LDS Scene

Twelve-year-old Wendy Green could have died when she walked into a plate glass window in Van Nuys, California—but Benny Sua, a seventeen-year-old Latter-day Saint, acted quickly, directing first aid that saved the young girl’s life. Benny is the grandson of a great Samoan Chief—who was also the first Samoan to sing in the Tabernacle Choir.

The BYU Study Abroad program in Austria is moving from Salzburg to Vienna, in order to bring the students closer to the fifty-five museums, collections, and galleries in that city, which was for centuries the heart of German culture.

The Church recently honored Walt Disney Productions for the film company’s outstanding contribution to wholesome family entertainment. President N. Eldon Tanner, first counselor in the First Presidency, gave a plaque to E. Cardon (Card) Walker, president and chief operating officer of the studio, in ceremonies in Salt Lake City on August 27.

The new chairman of the board of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is Dr. James E. Brown, a member of the Tremonton Utah Stake high council.

Baton twirling and horseshoe pitching brought honors to two Latter-day Saint youths recently. Eight-year-old Mark Nash of Citrus Heights, California, has been named California state champion baton twirler in his age category for the third year in a row; and seventeen-year-old Kelly Jean O’Brien of Spokane, Washington, walked away with the class B women’s world horseshoe pitching championship at Greenville, Ohio.