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Show I ijilBIBMTiWnTiQ Jmrn ' lOTWWBftHiWi : THE CHURCH IN ACTION Around The World niaiifaiaaiaagiiiaH3iiaaaiaiiii' if SALT LAKE: Church CALIFORNIA MESA, ARIZ.: Named ' Artist Of The Year ' Sorority Sets Meet a Approximately 1,000 young women aie expected to attend the annual spring quar ter event of Lambda Delta Sigma sorority in the East LDS Institute on the University of Utah Thursday beginning at 6 p.m. Ann Frischknecht. president of the Inner Council of LDS, said the keynote speaket will be Mrs. Joan Fisher of Salt Lake City, this year's Mrs. Ameiioa Theme of the meeting is Becoming Your 3wn Ideal. This meeting is open to all young women of college age, Miss Fiiseh-knech- t said. Lambda Delta Sigma is a soroiity open women who agree to live to all college-agstandards of the Church. Mesa, Mesa's M largely of . . . general contractor !. il the Bateman award L on the basis pm ti aval of in All Sons by Arthur Miller In addition to her lole in that play she lias t,iken part My i numeious theatiieal and mils! ,d in the community and was instil mental a few years ago in assuring eoniiti-uaneof theatre wmk in M"s.i in Astronaut Walter Cunningham, left, watches as fellow space flier, Wally Rchirra presents an award for professional excellence" in manufacture and test of space hardware to Ramon E. Chapman, right. Mr. Chapman is a high piiest in the Hacienda Heights Waid of the El Monte (Calif.) Stake. He is a graduate of the Unhersily of Utah with an electiical engineeiing degree. WASHINGTON, D.C.: Alumni Buy Gift Policies Two industrialists in Washington, D C . area are the first large purchasers of life insurance gifts to Young University, spearheading a drive for $10 million in such gifts. . . . L. CLISSOLD Oahu leader HAWAII: LDS College To Honor Leader Edward L. Clissold, financier, Church leader, missionary, and public service worker, will be honored by The Church College of Hawaii during commencement exercises on May 15 when he will be granted an honorary degree of doctor of humanities. He has been a prominent leader in Hawaiian civic and business affairs. He has served as manager of the Hawaii division of the State Savings and Loan Association, as senior investment officer and director and as president of that firm where he has been an official for more than 40 years. He is past president of Kahili Investment Co. He is also past president of the Honolulu Lions Club and past district governor of Lions International. Mr. Clissold has served for many years as a missionary and Church leader. He was a missionary in Hawaii for the Church He was president of the Hafrom waiian Temple three different times and has served as president of the Japanese Mission in Hawaii, the Japanese Mission, the Hawaii Mission and as president of the Oahu Stake. e father became supeiintendent of schools She is a graduate of Mesa High School and Biigham Young I'nivenm. majoiing in spent h and chama. Her husband is bishop of the 25th Ward in Mesa, and they ate parents of six children. Mrs. Bateman Is cunentlv seuing as Maricopa Stake chorister, Sunday School chorister, teacher of the cultinal refinement lesson in Relief Society, and MIA ward speech director. Through Hip she has helped with 13 roadshows, yeais having written and directed many of them. She is ptesently helping prenaie the cunent MIA Parent and Youth program for 1919 to tie presented at June conference PROVO: Chaplain Promoted To Colonel CASPER, WYO.: Mormon He has served in the Aimy Resen p continuously since 1946 and transfened to the rhaplain branch in 1935. For nine years lie has been an instructor at the U.S. Annv Chaplain School at Fort Hamilton, N Y. Spanish-America- n Educator Wins Citation Dr. Leonard L. Gregory, Superintendent of Converse County High School and District Number 17 has been selected for inclusion in the 1969 Edition of Outstanding Young Men of America. Dr. Giegoiy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gregory of Hawk Springs, Wyo Chaplain Ernest L. O son of Pmo has boon promoted to the rank of colonel in the U.S. A Reserve. Rank of eolonel for chaplains is comparatively rare. No other LDS chaplain in the active Aimy Reserve presently holds this rank. Col. 0!on, director of the Biigham Young University Press and assistant pio- fessor of English, has completed 27 years of active and reserve military duty. He en teied the Army in 1942, served with the finance section of 80th Infantry Division, attended Officer Candidate in the Medical Service Corps and served at Camp Roberts, Calif., and 253rd General Hospital in U.S. and Europe, holding the rank of captain on discharge in 1946. He graduated from Colorado A & M Col lege in 1955 with a B.S. in Social Studies. He obtained a M.A. degree in history in 1959, professional degree in 1963 and his doctorate in 1967 all from the University of Wyoming. Dr. Gregory spent one year during 1966 and 1967 on an internship with the U.S. Office of Education in Washington. i D.C. Dr. Gregory is married and has six daughters. He is president of the Douglas Bianch Casper Stake. WEEK : i Berkeley Compton and James Dyer, of Funtastie, Inc., a fastgrowing toy firm, each recently bought a $50,000 life insurance policy, naming BYU as the owner and beneficiary of the policies. Mr. Dypr entered BYU after filling a mission for the Church in the area. He graduated from BYU in 1955 as an honor student and won a law scholarship to George Washington University. He is currently a stake missionary in Potomoc Stake. Mr. Compton, a native Of Ogden, has served as a branch president, a bishops counselor, bishop and high councilor in North and South Carolina and is currently active in scouting and youth advising in the Potomac Stake. A. EDWARD : Born in Rexburg, Idaho the ih.iighlei c.l Mr. anti Mrs. Rulon T. Shepherd, Hie moved to Mesa when she was 10 after her Receives Astronauts' Award 1921-192- Lyle R. Peterson hoi s Kate Krlkr RIGBY, IDAHO: Supervisor For Northwest h i won The Tibbitts, who are from the Orchard Ward, South Davis Stake, will leave Salt Lake City for their mission headquarters June 14. J 18 23 Bishop and Mrs. Orrin G. Tibbitts are following in the footsteps of their children. All five of their children, Robert, Jean, Dean, Gary and Alan have fulfilled missions for the Church. Now their parents have been called on a mission to the Canadian Mission. i A1 t BOUNTIFUL, UTAH: They Follow Five Children i An, B (At let, el Bateman, of was announi ed as winner of s t of the Yt.ii .i i.ud foi at the fin il lom-ctof Mesas- Sun V..!!e Oichestra on Apt e Lyle R. Peterson was appointed recently construction supervisor for the Noith-wes- t construction area, according to Church Building Committee. This includes Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana. Western Canada and Alaska. Mr. Peterson will represent the building committee in supervising all construction of meetinghouses, seminaries, institutes, etc., within the area assigned to him. Mr. Peterson has a long record of Church service, having been a Sunday School superintendent, MIA superintendent, Elders quorum president, bishops counselor for five years, bishop for six years, three years as a counselor in the stake presidency, two terms as a high councilor, and three years as president of the Rigby Stake. lie served as president of the California North Mission from 1965 to 1968. He has been a general contractor, having maintained class A license in Idaho for many years. In this capacity, he had a major part in construction of 21 different building projects for the Church. When he was called to be mission president, he severed his relations with the Peterson Construction Co., which since then has been carried on by his son and a brother. Mr. Peterson succeeds E. A. Wilson, who died a short time ago. M.iutiie Mrs Ernest L. Olsen Army reservist . . . ENDING MAY 10, 1969 CHURCH-- 13 |