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Show ormon Convert To Speak In LBS Hard Sunday - Fabian Giroux, a young Mor' mon convert and former missionary mis-sionary to Czechoslovakia, wiV be the featured speaker at the regular sacrament service of the Roosevelt Ward next Sunday evening at 6:30. His subject wiij be "Communism and Christianity." Christian-ity." Illness prevented Mr. Giroux's appearance in Roosevelt on Feb 3, when he was scheduled to speak to the combined Roosevelt Roose-velt Wards. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, where he first heard the story of Mormonism as a Catholic, and la.'er was baptized by missionaries mission-aries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he is at present employed as. a teacher, in the Ogden High School. Following his acceptance of Mormonism, Mr. Giroux accepted accept-ed a call to become a missionary and labored in Czechoslovakia until the church evacuated their envoys when relations betweea the Czechs and the United a-tions a-tions became strained. He returned re-turned to the United States to complete his mission, and then came to Utah, where he accep'-ed accep'-ed a position at Ogden High. He is a former student at Western Reserve University at Cleveland, and a graduate from Brigham Young University, Provo. He also al-so studied in Paris for a short time while on his mission. In charge of the meeting, which will be held in the Roosevelt Roos-evelt Stake . House, is Dr. Vere H. Johnson, member of. the Roosevelt Ward bishopric, and a friend of Mr. Giroux, whom he met in Cleveland prior to his conversion to Mormonism while Dr. Johnson and his brother, broth-er, Don, were attending dental school there. I The meeting is open to the public and Mr. Giroux will be the only speaker. |