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Show New Choir President Named LOS ANGELES: VIRGINIA: Religious Heritage Honors Elder Eugene A. Gullcdge, a member of the Mt. Vernon Ward, Potomac (Va.) Stake, is one of ten distinguished Americans who will be honored by the Religious Heritage of America as. Business and Professional Leaders of the Year. Pres. John K. Carmack has been sustained as the new president of the Southern California Mormon Choir. He will serve simultaneously both as stake president and choir president. Pres. Carmack is the sixth president of the choir in the organizations history. Don C. Brown, former president of the San Fernando (Calif.) Stake, served in this capacity since 1968. The more than 100 members of the choir met in the Los Angeles Stake Center to approve the change in leadership. Present for the occasion was John M. Russon, Regional Representative of the Twelve for the El Paso and Los Angeles Regions. Pres. Russon Served as the choirs first president. He has been succeeded, in order, by Robert S. Stevens, Austin Gudmundscn, Winfield Q. Cannon and Don C. Brown. Los Angeles Stake The 23rd Annual National Awards Program ceremonies, to be held in Washington, D.C. in June, will be honoring business and professional leaders from throughout the nation who, by a practical application of religious principles in their daily lives and in their business or profession, have made a significant impact for good on national and community life. Elder Gullcdge, former assistant of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, headed his own construction company in Greensboro, N.C. He previously served as president of the National Association of Home Builders. secretar- y-commissioner ARIZONA: The choir, officially organized with the approval of the First Presidency on Sept. 18. 1953, serves as a missionary tool for the church by reaching many millions of people through frequent appearances on radio and television and hundreds of con- Spruces Up ChapeT Instead of painting the town red and certs throughout the area. IDAHO: 2nd Counselor In Temple Presidency New second counselor in the Idaho Falls Temple presidency is John Lloyd Porter of Pocatello, Idaho, according to Pres. Cecil E. Hart, temple president. Pres. Porter succeeds Pres. R. Jennings Scott, who was released soon after the temple was closed for renovation in September 1972. Pres. Porter was born in Bountiful, Utah Aug. 11, 1904, to John W. and Amanda Moss Porter. He married Revon Hayward, Sept. 1, 1926 in the Salt Lake Temple. They had three children. She died Jan. 22, 1966, and he married Lcora Tolman Saxton, Sept. 2, 1967 in the Idaho Falls Temple. He has served in various priesthood capacities, including the Blackfoot Stake presidency, on the Idaho Falls South Stake high council, and as a temple for 20 years, and a sealer in the Idaho Falls Temple for four years. He was in the wholesale and retail grocery business. offi-eiat- John . . . Porter second counselor L. Tarty ' Serving on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, Elders Wayne Kealiiheenaloukalani Oppie, Mount Lake Ward, Cascade South (Wash.) Stake, and James Barns, Monument Park 15th Ward, Monument Park (Utah) Stake, visit a home on the ocean front. Elder Oppie's middle name is Hawaiian, and he feels a special pride in his work. partying for their graduation celebration, students from the LDS Institute of Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher decided to paint the Bylas Branch chapel. With the suggestion of missionaries serving in the area, several students spent part of Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, May 11 and 12, painting the chapel, located on the Apache Indian reservation in southeastern Arizona, about 30 miles from the college in Thatcher. The chapel was badly in need of painting and repair, and the students said they felt a real sense of accomplishment and gratitude in being able to participate in the project. ITALY: HERMISTON, CALIF. Sandra Faye Tegland, a 1969 graduate of Brigham Young University, has been listed in the directory of Outstanding She is Young Women of America. employed as a legal secretary in San Diego, Calif., and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Tegland of Hcrmiston, Calif. OKLAHOMA: LDS Girl Wins $2,400 Award Candice Cheric Ker, a member of the Bartlesville Ward, Tulsa (Okla.) Stake, has been chosen to receive a $2,400 scholarship from the Phillips Petroleum Co., based on scholastic record and future promise. Candice, who is this years for the Tulsa Stake regional youth conference, has also received a $50 scholarship in the area of business and office achievement. A member of the Oklahoma Honor Society for five years, she is a cheerleader at Dewey High School, and received the Scholarship Award. She is listed in Whos Who Among OutAmerican High School Seniors, and in America," standing Tennagers Outstanding American High School Seniors." She also received the DAR Outstanding Citizenship Award in her school. Youth Will Meet Near Ravenna TUCSON, ARIZ. mother and two daughters arc currently serving as Primary presidents in Arizona. Mrs. Pearl Martincau Is president of the North Tucson 6th Ward Primary. Her daughters, Janice Lines and Patsy Post, arc presidents of the Tempo 4th Ward and North Tucson Marana Branch Primaries. A TEXAS: LDS Man Writes El Paso Story Aniversario del Paso, a week-lon- g celebration of the centennial of city government in El Paso, Tex., as its official history of the city, The Land Where We Live, El Paso del Norte, written by Conroy Bryson, a member of the El Paso Ward, El Paso Stake. Elder Bryson, who was born in Utah, has lived in El Paso since 1929. He was a news member of the NBC KTSM-Tmedia, also a professor at University of Texas at El Paso when he accepted a position as administrative assistant to Congressman Richard C. White of El Paso, and he resided in Washington, D.C. for seven years. He is presently teaching political science at the El Paso Community College. His wife, Pat, died in June 1972. WEEK Lido degli Estensi, a beach resort just outside the ancient city of Ravenna on Italys eastern coast, will be the location of Incontro 73," the annual Italian youth conference. The five days of dance, speech, discussion, sport, song, and prayer will begin the 28th of August, immediately following the Munich Area Conference. Excursions arc being organized by mission leaders so that members as far away as Catania and Palermo, on the Island of Sicily, will be able to attend the General Conference sessions in Germany, visit the Swiss Temple, and then continue on to the Adriatic coast for the youth conference. From a fireside on the beach, to roadshows and poetry reading, from soccer games to folk and dancing, the members of the church will have many opportunities to create and strengthen friendships with others of the same creed. This is a rare occasion for many of the youth who come from over 40 small branches scattered from top to toe of the Italian boot. Also planned for the Ravenna conference is the introduction of the Seminary Home Study Program. The program will enable members to study the standard works with the aid of seminary study guides and supervisors. ball-roo- ENDING AAAY 26, 1973 CHURCH -- Y 1 |