Temple Quarry
(Southeast Salt Lake Valley) The Temple Quarry and the Jordan River Temple chapters were pleased to hear from Donald L. Harwell (right) at their January 7th meeting. Mr. Harwell is the president of the Genesis Group of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was joined by his wife, Jerri, who participated with [...]
Temple Fork
(Logan, Utah) Members of the Temple Fork chapter enjoyed “A Night of Christmas Music” as their program in December. The music was performed by Conrad Dunn (below left) with his violin and was accompanied by Nancy Griffin (below right) at the piano. Conrad is employed by the Utah Festival Opera Company and is director of [...]
Taylorsville Bennion
(Taylorsville, Utah) Chapter president, Ken Blair, (below right) spoke to the subject: “Pioneers and the Railroad 1860-1869”, at the January dinner meeting. He related history of the movement of pioneers from the East to Utah. The last of the handcart companies arrived in Utah in 1860 and a new program was then launched. This program [...]
Salt Lake City
(Salt Lake City, Utah) Chapter members and guests attending the January dinner meeting were well rewarded as they enjoyed the program which gave special recognition and honor to chapter member, Eldred G. Smith, (right) Emeritus Patriarch to the church. On January 9th Brother Smith celebrated his 103rd birthday. His son and daughter in law, Gary [...]
Porter Rockwell
(Draper, Utah) The January dinner meeting speaker for the chapter was Jill Mulvay Derr. She is a senior research historian in the church History Department and gave a most interesting presentation on the subject of Sister Eliza R. Snow. She recounted the intriguing background of Sister Snow and read several of her masterpiece writings. A [...]
Ogden Pioneer
(Ogden, Utah) At the December dinner meeting Robert DeBoer introduced Elder Marlin Jensen (right) as the guest speaker. Elder Jensen was called as a Seventy in April 1989 and as the Church Historian in 2005. He spoke about his call from President Gordon B. Hinckley. He then gave some history of the position of Church [...]
Cotton Mission
(St. George, Utah) The main speaker for the chapter’s January 19th meeting was Linda Lowe. (right) She is a well known local historian and teacher and told several stories of “Indian Encounters” from early pioneer history in Dixie. Her report helped all in attendance to better understand the relationship that developed between early pioneers in [...]
Centerville
(Centerville, Utah) At the January meeting chapter members became better informed about what life was like for members of the Mormon Battalion. Gordon Johnson (right) was the speaker and was well versed on the history of the battalion and the trials and various experiences they had along their long march. His presentation was even more [...]