Show Center Awaits Marion D. Hanks Elder Marion D. an Assistant to the Council of Twelve of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterly will speak at MARION D. HANKS ful Center Stake Conference Saturday and March 4 and in North Salt THE conference session will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. in the Bountiful-Woods Cross Regional Stake President Steven S. South Bountiful says visitors are Elder Marion D. Hanks was named an Assistant to the Council of the Twelve of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in April Formerly he was a member of The First Council of ELDER Hanks has been prominent in civic particularly in the field of youth In 1957 he was appointed a member of the United States President's Citizens Advisory Committee on Youth on which he served for several In this capacity he has spoken at youth conferences throughout the United States and in foreign countries and was a participant in the White House Conference on Children and Youth in and attended the Conference on Children in 1970 and the Conference on Youth in AMONG his civic Elder Hanks was the first chairman of the Utah Committee on Children and a board member of the national member of the board of Weber State Col-lege and of the Southern Utah State He now serves on the board of trustees of Brigham Young University and is a member of the National Boy Scouts of He has been for many years a teacher and served for a number of years in the leadership of Temple As a young man he filled a two-year mission for the church in the northern United RECENTLY he and his family spent several years in England in mission Currently Elder Hanks supervises missionary work on the West Coast of the United States and in Western Born in Salt Lake City into a family of seven he was two years old when his father He was reared by his widowed He attended the public schools and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the law school of the University of Formerly active in college and other amateur he is a handball and squash DURING world war II Elder Hanks served aboard a submarine chaser in the In recent years he has visited servicemen at their bases in many parts of the He has recently returned from his latest tour of military installations in Hong Kong and also spent time in Jordan and Elder Hanks married Max-ing Christensen in the Mormon Temple in They are the parents of four daughters and one |