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Show New Stake Formed McDonnell liams, formerly second counselor and John Ray Pfeifer, of the high council. Pres. Hawkins was born in Provo, Utah, April 3, 1926, a son of Willard Hawkins and Wilma Stolworthy. He married Nelma Jean Jones Sept. 11, five children. The new Church unit, with a population of 3,275, is divided into six wards and two branches; Ann Arbor i Dearborn, Parkview, 1946 and they are parents of He is a graduate of the Provo High and received a B.S. degree from Brigham Young University and his LLB from Northwestern School of Law'. School Livonia and Ypsilanti wards and Adrain and Bowling Green branches. Toledo, Remaining in the Detroit Stake, with a population of 3,369 are eight wards : Bloomfield Hills, Detroit, Detroit Second, Pontiac, Rosevide, Royal Oak, Sarnia, and Windsor (Canada). He has served successively as second counselor in the mission presidency of Detroit Stake; bishop of Ann Arbor Ward; and counselor and president of the Detroit Stake. Sustained as president of the new Dearborn Stake was Carl Stolworthy Hawkins, who formerly presided in the Detroit Stake. Installed as his counselors were LeRoy Samuel Walker, of the high council-an- d David Warne Ferrel, bishop of the Dearborn Ward. In following the law profession, he has served as a teaching fellow of the University of Chicago, law clerk to Chief Justice Fred Vinson of the U.S. Supreme Court, practiced law for a time in Washington, D.C. and presently is professor of law at University of Michigan. Heading the Detroit Stake is Pres. I. Morris Brooks, formerly first counselor. Chosen as counselors were Neil R. Wil Pres. Walker was born in Ogden, Utah, March 12, 1924, a son of Arthur J. Walker and Rosanna Doman. He married Alma A Streamlined Program At Mission Home Continued from Page 3 ry home the first discussion of the missionary plan. Thirty returned missionaries, vnder the supervision of Gordon Liddle, present the discussion and then help the missionaries to learn it by dividing into mall study groups. Other activities include instructions by the missionary home presidency, tour of the Visitors Center on Temple Square, attendance at Tabernacle Choir broadcast and participation in a 7:30 a.m. sacrament meeting. The missionaries are set apart by General Authorities Wednesday afternoon and then they depart for their assignments. Beginning Feb. 8, all missionaries, Including lady missionaries, will serve for two years, regardless of the mission. The nly exception will be older inviduals who missions. might be called for short-terMissionaries going to language training missions at Brigham Young University, Rlcta College and the Church College of Hawaii will spend two months o' intensive training learning a foreign language. The time spent in the language missions is r Included in the total. Pres. Jaussi said that during 1969, some 35 groups of about 250 missionaries each, will receive instructions in the missionary borne. Last year, more than 6.000 missionaries were processed through the home, he Gary R. Fisher, Kansas City, and Charles oacluded. . Tyhorst, Chicago, jtudy.flrst d'scvjsion. , two-yea- . , . v- - . r. WFFK ENDING JANUARY 25, '.f o', . 169 have five He is a graduate of Ogden High and studied at the University of Detroit. He has been a counselor in the Detroit Stake Mission, bishop of the Livonia Ward, member of the Detroit Stake High Council, and stake clerk. DETROIT 474th in the Jan. 12, 1969 at the was created Church conference by a division regular quarterly of the Detroit Stake. Elder Harold B. Lee, f the Council of the Twelve, assisted by Elder Theodore M. Burton, Assistant to the Twelve, directed the reorganization. 22, 1946. They Michigan children. Dearborn Is 474th Stake; Created By Detroit Division The new Dearborn Slake April In Presently he is a data processing consultant. Pres. Ferrel was born March 29, 1940 in Modesto, Calif., a son of Rex Warne and June Norton Ferrel. He married Laurel Janette Fisher and they have three children. He is a graduate of Denair High School (Calif.), received a B.A. degree in business from BYU and an MBA from University of California. He served as a missionary in the Uruguayan Mission, as a worker in the Oakland Temple, as president of the elders quorum in BYU Seventh Ward, as a member of Sunday School superintendency, in Modesto, Calif., and as bishop of Dearborn Ward. He is presently an employe of Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn. Pres. Brooks was born Jan. 25, 1916 in St. George, Utah, a son of George Brooks Jr. and Flora Morris. They have three children. He is a graduate of Dixie High School and attended Dixie College. He has served as superintendent of Sunday School, Detroit Ward, bishop of Detroit Ward, member of Detroit Stake high council, was in the Detroit stake presidency. Presently he is manager of J. C. Penney Co., in Detroit. Pres. Williams was born Oct. 30, 1929 in Ogden, Utah, a son of Thomas R. and Margaret Romyn Williams. He married Bever-le- e J. Nielson of Salt Lake City. They hav four children. He is a graduate of East High, Salt Lake City and received a B.S. degree from the University of Utah. He has served as bishop of the Ft Wayne Ward, general secretary of the Aaronic Priesthood in Minneapolis, Minn., stake clerk and counselor in the Detroit Stake. He is presently manufacturers representative of Western Mineral Products Co., in Detroit. Pres. Pfeifer was born Aug. 18, 1934 in Morse, Canada, a son of Charles and Evangeline Craig Pfeifer. He married Jeanne Edith Pachal of Yorktown, Canada they are parents of four children. He is a graduate of Swift Current Collegiate Inst, and received a B.A. degree and a doctorate in medicine from University of Saskatoon and holds the following degrees: Diplomate American Board of Surgery; Fellow, American College of Angiology and Fellow, American Geriatric Society. He has been assistant Sunday School branch president, and a member of the Deti oit Stake High CouneiL At present he is a vascular surgeon at Providence Hospital, Southfield, Mich. |