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Show Harmon Bldg. Dedicated at BYU The headquarters i building for the largest ! university-related cont-i cont-i inuing education program in the United States was dedicated ! April 13 in ceremonies at Brigham Young i University. ! The Caroline ; j Hemenway Harman Building, which houses the BYU Division of Continuing Education, : and the adjoining BYU i Conference Center were dedicated by Elder Gordon B. Hinckley of the First Presidency of the LDS Church. In remarks prior to the dedicatory prayer, Elder Hinckley said it was appropriate that a building designed to serve so many should be named after a woman who, throughout her life, served others without thought of reward. The Harman Building is named after the late Caroline Hemenway Harman of Granger, a woman who ac- complished much in spite of severe hardships, hard-ships, Elder Hinckley said. She was widowed three times, managed a farm and raised 14 children including those of her deceased sister. She served as a Relief Society president in the LDS Church for 18 years and cared for the needs of hundreds in her community in spite of her own health problems. Funds for the Harman Building were contributed con-tributed by Leon Weston "Pete" Harman who was adopted by Caroline Harman shortly after j his mother died. Har man is one of the founders of the Kentucky Ken-tucky Fried Chicken organization. The BYU Division of Continuing Education handles more than 330,000 enrollments each year. The Harman Building is headquarters headquar-ters for evening classes, independent study, travel study, conferences con-ferences and workshops, education weeks, off-campus lectures and courses and adult religion classes. It also houses the centers for American Indian Services and Adult Development and Aging. The adjoining Con-i Con-i ference Center is a convention facility designed to accommodate ac-commodate both continuing con-tinuing education programs and conventions con-ventions and workshops sponsored by non-BYU organizations. The facility has 30 rooms with a combined seating capacity of more than 2,000. It includes in-cludes a 360-seat auditorium, a 560-seat assembly room, three conference rooms and a number of rooms for group sessions. The building is also used as a meeting and office facility for an LDS j j student stake and ; wards. Visitors are I always welcome, j |