LDS Scene: A Round-up of Important Happenings

Belle S. Spafford, general president of the Relief Society, and Florence S. Jacobsen, former president of the YWMIA and now a member of the Church’s Historic Arts and Sites Committee, will attend the conference of the International Council of Women to be held in Vienna, Austria, June 25–July 7. Both will be voting delegates at the conference in behalf of the National Council of Women of the United States, of which Sister Spafford is a former president. …

Approval has been given by the board of trustees for an addition to the J. Reuben Clark Library at Brigham Young University. The 250,000-square-foot addition, to be constructed immediately south of the existing library, will more than double the seating capacity of the study and research center. BYU students have pledged themselves to raise $1 million toward the new building, with $2 million being sought from faculty, staff and administrative employees, alumni, and friends of the university. The existing building was planned for a student body of 11,000; current enrollment is 23,957. …

Mark Hathaway, station manager of Brigham Young University’s KBYU-TV, is a recipient of the Abe Lincoln Merit Award from the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission. This national award recognizes broadcasters for outstanding contributions to the quality of life in America, both as individual citizens and as representatives of the broadcasting industry. …

The Church has received recognition from the Utah Heritage Foundation for the preservation and restoration of historic sites. The citation gave specific mention to the Lion House, the Beehive House, and the Promised Valley Playhouse, all in Salt Lake City. …

The Tallahassee Stake, comprising four wards and seven independent branches, has been created from the Alabama-Florida Mission. Canadian-born Jay Nicholas Lybert is the first president of the new stake. …

Dan L. Johnston of Bremerton, Washington, a graduate student in public administration at Brigham Young University, is the first Army Reserve Officer Training Corps cadet in the United States to win the Defender of Freedom award in the annual Freedom’s Foundation Awards contest. The honor came in the Freedom’s Foundation letter-writing contest in which Brother Johnston submitted an entry titled “Freedom Has a Price.” He receives the George Washington Honor medal and a $1,000 cash prize. Another BYU cadet, Mike Sumko, from Baden, Pennsylvania, received an honorable mention in this year’s contest. …

The Church College of Hawaii has announced a multimillion dollar expansion program that will double the Ralph Woolley Library, provide additional housing for married students, modernize existing classrooms, expand a cafeteria, and provide for an innovative parent-early childhood education center. The three-year program is the most extensive since the school’s original classroom-dormitory complex was completed in 1958. Development plans were announced by CCH President Stephen L. Brower, following the dedication by President Marion G. Romney of the Aloha Center, a new cultural and recreational building.