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“Other people see things and say why, but I dream things that never were, and I say, why not?”

—George Bernard Shaw

Life-giving Project

Shayne R. Squires, a deacon in the Wapello First Ward, Blackfoot Idaho Stake, was looking for a very special Eagle project. He found it when he decided to organize a blood drive.

First, Shayne contacted the Red Cross. He and his Scout troop helped distribute posters and announcements of the drive to businesses throughout town. He arranged with his aunt to find nurses aides to help and recruited 35 women to help call previous blood donors. He asked each Scout in his troop to help him find two additional donors each. He also arranged for some men to help unload and set up the equipment.

The two-day drive was very successful with hundreds of pints of blood added to that stored for emergencies.

Shayne received his Eagle Scout award and is serving in his ward as deacons quorum president.

Mississippi Scouts

Four LDS Scout troops in the Memphis Tennessee Stake took advantage of a week at Scout camp to do some missionary work.

At summer camp, Camp Yocono, in the Chickasaw area of north Mississippi, the LDS troops came dressed in gold T-shirts, designed by Scoutmaster John Larsen of the Booneville Ward, which helped spread the word to the largely nonmember boys at the camp. The shirts declared, “Mormon Scouting—Seventy Years of Honor.”

The LDS troops agreed that, at the end of the week, they would select the staff members who had most contributed to the spirit, fun, and education of the camp while showing good moral character. During the week, copies of the Book of Mormon were given out and gospel discussions were encouraged. Before the Friday night bonfire, members of the camp staff were chosen for recognition and presented with a green T-shirt and a Book of Mormon.

The four LDS troops participating were all from the Memphis Tennessee Stake.

Fourth of July Queen

Shaun Graham was crowned as the queen of Ridgefield, Washington’s Fourth of July celebration. Shaun is a senior at her high school and serves as her Laurel class president. She loves doing needlework, riding horses, and participating in the girls’ sports program of her ward.

Shaun is a member of the Battleground Ward, Vancouver Washington West Stake.

Bonnets to Blue Jeans

The Roberts Idaho Stake Young Women celebrated the 113th anniversary of the organization of the Young Women in an evening of old-fashioned fun with the theme “From Bonnets to Blue Jeans.”

Mothers and daughters were invited. Each one attending was given a bonnet to wear. Mother-and-daughter teams had contests churning butter, challenging each other in a spelling bee, and learning the Virginia Reel to the music of a fiddler.

Each girl had embroidered blocks which were then joined together and made into a quilt. The quilt was presented as a surprise to their recently released stake president as a gift of gratitude.

Fleet of Foot

In a nationwide competition, Carl Hanson placed 18th in the Junior Olympics held in Kansas City. Carl ran in the 5,000-meter cross-country event and finished within 30 seconds of the first-place runner, placing 18th out of a field of 144.

Carl is a member of the Klamath Falls, Oregon Fourth Ward. He is vice-president of his high school student body and was selected as one of two from his school to be in the All-Northwest Choir.

Carl plays the trumpet in the jazz band and is the drum major of the marching band. He also sings in his ward choir.

Author Card for Bradley

Inspired by a New Era article, “An Author Card for Cindie” (May ’81), Bradley Jenkins of Monte Sereno, California, chose to document the tombstone inscriptions of the Madronia Cemetery as his Eagle project.

Bradley organized the efforts of 33 other people to help in carrying out his project. He organized groups to record the epitaphs on each stone. He then enlisted the help of a computer to organize the names alphabetically. Upon completing his project, Bradley donated copies of his book-length report to local libraries and historical societies as well as to the cemetery and to the Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City.

High Hope

Daniel C. Hope of the Moses Lake Second Ward, Moses Lake Washington Stake, is accomplished in both church leadership and school athletics.

Daniel served as seminary president his senior year. He had also served as deacons quorum president, teachers quorum president, and as priests quorum assistant to the bishop. During his six years in the Aaronic Priesthood, Daniel was the priesthood organist.

Daniel received the Male Athlete Award from his high school. He was awarded an All-Star football ranking as well as Best Defensive Award for basketball. He also received a special Basketball Coaches’ Award.

Future Farmers

Seven future farmers from Utah were honored at the 55th Annual National Convention of the Future Farmers of America in Kansas City, Missouri. Myron Casdorph, Kirk Olsen, Bryant Blackham, Dave Van Wagoner, Andrew Barker, Phill Ray Adams, and Troy Harries each were selected as the top individual in their respective proficiency award categories for the western region of the United States.

All seven young men are members of the Church.

Book Reviews

“That All May Be Edified”
by Elder Boyd K. Packer
(Bookcraft $8.95)

A collection of talks, sermons, and commentary, “That All May Be Edified” by Elder Packer is full of the author’s awareness of individual struggles for growth and perfection. Included are some memorable talks on such topics as the plan of salvation, thought control, prayer, miracles, family life, marriage, morality, and obedience.

Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball
(Bookcraft $11. 95)

President Kimball’s teachings provide instruction and inspiration on a wide range of gospel topics. Quotations in this book have been selected from hundreds of books, articles, letters, and sermons written by President Kimball for many occasions throughout his life of service. This book is a rich source of advice and counsel. But as President Kimball himself says, “I do not claim to be a scholar. In all my sermons, my objective is to get people doing things, the good things, the right things.”

A Night of Music
by Robert Mowers

It was called “Music through the Ages,” although it wasn’t broadcast by either radio or television. The public address system at the Augusta Maine Stake Center “broadcast” the fun to a large and appreciative audience that jammed the center’s newly built auditorium. The youth of the stake provided entertainment indulging in music from the days of ragtime and the Roaring 20s to such offerings as homespun country songs, European imports, crying gypsy violins, and good old summertime harmonies of a barbershop quartet.

The light of joy and talent shining from the Augusta Maine Stake Center stage seemed to illuminate the entire building. As the evening drew to a close, performers and audience alike joined as brothers and sisters in singing “God Be with You.”