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Show Church. Dr. Peter Bercovitz was the final guest preacher for the Holladay Community Church summer program on August 31st in the absence of Rev. Cowles, who is on vacation, according to Mildred D. Duboi, publicity director. New Minister Added To Holladay Church Holladay Community Church will welcome the addition of the Rev. John Thornton to its staff as minister of education, Sept. 8. He is a native of Elgin, Illinois, where he received his early education. He was graduated from the University of Indiana in 1953 and received membership in Thi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, for his outstanding- work in scholarship. He received a Dan-forth Dan-forth Scholarship to the Yale Divinity School where he continued con-tinued his ttheological studies. For the past two years he has served as "COWBOY"" pastor at the Congregational Churches in Tindale and Big Piny, Wyoming, traveling from place to place in the vast country coun-try of Wyoming on horseback. He also served as director of the Church Vocational Conference Confer-ence for the young people of the intermountain area for two summers. Rev. Thornton and Mr. Robert Jones, church school superintendent, superinten-dent, have recently returned from Purdue University, Lafayette, Lafay-ette, Indiana, where they attended at-tended the conference on christian christ-ian educaton sponsored by the United Church of Christ, Aug. 19-22. With his excellent qualifications qual-ifications and valuable experience, exper-ience, Rev. Thornton will greatly strengthen the staff at the Holladay Community |