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Show High School Music Head Presents Chorus at Conference I - i I Vs ', iiiiWWiliKiiiiiiiiniriiiiiirnviiHiiirinfrir. jrTMMM M..fawwtt4 Wilford L. Young, music instructor in-structor at the Parowan high school, whose choruses furnished furnish-ed the music for the Priesthood and general sessions of the Parowan Par-owan stake quarterly conference last week end. Mr. Young came to Parowan last summer and started his work immediately. He is a native of Provo where he attended the elementary and high schools, and where he received his B. S. degree in music from the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university. His college career was inter rupted by World War 2. After training at the University of New Mexico and the Columbia university Midshipmen school, he served in the Pacific theatre thea-tre of operations and participated in the invasion of Okinawa. He was aboard the first mine sweeper sweep-er to enter the harbor of Nagasaki, Naga-saki, Japan to clear the harbor after the atomic bombing. He returned to the B Y U where he graduated. He spent three years in Salt Lake City where he was a member of the Utah State Symphony orchestra, pfay-ing pfay-ing a string bass. He then attended at-tended the Eastman school of ! Music at Rochester, N. Y. for a I year of graduate study. He later ! returned to the U of U where he obtained his teaching certificate. He was married in 1919 to Miss Frances Harley of Charleston, Charles-ton, S. C. and he and Mrs. Young and their 5-months old daughter now reside at the John H. Pendleton Pen-dleton home here. Besides his work in music Mr. Young enjoys painting as a hobby hob-by and some of his work is now on display here. An active member mem-ber of the L D S church, he is chorister In the Parowan Second ward and also teaches a Sunday School class. |