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Show Deseret Stake Quarterly Conference Will Be Held in Delta Feb. 4 and 5; Albert E. Bowen Scheduled to Preside Desert Sentinels and Singing Mothers Form 200- Voice Chorus to Sing at Sessions The first quarterly conference for Deseret Stake in 1950 is to be held in Delta on aSturday, February 4 and Sunday, February 5, with Elder Albert E. Bowen of the Council of the Twelve being the presiding General Authority. The first meeting of the conference will be one with the Stake Presidency Saturday at 7:30 p. m. in the Second Ward hall. For this meeting Brother Bowen has stressed the importance of all those who should be in attendance at this time to do so, and roll call will be called. Those who should attend are Stake Melchizedek Priesthood Priest-hood quorums, Stake Aaronic Priesthood, Ward Bishoprics and clerks -ward Aaronic Priesthood General Secretaries and Stake Ward Teach ing Committee. GENERAL SESSIONS Two general sessions will be held Sunday, one being at 10:00 a. m.; the other at 2 p. m., these being held in the Palomar hall. These two sessions are unprogram ed, according to Pres. Harold R. Morris, who has received communications commun-ications with Brother Bowen concerning con-cerning the conference. Pres. Morris Mor-ris states that there will be reports re-ports given by seven recently returned re-turned missionaries who have come since the last quarterly confer ence. These missionaries include: Grace Adams, of Spanish American Amer-ican Mission; Verdun Blake, Western West-ern States Mission, Gordon Moody and Rex Terry, Argentine Mission, Bruce Lovell, Texas-Louisana mission, mis-sion, Rulon Jones, Central states, and Dean Anderson, Western states. sta-tes. MUSIC BY 200 Music for the two general sessions ses-sions will be furnished by the combined chorus of the Deseret Stake Singing Mothers and Desert Sentinels, forming a two hundred voice choir. This group is under the direction of Ladd R. Cropper, the accompanist being May G. Cropper Six numbers will be sung by the choruses, with two special numbers num-bers being rendered. The special numbers include a vocal tenor solo, so-lo, "The Builder" sung by LaVar Owens and a ladies vocal trio consisting con-sisting of Carol Moody, Glenda Cropper and lone Hilton, who will sing "Hold Thou My Hand", which will be their last number for some time as a trio, after five years of singing together, as two of the girls, Miss Cropper and Miss Hilton will soon leave for the mission field. Time will be found at some time during the conference for Brother Bowen to meet with the Stake Presidency, the High Council and Ward Bishops in a special meeting. meet-ing. EVENING CEREMONY BY SCOUTS The evening program of conference confer-ence wil be held in the Delta high school auditorium, under the direct ion of the Stake Scout Commission headed by Arthur H. Reeve. The program is to commence at 7:30 p. m. Speakers from the Utah National Parks Council will be pre sent for the evening . , The commission plans to start with program with a flag ceremony, cere-mony, having brief preliminaries and court of honor procedures . They have made plans for awarding award-ing more awards than have ever been given in this stake at one meeting, and they plan to take a shorter time in which to do this. They havea throne built for the Goddess of Liberty, who will have two guards by her, and then the rededication ceremony, in which they boys re-dedicate themeselves to the scout oath and the scout law. , The group plans to have the entire en-tire meeting under one and one-half one-half hours in length. |
