LDS Scene

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—Elder Joseph A. Anderson observed his 101st birthday on 20 November 1990 with family, friends and former associates. Elder Anderson, who received emeritus status on 10 September 1978, has lived the longest of any General Authority in Church history.

PROVO, UTAH—U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia are benefiting from information compiled by the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University. The center publishes Culturgram pamphlets which offer four pages of advice on a specific country’s customs, courtesies, life-styles, people, history, and government. Military leaders ordered several thousand copies of the Culturgram on Saudi Arabia to distribute to soldiers deployed in Operation Desert Shield.

PROVO, UTAH—Brigham Young University’s nationally ranked football team was honored when its junior quarterback, Ty Detmer, received the Heisman Trophy. Detmer, the first player from the Western Athletic Conference to win the award, broke twenty-nine National Collegiate Athletic Association records and tied five others.

POCATELLO, IDAHO—The twelfth-ranked Ricks College Vikings were defeated, 29–17, by the Garden City (Kansas) Community College Broncbusters in the Real Dairy Centennial Bowl. The football game marked the beginning of the National Junior College Athletic Association–sanctioned bowl competition.