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Show Four Presidencies Of Stakes Are Reorganized MONUMENT PARK WEST Reorganization of the Monument Park West Stake Presidency on Dec. 1 placed John Reed Poulton in the office of stake president. The new stake presidency was sustained during quarteily conference under the direction of Elder Richard L. Evans of the Council of the Twelve, assisted by Elder Loren C. Dunn of the First Council of Seventy. Pres. Poulton succeeds Pres. Rex Austin Skidmore. Iiis counselors are Emmett L. Brown, first counselor, and John H. Walton, second counselor. Pres. Poulton was set apart as second counselor in the stake presidency in 1967. He was made first counselor a year later and had served seven months in that position when called to be stake president. that lie had been bishop of the Monument Park 3rd Ward, Aaronic Priesthood general secretary, and a counselor in the 29th Ward Bishopric of Riverside Stake for four years. Pres. Poulton is an agent for the Equitable l.ife Assurance Society. Pres. Brown previously had been second counselor to Pres. Skidmore. lie served eight years as bishop of Monument Park 8th Ward after two years as counselor in the bishopric of Monument Park 7th Ward. Pres. Brown was graduated from the University of Utah and is now a practicing attorney. Pres. Walton, also a U. of U. graduate, had served nine years on the Monument Park West High Council before his call to the stake presidency. Before that he was general secretary of. the Aaronic Priesthood in Monument Park 4th Ward. He also was bishop of Monument Park 8th Ward for several years. In civic woik. Pres. Walton has been president and director of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce in Salt Lake City. He is employed at the Granite Furniture Co. Be-ifo- BEAR LAKE STAKE Pres. Taft Passey Budge is the new president of Bear Lake Stake with headquarters in Paris, Idaho. The former second counselor to Stake Pres. William K. Matthews was set apart as president by Elder Howard W. Hunter of the Council of the Twelve. Elder Hunter was assisted by Elder ElRay L. Christiansen. Assistant to the Twelve. New counselors to Pres. Budge are Wil liam Warren Passey, first counselor, and Charles Elliott Hulme, second counselor. Pres. Budge, a native of Paris, Idaho, served as second counselor in the stake presidency since 1965 and as assistant stake clerk since 1957. Before that he bad been bishop of Paris 2nd Ward, a member of the high council, stake mission president and general secretary of the Aaronic Priesthood. In addition to being a farmer and postmaster in Paris, he had served on the school board, city council and executive board of the Tendoy Council and Boy Scouts of America. Fres. Passey of Ovid, Idaho, had served twice on the stake high council and as bishop and counselor in the Lanark Ward and Liberty Ward bishoprics since 1951. He is a dairy farmer and served for six years as chairman of the county ASCS, a member of the school board and director of several irrigation companies. Pres. Hulme of Bloomington, Idaho, has served as first counselor in two Bloomingr ton Ward bishopries during a period. He has been a member of the 2nd Elders Quorum presidency. In addition to being president of the Bloomington Irrigation Co., he has served for many years on the Cache Forest Advisory Board. six-yea- SOUTH CAROLINA WEST A new stake presidency for South Carolina West Stake was selected from the stake high council with Jay Martin set apart as president by Eider LeGrand Richards of the Council of the Wit-bec- k Twelve. Elder Richards, assisted by Patriarch Eldred G. Smith, set apart Byron Cole Williams as first counselor and Edward R. Reynolds, second counselor. Pres Witbeck, who succeeds Pres. Ivan Andrew Larson, had been on the high council for five years and before that president of the Higli Priests Quorum in Greensboro and president and counselor of the Charlotte Branch in the North Carolina Central District for eight years. Pres. Witbeek is vice president and sales manager for the Shealy Electrical Wholesalers in Greenville and is chairman for the National Committee on Lighting for the National Association of Electrical Distributors. Pres. Williams, a B.S. graduate from BYU, and now seeking his M.S. from University of Idaho, has been a counselor in the Marietta Ward bishopric in Georgia and a member of the Sunday Scliool superin tendency in the BYU 1st Ward. lie taught scliool in the Snake River School District. Idaho, before going to Charlotte where lie is owner of the Western Mobile Homes joined the Church in and has been Elders Quorum president, branch president and bishop in Charlotte, N.C.. and stake mission president before his appointment to the Stake High Ires. Reynolds 1957 Continued on Page 10 Corp. New Counselor Named MIDVALE, UTAH Jay Larson of the Midvale Stake High Council set apart as second counselor to Stake Pres. Stanley A. Hutchings in the stake presidency, under the direction of Elder John Longden. Assistant to the Twelve. C. lias been New Juarez Stake Presidency Elder Harold B. Lee of the Council of the Twelve reorganized the Juarez Stake presidency in Mexico recently, setting apart as the new stake presidency, left to right, Howard G. Schmidt, first counselor; Waldo P. Call, president, and John B. Robinson III, second counselor. Story on the reorganization appeared in the Nov. 30 edition of the Church News. Pres:. Larson succeeds former second counselor Carl L. Larson. In addition to his service on the high rouncil. Pres. Larson has been a counselor in the Midvale 2nd Ward bishopric, ward clerk in the Ward, Pioneer Stake, general secretary of Aaronic Priesthood and YMM1A superintendcncy member. He served a mission in Tahiti, was graduated fiom the U. of U. and presently is a mechanical design engineer for the Hercu'cs, Inc. Riv-ervie- Pres. Larson and i..s wife, Natalie, are the ents of five children. WEEK C. Jay Larson par- ENDING DECEMBER 7, 1968' CHURCH- -5 |