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Show Around The World THE CHURCH IN ACTION LAIE: Youth HONG KONG PROVO: Canadian Noted Centennial f ' The Canadian Centennial was noted on .. Conference Scheduled V- - Wly the Brigham Young University campus this week as 500 Canadian. students intro duced Expo '67 to fellow students. Canadian d1splays and films were shown in the art exhibition area of the Wilkinson Center during the week. Fred Norman of the Canadian Immigration Service and William G. Brese, an adminifr trator of the Department of Industry and ' Development of Alberta, spoke before student audiences telling them of job oppor-- " tunities and industrial progress in Canada. 27-2- s : X Thirteen youths of the Springville Sixth Ward, Kolob Stake, received Individual and Duty to God Awards at a banquet honoring 56 Aaron ic Priesthood boys. Recipients included Marcell Whiting, David HarrlsrWttHam Gammell, John Sheffield, Cloyd Greenhalgh, Craig Hansen, Phillip Petersen, Ricky Patten, Wayne Cutch, Stanley Weight, Steven Lyn, Howard Eves, Edwin Cutch. , Four" years of perfect attendance at a 5:45 a.m. Seminary class Is the enviable record of Cynthia Dobb. Her early morning attendance record, the best in the Montana Seminary district, brought Cynthia a $125 scholarship to Ricks College in Idaho. Seminary Coordinator Sherman A. Back reports that Cynthia, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H.Dobb, has held the office of secretary, vice president and Is currently president of her Seminary class. Her early morning leacher is Mrs. Helen-ma- r Petersen. In her younger years, Cynthia maintained a 100 per cent attendance at Junior Sunday School for two years and a five-yerecord of perfect attendance at ar , - WASHINGTON: LDS Engineer Is Honored George W. Poulsen, Jr., released recently as president of the Hawaii Mission, has been chosen to receive theNa-jtoha- l Service Award of the Consulting Engineers' Council of the United States. The announcement was made by Eugene B. Waggoner, national council president. One engineer in the United States is honored with this sward each year in recognition of outstanding service rendered to the engineering profession. Pres. Poulsen, who is currently serving as a member of the Priesthood Missionary Committee, was previously commended by the national Consulting Engineers' Council st the time he was called to serve as s miss ion president The formal presentation of the award will be made to Pres. Poulsen st the national convention in Washington, D.C. on May Ml, 1967. full-tim- e d. f f f7 t Philmont opens June 19 this year and continues through Aug. 3 with 2,000 Scouts per week due to enter the camp. He made a plea for more LDS Scout troops and Explorer Posts to spend two weeks at the camp. PROVO: Y. Sets 'Bucket of Fun ' Students will celebrate the BYUs 75th annual Y Day, May 3. It is scheduled to be a "Bucket of Fun." Y Day cele bra tors will get off to an early start by staging their traditional whitewashing of the block Y high on a mountain slope. Participating students from several BYU ward congregations line. will form a luncheon, stude. Foliowing a mid-da- y will make the rounds of carnival jbooi and swarm over the stadium where merous events will indude an egg ti wheelbarrow racef, polywog race, tire obstacle course, chariot race, broom t ra rolling pyi toss and a three-legge- d A ATLANTA: Priest Wins Science Awards LAURA LEE NIELSEN Wins Talent Honors Misa Laura Lee Nielsen, fourth year LDS Seminary student, has been selected as the most talented senior in her dass at Corvallis High School. She Is secretary of the National Honor Council, vice president of forensic state oratory champion, and holds membership in the high school fashion board, senior class council, swing choir, national thespians dramatic society, staff member of the yearbook and chairman of the tutoring service. This is just a starter. Laura Lee, an honor student for four years, won first place In the Denton County Soil Conservation speech contest and American d district speech contest. She placed second in alii1 state. She has her own ballet studio, produced two original ballets, taught many individuals to perform in Church and rivic programs and has had several leads In ballet performances of the Olympia Academy of Theatrical Art. Miss Nielsen holds six individual awards and plans to attend BYU this fall on a scholarship. Her ambition it to be .called on a Frank Willard, priest of the Atlanta Ward, Atlanta Stake, Ga., received several awards for his project in the Atlanta Science Congress. He received a free trip to the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium at West roint, a gold key from the N.Y., April Atlanta Board of Education for excellence 19-2- of advanced biology, certificate achievement from the U.S. Army and an invitation to the University of Georgia Fair held at Athens, Ga., earlier this in I' month. Frank's project, "The life cycle of the small European Elm bark beetle scolytus multistriatus"f was under direction of Dr. W. D. Buchanan, entomologist for the city of Atlanta and High Priest Gr Leader 7 in the Sandy Springs Ward. I j Legion-sponsore- L Hales, Yale Ward, Bonneville Stake, has been reappointed chaplain at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico for this summer. He nerved in this capacity last summer recalling maay experiences as he conducted services la various gdaces on the 137,000-acr- e site for die LDS Scents. ENDING AMU. 29. bampoline And karate demonstrations There will be fashion shows, artfs and crafts displays, dance demonstrations and a Hootenany In the evening, according to Jody Pratt of the Honolulu Stake. On Sunday the young people will meet for an early morning testimony meeting on the Hawaii Temple grounds. Elder Hanks is scheduled to speak to the young people at a conference later in the day. CORVALLIS: Girl Liahona High School of the Tongan Istandq now has a student body with international spice with 35 Fijians, five Americans and three Tahitians, aU members of the Church, enrolled at the school in addition to thn Tongan students. The students take an active part in all school activities adding flavor to assemblies and floor shows. Boy students particiathletics. Some of the pate in inter-schogirls have joined the Polynesian dance groups. The Fiji students came to Liahona from Suva. Ftjl, which is part of the Tongan Mission. The Tahitian girls are from Papette. Tahiti. Lynn WEEK 3 . . busy girl TONGATAPU: School Has 'All Kinds ' ' Camp Chaplain Renamed CHURCH si?;!' This beautiful chapel was dedicated on April 16 by President Hugh B. Brown of the First Presidency. The chapel is at Un Long in the Hong Kong zone and is the first to be dedicated on the mainland of ancient China. SALT LAKE: Scout CYNTHIA DOBB ! First Chinese Chapel - . . . perfect record ' 1 X.IW jjl.y YAKIMA: Dinner Honors Aaronic Priesthood BUTTE: Mark 4 Years Perfect Record Elder Marian IX Hanks of the First Council of the Seventy will be the tea mini e Youth Conference speaker at a 8 at the Church College to be held May of Hawaii. More than 700 young people from the Honolulu, Pearl Harbor, and Oahu staki-have been invited to the conference, Mihe largest of its kind ever held in Hawaii First-da- y activities will include skills and sport demonstrations in the morning, lollowed by swimming and diving and Tri-Stak- SPRINGVILLE: Duty Awards Given 13 Boys Aaronlc Priesthood boys and their mothers, plus four Lamanite boys, were honored at the annual banquet of this Yakima Stake, Yakima, Wash. Rose Marie Reid, Provo, Utah, guest speaker, counseled the boys to work for what they receive, live the commandments and honor the priesthood. Stake ' Pres. F. Edgar Johnson preof Certificates Achievement sented Awards. Sunnyside Ward, with 36 boys present, received the prize for having the largest number present Pres. John L. Stolph, second counselor in the stake presidency, was chairman for the evening. 1 life-lon- g FRANK WtUARD . . octivo LDS youth |
