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Show Legislative Council Meets Apr. 2 Ward C. Holbrook, executive director of the newly organized Department of Social Services for Utah, will be the featured speaker at the April 2 meeting meet-ing of the Women's Legislative Council of Utah County. He will explain the functions of the new department at the Thursday meeting, to be held at 9:30 a.m. in the Women's Cultural Center, 310 W. 500 N., Provo. Mr. Holbrook will later be joined by J. Keith Melville of Orem, and they will discuss, in the form of a debate, a bill which has been proposed by President Richard Nixon. Mr. Holbrook has been a state representative, state senator, president of the Utah State Farm Bureau, Chairman of the Public Welfare Commission and chairman of the Mental Health Council Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Edu-cation. He also has served as president of the Bountiful Rotary Ro-tary Club, and as Bishop, High Councilman and Stake President Presi-dent in the LDS Church. Mr. Melville is a teacher of American Government and History His-tory at BYU. Previously he taught at Ricks College and served as Acting Dean of Students Stu-dents in 1956-57. He obtained his B.A. in Political Science at the University of Utah in 1947, his M.A. at the University of California Cali-fornia in 1949 and his Ph.D. also al-so at the U of U in 1956. He has been president of the Utah Valley Chapter, Utah State Historical His-torical Society and secretary-treasurer secretary-treasurer of the Western Political Poli-tical Science Association. According to Mrs. E. Dee Olpin, Women's Council President, Pres-ident, the program has been arranged ar-ranged by the Welfare Legislative Legisla-tive Study Committee. Mrs. Sterling Ballard of Payson is chairman, with Mrs. Grant Carlisle, secretary, and Mrs. Parley R. Neeley, advisor, both of Spanish Fork. |