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Show Elder Kimball Receives Honorary Degree From BYU Elder Spencer W. Kimball of the Council of tli" Twelve received an honorary doctor of law degree at the 94th annual Brigham Young University commencement convocation May 29. Elder Kimball was presented for the degree by Elder Delbert L. Stapley of the Council of Twelve. .Elder Stapley read a citation, which outlined I ha many services Elder Kimball has performed for the Church and community. Following the wading of the citation, Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson, president of Brigham Young University, conferred the degree upon Elder Kimball. Elder Kimball was ordained an apostle by lb evi lie was assigned responsibilities in missionary service and Indian affairs. lie presently is chairman of the missionary executive committee, chairman of the Indian committee, chairman of the budget committee and has numerous other important responsibilities. dent Ileber J. Grant in 1943. In addition to his Church work, Eider Kimball has been active in civic affairs. He is a former district governor of the Rotary International and a past president of the Safford, Ariz., Rotary Club. Prior to his call as an apostle. Elder Kimball was active in Arizona banking and real estate. He was also a part owner in an insurance company. Elder Spencer W. Kimball . . . outstanding service Mission Presiclents, Reception reception for family and friends of missionaries serving in areas which will receive new mission presidents will be held June 23 in the Church Office Building, 47 E. South Temple. Time for the reception has been set from 7 to 10 p.m. Each year approximately 30 new presidents are called to fill posts being left by presidents who have served three years as heads of missions. of The reception gives families missionaries affected by the new appointments to meet the now president and his wife who vvilL be directly in charge of their loved ones serving missions. A A mission presidents task is no little one. He is directly responsible to the Gen- eral Authorities for the success or failure of that particular mission. lie is responsible for the preaching of the Gospel and to see that the Lord's work goes forth throughout the area he has been assigned to by the First Presidency The mission presidents wife usually has the responsibility of the womens auxiliaries. Her calling is also to see to the . physical and spiritual welfare of the elders and lady missionaries serving under her husbands jurisdiction. Ihe mission president also oversees the running of the districts and branches in his mission and sees that everything is conducted according to Church standards. This year there will be four new missions created to help ease the administrative burden. One new mission will carry the name of Mission Assignments Alaskan Canadian Mission mission. The California North mission is a new one, and the mission which carried that name will be known as the California Central Mission. Pres. Wiln bur W. Cox will continue to head his which will have the California Central name. Other new missions are California East, Arizoua, and South Central States Mission. Included is the list of 27 new mission presidents and their fields of labor. Olliers are yet to be named. The new mission president is listed first followed by the president lie is succeeding. mi-sio- Raymond Cottrell Bowers, Pres. Arza A. Hinckley. Andes South MissionGibson. a former - Norman Keith Roberts, Pres. Franklin K. Argentine Mission Verden Elliot Bettilyon, Pres. Rex N. Terry. Arizona Mission Clark Maiden Wood, new mission. Austrian Mission Charles W. Broberg, Pres. Arthur R. Watkins. Brazilian Mission Sherman Holden Hibbert, Pres. Lloyd R. Hicken. British Mission Wilford Dean Belnap, Pres. Reed E. Callister. California Mission California East John K. Edmunds, Pres. Don II. Rasmussen. William Lemuel Nicholls, new mission. California North Ira Aniierson Terry, new mission. California South Marion L. Coleman, Pres. D. Crawford Houston. Central British Clifton Ivan Johnson, Pres. George I. Cannon. Central German Waller II. Kindt, Pres. Horace P. Beesley. Cumorah Mission Robert L. Stephenson, Pres. S. Bankhead. Danish Mission Paul L. Pohrson, Pres. Don L. Christensen. East Central Slates Mission William Henry Day, Pres. Raymond W. Eldredge. Mission Fra Para more. Hawaii Mission Kennel neo-Belgi- -- Thomas Harold Brown, Pres. James W. Norman Gardner, Pres. Orin R. Woodbury. New Zealand South Mission Eugene C. Ludwig, Pres. Morris A. Kjar. North Argentine Mission Henry Clay Gorton, Pres. Richard G. Scott. Northwestern Stales Mission Grant A. Stucki, Pres. Robert L. Backman. Norwegian Mission Ray Clawson Johnson, Pres. Leo M. Jacobsen. Scottish Mission Francis Nophi Grigg, Pres. Egbert J. Brown. South Central States Mission Albert B. Crandall, new mission. Swedish Mission Herbert B. Spencer, Pres. Reid H. Johnson. Tongan Mission James P. Christensen, Pres. John II. Grolnerg. Western States Mission -- Phillip G. Redd, Pres. Verl F. Scott. h WEEK v ENDING MAY 31, 1969 it t s : a i . t rv ) CHURCH- -3 f r ' |