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Show Dates Set For Tournaments All-Chur- ch The 1963 basketball and volleyball tournaments promise to be the best ever, according to YMMIA officials who set tournament dates this week. Three Utah teams captured top honors in the tournament Holladay Third Ward won the senior division and South Weber captured the junior title. Now billed as lhe world's largest volleyball tournament, the YMMIA annual event was established in Maurice L. Watts will head the basketball tournament set for March featuring 72 teams in three divisions from throughout North America. The college division, introduced in 1966, was won by the BYU Third Ward. Teams are selected for the Salt Lake tourney through playoffs in the Church' athletic districts. The volleyball tournament, set for May 2-will be directed by Parry D. Sorensen and will be highlighted by a demonstration by the Church College of For volleyball participants, there could be a major change in tournament scheduling this year, according to Mr. Sorensen. Instead of double elimination, we are now planning on dividing each division into eight groups of four teams he reported. On Friday, May 2, each team will play each of the other teams In its group and then the team with the best record will go into the finals Saturday, continued Mr. Sorensen. Oakland Fourth Ward set a record last year by capturg the Senior division crown for the fourth consecutive year. Downey Third Ward defeated defending champions Kabawai Branch, Hawaii, for the junior division tournament repretitle. The teams in the sent 2,400 teams with 25,000 players who competed lor the right to travel to Salt Lake City. 10-1- 4, 3, Hawaii volleyball team. The basketball tournament yvill be rim much as it has in past years reported Gen. Watts who is also National Guard adjutant general for Utah. We will open the tournament with a devotional on Sunday evening (Marcft 9) and start competition Monday at eight sites in Salt Lake City. On Thursday, well start the and conclude with the finals Friday night at Deseret Gym and the University of Utah, continued Gen. Watts. semi-fina- ls It'ftB Lest year we noted that some teams played only five games while others played four or five on the first day. We hope this vill be a better method of scheduling." 1950 ch We are rather pleased this year to be able to hs;e the Church College of Hawaii vollevhall team present for a demonstration, said Mr. Sorensen. They'll be on their way to the national NCAA (National Collegiate Athletics Association) championship and have agreed to stop over, he said. The tournament will be held at three Salt Lake files and the finals are si? ted for the Deseret Gymnasium. Family Home Evenings By Tape Family home evenings are something special to the J. Merrill Funk family they're held in two countries separated by neatly K),0M miles. Mr. Funk, aa Army major, is serving in Vietnam. His wife, Sandra, and their five children, live in Holladay, Utah, in suburban Salt Lake County. Each week, Maj. Funk, commander of a finance section in Nha Trang prepares the home evening program and records it on tape, which he sends to bis family.1 He not only gives the weekly lesson, taken from the home evening manual, but also he conducts the meetings, reported his wife. "fie cals on one f the children to operate the tape recorder, another to open with prayer and another to give a aeriptnrg teadipg and its interpretation. He then explains the meaning of eadh sorjpture. He selects the hymns to sing and asks the children various questions Mrs. Funk continued. He also tells us in advance what visual aids will be necessary for the next I lesson. The children love it. When their daddy asks them a question, they answer it. The especially, talks right to the tape recorder just as if it were hie daddy. $ The Funks haw been carrying on the family home evenings by tape sine Maj. Funk was transferred to Vietnam last July. "It has been invaluable in our lives, Mrs. Funk reported. We have drawn doe-e- r together as a family and our chSdren are maintaining close relationships with their father. Mrs. Funk said her children, Victor, 11, loOee, t, Benjamin, S Wayoe, S, and Mark, really look forward to each Yhuro-daevening when the family eights are held. Usually Maj. Funk's parents participate in the home evenings. O . five children while Mrs. Sandra Fwnk Isolde family homo evening with listening to tape front fcor husband, wbo stationed in Vietnam. y Its such a wonderful thing to take a few minutes each week and teach oer children as a group the principles of the Gospel, Mrs. Funk said. Maj. Fault, a U5 graduate of the U1 wendty of Utah, has served neaity eight years ee active duty. Before his Vietnam assignment, he wuo Stationed in Germany ami Franc. While In Franc, he was president of the Orleans Branch, and in Germany, he was Sunday School superintendent at the Zwiebruken Branch. Mrs. Funk nerved as president of the Relief Society and Primary while io dren's responses, and then each child talks to the father. TYance. After each home evening, Mrs. Funk tapes a letter to her husband, describing the family night activities and the chil- S ' WEEK ENDIh ' Mrs. Funk, a member of 2nd Waid, Holladay Stake, the Holladay said that by continuing the family home evenings, even though her husband was away, has been a gieat experience for aH of ns. ,vs r . 1 JANUARY 1 .s 25, 1969 CHURCH- -7 |