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First Quorum of the Seventy
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Seventy is a priesthood office in the Melchizedek priesthood of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Latter-day Saints teach that the office of seventy was anciently conferred upon the seventy disciples mentioned in the Gospel of Luke 10, multiple individuals holding the office of seventy are referred to collectively as seventies. In practical terms, the office of seventy is one which has varied widely over the course of history. These presidents, chosen from the first quorum, would appoint, as introduced by Joseph Smith, the apostles and the seventy had authority only outside the main body of Latter Day Saints in Zion, and in the outlying stakes. Members in Zion and the stakes were led by the High Council of Zion, historically, the First Quorum of the Seventy came into being in 1835 when seven men were set apart as the First Seven Presidents of the Seventy. In 1837, six of the seven presidents were released because it was discovered that they had previously been ordained high priests, five of these men were ultimately replaced by others. The other two—Levi W. Hancock and Joseph Young—remained members of the First Seven Presidents for the rest of their lives. In the LDS Church, the quorums of the seventy are directed and supervised hierarchically by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, as a body, the seventy in the LDS Church are considered to be equal in priesthood authority with the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. This presumably means that if the apostles were killed or incapacitated, however, in such circumstances, the seventy would be required to act unanimously. In the LDS Church, members of the First and the Second Quorums of the Seventy are general authorities of the church with responsibilities covering the church as a whole, Members of additional Quorums of the Seventy are called an area seventy. Members of these quorums are ordained to the office of seventy. Area seventies generally have authority only within a unit of the church called an area. By the time Joseph Smith was killed, he had organized four incomplete quorums of seventy. By 1845, there were ten quorums of seventy, the members of the first quorum were thus spread out across the church, making meetings of the first quorum rare. Elders were often ordained to the office of seventy immediately before left on a mission. Quorums were not restricted to geography, so individual quorums were scattered all over the world, in 1883, church president John Taylor localized the quorums of seventy. Each stake was given a quorum of seventy, and seventies in that stake would belong to that quorum. Taylor also prescribed that the president of the first 64 quorums could meet with the seven presidents of the first quorum
First Quorum of the Seventy
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Henry B. Eyring
First Quorum of the Seventy
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Amasa M. Lyman
First Quorum of the Seventy
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Kim B. Clark
First Quorum of the Seventy
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Zera Pulsipher
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Thomas S. Monson
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Thomas Spencer Monson is an American religious leader, author, and the sixteenth and current President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As president, Monson is considered by adherents of the religion to be a prophet, seer, a printer by trade, Monson has spent most of his life engaged in various church leadership positions and public service. Monson is a member of the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, Monson is chairman of the Boards of Trustees/Education of the Church Educational System, and Ronald Reagan appointed him to the U. S. Presidents Task Force for Private Sector Initiatives. Monson married Frances Beverly Monson in the Salt Lake Temple in 1948, Frances Monson died on May 17,2013. Monson was born on August 21,1927, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to G. Spencer Monson, the second of six children, he grew up in a tight-knit family—many of his mothers relatives living on the same street and the extended family frequently vacationing together. The familys neighborhood included several residents of Mexican descent, an environment in which he says he developed a love for the Mexican people, Monson often spent weekends with relatives on their farms in Granger, and as a teenager, he worked at a printing business his father managed. From 1940 to 1944, Monson attended West High School in Salt Lake City, in the fall of 1944, he enrolled at the University of Utah. Around this time he met his wife, Frances, whose family came from a higher social class on the east side of the city. Her father, Franz Johnson, felt a connection because Monsons great uncle had baptized him into the LDS Church in Sweden. In 1945, Monson joined the United States Naval Reserve and anticipated participating in World War II in the Pacific theater and he was sent to San Diego, California, for training, but was not stationed overseas before the end of the war. His tour of duty lasted six months beyond the end of the war, Monson graduated cum laude in 1948 with a bachelors degree in business management. Monson did not serve a mission as a youth, at age 21, on October 7,1948, he married Frances Beverly Johnson in the Salt Lake Temple. The couple eventually had three children, Thomas Lee, Ann Frances, and Clark Spencer, after college he rejoined the Naval Reserve with the aim of becoming an officer. Shortly after receiving his commission acceptance letter, his local bishop asked him to serve as a counselor in the bishopric, time conflicts with bishopric meetings would have made Navy service impossible. After discussion with church apostle Harold B, Lee, Monson declined the commission and applied for a discharge. The Navy granted his discharge in the last group processed before the Korean War, Lee set him apart six months later as a bishop—mentioning in the blessing that he likely would not have been called if he had accepted the commission. Monson briefly taught at the University of Utah, then began a career in publishing and his first job was with the Deseret News, where he became an advertising executive. He joined the operations at the Newspaper Agency Corporation at its formation in 1952
Thomas S. Monson
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Thomas S. Monson
Thomas S. Monson
Thomas S. Monson
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Monson, accompanied by
Henry B. Eyring, shakes hands with
George W. Bush on May 29, 2008, in the
Church Administration Building in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Monson, accompanied by
Apostle Dallin H. Oaks and
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, delivers family history records to
U.S. President Barack Obama
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David A. Bednar
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David Allan Bednar is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. An educator by profession, Bednar was president of Brigham Young University–Idaho from 1997 to 2004, Bednar was sustained as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve on October 2,2004, the youngest man named to that body since Dallin H. He was ordained an apostle on October 7,2004, by church president Gordon B, Bednar and Dieter F. Uchtdorf were called to fill the vacancies created by the July 2004 deaths of quorum members David B. As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Bednar is accepted by the church as a prophet, seer and he is currently the ninth most senior apostle in the church. Bednar was born in Oakland, California to Lavina Whitney Bednar and his mother came from a long line of Latter-day Saints, but his father did not join the church until Bednar was in his late twenties. He received a degree in organizational behavior from Purdue University in 1980. From 1980 to 1984, Bednar was an assistant professor of management in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and he was an assistant professor of management at Texas Tech University from 1984 to 1986. In 1994, he was recognized as the teacher at the University of Arkansas. He was twice the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award in the College of Business Administration, Bednar served as the president of Ricks College/BYU–Idaho in Rexburg, Idaho, from July 1,1997, to December 1,2004. There, he oversaw and managed the transition of the school from, what was at the time, Bednar has served in the LDS Church as a bishop, twice as stake president, regional representative, and area seventy. In late 2009, the BYU–Idaho choirs and orchestras performed an oratorio with words by Bednar, Bednar married Susan Kae Robinson in the Salt Lake Temple on March 20,1975. He and his wife are living in the Salt Lake area. Books White, Donald D. Bednar, David A, Organizational Behavior, Understanding and Managing People at Work, Allyn & Bacon, ISBN 0-205-12851-3 Sims, Ronald R. White, Donald D. Bednar, David A. Readings in Organizational Behavior, Allyn & Bacon, ISBN 0-205-12857-2 Bednar, increase in Learning, Deseret Book Company, ISBN 978-1-60908-943-6 Bednar, David A. Act in Doctrine, Deseret Book Company, ISBN 978-1-60907-227-8 Bednar, David A. Bednar, Newsroom, LDS Church Biography, David A. Bednar, Past Presidents, BYU-Idaho Eyring, Henry B. Elder David A. Bednar, Going Forward in the Strength of the Lord, Ensign,17 General Authorities, Elder David A. Bednar, pages, David A. Bednar Bednar on Special Witnesses of Christ
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Bednar speaking at university commencement
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Bednar at the April 2008
BYU Commencement with
Cecil O. Samuelson,
Elaine S. Dalton, and
W. Rolfe Kerr
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Bednar at the April 2008 BYU graduation ceremony
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Salt Lake City, Utah
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Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U. S. state of Utah. With an estimated population of 190,884 in 2014, the city lies at the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo Combined Statistical Area. This region is a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along an approximately 120-mile segment of the Wasatch Front and it is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin. The city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and numerous other Mormon followers, who extensively irrigated and cultivated the arid valley. Due to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named Great Salt Lake City—the word great was dropped from the name in 1868 by the 17th Utah Territorial Legislature. Today, however, less than half the population of Salt Lake City proper are members of the LDS Church. It was traversed by the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, in 1913, Salt Lake City has since developed a strong outdoor recreation tourist industry based primarily on skiing, and hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. It is the banking center of the United States. Before Mormon settlement, the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute had dwelt in the Salt Lake Valley for thousands of years. The land was treated by the United States as public domain, the first U. S. explorer in the Salt Lake area is believed to be Jim Bridger in 1825, although others had been in Utah earlier, some as far north as the nearby Utah Valley. Frémont surveyed the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Valley in 1843 and 1845, the Donner Party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, had traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley in August 1846. The first permanent settlements in the date to the arrival of the Latter-day Saints on July 24,1847. Upon arrival at the Salt Lake Valley, president of the church Brigham Young is recorded as stating, This is the right place, Brigham Young claimed to have seen the area in a vision prior to the wagon trains arrival. They found the broad valley empty of any human settlement, four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young designated the building site for the Salt Lake Temple, which would eventually become a famous Mormon and Salt Lake City landmark. The Salt Lake Temple, constructed on the block that would later be called Temple Square, construction started in 1853, and the temple was dedicated on 6 April 1893. The temple has become an icon for the city and serves as its centerpiece, in fact, the southeast corner of Temple Square is the initial point of reference for the Salt Lake Meridian, and for all addresses in the Salt Lake Valley. The Mormon pioneers organized a new state called Deseret and petitioned for its recognition in 1849, the United States Congress rebuffed the settlers in 1850 and established the Utah Territory, vastly reducing its size, and designated Fillmore as its capital city. Great Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the capital in 1858
Salt Lake City, Utah
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Clockwise from top: The skyline in July 2011,
Utah State Capitol,
TRAX,
Union Pacific Depot, the
Block U, the
City and County Building, and the
Salt Lake Temple.
Salt Lake City, Utah
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Map showing Salt Lake as
Mexican territory in 1838. Source:
Britannica 7th Ed.
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Part of Main Street 1890
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Men lounging outside saloon & Chinese laundry, 1910
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Alma mater
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Alma mater is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university or college. In modern usage, it is a school or university which an individual has attended, the phrase is variously translated as nourishing mother, nursing mother, or fostering mother, suggesting that a school provides intellectual nourishment to its students. Before its modern usage, Alma mater was a title in Latin for various mother goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele. The source of its current use is the motto, Alma Mater Studiorum, of the oldest university in continuous operation in the Western world and it is related to the term alumnus, denoting a university graduate, which literally means a nursling or one who is nourished. The phrase can also denote a song or hymn associated with a school, although alma was a common epithet for Ceres, Cybele, Venus, and other mother goddesses, it was not frequently used in conjunction with mater in classical Latin. Alma Redemptoris Mater is a well-known 11th century antiphon devoted to Mary, the earliest documented English use of the term to refer to a university is in 1600, when University of Cambridge printer John Legate began using an emblem for the universitys press. In English etymological reference works, the first university-related usage is often cited in 1710, many historic European universities have adopted Alma Mater as part of the Latin translation of their official name. The University of Bologna Latin name, Alma Mater Studiorum, refers to its status as the oldest continuously operating university in the world. At least one, the Alma Mater Europaea in Salzburg, Austria, the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, has been called the Alma Mater of the Nation because of its ties to the founding of the United States. At Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, the ancient Roman world had many statues of the Alma Mater, some still extant. Modern sculptures are found in prominent locations on several American university campuses, outside the United States, there is an Alma Mater sculpture on the steps of the monumental entrance to the Universidad de La Habana, in Havana, Cuba. Media related to Alma mater at Wikimedia Commons The dictionary definition of alma mater at Wiktionary Alma Mater Europaea website
Alma mater
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The Alma Mater statue by
Mario Korbel, at the entrance of the
University of Havana in
Cuba.
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John Legate's Alma Mater for Cambridge in 1600
Alma mater
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Alma Mater (1929, Lorado Taft),
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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Harvard University
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Although never formally affiliated with any denomination, the early College primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century, james Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College, Harvards $34.5 billion financial endowment is the largest of any academic institution. Harvard is a large, highly residential research university, the nominal cost of attendance is high, but the Universitys large endowment allows it to offer generous financial aid packages. Harvards alumni include eight U. S. presidents, several heads of state,62 living billionaires,359 Rhodes Scholars. To date, some 130 Nobel laureates,18 Fields Medalists, Harvard was formed in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1638, it obtained British North Americas first known printing press, in 1639 it was named Harvard College after deceased clergyman John Harvard an alumnus of the University of Cambridge who had left the school £779 and his scholars library of some 400 volumes. The charter creating the Harvard Corporation was granted in 1650 and it offered a classic curriculum on the English university model—many leaders in the colony had attended the University of Cambridge—but conformed to the tenets of Puritanism. It was never affiliated with any denomination, but many of its earliest graduates went on to become clergymen in Congregational. The leading Boston divine Increase Mather served as president from 1685 to 1701, in 1708, John Leverett became the first president who was not also a clergyman, which marked a turning of the college toward intellectual independence from Puritanism. When the Hollis Professor of Divinity David Tappan died in 1803 and the president of Harvard Joseph Willard died a year later, in 1804, in 1846, the natural history lectures of Louis Agassiz were acclaimed both in New York and on the campus at Harvard College. Agassizs approach was distinctly idealist and posited Americans participation in the Divine Nature, agassizs perspective on science combined observation with intuition and the assumption that a person can grasp the divine plan in all phenomena. When it came to explaining life-forms, Agassiz resorted to matters of shape based on an archetype for his evidence. Charles W. Eliot, president 1869–1909, eliminated the position of Christianity from the curriculum while opening it to student self-direction. While Eliot was the most crucial figure in the secularization of American higher education, he was motivated not by a desire to secularize education, during the 20th century, Harvards international reputation grew as a burgeoning endowment and prominent professors expanded the universitys scope. Rapid enrollment growth continued as new schools were begun and the undergraduate College expanded. Radcliffe College, established in 1879 as sister school of Harvard College, Harvard became a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. In the early 20th century, the student body was predominately old-stock, high-status Protestants, especially Episcopalians, Congregationalists, by the 1970s it was much more diversified
Harvard University
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Engraving of
Harvard College by
Paul Revere, 1767
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Harvard University
Harvard University
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John Harvard statue,
Harvard Yard
Harvard University
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Richard Rummell's 1906 watercolor landscape view, facing northeast.
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Bachelor of Arts
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A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelors degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs take three to four years depending on the country, academic institution, and specific specializations, majors or minors. The word baccalaureus or baccalarium should not be confused with baccalaureatus, degree diplomas generally are printed on high-quality paper or parchment, individual institutions set the preferred abbreviation for their degrees. In Pakistan, the Bachelor of Arts degree can also be attained within two years as an external degree, in colleges and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and South Africa, the BA degree can be taken over three years of full-time study. Unlike in other countries, students do not receive a grade for their Bachelor of Arts degree with varying levels of honours. Qualified students may be admitted, after they have achieved their Bachelors program with an overall grade point average. Thus, to achieve a Bachelor Honours degree, a postgraduate year. A student who holds a Honours degree is eligible for entry to either a Doctorate or a very high research Master´s degree program. Education in Canada is controlled by the Provinces and can be different depending on the province in Canada. Canadian universities typically offer a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degrees, in many universities and colleges, Bachelor of Arts degrees are differentiated either as Bachelors of Arts or as honours Bachelor of Arts degree. The honours degrees are designated with the abbreviation in brackets of. It should not be confused with the consecutive Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, Latin Baccalaureatus in Artibus Cum Honore, BA hon. de jure without brackets and with a dot. It is a degree, which is considered to be the equivalent of a corresponding maîtrise degree under the French influenced system. Going back in history, a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree was called a pass degree or general degree. Students may be required to undertake a long high-quality research empirical thesis combined with a selection of courses from the relevant field of studies. The consecutive B. cum Honore degree is essential if students ultimate goal is to study towards a two- or three-year very high research masters´ degree qualification. A student holding a Baccalaureatus Cum Honore degree also may choose to complete a Doctor of Philosophy program without the requirement to first complete a masters degree, over the years, in some universities certain Baccalaureatus cum Honore programs have been changed to corresponding master´s degrees. In general, in all four countries, the B. A. degree is the standard required for entry into a masters programme, in science, a BA hons degree is generally a prerequisite for entrance to a Ph. D program or a very-high-research-activity master´s programme
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A certificate or diploma evidencing the granting of a bachelor's degree
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Doctor of Philosophy
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A Doctor of Philosophy is a type of doctoral degree awarded by universities in many countries. Ph. D. s are awarded for a range of programs in the sciences, engineering. The Ph. D. is a degree in many fields. The completion of a Ph. D. is often a requirement for employment as a university professor, researcher, individuals with an earned doctorate can use the title of Doctor with their name and use the post-nominal letters Ph. D. The requirements to earn a Ph. D. degree vary considerably according to the country, institution, a person who attains a doctorate of philosophy is automatically awarded the academic title of doctor. A student attaining this level may be granted a Candidate of Philosophy degree at some institutions. A Ph. D. candidate must submit a project, thesis or dissertation often consisting of a body of academic research. In many countries, a candidate must defend this work before a panel of examiners appointed by the university. Universities award other types of doctorates besides the Ph. D. such as the Doctor of Musical Arts, a degree for music performers and the Doctor of Education, in 2016, ELIA launched The Florence Principles on the Doctorate in the Arts. The Florence Principles have been endorsed are supported also by AEC, CILECT, CUMULUS, the degree is abbreviated PhD, from the Latin Philosophiae Doctor, pronounced as three separate letters. In the universities of Medieval Europe, study was organized in four faculties, the faculty of arts. All of these faculties awarded intermediate degrees and final degrees, the doctorates in the higher faculties were quite different from the current Ph. D. degree in that they were awarded for advanced scholarship, not original research. No dissertation or original work was required, only lengthy residency requirements, besides these degrees, there was the licentiate. According to Keith Allan Noble, the first doctoral degree was awarded in medieval Paris around 1150, the doctorate of philosophy developed in Germany as the terminal Teachers credential in the 17th century. Typically, upon completion, the candidate undergoes an oral examination, always public, starting in 2016, in Ukraine Doctor of Philosophy is the highest education level and the first science degree. PhD is awarded in recognition of a contribution to scientific knowledge. A PhD degree is a prerequisite for heading a university department in Ukraine, upon completion of a PhD, a PhD holder can elect to continue his studies and get a post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences, which is the second and the highest science degree in Ukraine. Scandinavian countries were among the early adopters of a known as a doctorate of philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy
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A Doctor of Philosophy of the
University of Oxford in full
academic dress
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The church is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has established congregations, according to the church, it has over 70,000 missionaries and a membership of over 15 million. It is ranked by the National Council of Churches as the fourth-largest Christian denomination in the United States and it is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement founded by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening. Adherents, often referred to as Latter-day Saints, or, less formally, Mormons, view faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement as fundamental principles of their religion. The church has a canon which includes four scriptural texts, the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants. The current president is Thomas S. Monson, individual members of the church believe that they can also receive personal revelation from God in conducting their lives. The president heads a hierarchical structure with various levels reaching down to local congregations, Bishops, drawn from the laity, lead local congregations. Male members, after reaching age 12, may be ordained to the priesthood, Women do not hold positions within the priesthood, but do occupy leadership roles in some church auxiliary organizations. Both men and women may serve as missionaries, and the church maintains a large missionary program which proselytizes, faithful members adhere to church laws of sexual purity, health, fasting, and Sabbath observance, and contribute ten percent of their income to the church in tithing. The LDS Church was formally organized by Joseph Smith on April 6,1830, Smith intended to establish the New Jerusalem in North America, called Zion. In 1831, the moved to Kirtland, Ohio, and began establishing an outpost in Jackson County, Missouri. However, in 1833, Missouri settlers brutally expelled the Latter Day Saints from Jackson County, the Kirtland era ended in 1838, after a financial scandal rocked the church and caused widespread defections. Smith regrouped with the church in Far West, Missouri. Believing the Saints to be in insurrection, the Missouri governor ordered that the Saints be exterminated or driven from the State, in 1839, the Saints converted a swampland on the banks of the Mississippi River into Nauvoo, Illinois, which became the churchs new headquarters. Nauvoo grew rapidly as missionaries sent to Europe and elsewhere gained new converts who then flooded into Nauvoo, meanwhile, Smith introduced polygamy to his closest associates. He also established ceremonies, which he stated the Lord had revealed to him, to allow people to become gods in the afterlife. He also introduced the church to an accounting of his First Vision. This vision would come to be regarded by the LDS Church as the most important event in history since the resurrection of Jesus
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Church members believe that
Joseph Smith was called to be a modern-day prophet through, among other events, a
visitation from
God the Father and
Jesus Christ.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Brigham Young led the LDS Church from 1844 until his death in 1877.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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The
Salt Lake Temple, which took 40 years to build, is one of the most iconic images of the church.
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Commissioner of Church Education
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Approximately 700,000 individuals were enrolled in CES programs in 143 countries in 2011. CES courses of study are separate and distinct from religious instruction provided through wards, clark, a member of the First Quorum of Seventy, has been the Commissioner of the Church Educational System since August 1,2015. Religious education programs designed for students are called seminaries. These are programs of education for youth aged 14–18 that accompany the students secular education. Released-time seminary classes are taught by full-time employees. In areas with smaller LDS populations early-morning or home-study seminary programs are offered, early-morning seminary classes are held daily before the normal school day in private homes or in meetinghouses and are taught by volunteer teachers. Home-study seminary classes are offered where geographic dispersion of students is so great that it is not feasible to meet on a daily basis, home-study seminary students study daily, but meet only once a week as a class. Home-study classes are held in connection with weekly youth fellowship activities on a weekday evening. The seminary program provides extensive study of theology, using as texts the churchs standard works throughout the school week, the four courses are taught, one per year, on a rotating basis. LDS seminary students do not get high school credit for their seminary studies, recently the LDS Church has piloted an online seminary program to supplement or supplant the home-study program. This online pilot program has seen success in helping meet the needs of students separated by distances that make meeting daily impractical. This helps provide a sense of community and connection as well as a chance to learn the gospel in a similar way that students do in areas with a larger concentrations of LDS youth. Religious education is provided for students who enroll in post-secondary education, or those of student age. CES Institutes serve more than 350,000 students in more than 2700 locations worldwide, many colleges throughout the United States either have institute buildings or active programs near their campuses. Institute classes are offered in leased or owned facilities adjacent to institutions of higher education, many LDS meetinghouses also lend their facilities for institute classes. The first Institute of Religion was established in northern Idaho at Moscow, currently the largest enrollment is at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. The largest enrollment outside the state of Utah is at Idaho State University in Pocatello, the new MTC opened in June 2013. These religious secondary schools were called for by church president Wilford Woodruff following a takeover of Utah Territorial public schools
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Oneida Stake Academy, Preston, Idaho
Commissioner of Church Education
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Church Educational System
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Harvard Business School
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Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The school offers a large full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, HBX and it owns Harvard Business Publishing, which publishes business books, leadership articles, online management tools for corporate learning, case studies, and the monthly Harvard Business Review. Initially established by the faculty, it received independent status in 1910. The first dean was historian Edwin Francis Gay, the goal was an institution of higher learning that would offer a master of arts degree in the humanities field, with a major in business. In discussions about the curriculum, the suggestion was made to concentrate on business topics such as banking, railroads. Professor Lowell said the school would train qualified public administrators whom the government would have no choice but to employ, Harvard was blazing a new trail by educating young people for a career in business, just as its medical school trained doctors and its law faculty trained lawyers. From the start the school enjoyed a relationship with the corporate world. Within a few years of its founding many business leaders were its alumni and were hiring other alumni for starting positions in their firms, at its founding, the school accepted only male students. The Training Course in Personnel Administration, founded at Radcliffe College in 1937, was the beginning of training for women at Harvard. HBS took over administration of that program from Radcliffe in 1954, in 1959, alumnae of the one-year program were permitted to apply to join the HBS MBA program as second-years. In December 1962, the faculty voted to allow women to enter the MBA program directly, the first women to apply directly to the MBA program matriculated in September 1963. HBS is consistently ranked among the business schools in the world. It was ranked tied for 1st in the United States by U. S. News & World Report in 2017, No.1 in the U. S. by Bloomberg Businessweek, students can join one or more of the more than 80 clubs on campus. The Student Association is the interface between the MBA student body and the faculty/administration. The Summer Venture in Management Program is a management training program for rising college seniors designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education. Participants must be employed in an internship and be nominated by and have sponsorship from their company or organization to attend. HBX, is a learning initiative announced by the Harvard Business School in March 2014 to host online university-level courses. Initial programs are the Credential of Readiness and Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen, leading with Finance was added to the catalog in August 2016
Harvard Business School
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Baker Library
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School
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Inside a Harvard Business School classroom
Harvard Business School
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History
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George Fisher Baker
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George Fisher Baker was a U. S. financier and philanthropist. In 1863, Baker, along with his mentor, John Thompson, Thompson, co-founded the First National Bank of the City of New York. The first national bank to be chartered in New York City under the National Currency Act of 1863, at age 37, Baker became First Nationals President on September 1,1877. His 20,000 shares were worth about $20 million and he would become chairman of the board in 1909. An avid investor, he held interests in many corporations and was the largest stockholder in the Central Railroad of New Jersey, in addition, he was a director in 22 corporations, which with their subsidiaries had aggregate resources of $7.27 billion. In the November 1994 issue of Worth magazine, James Grant, editor of a financial newsletter, Baker provided much of the initial funding for Harvard Business School with a 1924 grant of $5 million, for which Harvard gave him an honorary doctorate and named the library after him. He made other donations to charitable causes throughout New York City and funded the construction of Baker Field. He provided $2 million for Baker Memorial Library at Dartmouth College, Baker was born in Troy, New York, to Eveline Stevens Baker and George Ellis Baker, a shoe-store owner who was elected in 1850 on the Whig ticket to the New York State Assembly. At 14, young George entered S. S. Seward Institute in Florida, New York, where he studied geography, bookkeeping, history, at 16, he was hired as the junior clerk in the New York State Banking Department. He enlisted in the 18th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers at the start of the Civil War and he was a member of the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia. In 1929, Baker commissioned the construction of a one-of-a-kind Pierce-Arrow town car for the wedding of his daughter, built by LeBaron, the cars roof line was 5 inches taller than standard models so Baker could keep his top hat on. Trim lining in the compartment is made of 24-carat gold, as are perfume dispensers. The car was rediscovered in 1978 in a barn in Ohio alongside a Rolls Royce Boat Tail Speedster formerly owned by Fred Astaire and it is now part of the White Glove Collection in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Works by or about George Fisher Baker at Internet Archive Baker family papers at Baker Library Historical Collections, bakers 1929 Pierce Arrow Top Hat LaBaron at White Glove Collection Banker Baker
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George Fisher Baker
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Spokane, Washington
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Spokane is a city in the state of Washington, in the northwestern United States. It is the seat of Spokane County, and the economic and cultural center of the Spokane Metropolitan Area, the Greater Spokane Area, the city, along with the whole Inland Northwest, is served by Spokane International Airport,5 miles west of downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 Census, Spokane had a population of 208,916, making it the second largest city in Washington and the 102nd largest city in the United States. The first humans to live in the area, the Spokane people, known as the birthplace of Fathers Day, Spokane is officially nicknamed the Lilac City. David Thompson explored the area with the expansion and establishment of the North West Companys Spokane House in 1810. This trading post was the first long-term European settlement in Washington, completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1881 brought settlers to the Spokane area, and that same year it was officially incorporated as a city with the name of Spokan Falls. In the late 19th century, gold and silver were discovered in the Inland Northwest, the local economy depended on mining, timber, and agriculture until the 1980s. Spokane hosted the first environmentally themed Worlds Fair at Expo 74, many of the older Romanesque Revival-style buildings in the downtown area were designed by architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter after the Great Fire of 1889. The city also features Riverfront and Manito parks, the Smithsonian-affiliated Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, the Davenport Hotel, and the Fox and Bing Crosby theaters. The Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes serves as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist represents the Anglican community. Gonzaga University was established in 1887 by the Jesuits, and the private Presbyterian Whitworth University opened three years later in north Spokane, in sports, the Gonzaga Bulldogs collegiate basketball team competes at the Division I level. Professional and semi-professional sports teams include the Spokane Indians in Minor League Baseball, Spokane Empire in arena football, as of 2010, Spokanes only major daily newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, has a daily circulation of over 76,000. The first humans to live in the Spokane area arrived between 13,000 and 8,000 years ago and were hunter-gatherer societies that lived off plentiful game. The Spokane tribe, after which the city is named, are believed to be either their direct descendants, when asked by early white explorers, the Spokanes said their ancestors came from up North. Early in the 19th century, the Northwest Fur Company sent two white fur trappers west of the Rocky Mountains to search for fur. These were the first white men met by the Spokanes, who believed they were sacred, the explorer-geographer David Thompson, working as head of the North West Companys Columbia Department, became the first European to explore the Inland Empire. Crossing what is now the Canada–US border from British Columbia, Thompson wanted to expand the North West Company further south in search of furs, after establishing the Kullyspell House and Saleesh House trading posts in what are now Idaho and Montana, Thompson then attempted to expand further west. He sent out two trappers, Jacques Raphael Finlay and Finan McDonald, to construct a fur trading post on the Spokane River in Washington and trade with the local Indians
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Downtown Spokane as seen from Palisades Park looking east
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Location of Spokane in
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Spokane Falls in 1888
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The Spokane River Bridge at Fort Spokane
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Missionary (LDS Church)
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Mormon missionaries may serve on a full- or part-time basis, depending on the assignment, and are organized geographically into missions. The mission assignment could be to any one of the 418 missions organized worldwide, the LDS Church is one of the most active modern practitioners of missionary work, reporting that it had over 74,000 full-time missionaries worldwide at the end of 2015. Most full-time Mormon missionaries are young men and women in their late teens and early twenties. Missionaries are often assigned to serve far from their homes, including in other countries, many missionaries learn a new language at a missionary training center as part of their assignment. Missions typically last two years for males,18 months for females, and 6 to 18 months for older couples, the LDS Church strongly encourages, but does not require, missionary service for young men. All Mormon missionaries serve voluntarily and do not receive a salary for their work, many Latter-day Saints save money during their teenage years to cover their mission expenses. Throughout the churchs history, over one million missionaries have been sent on missions, LDS Church president Spencer W. Kimball said, Every young man should fill a mission. Completing a mission is described as a rite of passage for a young Latter-day Saint. The phrase the best two years of my life is a common cliché among returned missionaries when describing their experience, hinckley had suggested that a mission is not to be a rite of passage, this cultural aspect remains. With the usual starting age of 18–20, a provides a clear event or marker for the traditional age of adulthood. Young men between the ages of 18 and 25 who meet standards of worthiness are strongly encouraged to consider a two-year and this expectation is based in part on the New Testament passage Go ye therefore, and teach all nations. Prior to the announcement, some held that male missionaries may be 18 years old because of educational or military requirements. It was also announced that women may serve beginning at age 19 instead of 21. In 2007, approximately 30% of all 19-year-old LDS men became Mormon missionaries, from LDS families that are active in the church, in cases where an immediate family member dies, the missionary has the choice to travel home for the funeral or to remain on the mission. Missionaries can be sent home for violating rules, and occasionally missionaries choose to go home for health or various other reasons. However, the vast majority of serve the whole two-year or eighteen-month terms. As of 2007, 80% of all Mormon missionaries were young, single men, 13% were young single women, women who would like to serve a mission must meet the same standards of worthiness and be at least 19 years old. Women generally serve as missionaries for 18 months, married retired couples, on the other hand, are encouraged to serve missions, but their length of service may vary from 6 to 36 months depending on their circumstances and means
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Two missionaries of The Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints
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The Provo MTC is the LDS Church's largest
Missionary Training Center.
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A pair of name-tags, part of the requisite dress code for LDS missionaries.
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Ratio of Converts Baptized to Full-Time Missionaries, 1971–2010
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Germany
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Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,021 square kilometres, with about 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. After the United States, it is the second most popular destination in the world. Germanys capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, other major cities include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Leipzig. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity, a region named Germania was documented before 100 AD. During the Migration Period the Germanic tribes expanded southward, beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation, in 1871, Germany became a nation state when most of the German states unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire. After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Empire was replaced by the parliamentary Weimar Republic, the establishment of the national socialist dictatorship in 1933 led to World War II and the Holocaust. After a period of Allied occupation, two German states were founded, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, in 1990, the country was reunified. In the 21st century, Germany is a power and has the worlds fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP. As a global leader in industrial and technological sectors, it is both the worlds third-largest exporter and importer of goods. Germany is a country with a very high standard of living sustained by a skilled. It upholds a social security and universal health system, environmental protection. Germany was a member of the European Economic Community in 1957. It is part of the Schengen Area, and became a co-founder of the Eurozone in 1999, Germany is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G8, the G20, and the OECD. The national military expenditure is the 9th highest in the world, the English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. This in turn descends from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz popular, derived from *þeudō, descended from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂- people, the discovery of the Mauer 1 mandible shows that ancient humans were present in Germany at least 600,000 years ago. The oldest complete hunting weapons found anywhere in the world were discovered in a mine in Schöningen where three 380, 000-year-old wooden javelins were unearthed
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The
Nebra sky disk is dated to c. 1600 BC.
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Flag
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Martin Luther (1483–1546) initiated the
Protestant Reformation.
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Foundation of the
German Empire in
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Bismarck is at the center in a white uniform.
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Brigham Young University
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Brigham Young University is a private research university in Provo, Utah, United States. Approximately 99 percent of the students are members of the LDS Church, many students either delay enrollment or take a hiatus from their studies to serve as Mormon missionaries. An education at BYU is also less expensive than at similar private universities, BYU offers a variety of academic programs, including liberal arts, engineering, agriculture, management, physical and mathematical sciences, nursing, and law. The university is organized into 11 colleges or schools at its main Provo campus, with certain colleges. The universitys primary focus is on education, but it also has 68 masters and 25 doctoral degree programs. BYUs athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are known as the BYU Cougars. Their college football team is an NCAA Division I Independent, while their other teams compete in either the West Coast Conference or Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. BYUs sports teams have won a total of fourteen national championships, on October 16,1875, Brigham Young, then president of the LDS Church, personally purchased the Lewis Building after previously hinting that a school would be built in Draper, Utah, in 1867. Hence, October 16,1875, is held as BYUs founding date. The school broke off from the University of Deseret and became Brigham Young Academy, warren Dusenberry served as interim principal of the school for several months until April 1876 when Brigham Youngs choice for principal arrived—a German immigrant named Karl Maeser. Under Maesers direction the school educated many luminaries including future U. S. Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland, the school, however, did not become a university until the end of Benjamin Cluffs term at the helm of the institution. At that time, the school was still privately supported by members of the community and was not absorbed and sponsored officially by the LDS Church until July 18,1896. A series of odd managerial decisions by Cluff led to his demotion, however, in his last official act, he proposed to the Board that the Academy be named Brigham Young University. The suggestion received an amount of opposition, with many members of the Board saying that the school wasnt large enough to be a university. One opponent to the decision, Anthon H. Lund, later said, in 1903 Brigham Young Academy was dissolved, and was replaced by two institutions, Brigham Young High School, and Brigham Young University. The Board elected George H. Brimhall as the new President of BYU and he had not received a high school education until he was forty. Nevertheless, he was an excellent orator and organizer, under his tenure in 1904 the new Brigham Young University bought 17 acres of land from Provo called Temple Hill. After some controversy among locals over BYUs purchase of property, construction began in 1909 on the first building on the current campus
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Brigham Young, the school's
eponym.
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Brigham Young University
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The Brigham Young Academy building circa 1900
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The Abraham O. Smoot Administration Building
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Harvard Business Review
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The Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. It is published 6 times a year and is headquartered in Brighton, HBRs articles cover a wide range of topics that are relevant to various industries, management functions, and geographic locations. These focus on areas including leadership, organizational change, negotiation, strategy, operations, marketing, finance, prahalad, Vijay Govindarajan, Robert S. Kaplan, Rita Gunther McGrath and others. Harvard Business Reviews worldwide English-language circulation is 250,000, HBR licenses its content for publication in thirteen languages besides English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Taiwanese. Harvard Business Reviews mission is to improve the practice of management in a changing world, Harvard Business Review began in 1922 as a magazine for Harvard Business School. Founded under the auspices of Dean Wallace Donham, HBR was meant to be more than just a school publication. The paper is intended to be the highest type of business journal that we can make it, and for use by the student and it is not a school paper, Donham wrote. Initially, HBRs focus was on macroeconomic trends, as well as on important developments within specific industries, following World War II, HBR emphasized the cutting-edge management techniques that were developed in large corporations, like General Motors, during that time period. Over the next three decades, the continued to refine its focus on general management issues that affect business leaders. Prominent articles published during this period include, Marketing Myopia by Theodore Levitt and Barriers and Gateways to Communication by Carl R. Rogers, in the 1980s, Theodore Levitt became the editor of Harvard Business Review and changed the magazine to make it more accessible to general audiences. Articles were shortened and the scope of the magazine was expanded to include a range of topics. In 1994, Harvard Business School formed Harvard Business Publishing as an independent entity, in 2009, HBR brought on Adi Ignatius, the former deputy managing editor of Time magazine, to be its editor-in-chief. Ignatius oversees all operations for Harvard Business Review Group. At the time that Ignatius was hired, the U. S. was going through an economic recession, the world was desperate for new approaches. Business-as-usual was not a response, Ignatius has recalled. As a result, Ignatius re-aligned HBRs focus and goals to make sure that it delivers information in the zeitgeist that our readers are living in. Since 1959, the magazines annual McKinsey Award has recognized the two most significant Harvard Business Review articles published each year, as determined by a group of independent judges. Past winners have included Peter F. Drucker, who was honored seven times, Clayton M. Christensen, Theodore Levitt, Michael Porter, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, John Hagel III, and C. K
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History
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BYU-Hawaii
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Brigham Young University–Hawaii is a private university located in Laie, Hawaii, United States. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, BYU-Hawaii was founded in 1955 and offers programs in mathematics, liberal arts, and management. The university is organized into four colleges, and its parent organization. The universitys sole focus is on undergraduate education, approximately 97 percent of the universitys 2,800 students are members of the LDS Church. BYU-Hawaii students are required to follow a code, which requires behavior in line with LDS teachings. A BYU-Hawaii education is less expensive than private universities since a large portion of tuition is funded by LDS Church tithing funds. The university partners with the LDS Church-owned Polynesian Cultural Center, the largest living museum in the State of Hawaii and its athletic teams compete in Division II of the NCAA and are collectively known as the BYU–Hawaii Seasiders. They are members of the Pacific West Conference and have won 19 national titles, by 1919, the church was prominent enough in the area to build a temple in Laie. Two years after the temple was dedicated then-LDS Church apostle David O. McKay stated the church would build a school in the area in the future. In 1951, McKay, as president, began preliminary plans on the school. Classes began at BYU-Hawaii in September 1955 as the Church College of Hawaii to accommodate the burgeoning LDS population in the Territory of Hawai‘i and this was largely a result of McKays views on both education and strengthening the church outside of its longtime intermountain west U. S. base. The original class consisted of 153 students and 20 faculty meeting in old World War II buildings, law as the schools first president. The schools first buildings were dedicated on December 17,1958, the college was at first a two-year college but was reorganized in 1959 to become a four-year college. By 1961 the college had been granted accreditation by the Western Association of Schools. Dormitories, a cafeteria, and other buildings had also been constructed, LDS elders established the Polynesian Cultural Center in November 1963 as a means of preserving the Pacific cultures that the Latter-day Saints had encountered in their missionary work. In the 1970s, the school was used to teach LDS missionaries pacific languages and cultures before going out to the islands. The center also provided jobs for students of the college, in 1974, the Church College of Hawaii was elevated to the rank of university by the Church Board of Education and renamed. Wheelwright was appointed the universitys president, tanner becomes the universitys 10th president
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The building of the LDS Church's
Laie Hawaii Temple was a key predecessor to the establishment of BYU–Hawaii.
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Brigham Young University–Hawaii
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A sign reminds students of the
BYU-Hawaii Honor Code standards
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President of the Church (LDS Church)
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In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the President of the Church is the highest office of the church. It was the held by Joseph Smith, founder of the church. The President of the LDS Church is the leader and the head of the First Presidency. Latter-day Saints consider the president of the church to be a prophet, seer, and revelator, and refer to him as the Prophet, when the name of the president is used by adherents, it is usually prefaced by the title President. The President of the Church serves as the head of both the Council on the Disposition of the Tithes and the Council of the Church, the President of the Church also serves as the ex officio chairman of the Church Boards of Trustees/Education. The concept that the Church of Christ would have a single presiding officer arose in late 1831, initially, after the churchs formation on April 6,1830, Joseph Smith referred to himself as an apostle of Jesus Christ, and elder of the church. However, there was another apostle—Oliver Cowdery—and several other elders of the church, for he receiveth them even as Moses. This established Smiths exclusive right to lead the church, in early June 1831, Smith was ordained to the high priesthood, along with twenty-two other men, including prominent figures in the church such as Hyrum Smith, Parley P. Pratt, and Martin Harris. As high priests, these men were higher in the hierarchy than the elders of the church. However, it was unclear whether Smiths and Cowderys callings as apostles gave them superior authority to that of other high priests. And again the duty of the President of the priesthood is to preside over the whole church. Smith was ordained to this position and sustained by the church on January 25,1832, at a conference in Amherst, in 1835, the Articles and Covenants of the Church of Christ were revised, changing the phrase an. Elder of the church to the first elder of this Church, thus, subsequent to 1835, Smith was sometimes referred to as the First Elder of the church. The 1835 revision also added a verse referring to the office of president of the high priesthood, in 1844, while in jail awaiting trial for treason charges, Joseph Smith was killed by an armed mob. Hyrum Smith, his successor, was killed in the same incident. Smith had not indisputably established who was next in line as successor to President of the Church, several claimants to the role of church president emerged during the succession crisis that ensued. Young would not be ordained President of the Church until December 1847, thomas S. Monson is the 16th and current President of the LDS Church. As president, Monson is considered by adherents of the religion to be a prophet, seer, a printer by trade, Monson has spent most of his life engaged in various church leadership positions and in public service
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Thomas S. Monson, 16th President of
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Joseph Smith, the founder of the
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Henry B. Eyring First Counselor
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf Second Counselor
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Gordon B. Hinckley
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Gordon Bitner Hinckley was an American religious leader and author who served as the 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from March 12,1995, until his death. Considered a prophet, seer, and revelator by church members, Hinckleys presidency was noted for the building of temples, with more than half of existing temples being built under his leadership. He also oversaw the reconstruction of the Nauvoo Illinois Temple and the building of the 21,000 seat Conference Center, during his tenure, The Family, A Proclamation to the World was issued and the Perpetual Education Fund was established. At the time of his death, approximately one-third of the membership had joined the church under Hinckleys leadership. Hinckley was awarded ten honorary degrees, and in 2004. Hinckley also received the Boy Scouts of Americas highest award, the Silver Buffalo, Hinckley died of natural causes on January 27,2008, and was survived by his five children. His wife, Marjorie Pay, died in 2004 and he was succeeded as church president by Thomas S. The child of a multi-generational Latter-day Saint, Hinckley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to prominent LDS writer and educator Bryant S. Hinckley and he graduated from LDS High School in 1928. He grew up on a farm in East Millcreek. His home library contained approximately a thousand volumes of literary, philosophical and historical works, Hinckley was known for his optimism and plain-speaking. Hinckley attended the University of Utah, where he earned a degree in English. He studied Latin and could read ancient Greek, Hinckley became a missionary for the LDS Church, an unusual occurrence for Depression-era Latter-day Saints. He served in the London-based British Mission from 1933 to 1935 and he would later write the words for LDS hymn no. Hinckley returned to the United States in 1935 after completing a tour of the European continent. He was given an assignment by his president, Joseph F. Merrill, to meet with the churchs First Presidency. As a result of meeting, Hinckley received employment as executive secretary of the churchs Radio, Publicity. Hinckleys responsibilities included developing the churchs fledgling radio broadcasts and making use of the new communication technologies. One of the projects Hinckley oversaw in the late 1930s was development of the exhibit for the Golden Gate International Exposition
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Gordon B. Hinckley
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Hinckley and his counselors meet with
George W. Bush, August 31, 2006, in the
Church Administration Building in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Gordon B. Hinckley Building at
BYU-Idaho
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Scoutmaster
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A Scout leader or Scouter generally refers to the trained adult leader of a Scout unit. The terms used vary from country to country, over time, there are many different roles a leader can fulfill depending on the type of unit. Positions are usually voluntary and are divided between uniform and lay roles. For many, this volunteerism is an avocation, uniformed Scout Leaders are primarily responsible for organizing the activities of the group, and training the youth members through the Scout program. Other roles include liaison with parents, districts, or other such as the units sponsoring organization. Lay supporters are not always termed Scout Leaders, although they may assist with activities and training, they do not always hold a formal position and may not have received training. Beyond the Scout programme, lay supporters may take responsibility for administrative tasks such as budgets, managing properties, recruitment, equipment, transport, and many other roles. Beyond the group are further uniformed positions at such as district, county, council or province. They also work along with lay teams and professionals, Training teams and other related functions are often formed at these levels. Some countries appoint a Chief Scout or Chief Commissioner as the most senior uniformed member, Scout Leaders participate in a series of training courses, typically aiming for the Wood Badge as the main qualification of an adult leader in Scouting. In most countries, Wood Badge holders can wear a Gilwell scarf, Turks head knot woggle, Scout Leaders are given a formal appointment. Before appointing a leader, most associations perform background checks on candidates to ensure their suitability for working with children. Robert Baden-Powell initially used the terms Scoutmaster and Cubmaster for adult leaders, in Scouts Australia, all five sections have a Leader, although a Joey Leader has a much more driving role than a Venturer Leader, who should be standing back and assisting the elected Unit Chair. Rover Leaders stepped back during the 1970s, becoming Rover Advisors, there are several different types of Leader in Australia, all of them have the opportunity to complete the Wood Badge training scheme Sectional Leaders Run a Troop, Pack, Unit or Mob each week. They are the ones who go away every weekend with the Scouts, Group Leaders Run the Group as a whole, liaising between the Committee, who see to the needs of the Group, hall, power, gear, etc. and the Sectional Leaders. Activity Leaders Have qualifications in activities from Water Activities to Abseilling to Radio and Four Wheel Driving and First Aid and these leaders often have another role in Scouting at the same time. Leader Trainers Provide the Training to other Leaders and usually have been in Scouting for several years, Training is not usually their only role in Scouting. District Leaders Provide help and assistance to local groups, most Districts try to have at least one District Leader for each Section, as well as Public Relations, Adult Training & Development and Water Activities
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Leaders welcome a boy into Scouting, March 2010, Mexico City, Mexico.
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Sunday School (LDS Church)
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Sunday School is an official auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All members of the church and any interested nonmembers, age 12, historical records indicate that some form of Sunday School was held by Latter Day Saints in Kirtland, Ohio, and Nauvoo, Illinois, in the 1830s and 1840s. However, the meetings were ad hoc and no formal organization endured the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, lacking a suitable building to hold the meeting in, Ballantyne invited his students into his own home, approximately thirty Latter-day Saint children between the ages of 8 and 13 attended. The local congregation that Ballantyne belonged to—the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward—quickly adopted Ballantynes Sunday school program, other LDS Church congregations followed the Fourteenth Wards example and adopted Sunday school programs based on the Ballantyne model. At this stage, each Sunday school was completely autonomous and under the direction of the local bishop. On November 11,1867, Young and church leaders Daniel H. Wells, George A. Smith, Wilford Woodruff, Cannon, and Brigham Young, Jr. met and organized the Parent Sunday School Union. Young appointed Cannon as the first general superintendent of the Sunday School, in 1872, the Sunday School organization was renamed the Deseret Sunday School Union. It also sponsored the publication of guidelines and materials for classroom use. Until the turn of the century, only children were taught by the Sunday School, eventually, classes were added for the youth of the church, in 1904, an adult Sunday School class was created. The 1970s saw dramatic change within the Sunday School, in 1979, Hugh W. Pinnock became the general president of the Sunday School, the first general authority of the church to hold the position since apostle David O. McKays tenure ended in 1934. In 1980, the church instructed the Sunday School to stop passing the sacrament during Sunday School classes, in 1866, just prior to the formal organization of the Sunday School Union, Cannon had begun publishing the Juvenile Instructor magazine. Although the magazine was owned and edited solely by Cannon, it became the de facto official publication of the Deseret Sunday School Union in the late 1860s. On January 1,1901, the church purchased the magazine from the Cannon family, in 1930, it was replaced by The Instructor, which was published until 1970. The Sunday School currently does not have an official periodical, but information that may be used in Sunday School appears in the Ensign, Sunday School focuses on a study of the standard works of the church, which are considered scripture. The main class in Sunday School for those 18 years of age, for example, Gospel Principles is a generalist class that is primarily intended for those new to, or inexperienced, in the church or for those with a calling related to missionary work. It is also common for a congregation to offer specialist Sunday School classes in family history, temples, marriage and family relations. In most church congregations, Sunday School is a 40-minute class which is held immediately after or immediately prior to Sacrament meeting. In 2013, the Sunday School curriculum for youth changed and is centered around monthly discussion topics, each local congregation is permitted to call an adult male as the local Sunday School president, who oversees the Sunday School under the direction of the bishop or branch president
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The interior of the
Salt Lake Tabernacle as decorated for the Deseret Sunday School Union's July 1875
Pioneer Day celebration.
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Stake (Latter Day Saints)
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A stake is an administrative unit composed of multiple congregations in certain denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. The name stake derives from the Book of Isaiah, enlarge the place of thy tent, stretch forth the curtains of thine habitation, spare not, lengthen thy cords, a stake is sometimes referred to as a stake of Zion. The first Latter Day Saint stake was organized at church headquarters in Kirtland, Ohio on February 17,1834, the second stake was organized in Clay County, Missouri, later that year on July 3, with David Whitmer as president. The Missouri stake was relocated to Far West, Missouri, in 1836, a stake was organized at Adam-ondi-Ahman in 1838 and abandoned later that year due to the events of the Mormon War. In 1839, the churchs central stake was established at Nauvoo, Illinois, additional stakes were established in the area around Nauvoo in 1840. Immediately after the death of Joseph Smith in 1844, there was a schism in the Latter Day Saint movement. In 1846, all of the stakes, including the Nauvoo Stake, were discontinued as a result of the exodus of the majority of the Latter Day Saints to the Salt Lake Valley. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement, after the death of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young assumed the leadership of the church and led its members to the Salt Lake Valley. The first stake established there was the Salt Lake Stake, established October 3,1847, at the time of Youngs death in 1877, there were 20 stakes in operation with a total of approximately 250 wards. New stakes are created when the congregations in existing stakes or districts have grown sufficiently to support a stake, districts may be elevated to stakes and are then no longer presided over by a mission president. New stakes are also formed by dividing an existing stake. In addition to the size and number of congregations, the creation of a new stake also requires sufficient Melchizedek priesthood holders to fill the required leadership positions. At times the absence of available leadership constrains the creation of new stakes, the geographical area encompassed by a stake varies between countries and regions based on membership density. In Utah, a stake might encompass a few miles in area. In contrast, a stake in another part of the world might require thousands of miles to comprise a sufficient number of members. In December 2012, Jeffrey R. Holland organized the 3, 000th stake in Freetown, at the end of 2015, there were 3,174 stakes in the LDS Church. The stake is a level in the organizational hierarchy of the LDS Church. The lowest level, consisting of a congregation, is known as a ward or branch
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LDS stake center. Stake centers serve as meetinghouses for local congregations and headquarters for the local stake.
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Seventy (LDS Church)
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Seventy is a priesthood office in the Melchizedek priesthood of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Latter-day Saints teach that the office of seventy was anciently conferred upon the seventy disciples mentioned in the Gospel of Luke 10, multiple individuals holding the office of seventy are referred to collectively as seventies. In practical terms, the office of seventy is one which has varied widely over the course of history. These presidents, chosen from the first quorum, would appoint, as introduced by Joseph Smith, the apostles and the seventy had authority only outside the main body of Latter Day Saints in Zion, and in the outlying stakes. Members in Zion and the stakes were led by the High Council of Zion, historically, the First Quorum of the Seventy came into being in 1835 when seven men were set apart as the First Seven Presidents of the Seventy. In 1837, six of the seven presidents were released because it was discovered that they had previously been ordained high priests, five of these men were ultimately replaced by others. The other two—Levi W. Hancock and Joseph Young—remained members of the First Seven Presidents for the rest of their lives. In the LDS Church, the quorums of the seventy are directed and supervised hierarchically by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, as a body, the seventy in the LDS Church are considered to be equal in priesthood authority with the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. This presumably means that if the apostles were killed or incapacitated, however, in such circumstances, the seventy would be required to act unanimously. In the LDS Church, members of the First and the Second Quorums of the Seventy are general authorities of the church with responsibilities covering the church as a whole, Members of additional Quorums of the Seventy are called an area seventy. Members of these quorums are ordained to the office of seventy. Area seventies generally have authority only within a unit of the church called an area. By the time Joseph Smith was killed, he had organized four incomplete quorums of seventy. By 1845, there were ten quorums of seventy, the members of the first quorum were thus spread out across the church, making meetings of the first quorum rare. Elders were often ordained to the office of seventy immediately before left on a mission. Quorums were not restricted to geography, so individual quorums were scattered all over the world, in 1883, church president John Taylor localized the quorums of seventy. Each stake was given a quorum of seventy, and seventies in that stake would belong to that quorum. Taylor also prescribed that the president of the first 64 quorums could meet with the seven presidents of the first quorum
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Henry B. Eyring
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Amasa M. Lyman
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Kim B. Clark
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Zera Pulsipher
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Church Educational System
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Approximately 700,000 individuals were enrolled in CES programs in 143 countries in 2011. CES courses of study are separate and distinct from religious instruction provided through wards, clark, a member of the First Quorum of Seventy, has been the Commissioner of the Church Educational System since August 1,2015. Religious education programs designed for students are called seminaries. These are programs of education for youth aged 14–18 that accompany the students secular education. Released-time seminary classes are taught by full-time employees. In areas with smaller LDS populations early-morning or home-study seminary programs are offered, early-morning seminary classes are held daily before the normal school day in private homes or in meetinghouses and are taught by volunteer teachers. Home-study seminary classes are offered where geographic dispersion of students is so great that it is not feasible to meet on a daily basis, home-study seminary students study daily, but meet only once a week as a class. Home-study classes are held in connection with weekly youth fellowship activities on a weekday evening. The seminary program provides extensive study of theology, using as texts the churchs standard works throughout the school week, the four courses are taught, one per year, on a rotating basis. LDS seminary students do not get high school credit for their seminary studies, recently the LDS Church has piloted an online seminary program to supplement or supplant the home-study program. This online pilot program has seen success in helping meet the needs of students separated by distances that make meeting daily impractical. This helps provide a sense of community and connection as well as a chance to learn the gospel in a similar way that students do in areas with a larger concentrations of LDS youth. Religious education is provided for students who enroll in post-secondary education, or those of student age. CES Institutes serve more than 350,000 students in more than 2700 locations worldwide, many colleges throughout the United States either have institute buildings or active programs near their campuses. Institute classes are offered in leased or owned facilities adjacent to institutions of higher education, many LDS meetinghouses also lend their facilities for institute classes. The first Institute of Religion was established in northern Idaho at Moscow, currently the largest enrollment is at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. The largest enrollment outside the state of Utah is at Idaho State University in Pocatello, the new MTC opened in June 2013. These religious secondary schools were called for by church president Wilford Woodruff following a takeover of Utah Territorial public schools
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Oneida Stake Academy, Preston, Idaho
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Eagle Scout Award
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Eagle Scout is the highest achievement or rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America. The designation Eagle Scout was founded one hundred years ago. Only four percent of Boy Scouts are granted this rank after a review process. The requirements necessary to achieve this rank take years to fulfill, since its founding, the Eagle Scout rank has been earned by more than two million young men. Requirements include earning at least 21 merit badges, the Eagle Scout must demonstrate Scout Spirit, an ideal attitude based upon the Scout Oath and Law, service, and leadership. This includes a service project that the Scout plans, organizes, leads. Eagle Scouts are presented with a medal and a badge that visibly recognizes the accomplishments of the Scout, additional recognition can be earned through Eagle Palms, awarded for completing additional tenure, leadership, and merit badge requirements. The Boy Scouts of Americas highest award was conceived as the Wolf Scout. The August 1911 version of the handbook changed this to Eagle Scout, the medal illustrated in the handbook was a profile of an eagle in flight, but was changed to the current design before any were issued. In their original conceptions, Life Scout, Star Scout and Eagle Scout were not ranks, Eagle Scout was awarded to any First Class Scout who had earned 21 merit badges. The first Eagle Scout medal was awarded in 1912 to Arthur Rose Eldred, Eldred was notified that he was to be awarded the rank of Eagle Scout in a letter from Chief Scout Executive James West, dated August 21,1912. The design of the Eagle Scout medal had not been finalized by the National Council, so the medal was not awarded until Labor Day, Eldred was the first of three generations of Eagle Scouts, his son and grandson hold the rank as well. As of 2009, more than two million Scouts have earned the rank, in the 1960s, the Kansas City area awarded more Eagle Scout badges than any other council in the country, resulting in the creation of the Eagle Scout Memorial there in 1968. In 1982, 13-year-old Alexander Holsinger, of Normal, Illinois, was recognized as the one-millionth Eagle Scout, about 2.25 million Scouts had earned Eagle Scout through January 2014. In 2012,57,976 Eagle Scout awards were presented, four Nobel Prize laureates are known to be Eagle Scouts, Dudley R. Additionally he must plan, develop, and lead a service project—the Eagle Project—that demonstrates both leadership and a commitment to duty, after all requirements are met, he must complete an Eagle Scout board of review. He can complete the board of review after his 18th birthday as long as all other requirements are completed before his 18th birthday, Scouts with a permanent mental or physical disability may use alternate requirements based on abilities, if approved by the council. Eagle Scout may be awarded posthumously, if and only if all requirements except the board of review are completed before death, a board of review may be held and the award presented to the Scouts family
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The Eagle Scout Memorial Fountain in
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A Scout taking the Eagle Scout Charge during his court of honor aboard the
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An Eagle Scout presentation kit, including: Mother's oval pin, Dad's oval pin, Mentor oval pin, Eagle badge, and Eagle award medal
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The Distinguished Eagle Scout award
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Boy Scouts of America
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The BSA was founded in 1910 and, since then, more than 110 million Americans have been participants in BSA programs at some time. The BSA is part of the international Scout Movement and became a member organization of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922. In order to further these activities, the BSA has four high-adventure bases, Northern Tier, Philmont Scout Ranch, Sea Base. The traditional Scouting divisions are Cub Scouting for boys ages 7 to 10½ years, Boy Scouting for boys ages 10½ to 18, Learning for Life is a non-traditional subsidiary that provides in-school and career education. Units are led entirely by volunteers appointed by the chartering organization, the progressive movement in the United States was at its height during the early 20th century. With the migration of families from farms to cities, there were concerns among some people that men were no longer learning patriotism and individualism. The YMCA was a promoter of reforms for young men with a focus on social welfare and programs of mental, physical, social. In 1907, Robert Baden-Powell, founded the Scouting movement in England using elements of Setons works among other influences, several Scout programs for boys started independently in the US. Many of these Scout programs in the US merged with the BSA.52 In 1909, Chicago publisher W. D. Boyce was visiting London, Boyce was lost on a foggy street when an unknown Scout came to his aid, guiding him to his destination. The boy then refused Boyces tip, explaining that he was a Boy Scout and was doing his daily good turn. Interested in the Boy Scouts, Boyce met with staff at the Boy Scouts Headquarters and, by some accounts, upon his return to the US, Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America on February 8,1910. Edgar M. Robinson and Lee F. Hanmer became interested in the nascent BSA, Robinson enlisted Seton, Beard, Charles Eastman, and other prominent leaders in the early youth movements. Former president Theodore Roosevelt, who had complained of the decline in American manhood. The current mission statement of the BSA is to young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath. The BSA holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code, on behalf of the BSA, Paul Sleman, Colin H. Livingstone, Ernest S. Martin, and James E. West successfully lobbied Congress for a charter for the BSA which President Woodrow Wilson signed on June 15,1916. The special recognition neither implies nor accords Congress any special control over the BSA, in the BSA, Scouting is considered to be one movement with four main programs, Cub Scouting is available to boys from first to fifth-grade or 7 to 11 years. Boy Scouting is the program of the BSA generally for boys ages 11 to 18
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Boy Scout, 2006
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Varsity Scouts preparing to go
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Boy Scout, 1969, wearing uniform cap of the time
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Distinguished Eagle Scout Award
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The Distinguished Eagle Scout Award is a distinguished service award of the Boy Scouts of America. It is awarded to an Eagle Scout for distinguished service in his profession, other requirements include significant accomplishment in ones career and a solid record of continued community volunteer involvement. It is one of only two BSA awards given to adults that is dependent upon the recipients having been awarded Eagle Scout as a youth, recipients of the DESA are known as Distinguished Eagle Scouts. The award consists of a gold eagle suspended from a red, white, recipients may wear a small gold eagle device on the Eagle Scout square knot on the Scout uniform. The eagles use the design as on the Eagle Scout medal. The Distinguished Eagle Scout medal is worn in place of the regular Eagle Scout medal for Eagle Scout-related ceremonies, the recipient is also presented with an engraved bronze plaque featuring a Gold Eagle. The DESA was first introduced in 1969 and is awarded by the National Eagle Scout Association and this was the only time this gold badge was awarded. The DESA does not have an order of issue like the numbers assigned to each NOESA recipient. On January 16,1969 the first ten DESAs were approved, alphabetically, Alden G. Barber is the first DESA recipient. Based upon the date of the original Eagle Scout rank, Zenon C. R. Hansen, of the nine Eagle Scouts who received the Medal of Honor for valor in combat, five were eligible for the DESA. Of those five, three have been awarded the DESA, Mitchell Paige, Leo K. Thorsness, and Thomas R. Norris, the other two died in 2007 without a DESA nomination being processed. Of the 24 men who traveled to the moon, three were Eagle Scouts, Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell, and Charles Duke, all three were awarded the DESA. Armstrong and Lovell are also among the 28 recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, of the 13 men who have served as the Chief Scout Executive, eight were Eagle Scouts. Of those eight, seven have been awarded the DESA, at least two known father/son pairs have received the DESA, as well as one pair of brothers. Through 2015, only 11 recipients of the NOESA have gone on to receive the DESA, the first was Wayne K. Stenehjem who received his NOESA in 2011 and his DESA in 2013. Additionally, Larry A. Dale is the first to both awards in the same year,2015
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A DESA ceremony in 2009
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Medal with device on knot emblem
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National Eagle Scout Association
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The National Eagle Scout Association is an organization of men who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. NESAs stated purpose is to serve Eagle Scouts and, through them, the Knights of Dunamis was an honor society of Eagle Scouts founded in San Francisco on April 19,1925 by Scout Executive Raymond O. Hanson. The Knights of Dunamis, named after the Greek power or spirit, served as a service organization for local Scout councils and also hosted occasional social events. The Knights awarded an honor of their own, the Knights Eagle Award. For about forty years after its founding, the leadership of the BSA had an ambivalent attitude toward the Knights. From a peak of 110 chapters, there were only 37 chapters by 1971, in 1972 the Knights of Dunamis was merged into the BSA and became the National Eagle Scout Association. Membership is available on a five-year renewable or a lifetime basis to all Eagle Scouts, NESA cross-checks applications to ensure all applicants are Eagle Scouts. NESA administers several scholarships for Eagle Scouts both academic and merit, academic scholarships are based on school and Scouting participation, academic performance, and financial need. Applicants must score a minimum 1800 SAT or 28 ACT to apply and these include a varying number of $5,000 NESA scholarships, and a varying number of $5,000 Mabel and Lawrence S. Cooke scholarships. The Mabel and Lawrence S. Cooke scholarships are awarded annually and include four $25,000 scholarships and one $48,000 scholarship, plus a varying number of others. NESA offers an academic scholarship called the $50,000 NESA STEM scholarship to an applicant who plans to major in a science, technology, engineering. The second type of NESA scholarships are the merit scholarships, Merit scholarships are based on school and Scouting participation, and community service. These awards cover the $2,000 and $4,000 Bailey scholarships, the $2,500 Robert and Rebecca Palmer scholarships, each BSA region reviews applications and awards a varying number of these scholarships to local Scouts. NESA merit scholarship applicants must be Eagle Scouts graduating high school or undergraduate college students no farther than completion of the junior year, recipients may receive the scholarship one time only. In 2015 NESA awarded approximately $650,000. in scholarships, in addition many of the Local Committees have smaller scholarship programs and a number of specific scholarships are awarded by religious, civic/military groups and many colleges and universities. A complete list and application instructions can be found at NESAs website, I <http, //www. nesa. org/scholarships. html> Shortly after the National Eagle Scout Association was established in 1972, it began to make available a NESA Scoutmaster Award. The award was presented to one Scoutmaster per BSA area each year and these Scoutmasters records demonstrated proper use of Boy Scout advancement, and a significant number of their Boy Scouts attained the Eagle Scout rank. This award was discontinued on December 31,1987, the president of the Boy Scouts of America requested that NESA convert its award into a Scoutmaster Award of Merit that could be earned by all Scoutmasters
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National Eagle Scout Association
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Church News
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The Church News is a weekly tabloid-sized supplement to the Deseret News and the MormonTimes, a Salt Lake City, Utah newspaper owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the publication by the LDS Church that is entirely devoted to news coverage of the LDS Church. The Church News is the newspaper of the LDS Church. As with the Ensign, the LDS Church encourages its members to subscribe to the Church News, the Church News does not carry advertisements in its pages, although it did in its first three issues and during 1959–60. Despite higher prices than in other Deseret News sections, Church News ad space didnt make enough money, instead, the section is financially supported by the rest of the Deseret News operations, and high volume subscriptions. A mainstay of the Church News is its continuing features that make up most of the paper and these include This Week in Church History, Message of Inspiration, Living By the Scriptures, A Thought From the Scriptures, and Viewpoints. Announcements are posted of all new stake, mission, and temple presidents when they occur, the Church News purpose has been stated to build testimonies and uplift its readers. In doing this it focuses on inspirational and motivational stories in a graphics-heavy format, the paper isnt intended to cover controversial issues, but emphasizes success stories and reinforces the church message. Though it experimented with some news in the early 1970s. Some have nicknamed the paper Mormon Pravda, because of its dedication to promoting faith, which others see as producing soft human interest stories. Since the paper and the church are based in Salt Lake City, much Church News coverage over the years has been Utah-centric. Its global focus has expanded as the attempts to showcase the churchs international activities. Since the Deseret News was founded in 1850, it reported news of the LDS Church in its regular issues, minutes of ward meetings were covered and sermons were often carried on the front page. In the 1890s, efforts to emphasize secular news pushed church coverage to dedicated sections on inside pages, as early as the mid-1850s and 1860s consideration was given to creating a separate church newspaper. In 1931, a new Saturday tabloid called the Church Section was released, which primarily reported leaders sermons, church events and it was retitled as the Weekly Church Edition in 1942, and Church News in 1943, though the name remained in flux for the next few years. It was also in 1943 that circulation as an independent publication from the Deseret News began, in 1945, when Liahona The Elders Journal ended publication, it recommended that its subscribers began taking the Church News. Starting in 1981, the Church News was retitled LDS Church News, News of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but today it is usually referred to as Church News or LDS Church News. In 1943, the paper became available through a special Saturday-only Deseret News subscription, in 1948, the Church News was distributed as a separate publication by mail, to areas Deseret News circulation didnt cover, a practice that still continues
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LDS Church News
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The Church News is a weekly tabloid-sized supplement to the Deseret News and the MormonTimes, a Salt Lake City, Utah newspaper owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the publication by the LDS Church that is entirely devoted to news coverage of the LDS Church. The Church News is the newspaper of the LDS Church. As with the Ensign, the LDS Church encourages its members to subscribe to the Church News, the Church News does not carry advertisements in its pages, although it did in its first three issues and during 1959–60. Despite higher prices than in other Deseret News sections, Church News ad space didnt make enough money, instead, the section is financially supported by the rest of the Deseret News operations, and high volume subscriptions. A mainstay of the Church News is its continuing features that make up most of the paper and these include This Week in Church History, Message of Inspiration, Living By the Scriptures, A Thought From the Scriptures, and Viewpoints. Announcements are posted of all new stake, mission, and temple presidents when they occur, the Church News purpose has been stated to build testimonies and uplift its readers. In doing this it focuses on inspirational and motivational stories in a graphics-heavy format, the paper isnt intended to cover controversial issues, but emphasizes success stories and reinforces the church message. Though it experimented with some news in the early 1970s. Some have nicknamed the paper Mormon Pravda, because of its dedication to promoting faith, which others see as producing soft human interest stories. Since the paper and the church are based in Salt Lake City, much Church News coverage over the years has been Utah-centric. Its global focus has expanded as the attempts to showcase the churchs international activities. Since the Deseret News was founded in 1850, it reported news of the LDS Church in its regular issues, minutes of ward meetings were covered and sermons were often carried on the front page. In the 1890s, efforts to emphasize secular news pushed church coverage to dedicated sections on inside pages, as early as the mid-1850s and 1860s consideration was given to creating a separate church newspaper. In 1931, a new Saturday tabloid called the Church Section was released, which primarily reported leaders sermons, church events and it was retitled as the Weekly Church Edition in 1942, and Church News in 1943, though the name remained in flux for the next few years. It was also in 1943 that circulation as an independent publication from the Deseret News began, in 1945, when Liahona The Elders Journal ended publication, it recommended that its subscribers began taking the Church News. Starting in 1981, the Church News was retitled LDS Church News, News of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but today it is usually referred to as Church News or LDS Church News. In 1943, the paper became available through a special Saturday-only Deseret News subscription, in 1948, the Church News was distributed as a separate publication by mail, to areas Deseret News circulation didnt cover, a practice that still continues
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Church News
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KSL-TV
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KSL-TV, virtual channel 5, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. KSL-TV is a television property wholly owned by Bonneville International, the broadcasting arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The station has a network of broadcast translators that extend its over-the-air coverage throughout Utah, as well as portions of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada. It is a station to KSL radio. The station first signed on the air on June 1,1949 and it was owned by the Deseret News, who also owned KSL radio. It originally operated as a CBS affiliate, owing to its radio stations longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio Network. In addition to its primary CBS affiliation, the station also shared ABC programming with NBC affiliate KDYL-TV, the two stations continued to share ABC programming until KUTV signed on in September 1954 as the markets full-time ABC affiliate. The station also broadcast some programming from the DuMont Television Network, and during the late 1950s, a few months after its sign-on, KSL moved its operations to studio facilities at the Broadcast House on Social Hall Avenue. In 1952, a 370 feet transmission tower was constructed on Farnsworth Peak to improve the signal coverage along the Wasatch Front. It also began building a translator network that eventually stretched across five states. KSL-AM-FM-TV operated as a division of the Deseret News until 1964, soon afterward, channel 5 began broadcasting its programming in color. In 1984, the station moved its Broadcast House facilities to the Triad Center, initially, NBC sought to reaffiliate with KTVX, but after that station renewed its affiliation agreement with ABC, NBC then secured an affiliation deal with KSL-TV. On January 14,1999, a shooter entered the stations Broadcast House facility, anne Sleater, an employee of another company that was housed in the building, AT&T Wireless Services, was shot during the incident and later died from her injuries. De-Kieu Duy, a 24-year-old female, was arrested in connection with the shooting, Duy was later found mentally incompetent to stand trial and is currently housed in the Utah State Hospital. During the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, KSL-TV was very influential in bringing coverage, the station heavily lobbied to NBC that the ceremonies be broadcast live. The stations digital channel is multiplexed, On January 1,2009, on January 1,2014, KSL replaced Live Well Network with Cozi TV on digital subchannel 5.2. KSL-TV shut down its signal, over VHF channel 5, on June 12,2009. The stations digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 38, KSL-TV is one of the few remaining television stations in the United States that still signs off at night, doing so at 3,30 a. m. on Sundays
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The Triad Center, in downtown Salt Lake City, with the KSL Broadcast House at far left.
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Scouting (magazine)
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Scouting magazine is a five-times-a-year publication of the Boy Scouts of America. The target audience is adult leaders of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and it carries news on Scouting events, articles on aspects of Scouting such as service, outdoor skills and activities, and features about Scouting activities. It has been in publication since April 15,1913, a subscription is included in the registration fee for all volunteer leaders registered with the BSA. Recurring content includes, Feature articles, Trailhead, What Ive Learned, Advancement FAQs, Cub Scout Corner, Nature of Boys, merit Badge Clinic, Ethics, Great Gear, Health & Wellness, Survive This. Fuel Up, Dutch Treat, Boys Life Preview, and Cool Camp
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Cover of the May–June 2012 issue
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Marcos A. Aidukaitis
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Marcos Antony Aidukaitis has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since April 2008. Aidukaitis was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, as a young man, he served as a LDS missionary in the Brazil São Paulo Mission. He received a degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA from BYU. Aidukaitis has held key positions in such as MAV Distribution. Aidukaitis has served as a leader in the LDS Church at various levels and has assisted the growth of the church in the São Paulo area. He served as the first president of the Osasco Brazil Stake when it was organized in 1993, Aidukaitis served as an area seventy from 2000 to 2005 and began service as president of the Brazil Brasília Mission later that year. He served in capacity until his call to the First Quorum of the Seventy in April 2008. As a general authority, Aidukaitis served from 2008 to 2012 as a counselor in the churchs South America South Area and he served at the churchs headquarters from 2012 to August 2014 when he was assigned as a counselor in the churchs Brazil Area. Aidukaitis and his wife, Luisa, were married in 1986 and are the parents of five children and his father was born in Scotland to Lithuanian parents. Elder Marcos A. Aidukaitis, Liahona, May 2008, p.134 Dozens of leaders called to LDS posts, Deseret Morning News, 2008-04-06 New Area Authority Seventies, Church News, New stake presidencies, Church News, June 12,1993. 2005 Deseret News Church Almanac p.283 General Authorities, Elder Marcos A. Aidukaitis, lds. org Grampa Bills G. A
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Aidukaitis outside the
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David S. Baxter
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David Steward Baxter has been a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 2006. A native of Scotland, and a resident of England at the time of his call, he is only the general authority who was native to the United Kingdom. Baxter joined the LDS Church along with his mother and siblings when he was twelve, shortly after this, his mother remarried and the family moved to Surrey. This is where Baxter first met his future wife and he and his wife, Dianne Lewars, were in the same ward and were two of only five Latter-day Saints at their school. Baxter then attended the University of Wales where he graduated with a BSc in Economics, after graduating, Baxter served a mission in the Scotland Edinburgh Mission, starting in 1976. For ten months of mission he was branch president in Lerwick in the Shetland Islands. After returning from his mission, Baxter and Dianne Lewars were married, Baxter served for a time as a senior director at British Telecom. He also served as the UK Governments Director for international trade and Investment for Greater London and as a member of the Board of Capacity Builders, Baxter became an LDS bishop at age 25. He also served as a counselor in a presidency, as president of the Ipswich England Stake. From 2002 to 2006 he was a seventy, which included serving as a counselor in the presidency of the churchs Europe West Area from 2004 to 2006. After his call as general authority, Baxter served as a counselor in the churchs New Zealand/Pacific Islands Area and then as president of the Pacific Area, each based in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2009, Baxter was diagnosed with cancer after suffering a seizure while touring a mission in Australia. He underwent brain surgery and radiation therapy for the treatment of this illness, Baxter has since resumed his duties in the LDS Church and has been assigned to church headquarters, including time spent as an Assistant Executive Director in the churchs Temple Department. He is the author of A Perfect Brightness of Hope, published in 2012 by Deseret Book, as well as Peace, be Still and What Good Men Do, published by Cedar Fort, New Area Authority Seventies Church News, April 20,2002. Sarah Jane Weaver, Londoners strong after terrorists strike, Church News July 16,2005, shaun D. Stahle, Peace came when the missionaries visited, Church News, April 152006. See also David S. Baxter from the same Church News edition for Baxters biographical information, greeting prime minister, Church News,17 February 2007. New Zealand leader promotes education, Church News,24 November 2007, Elder David S. Baxter Of the Seventy, Liahona, May 2006, p.124 General Authorities, Elder David S. Baxter, lds. org Grampa Bills G. A
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Baxter in July 2008
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Randall K. Bennett
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The following individuals are the current general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Included are the hierarchical position and some of their current specialized assignments in the church. Though they are assigned to a specific Quorum, that affiliation is no longer known, a1 a2 Date first sustained to First or General Authority Seventy of Seventy or called to be General Authority Seventies. Those marked with * were Area Seventy prior to call as a General Authority and they remain general authorities until their death. All current emeritus general authorities are former members of the First, when the first general authorities were given emeritus status, N. Some of our associates have served for years with complete and unselfish dedication. It is felt advisable at this time to reduce somewhat the load of responsibility that they carry and we announce that some Brethren have been designated as emeritus members of the First Quorum of the Seventy. These Brethren are not being released but will be excused from active service, a Date called as a general authority. B Date granted general authority emeritus status, LDS First Presidency announces changes to area leadership, Church News,28 April 2016. Changes Announced for Area Presidencies, Church News,12 November 2015, new Mission Presidents, Church News,14 April 2016
Randall K. Bennett
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Thomas S. Monson
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Henry B. Eyring
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Timothy J. Dyches
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The following individuals are the current general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Included are the hierarchical position and some of their current specialized assignments in the church. Though they are assigned to a specific Quorum, that affiliation is no longer known, a1 a2 Date first sustained to First or General Authority Seventy of Seventy or called to be General Authority Seventies. Those marked with * were Area Seventy prior to call as a General Authority and they remain general authorities until their death. All current emeritus general authorities are former members of the First, when the first general authorities were given emeritus status, N. Some of our associates have served for years with complete and unselfish dedication. It is felt advisable at this time to reduce somewhat the load of responsibility that they carry and we announce that some Brethren have been designated as emeritus members of the First Quorum of the Seventy. These Brethren are not being released but will be excused from active service, a Date called as a general authority. B Date granted general authority emeritus status, LDS First Presidency announces changes to area leadership, Church News,28 April 2016. Changes Announced for Area Presidencies, Church News,12 November 2015, new Mission Presidents, Church News,14 April 2016
Timothy J. Dyches
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Thomas S. Monson
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Henry B. Eyring
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Dallin H. Oaks
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Larry Echo Hawk
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Larry J. Echo Hawk is an attorney, legal scholar and politician. In 2012 he was named as an authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On May 20,2009, Echo Hawk joined the administration of U. S. President Barack Obama as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs. He previously served as the elected Attorney General of Idaho from 1991 to 1995 and he also served two terms in the State House of Idaho. Echo Hawk was born into the federally recognized Pawnee Nation in Cody, Wyoming, in 1948 to Ernest and Emma Jane Echo Hawk and he was enrolled as a member of the tribe, whose reservation is in Oklahoma. Shortly before Larry was to start first grade, the moved to Farmington. Larry and his family joined the LDS Church when he was 14 and he later baptized Teresa Terry Pries, whom he had been dating for several years. In 1967 their marriage in the Salt Lake Temple was performed by Spencer W. Kimball, the couple have had six children together. Echo Hawk attended Brigham Young University on a football scholarship, after earning a degree in physical education and zoology from BYU, Echo Hawk served for two years in the United States Marine Corps. He earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1973 from the University of Utah and he continued with professional studies and from 1974 to 1975 was enrolled in Stanford Universitys MBA program. Echo Hawk began his career working with California Indian Legal Services. In 1975, he started his own law practice in Salt Lake City, in 1977, he became general legal counsel for the Fort Hall, Idaho-based Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. He also served as a prosecutor for the Navajo Nation in 1985. He later settled in Idaho, becoming active in the Democratic Party, in 1982 Echo Hawk was elected to a seat in the Idaho State House of Representatives from Bannock County, where he served two terms. He was later elected Bannock County prosecuting attorney in 1986, Echo Hawk was elected Attorney General of Idaho in 1990, the first Native American elected to this position in Idaho. Echo Hawk served as national co-chair for Native Americans for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and he was a principal speaker at that years Democratic National Convention and led the Idaho delegation as chair at the convention. In 1994 Echo Hawk announced his candidacy to succeed fellow Democrat Cecil D. Andrus, but, he was defeated in the general election by the Republican candidate, former Lieutenant Governor Phil Batt. Echo Hawk has not been a candidate for office since
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Kevin S. Hamilton
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The following individuals are the current general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Included are the hierarchical position and some of their current specialized assignments in the church. Though they are assigned to a specific Quorum, that affiliation is no longer known, a1 a2 Date first sustained to First or General Authority Seventy of Seventy or called to be General Authority Seventies. Those marked with * were Area Seventy prior to call as a General Authority and they remain general authorities until their death. All current emeritus general authorities are former members of the First, when the first general authorities were given emeritus status, N. Some of our associates have served for years with complete and unselfish dedication. It is felt advisable at this time to reduce somewhat the load of responsibility that they carry and we announce that some Brethren have been designated as emeritus members of the First Quorum of the Seventy. These Brethren are not being released but will be excused from active service, a Date called as a general authority. B Date granted general authority emeritus status, LDS First Presidency announces changes to area leadership, Church News,28 April 2016. Changes Announced for Area Presidencies, Church News,12 November 2015, new Mission Presidents, Church News,14 April 2016
Kevin S. Hamilton
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Thomas S. Monson
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Henry B. Eyring
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Dallin H. Oaks
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Larry S. Kacher
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The following individuals are the current general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Included are the hierarchical position and some of their current specialized assignments in the church. Though they are assigned to a specific Quorum, that affiliation is no longer known, a1 a2 Date first sustained to First or General Authority Seventy of Seventy or called to be General Authority Seventies. Those marked with * were Area Seventy prior to call as a General Authority and they remain general authorities until their death. All current emeritus general authorities are former members of the First, when the first general authorities were given emeritus status, N. Some of our associates have served for years with complete and unselfish dedication. It is felt advisable at this time to reduce somewhat the load of responsibility that they carry and we announce that some Brethren have been designated as emeritus members of the First Quorum of the Seventy. These Brethren are not being released but will be excused from active service, a Date called as a general authority. B Date granted general authority emeritus status, LDS First Presidency announces changes to area leadership, Church News,28 April 2016. Changes Announced for Area Presidencies, Church News,12 November 2015, new Mission Presidents, Church News,14 April 2016
Larry S. Kacher
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Thomas S. Monson
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Henry B. Eyring
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Dallin H. Oaks
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Anthony D. Perkins
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Anthony Duane Perkins has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 2006. Perkins was born in Cortez, Colorado, as a young man, Perkins served as an LDS Church missionary in Taiwan and was a companion to future Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. After his graduate studies, Perkins joined McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm. As a result, he and his family lived in Beijing for eight years where he served as president of the Beijing Branch, China International District. In 2003, he was called as president of the Taiwan Taipei Mission of the LDS Church, since his call to the First Quorum of the Seventy in 2006, he served first as a counselor and later as president of the churchs Asia Area. On November 21,1981, he married Christine D, abbott and they are the parents of six children. Elder Anthony D. Perkins Of the Seventy, Liahona, May 2006, p.126 General Authorities, Elder Anthony D. Perkins, lds. org Grampa Bills G. A
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Gregory A. Schwitzer
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The following individuals are the current general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Included are the hierarchical position and some of their current specialized assignments in the church. Though they are assigned to a specific Quorum, that affiliation is no longer known, a1 a2 Date first sustained to First or General Authority Seventy of Seventy or called to be General Authority Seventies. Those marked with * were Area Seventy prior to call as a General Authority and they remain general authorities until their death. All current emeritus general authorities are former members of the First, when the first general authorities were given emeritus status, N. Some of our associates have served for years with complete and unselfish dedication. It is felt advisable at this time to reduce somewhat the load of responsibility that they carry and we announce that some Brethren have been designated as emeritus members of the First Quorum of the Seventy. These Brethren are not being released but will be excused from active service, a Date called as a general authority. B Date granted general authority emeritus status, LDS First Presidency announces changes to area leadership, Church News,28 April 2016. Changes Announced for Area Presidencies, Church News,12 November 2015, new Mission Presidents, Church News,14 April 2016
Gregory A. Schwitzer
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Thomas S. Monson
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Henry B. Eyring
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Dallin H. Oaks
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Larry Y. Wilson
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The following individuals are the current general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Included are the hierarchical position and some of their current specialized assignments in the church. Though they are assigned to a specific Quorum, that affiliation is no longer known, a1 a2 Date first sustained to First or General Authority Seventy of Seventy or called to be General Authority Seventies. Those marked with * were Area Seventy prior to call as a General Authority and they remain general authorities until their death. All current emeritus general authorities are former members of the First, when the first general authorities were given emeritus status, N. Some of our associates have served for years with complete and unselfish dedication. It is felt advisable at this time to reduce somewhat the load of responsibility that they carry and we announce that some Brethren have been designated as emeritus members of the First Quorum of the Seventy. These Brethren are not being released but will be excused from active service, a Date called as a general authority. B Date granted general authority emeritus status, LDS First Presidency announces changes to area leadership, Church News,28 April 2016. Changes Announced for Area Presidencies, Church News,12 November 2015, new Mission Presidents, Church News,14 April 2016
Larry Y. Wilson
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Thomas S. Monson
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Henry B. Eyring
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Dallin H. Oaks
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Karl G. Maeser
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Karl Gottfried Maeser was a prominent Utah educator and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served 16 years as principal of Brigham Young Academy, although he was not the first principal of the Academy, he is considered its founder. The Academy later became Brigham Young University in 1903, before teaching at the Academy, Maeser taught at several different schools in Germany and in Utah. Maeser incorporated the Monitorial System into his teaching philosophies and believed that students should each have responsibilities, Maeser was influenced by Pestalozzian educational theory, but also advocated that schools should include religion. His educational philosophies shaped Brigham Young Academy and other church academies throughout Utah and he represented the church at the Mid-Winter Fair in San Francisco, distributing information about Utah and the churchs schools. Karl G. Maeser was born on January 16,1828, in the town ofMeissen, in Saxony, Germany, to Johann Gottfried, Maeser was the oldest of four sons. His family was known in Meissen. His father was a painter in a porcelain shop. Maeser went to school in Meissen. He temporarily lost his sight for eight months when he was 11 years old due to an unknown cause, in 1842, Maeser enrolled in the Kreuzschule in Dresden, he attended for two years, and graduating from the Kreuzschule could have propelled him into the German upper class. However, Maeser chose to study at Friedrichstadt Schullehrerseminar in Dresden and he graduated on May 20,1848. Maeser became a schoolteacher and tutored Protestant children in Bohemia for three years and he returned to Dresden and was a teacher at the First District School in Dresden. He later taught at the Budich Institute, where he was made headmaster, in December 1848, Maeser was required to enlist in the military for a two-year assignment, however, he was declared unfit. Maeser had no physical or mental disabilities that would have impacted his conscription. On June 11,1854, Maeser married Anna Mieth, the daughter of the director of the First District school in Dresden, the couple had their first child, Reinhard, in 1855. While teaching at the Budich Institute, Maeser came across Die Mormonen and he and Edward Schoenfield, Maesers brother-in-law and fellow teacher, decided to investigate the beliefs and practices of the LDS Church. Maeser wrote letters to missionaries of the church, missionary William Budge volunteered to go to Maesers home to teach him, both Maeser and Schoenfield joined the LDS Church. Maeser was baptized by Franklin D. Richards and Budge on October 14,1855, Maeser was baptized at night because the church was banned in Germany at that time
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BYU's Karl G. Maeser Building
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Karl G. Maeser's grave marker
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Joseph M. Tanner
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Joseph Marion Tanner was an American educator and a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has been described as one of the most gifted teachers and writers in the Church in the late nineteenth, Tanner was born in Payson, Utah Territory in a Latter-day Saint family. He attended Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah before departing the United States as a missionary for the LDS Church, from 1884 to 1887, he preached Mormonism in Europe and the Middle East. Along with Jacob Spori, he was the first LDS Church missionary to preach in Turkey—where they baptized Mischa Markow—and was the organizer of the first branch of the LDS Church in Palestine, from 1887 to 1891, Tanner was the principal of Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah. In 1891, he became the leader of the first group of Latter-day Saints to enroll at Harvard University, Tanner studied law at Harvard Law School until 1894, when his ill health prompted him to return to Utah. From 1896 to 1900, Tanner was president of Utah Agricultural College, in 1901, Tanner succeeded Karl G. Maeser and became the second Commissioner of Church Education for the LDS Church. At the same time, he became the assistant to Lorenzo Snow in the general superintendency of the churchs Deseret Sunday School Union. When Snow died and was succeeded by Joseph F. Smith, Tanner retired in 1906 and emigrated to Alberta, Canada, where he farmed in the Cardston area. From 1906 to 1921 Tanner wrote extensively for the Improvement Era and he wrote a number of books, including manuals for the churchs Sunday School and a biography of John R. Murdock. Tanner was a practitioner of marriage and had five wives. His second wife, Annie Clark Tanner, accused him of abandoning her, Tanner died in Lethbridge, Alberta and was buried in Salt Lake City, Utah. O. C. Tanner Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q, encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History Margery W. Ward. A Life Divided, The Biography of Joseph Marion Tanner, 1859–1927
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Tanner, ca. 1895
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David O. McKay
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David Oman McKay was an American religious leader and educator who served as the ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until his death in 1970. Ordained an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1906, McKay was an authority for nearly 64 years, longer than anyone else in LDS Church history. The third child of David McKay and Jennette Eveline Evans McKay, David was born on his father’s farm in Huntsville, Utah Territory, McKays mother was a Welsh immigrant from Merthyr Tydfil, and his father was a Scottish immigrant from Caithness. In 1880, after McKay’s two older sisters died, his father was called on an LDS mission to his native Scotland, in his fathers absence, McKay had additional family responsibilities and helped his mother. McKays grandmother bequeathed $5,000 to McKays mother upon her death, be used for the education of the children. This money allowed McKay, his brother Thomas McKay, and their two sisters to attend the University of Utah, McKay graduated in 1897 as valedictorian and class president. Immediately afterward, he was called on a mission to Great Britain, like his father, he presided over the Scottish district of the church. Early in his mission, he was impressed by a motto he saw inscribed on a building in Stirling, What Eer Thou Art and this message became a source of inspiration throughout his life. Upon his return in fall 1899, McKay taught at the school level at LDS Weber Stake Academy. He married Emma Ray Riggs in the Salt Lake Temple on January 2,1901 and they eventually had seven children, one dying as a young child. For his first three years at Weber, McKay taught mainly religion and literature classes, on April 17,1902, McKay was appointed principal of Weber, succeeding the founding principal, Louis F. Moench, who had resigned after nine years in the position. One of his first actions as principal was to organize a school paper, McKay also oversaw the inauguration of sports programs at Weber, with mens and womens basketball teams organized during McKays tenure. In 1905, they won their game against the University of Utah. With three vacancies, George F. Richards, Orson F. Whitney, and McKay were called as apostles in the LDS Churchs April 1906 general conference, McKay was 32 at the time. Prior to this appointment to service, McKay had planned on career in education. Even after his appointment, McKay stayed active in education, continuing as principal of the Weber Stake Academy until 1908, McKay stayed at Weber Stake Academy to see the completion of some new building projects that he had begun. He also served on the Weber schools board of trustees until 1922, McKay enjoyed a long, personal friendship with John F. Fitzpatrick, publisher of the Salt Lake Tribune. They met weekly for breakfast to discuss the betterment of Utah, in October 1906, McKay became an assistant to the superintendent of the Deseret Sunday School Union
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John A. Widtsoe
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John Andreas Widtsoe was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1921 until his death. Widtsoe was also an author, scientist, and academic. Widtsoe was born on the island of Frøya in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, at birth his hand was attached to the side of his head, but had an operation to correct this problem. When Widtsoe was two, his family moved to the Norwegian mainland city of Namsos and his father, also named John, died in February 1878. This left his mother, Anna, as a widow with two sons to take care of, Widtsoe, who was then five, and his younger brother Osborne Widtsoe. The family moved to Trondheim, where they were introduced to the LDS Church by a shoemaker, in 1883, Widtsoe immigrated to the United States with his mother and brother. They arrived in Utah Territory in mid-November, Widtsoe was baptized a member of the LDS Church the following April. Widtsoe graduated from Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah and he then attended Harvard University, graduating with honors in 1894. In 1898, Widtsoe was ordained to the office of seventy and he entered the University of Göttingen, Germany, and graduated with the degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. in 1899. For part of his time in Europe, Widtsoe lived in Switzerland, the police wanted proof that he and his wife were married, and since they had neglected to bring their American wedding certificate with them, they were married a second time. In August 1900, Widtsoe became the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Utah State Agricultural College, while in this position, he founded The Deseret Farmer with Lewis A. Their goal was to have it be a magazine that would be read. For a short time, Widtsoe was a professor of agriculture at Brigham Young University, soon, however, he returned to Logan and succeeded Kerr as president of Utah State Agricultural College, he served in this position from 1907 to 1916. He also served as the president of the University of Utah from 1916 until his call as a member of the LDS Churchs Quorum of the Twelve in 1921, Widtsoe was the fifth Commissioner of Church Education from 1921 to 1924 and was the seventh commissioner from 1934 to 1936. During his time as an apostle, Widtsoe taught a class at the University of Southern California. For two years in the 1920s, Widtsoe lived in Washington, D. C. where he supervised the reorganization of the Federal Bureau of Reclamation, Widtsoe was closely associated with the Improvement Era even before he became an apostle. He was associate editor of the magazine from 1935 until 1952, as editor of the Improvement Era, Widtsoe directed its growth from a magazine primarily for the youth to the voice of the whole Church. One of Widtsoes employees while at the magazine was Hugh Nibley, Widtsoe was also a member of the churchs Genealogy Committee, being one of the main people behind the implementation of the Temple Index Bureau
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Grave marker of John A. Widtsoe.
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Joseph F. Merrill
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Joseph Francis Merrill was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1931 until his death. Merrill was a key figure in the development of the Church Educational System in the twentieth century. He served as the sixth Commissioner of Church Education from 1928 to 1933, prior to his service as commissioner, he played a significant role in the creation of the released time LDS Church seminary system. His tenure as commissioner saw the creation of the Institutes of Religion and he also faced a crisis in 1930 and 1931 which threatened to end the released time seminary, but the LDS Church education system survived the Great Depression under his leadership. In 1931, while serving as commissioner, Merill was called to serve in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Merrill was born in Richmond, Utah Territory, the son of LDS Church apostle Marriner W. Merrill, Merrill was among the first Latter-day Saints from Utah to travel to the eastern United States to seek higher education. He studied at the University of Deseret, the University of Michigan, while at the University of Michigan, Merrill was the president of the Ann Arbor Branch of the LDS Church. Upon his return to Utah, Merrill became the director of the School of Mines at the University of Utah, in 1895, he became the first principal of the University of Utah College of Engineering. In 1911, Merrill was called to serve in the presidency of the Granite Utah Stake of the LDS Church, in 1898, Merrill married Annie Laura Hyde, the daughter of Alonzo Hyde and Annie Taylor Hyde. Merrill and his wife would become the parents of six children, by young, we do not necessarily mean a teacher who is young in years, but a man who can command their respect and admiration and exercise great influence over them. We want a man who can enjoy student sports and activities as well as one who is a good teacher. It is desired that the school be thoroughly successful and a teacher is wanted who is a leader, Merrill found the right man in Thomas J. Yates, a young engineer in the Granite Stake. After the building completed and the developed, the first released-time LDS seminary opened its doors in 1912. In 1928, Merrill left his position at the University of Utah to serve as the head of the LDS Church school system, upon Merrill’s acceptance, the name of the position was officially changed from “Superintendent of Church Schools” to Church Commissioner of Education. As commissioner, Merrill faced several unique challenges, Merrill took over the development of the first institute program at Moscow, Idaho. He wrote, In this collegiate seminary work we are, of course, but if we keep the objective clearly in mind it may be helpful. The big question, then, is what means and methods can be employed to help them to make these reconciliations, the primary purpose, therefore, is not to teach them theology. It is not to them for seminary teachers or preachers of the Gospel
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Grave marker of Joseph F. Merrill.
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Ernest L. Wilkinson
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Ernest Leroy Wilkinson was an American academic administrator and prominent figure in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was president of Brigham Young University from 1951 to 1971, prior to this, Wilkinson was a lawyer in Washington, D. C. and New York City. Wilkinson was born in Ogden, Utah and he graduated from Weber Academy in Ogden in 1917. He was then a student at Weber College, which was the school now having expanded to offer collegiate level courses. After a year at Weber College Wilkinson became a member of the Student Army Training Corps unit located at BYU, after the war, he became a regular student at BYU and among other things served as the editor of the weekly newspaper. He earned his bachelor of degree at BYU in 1921. At graduation, Wilkinson began teaching at Weber College and he married Alice Valera Ludlow, a native of Spanish Fork who he had met while they were both students at BYU. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple on 16 August 1923, the ceremony was performed by James E. Talmage. Ernest and Alice would have five children, among other subjects, Alice had studied drama at BYU, which led to T. Earl Pardoe stating she was his most talented student up to that time. Also in 1923 Wilkinson was involved with the campaign of William H. King for United States Senate and he then earned a law degree from George Washington University and a doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1927. While in law school Wilkinson taught high school in Washington, D. C and he also was for a time on the faculty of the New Jersey Law School. In 1950 this suit was upheld by the United States Court of Claims and as a result, Wilkinsons share of the settlement as the plaintiffs attorney made him independently wealthy, and allowed him to give up his law practice to pursue his interests in education. Wilkinson lobbied LDS Church leaders to be appointed as president of BYU and was offered the position in July 1950, when Wilkinson came to BYU he replaced the interim administration of Christen Jensen. Under Wilkinsons administration, BYU expanded in all ways, the number of students increased from 5,000 to 25,000. He instituted aggressive recruiting methods where faculty would accompany general authorities on visits to stake conferences and this changed BYU from having a student body mainly from Utah to having a student body from virtually every state in the nation. Under his administration the number of buildings on campus grew tremendously, BYU also for the first time granted Ph. D. s. Wilkinson considered the most important accomplishment of his term as president to have been the organization of student wards, Wilkinson was the ninth Commissioner of Church Education of the LDS Church. During his tenure, he bore the title Administrator–Chancellor of the Unified Church Schools System
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Wilkinson pictured in The Banyan 1952, BYU yearbook
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A hallway in the Wilkinson Center at BYU, named after President Ernest L. Wilkinson.
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