Deseret Industries Committee

A new six-member General Deseret Industries Committee has been called by the Presiding Bishopric with the approval of the First Presidency. The committee oversees the operations of the Deseret Industries and reports to Junior Wright Child, general manager of the Church’s Welfare Department. Pictured at their first formal meeting are committee members Oakley S. Evans, president of ZCMI, left; Lyle L. Williams; Gary E. Meredith; Derek Harland, assistant commissioner and director of personnel for the Church Health Services Corporation; and F. Earl Matheson, committee chairman and manager of the Personal Welfare Department, General Church Welfare Services Committee. Juliana Milburn, foreground, was acting as secretary for the committee. Absent at the time the photograph was taken was Marianne C. Sharp, first counselor in the general presidency of the Relief Society.