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Show THE CHURCH IN ACTION m m aa Around The World bbbbbbbbbb BBBBBB PROVO: Educator Named As Chairman BBBBBHBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB ARIZONA MISSISSIPPI: Chaplain Earns Doctorate Thomas D. Kershaw has been appointed s Center acting chalrmar. of the BYU announced for Continuing Education, Pres. Ernest L. Wilkinson. For the past three years he has betn ass Center sistant chairman of the in Idaho Falls Idaho. BYU-Rick- BYU-Rick- Kenneth Thatcher, who opened the center in 1956 and has directed it since that time, is retiring. The center has offices in both Rexburg and Idaho Falls. BYU operates other Continuing Education Centers in Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Los Angeles. Mr. Kershaw holds the bachelors degree in educational administration from BYU, and has completed his course work for the doctor of education degree. He has served as a teacher, principal and director of elementary education in School District 93 in Idaho Falls. For two years he taught at BYU and supervised student-teachein Utah. Bishopric Reads Plans Harvey Gardner, left, and Dr. W. LaVon Gifford, bishop of the Page, (Arizona) Ward look over the plans for the wards new cultural hall with adjoining classrooms now tinder construction in Page. Volunteer labor by men of the ward will represent a considerable saving in construction costs. rs He has taught graduate and undergraduate classes in educational methods for the center for 10 years and has been a member of the Ricks College Summer School Faculty since 1958. He is past president of the Sixth District Education Association. SALT LAKE: Professor CARACAS, VENEZUELA: Elected to Chemistry Unit Three Of A Family The Colombia - Venezuela Mission, headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela, is a family affair as far as three elders in the mission are concerned. The three elders are first cousins and great - grandsons of David K. Udall, one of the first Mormon colonizers sent into Arizona. Their grandparents are Mrs. John Hunt Udall and the late John Hunt Udall of Mesa, Ariz. The three elders are Craig C. Morten-seassis. presently tant to Pres. Stephen L. Brower in Caracas; King S. Udall, Mortensen atn,ch, president of n, Villa Colombia, and Colombia Branch in Cali, Robert B. Udall, laboring in Bogota, Colombia. Elder Mortensen, "a son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Mortensen of Modesto, Calif., was the first to be called to the mission field. He began his labors in September of 1967. Two months later he was surprised to see his cousin King S. Udall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Udall of Mamaroneck, N.Y., come into the mission field. Then 15 months later, the third cousin, Robert B. Udall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Udall of Phoenix, Ariz., arrived to begin his work. Dr. Henry Eyring, University of Utah distinguished professor of chemistry and professor of metallurgy and metallurgical engineering, has been elected to membership in the International Academy of Quantum Chemistry. Based in Menton, Fiance, the academy s scientists is a small group of devoted to furthering the development of quantum chemistry through the exchange of Information and the periodic awarding of a prize to a young scientist who has done important research within the field. Prof. Eyring has received numerous honors during his distinguished scientific career. He is a past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and won that organizations annual prize in 1932; he has served as president of the American Chemical Society and earned that groups Peter Debye Award and William H. Nichols Medal (New York Section); and he was formerly vice president of the Society of Rheology, receiving that bodys second Bingham Medal in 1949. Nine institutions of higher 'earning have awarded him honorary degrees. In 1967, President Johnson conferred upon Dr. Eyring the National Medal of Science the highest honor the President of the United States can award to scientists. world-famou- EUGENE, OREGON: Twins Elected Student Aides Mormon boy and his twin sister were elected student body president and secretary, respectively of Winston Churchill 1969-7High School in Eugene, Ore., for Churchill has only 18 Mormons in its student body. Jamie and Becky Johnson are twin children of James Woodrow and Melba Simmons Johnson and both have been active in the Eugene First Ward, Willamette Stake. Becky has garnered all individual A i'-'-- ' l Bxk Robert B. Udall awards in MIA as well as all class awards and has been a Primary teacher and organist. She was also MIA organist and a teenage representatives for two years. Sunday School chorister and a member of the youth choir. At school she was a student council representative, vice president of the band, and a member of the newspaper staff and attained a grade point average of 3.G5. Jamie serves as pianist at priesthood meetings, member of the stake teen counfor the Juncil, and representative-at-larg- e ior class. He has collected 19 merit badges, was a former patrol leader, counselor at Scout camp, and was chosen to attend National Boy Scout Jamboree. Maj. James W. Sirles, IDS Air Force chaplain stationed at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., was awarded the Ph.D. degree at commenceat ment exercises Florida State Univer-- s i t y, Tallahassee, Fla., June 7. His dissertation was entiti.l, Conjugal Power Structure in in the Family Relation to Marital Adjustment. His military duty as a chaplain has taken him to California,' Texas, Florida. Korea and Mississippi. At present, he is senior chaplain at the Keesler Air Force Base hospital, and is in charge of the marriage counseling course for airmen anticipating marriage at Keesler or between assignments. Presently he is a member of the high council of the Hattiesburg Stake. Chaplain Sirles is married to the former Elva V. Henshaw, and they have four children. WASHINGTON: Teacher Named NEA Secretary Dr. Gary O. Watts, native Utahn, graduof Utah and forme? Granite District teacher, has been name'' an assistant executive secretary of the National Education Association. As director of the NEA Division of Field Services, Watts heads consolidation which the merges three former key NEA units Division of Affiliates and Membership, the Staff Academy and the Division of Field Services. Watts, who is 32, is the youngest person ever appointed to an NEA cabinet-leve- l position, according to NEA executive secretary Sam M. Lambert who announced the streamlining move. He is a president of the 253rd Quorum of Seventy and a group leader and Sunday school teacher in Vienna Ward, Potomac Stake, Washington, D.C. ate of the University NORFOLK: Bishop is A Navy Captain Pres. Montgomery Pres. Hansen COSTA RICA: Friends Are Still Together Navy Capt. William D. Farnsworth estimates that he works about 12 hours a day. . . and its small wonder. He is commanding officer of the Naval Air Rework Facility, with 6,000 employes, the fourth largest employer in Virginia. He is a bishop of Norfolk First Ward. The former Navy combat pilot and tes pilot is also the father of nine four different schools and is ; supporter of four different PTAs. childrc-attendin- Garth Hansen and Byron Montgomery were pals together in the Ogden, Utah, Fourth Ward in their growing-udays. p Theyre together again, but this time as counselors to Pres. Milton E. Smith, who heads the Central American Mission with headquarters in San Jose, Costa Rica. Pres. Hansen is first counselor, and Pres. Montgomery is second. Pres. Hansen is working in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, as director of Instituto Ilondureno de Culture Interamericano, a unit of the U.S. Information Service. Pres. Montgomery is the agricultural attache of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Costa. Rica and Panama. Capt. W. W. Farnsworth . . . combat pilot WEEK ENDING JUNE 14, 1969 CHURCH-- 13 |