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Show crmon Convert To Be Featured Speaker On Sunday The Roosevelt and Roosevelt Second Wards will join together next Sunday evening to hear a young Mormon convert, Fabian Giroux, who is a former missionary mis-sionary to Czechoslovakia, talk on the subject "Communism and Christianity." A native of Cleveland, Ohio, where he first heard the story of Mormonism as a Catholic and later was baptized by missionaries mission-aries of the Church of Jesv.s 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 missionary-and labored in Czechoslovakia until the church evacuated their envoys when relations between the Czechs and the United Nations Na-tions became strained. He returned re-turned to the United States to Complete his mission, and 'then came to Utah, where he accepted" accept-ed" a yposition at Ogden High. He is a. former student at-Western Reserve University at Cleveland, and a graduate from Brigham Young . University, Prove He also studied in Paris for a short time while on his mission. ., In charge of the meeting, which will be held at 6:30 p. m. in the Roosevelt Stake Tabernacle, Taber-nacle, is Dr. Vere H. Johnson, member of the Roosevelt Ward bishopric, and a friend of Mr. Giroux, whom he met in Cleveland Cleve-land prior to his conversion to Mormonism, while Dr. ,Johnson and his brother, Don, 'were attending at-tending dental school there. The meeting is open to the public and Mr. Giroux will be the only speaker. A musical number or two will probably be arranged. |