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Show Church Music - 4 - $ 'V v X !f , 1 Committee Adds 2 Aides J 1 The appointment of two outstanding Utah musicians to the executive committee of the "General Music Committee was announced this week by Tracy Ky it y y Y. Cannon, chairman. New appointees are Richard P. Condie, director of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir, and - Dr. Crawford Gates, head of the music department at BYU. Both have Church activity and service as well as a rich musical and educational back- &""' mdzZrn - HONORED BY MIA Mrs. Roy A. Welker, receives a special pin, corsage and congratulations from General President Bertha S.. Reeder, left, of the YWMIA and Mrs. Marcege Morby, Emigration Ward presidents Mrs. Welker has been active in the Mutual for 66 years. -- - . ground. Other members of the executive committee Include Frank W. Asper, N. Lorenzo Mitchell, J. Spencer Cornwall, Alexander Schreiner and Leroy J. Robertson. The general Emigration Honors Matron Roy A. (Elizabeth HogeX Welker was honored re-- 1 cently by the YWMIA of the Emigration Ward, Park Stake, for completing 66 years of activity with tjie Mutual. 'In addition,' Mrs. Welker-als--o has spent 41 years work-ing in the Relief Society. A special pin and corsage were presented her during a Sacrament meeting by Mrs. Marcelle Morby, ward YWMIA includes k " -- German-Austria- i n sion. Returning to Ephraim, Utah, presidentGeneral- - Presiden- t- she was Bee Hive district su-- 7 Bertha SI Reeder of the pervlsor for three years and tionsr -- Mrs. Welker was born at Paris, Idaho and attended the ACU and Brigham Young College at Logan and the Salt Lake Business College. She was married to Roy A. Welker" in the Salt Lake Templer June -- later for two years for five stakes at St. George. In Wyoming she was ward Bee Keeper at Laramie for Jthree years followed by two years" as ward president Mrs. Welker was special in-- YWMIA offered her congratu- ?' lations. - -- Mrs. Welker became a mem-- 1 ber of the Paris Second Ward YWMIA in 1893. She served as secretary of the Bear Lake Stake YWMIA from' 1903 to the chair- - Ward for six years in Salt Lake City and in the Emigration Ward has been Gleaner leader. Special Interest and study group leader. In December of l952 she was made an Honorary Golden Gleaner. The mother of nine children, seven living, Mrs. Welker has 28 grandchildren and five She also has given many years of service to the Primary and Sunday School, holding various posi- - she was sustained as first counselor. In 1914 she was appointed stake president of the YWMIA and continued until 1930 when she became bee keeper during which time'" she also served as first counselor in the ward until 1934. The next three years she was supervisor for the Mission while Elder Welker presided over the' mis1907 when , RICHARD P. CONDIE . . . named to committee com-mitteeal- For Long Service In Mrs. DR. CRAWFORD GATES . . , new appointee 7, 1906. man of the music committee of each of the auxiliaries. tef- tor of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir for the past .three years. He has been an associate professor of music at the University of Utah since 1937. A native of Springville, he graduated from the BYU in 1923 and the New England Conservatory of Music, at Boston in 1928. On a scholarship he studied in Europe, Joined an opera copipany in Italy and toured Europe and North .He also taught at the former McCune School of Music and was on the Art and in 1931-3music faculty of Utah State University. At his alma mater 2 . he taught during Elder Condie also served a mission to the Northern States 1935-36- andmarriedBlancheMenden hall of Springville in 1923. Mrs. " Condie died last year. five children. He has conductor of note, has written more than 400 works, of which s over 186 were original and 217 are arrangements. He studied" extensively in Burlingame, Calif., and under Prof. Robertson at BYU before going to Rochester, where he received his doctorate at Eastman School of Music. While filling his mission in the Eastern States he was mission music director and conductor of the Mormon Male Chorus olPhUadelphiarpartici pating in 50 Church broadcomgo-sition- casts. Dr. Gates has been a mem- ber of the YMMIA General Board since 1949. His Church activities have also included Aaronic Priesthood supervisor, Sunday - S c h o 0 1 secretary, teacher, MIA group leader in the Navy and others. He composed the Utah . Cen-tenni- music-dance-dram- ..... Herald, column. ' . , Column All-Canadi- an W .. ITH the help of our Church News correspondent in Canada, C. Frank Steele, execu-- tive editor of the Lethbridge -- ' make this an . Frank is diligent In sending news items of Church happenings in his area and his stories, many of them of a human interest type, have many readers. OuFs has been a long and pleasant association. J In A Whlrlybird CARDSTON Using a helicopter to get to a temple session is a new angle. Two Calgary members of the Church and their wives did this recently. Elder and Mrs. Bruce Bullock and Elder and Mrs. Evan Bullock were In the craft that put down on a field near the Alberta Temple. The Bullock brothers are connected with the still moderately booming Alberta Oil ness and own three helicopters mid a couple of Norseman aircraft. They use them for northern Canada flying, but this time they pressed the helicopter into service to carry the party to a special session in the temple. inter-estin- g , Ho "Greeted" Pioneers -- M CARDSTON When the first train of Mormon Pioneers to Canada reached the Canadian line on June 1, 1887, and the site of Cardston three Says later they were met by a young Canadian Mountie. He was Constable Vem Shaw of the Royal Mounted who escorted - the immigrant train safely across the turbulent St Mary River, then in flood., He welcomed them on behalf of the Canadian government and led them across the prairie to Lees Creek. They set up camp and then awoke the next morn- ing in a June snowstorm. Constable Shaw died recently at the age of 87. He was Cardstons oldest resi-- , ,- , - s ... FROM THE CHURCH EDITOR'S DESK SflKJSvXv.vA-'' dent and while' not a member of the1 Church he always spoke in glowing terms of President Charles Ora Card, leader of the Mormon band and founder of Cards-ton- , and was always a friend to the Latter-daSaint people of the area. y - - Recognition Two prominent . Saints of Canada are on of leading Alberta . a committee businessmen named by President Walter Johns of the University to advise the schools new -Faculty of Commerce. The two Mormons on the committee are Hon. E. W. Hinman, Alberta provincial treasurer and member of the Alberta Legislature, who is active in the Church in Edmonton; and President Nathan E. Tanner, of the Calgary Stake, who is a former government official and oil executive. Congratulations. . EDMONTON Latter-da- y We Pay Tribute: To Scouter Charles S. Matkin of the Magrath First Ward of the Taylor Stake, who has retired after 35 years of active uniform service. He was Provincial Assistant Commissioner of the Boy Scout Association of Canada. Matkin started as Commissioner Scoutmaster of the first troop of the Magrath Ward and rose steadily in Scouting. In an official capacity he attended two world jamborees, one in Britain and Ontario. the other in It was his rare privilege to have been presented to the founder of Scouting, 1 - Niagara-on-the-Lak- l. He has made six tours by air into the Arctic and Inspecting Indian and Eskimo Scout troops, among than the Eskimo troop at Tuktoyaktuk on the shores of toe Arctic Ocean, toe northernmost Scout troop in the world. sub-Arcti- c He took a contingent of Eskimo and Indian Scouts to the British Jamboree. Their igloo made a hit with toe other boys. - Commissioner. Matkin led a contingent of Kings Scouts the Canadian equivalent to Eagle Scouts to the Church Centennial in Salt Lake City. He holds many decorations including the Medal of Merit with Bar, conferred by Lord the --Long Service Medal with Bars, the Silver Acorn presented by Rt Hon. Vincent Massey, chief scout of CanBess-boroug- ada. A Link Is Gone "Promised Valley," and last year the spectacle produced at BYU, "Sand in Their Shoes." His "Overture to Spring" will be among orchestral works to be performed by the Kansas City. Philharmonic at Kansas Universitys second annual Symposium of Contemporary American Music at Lawrence, Kan., May 2-- Genealogy Meets Slated For May 15 convenSeveral genealogical tions are scheduled for Sunday, May 15. They are: Great Falls Stake will meet in the Croxford Funeral Home Chapel at Great Falls, Mont., at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Mt Rubidoux and San Stakes meet in the Riverside Municipal Auditorium at Riverside, Calif., at J:45 a.m. and 1 p.m. Benson, Franklin," Oneida and Smithfield Stakes meet in the Preston High School, Preston, Idaho at 10 a.m. and Ber-..nardi- LETHBRIDGE The death re-"cently of Mrs. Mary E. Nalder Green, 88, severed another link with the pioneeryears of the Church in Canada. Born on New Years Day, 1872, i Layton, Utah, she married George W. Green, prominent industrialist, t wiee 1:30 p.m. Lake Mead, Las Vegas and mayor of Raymond, Alberta, former bishop and also a member of Moapa Stakes meet in the Overton High School, Over-ton-, the Lethbridge Stake Presidency. Nev., at 10 a.m. and in She was, herself, active Relief 1:30 p.m. member was and a of the Society " Grantsville, North Tooele presidency in the Lethbridge Ward and Tooele Stakes will meet and then of the Lethbridge Stake. in the Grantsville High School, In the story of her life left for Grantsville at 10 a.m. and her family she recalls as a child -- 2 p.m. being taken to the general conferTamp la Sessions Sat ence in Salt Lake City and meeting In Garmon Langmrga Martin Harris, one of the Three A temple session In the1 GerWitnesses to the Book of Mormon. man language will be held in She remembers he stood at the gate the Salt Lake Temple, Satur-- ' hands shook and of Temple Square day, May 14, announces the with her as he did the older folk. of the German Or- presidency Martin asked She says her father in Balt Lake City. ganlzation Harris if his testimony of the Book Names will be given out beanhe and of Mormon was true tween 3 and 3:30 p.m. All Gerswered: "I could never deny that, man members and returned missionaries are invited. testimony. 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