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Show i General oards Ca Six Utahns, including two recently re- New President Called !n English Stake BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND Pres. Robert James Mawle, former tVT V-.- V' s$S9 sec- G. Romney of the Council of the Twelve in recent action. He replaces Pres. Derek A. Cuthbert who was called recently by the First Presidency to be a Regional Representative of the Twelve. Pres. Mawle chose as his counselors Pres. Stanley Henry Woods, former first counselor to stay in that position, and Pres. Frank Thomas Tennant of the Birmingham 2nd Ward as second counselor. Pres. Mawle was bom in Birmingham Nov. 27. 1943, a son of Horace James and Eveline Taul Mawle. Tie married Myrtle Cunningham in Crawley, England, July 18, 1964 and they have three children. He is a market research assistant. In his Church work he has served as a ward clerk, branch president, district president and in the stake presidency. Pres. Woods also is a Birmingham native, a son of Henry James and Daisy Stanley Woods. He was born April 28, 1926. He married Margaret Pennell of Walsall on May .31, 1949 and they have two living children. He has served as a branch president on the Leicester Stake high council as well as in the Birmingham Stake presidency. He is a dental technician. Pres. Tennant has a record of long service in the Church since his baptism in 1950. He has served twice as a branch president, in a district presidency, superintendent of the mission Sunday School, twice on a stake high council, as a bishop, and in the MIA, Primary and Sunday School. He is a factory and marketing manager. He was born Dec. 12, 1922 in Birmingham to George Henry and Ethel Dolman Tennant. He married Nellie Clifford in Birmingham July 14, 1944. He served six years in the British Navy during World War II. ' v. 0 ' N v ; XV im Vv(TA'. A-- vv'V .JS2 J. Fielding Nelson Dean Larsen L. Georgia C. Faux v. He was a member of the Priesthood Missionary Committee of tne Church for a Mr. Nelson is a former bishop, having served in the Highland View Wurd, Canyon Rim Stake, from September 1960 to 1964. He was graduated from the University of Utah in 1954 with a bachelor of science of laws degree. He is presently employed at Gillham Advertising Agency in Salt Lake City. He is married to the former Carolyn Boyer of Salt Lake City. They have six. children. Mrs. Christensen recently returned with her husband, Don L. Christensen, from Denmark where he served as Mission president. Mrs. Christensen has held positons in the Primary, Relief Society and MIA prior to her call to the board and is active in the PTA. She attended one year at Brigham Young University. She was born to Edward H. and Minnie X N Mr. Larsen has had years of administrative experience in many Church positions. He was president of the Texas South Mission from 1967 to 1970 and is a former bishop and high councilor. France-Switzerlan- V"' ; WvavN Named to the YWMIA General Board, reported Mrs. Florence S. Jacobsen, general president, were Marva S. Christensen, Bountiful 9th Ward, Bountiful Stake; Carolyn Y. Hunsaker, Bountiful 35th Ward, Bountiful South Stake; Georgia C. Faux, Provo 12th Ward, Provo East Stake, and Earleen R. Gregory, Grandview 2nd Ward, Wilford Stake. year before he received the call as mission president. He is married to the former Geneal Johnson of Ashton, Idaho. They are the parents of five children. He received a bachelor of science degree in English from Utah State University and is now doing graduate study at Brigham Young University. He has taught in the Church School System for several years. Mr. Larsen will serve on the Indian and adult committees. d Mr. Nelson, president of the Mission from 1967 to 1970, will serve on the youth area and teaching aids specialist committees. He was serving as a member of the University Student Stake high council at the time of his mission call. ; ,f v 'itfiXL 'An' VJ ond counselor in the Birmingham, England, Stake, was called to preside over the stake by Elder Marion v" Dean L. Larsen, Layton 3rd Ward, Lay-to- n Stake, 'and J. Fielding Nelson, Mountain View 2nd Ward, Hillside Stake, have been named to the Sunday School General Board, announced Gen. Supt. David Lawrence McKay. Pres. Robert J. Mawle . . . Birmingham Stake 0& ? leased mission presidents, have been called to serve on general boards of the Church. jf s bL JS! Wfc' J? .v-3- r -- , .wx-- v 'XfjM :'..; 'y-'- i ,:V $ -- " 5 v J (. ...,t ' ' - 1 1) x., sk ' wxwyw s,-- . 'f j iV, J va 5' , V, VX; wA -- : ' v :- Hunsaker B. Sorensen in Bountiful, :....- - v .y - V. a- - ,:r-- .A Carolyn " Marva S. Christensen Earleen i 'v. , ; - 1VJ"1' M , WvV J -X- R. Gregory Utah, and was president and ward MIA activity counselor. She has also served on the Highland Park PTA Board. a host on Temple Square. They have five children. She was bom to , Willis and Tellma married in 1953. Mr. Christensen is a distributor for Universal Importers and the Bernina Sewing Machine Co. and serves as Prior to her call, Mrs. Hunsaker served as a stake YWMIA president and has served as a teacher in the Sunday School and MIA. She also is a hostess in the Beehive House. She was born to Sherman and Henrietta Young in Washington D.C. where her father served in the FBI. She later attended three years at the University of Utah. She married Duane C. Hunsaker in the Salt Lake Temple April 1981. Mr. Hunsaker is an insurance agent and is elders quorum president of the Bountiful 35th Ward and a guide on Temple Square. They have three children. Mrs. Gregory has served as both ward and stake YWMIA dance director, MIA Thompson in Clarkston, Utah. Later she attended a year and a half at the Utah State University and has worked as an IBM operator. She married Darrell Dee Gregory in the Logan Temple in August 1960 who works as a hairstylist in Salt Lake City. They have four girls. Mrs. Faux has served as a teacher in the Relief Society, Sunday School and MIA. She is also a PTA president and a member of the BYU Alumni Board. She was born to Lloyd and Odessa in Salt Lake City and later attended BYU where she received her A.B. degree. She was married December 1942 in the Salt Lake Temple to Eugene J. Faux who is presently a physician in Salt Lake City. They have five boys. Cull-imo- re Mormonism: Most Totally Enriching Experience The three most important things in the life of J. R. (Bob) Cooper, champion surfer, listed in order of importance are his Church, his family and surfing. This is what he told the interviewer in a recent, lengthy interview in Surfer Magazine, a periodical for the devotees of the sport and which is circulated throughout world. the English-speakin- g Mr. Cooper, a Californian who has made Australia his home, also writes authoritative articles on the art of surfing and equipment for the Surfer Magazine. Now a professional surfer, Mr. Cooper has won such titles as the European championship and the Bobby Brown Memorial in Sydney, Australia. Regarding his religious life, Mr. Cooper told the interviewer: Mormonism is the as of Christ it was originally Jesus Gospel put down vhen He was here, when He was in Palestine and Jerusalem. He created the earth and established this single lifetime so that our spirits, which are eternal could continue to progress in the direction of Divinity by experiencing a mortal existence. Earth life is a growth experience where we have to overcome the problems in this world. He explained his concept of life in living the Gospel related to surfing and that it is part of the life test to do your thing and do it well. He was asked how he thought Mormonism would offer some positive rewards to surfers besides himself. Mormonism applies to everybody. Its the most totally enriching experience thats ever happened to me I can go on to bigger and better things. I feel that true involvement in Mormonism could help anybody, because it is the truth. It will defi ... . nitely improve anybody who goes into it with their whole heart and their whole soul. Mormonism definitely gives you a better understanding of the total picture of existence before, during and after life. And because of that you have a better picture and better focus on this thing, surfing, he added. The Church has started a branch in Coffs Harbour Jetty in New South Wales and he is superintendent of Sunday School and also teaches a class. 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