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Show Lewis Singer Named Southwest Indian LDS Mission President Mrs. Georgia Dodge Spear of Tempe, Arizona, sent us the following article, from, the Phoenix Gazette, relative to a Pleasant Grove High School graduate, Lewis Singer, who came to Pleasant Grove with the Indian Placement program. Phoenix Gazette Lewis Singer, Navajo Indian from Rough Rock, has been named a mission president of the Southwest Indian Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with headquarters headquar-ters in Holbrook. He is the first Navajo to fill the post under direction of Dale T. Tingey, leader of the mission. Lewis was born August 30, 1944 in a hogan on Black Mesa near Kayenta, the son of Black and Oscar Jones Singer. He started his education at age fi in Tiiha Citv Board School and remained there five years. During his last year there his ( father was killed in an accident ( while working for the railroad in California. i He continued in school with his five brothers and two sisters. sis-ters. Lewis entered the Indian Student Placement Program of the Church in Utah, graduating grad-uating from Pleasant Grove High School in 1963. He held several student offices of-fices in high school and played play-ed on the basketball team. He also participated in Future Farmers of America activities and was on one of the top milk products judging teams in national na-tional competition at the FFA convention in Chicago. After graduation he returned to Kaventa and worked among the people on behalf of the mission. Singer began studies at Brig-ham Brig-ham Young University in 1966 and served as Sunday School superintendent of the 58th Ward in Provo. He also served as social chairman of the Tribe of Many Feathers Club on campus cam-pus and worked as a part-time Navajo language instructor to missionaries in the Language Training Mission in Provo. He now is at Rough Rock Demonstration School, teaching teach-ing Navajo language, grammar gram-mar and social studies. Lewis is also first counselor in the Many Farms Branch of the LDS Church. Lewis married to the former Donna Va Dyke, and they have a year-old son, Chris. |