Lehi are among the 375 students initiated recently into Phi Kappa Phi national honor society. Nineteen members faculty years, Smyth was asked in 1957 to run the first heart monitoring tington Memorial Hospital News machine used during heart Magazine, located in Pasadena, catherization procedures at HunCalif. Irene Meiling Smyth is a tington. It was the beginning of a revolution in technology that connative of Lehi. Huntington has long been known tinues today. Heart catherization is a for its commitment to technology. Irene Smyth, for- diagnostic procedure that looks for mer administrative director of congenital defects, valve functions clinical cardiology, has seen and and coronary artery disease. In the exDerienced first hand the dramatic early 1960s, the idea .of putting a was catheter hf a coronary-arterprogtigssion of technology at HMH. ' Her association with Huntington cconsidered impossible by ' many, goes back to 1943 when she was she says. Early procedures were done in training as a medical technologist in the clinical lab under the the dark with the radiologist using a direction of Dr. Alvin G. Foord. fluoroscope to direct the physician "That was during the war years in catheter placement. Smyth ran when the last one out of the lab had the big machine that monitored the and to put the blackout screens over patient's electrocardiogram systemic pressures and tested for every window," recalls Smyth. As a student she worked in the oxygen saturation of the blood. clinical lab in exchange for three Everyone wore heavy lead aprons meals a day and the laundering of because of the high radiation. It was a long way from today's her uniforms. where catheter After working at Huntington a techniques on a TV screen by year following training, and placement is seenradiation is low, in the ensuing the physician, elsewhere part-tim- e state-of-the-a- rt . ; r dSk equipment moves automatically and monitoring equipment is computerized. By 1961 HMH was ready for its first open heart surgery. Smyth, with the heart monitoring equipment, was there for "the big day." It was such an emotional highlight that physicians, nurses and other staff, along with their very first patient, gathered last year for a reunion of that first event. For the next 10 years Smyth ran., the heart monitoring equipment for? all open heart surgeries. "There was rib such thing as emergency surgery or cardiopulmonary resuscitation in those days," she says. "They waited if I was on vacation." Her role as a crucial link in the chain meant doing whatever had to be done. She was often called on to give the sometimes recalcitrant machines "the Irene treatment" - a quick slam into position. "I evolved into a fixer of equipment out of necessity," Smyth says. "We didn't have maintenance people to fix them. I always carried a screwdriver in my pocket." She remembers the patients as well as the equipment. "I followed patients before, during and after their surgery. There was a deep sadness when there wasn't a success," she says. Besides the rapid introduction of new equipment, many other changes have occurred. Smvth. who worked solo for so long, saw the jyruiuiugy - uepai iiueiu tumc unu 'existence in the early 960s with a part-tim- e director, Smyth and an EKG technician as staff. Now the ' department which she has ministered has a staff of 64 and three medical directors. V "It has been exciting to watch the rapid advancement of technology here at Huntington," says Smyth who retired recently. "Equipment now is safer, more accurate and easier to operate. These dramatic improvements have ad- 1 ment and Evan A. Nielsen, statistics. A total of 305 upperclassmen with Dr. Clark T. Thorstenson, 90 or more semester hours and a 3.75 grade point average or higher president of the BYU Chapter, said certificates of membership in the were also initiated into the These included Ingrid society were presented during a organization. recent banquet that featured as N. Nuttal, secondary education. speaker Elder Marion D. Hanks, a member of the presidency of the First Quorum of the Seventy of the ' LDS Church. , "The primary objective of the society is to recognize and . encourage superior scholarship in all academic disciplines," Thorstenson said. "Being invited into the society is a great honor because it signifies true excellence and distinction, as well as integrity of character." The society was founded in 1897 and has 240 chapters in 49 states, the District of Columbia, the Philippines and Puero Rico. students degrees April 18 receiving and in the upper 10 Weber completes basic training W. Weber, son of and Stella H. Weber, Highland, has completed basic training at Fort Knox, Ky. During the training, students received instruction in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, first aid and Army history and traditions. His wife, Kimberly, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Barber, Lehi. The private is a 1985 graduate of American Fork High School. Pvt. Stephen Leo W. If vou still believe in her, help finish I LZ Island Foundation, Inc. The Statue of Liberty-Elli- s P.O. Box 1986, New York, New York 10018 Td like to help Save The Lady. Enclosed is my tax deductible contribution for: Other $ $10 D$500 D$50 O$100 Q$25 Please make checks payable to: Statue of Liberty. greatly I feel benefited the patients. privileged to have been a part of this tremendous growth." and percent of their class were invited to join the society. These included Rose Mary Paget Lindberg, invited by the Home Economics Depart- ministrators were also inducted. Graduate SA4ITI1 3 education Irene Meiling Smyth witness to technology Editor's note: The following article is reprinted from the Hun- in Utah County for over 25 years 19, 1986 - Page 6 Richard Van Wagoner's 'Mormon - a history worth reading Polygamy Take a hint from a key word "comprehensive" when describing Richard S. Van Wagoner's latest literary effort, "Mormon Polygamy A History." of the book include The 29 pages of bibliography which indicates the intense research effort by Van Wagoner. Mormon Polygamy was published by Signture Books, publishers of Van Wagoner's "A Book of Mormons" by Steven Walker. The paper cover on the hard bound edition of "Mormon Polygamy," describes what is contained in this 's outstanding history of one of most controversial issues: "In this, the first comprehensive survey of Mormon polygamy - from nineteenth-centr- y Ohio to twentieth Richard S. Van century Utah Wagoner details with precision and detachment the tumultuous reaction among Mormons and to plural marriage. Drawing heavily accounts and recent on first-han- d the author scholarly research, carefully outlines the philosophical underpinnings of the practices, the of administration institutional policies regulating polygamy, the opposition from within and without Dedicated Service 174 West Main American Fork Computerized Quotes - Special Discounts Free Press - Wednesday, March Insurance' Ken Cardon LIBERTY 18861986 KEEP THE TORCH LIT 1985 The Statue of Liberty-El- lis Island Foundation ' DRUG CO. I And Your Health 24 W. Main Am. Fork 756-356- 9 Perry Thomas, Pharmacist From "Nature" are living in an age that places value on the "natural." The back ' to nature movement has provided us with a number of cosmetics, foods and drugs that did not exist just a few years ago. 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