Pioneer: 1990 Vol.37 No.6

PIONEER
Volume 37, Number 6
November - December, 1990
Staff
Lewis B. Murdock Editor
Florence Youngberg Production & Rewrite
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NATIONAL BOARD
1990
Executive Committe
Robert Wagstaff
Kenneth Rasmussen
Morris Benn ion
Howard M. Gray
Glen Greenwood
O. Geral Wilde
President
President-Elect
Past President
Treasurer
Pres. P. Pres. Council
Executive Secretary
Area Vice Presidents
Lindsey K, Thomas WashJDC
Nephi Hacken Calif!North
Paul J. Updike At Large
Francis W, Day Ariz./North
Arizona Area Representative
Chris Lyman Calif!South
California Area Representative
Howard L. Roberts ArizJCent.
Phillip Farr Ariz.I South
Verl Peterson
Northern Area Representative
K arl o M ustonen Id. iWyo ./Cache, Ut.
LeRoy Ward
Richard Moyle, Jr,
Frank Brown
A. Eugene Sadler
Jack Goodwin
G.Geral Wilde
Daniel M. Smith
I. Verdell Hinton
Howard B. SEringham
Leon Christiansen
Merrill Croft
David Martin
Grant Evans
LeRoy Ward
Directors
UtJBox Elder
UtJWeber
UtJSLCE.
UtJSLCS.
UtJSLC Cot,
VtJCent;
UtJSLC SE.
UtJSouth
No. SL/Davis
Committee Chairmen
Morris Bennion
Phil Robbins
Leon Christiansen
Merrill Croft
Leo Mower
Robert Jones
Glen Lloyd
Morris Bennion
Keith L. Smith
Charles Smurthwaite
Ted Lauritzen
Robert Graham
Hollis Smith
Ross Wilhelmsen
Ed Jackson
Sam Gordon
Everett Call
Elon Hanson
Florence Youngberg
Barbara Tullis
Claire Morris
Richard Steed
Francis Partridge
David Lyons
Stanley Fitts
Eldred G. Smith
Lewis Murdock
Paul Badger
New Chapters
Life Members
Membership
Memo rializat io n
Photography
Historian
GrandSon
Gifts & Legacy
Socials
Music
Custodian
Building
Days of *47
Treks
Publicity
Awards
Cultural Exchange
Pioneer Stories
A dministrative Asst.
Recording Secretary
Deposit Secretary
Auditor
Librarian
Encampment
Judge Advocate
Chaplain
Pioneer Magazine
Trails & Landmarks
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
GOING AHEAD
This has been a real go-ahead year
in which many things have been accom¬
plished, thanks to the chapters. One of
these is the dedication of eight monu¬
ments. Few people today have ever
known of the railroad that used to run up
Emigration Canyon, Those who have
put up monuments are Temple Quarry,
Canyon Rim, Eagle Rock, South Davis,
Palmyra and Jordan River Temple Chap¬
ters, Four others plan to put theirs up
before the years over. They are Oquirrh
Mountains, Temple Fork, Murray, and
Glendora. That’s quite an array of
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markers. We congratulate these chap¬
ters for their effort.
Name Memorializations have been
up this year for the first time in some
years. We only need about 50 more
names to complete the next plaque. It is
hoped that some of our good people will
come forward and make sure all their
pioneer ancestors are on our plaques.
Especially if only the husbands name
was memorialized. After all, his wife
was a pioneer too. REMEMBER, we
only have two months left in the contest
to see which chapter gets the $50.00 for
memorializing the most names during
the year.
We have recently added another
chapter to our growing list of new chap¬
ters to join our organization. Castle
Valley (Castle Dale, Utah), was char¬
tered in October. That makes four chap¬
ters in the last year, East Sierra (Reno),
Palmyra (Sp. Fork, UT), Cotton Mis¬
sion (St. George, UT), and now Castle
Valley. Congratulations to all you fine
people, and welcome. Just by way of
observation, the chartering and meeting
of the new Castle Valley Chapter was
really a view of what pioneering was all
about Don Clement graciously used his
team and wagon to take us all to a
campfire site where we made our own
fires and cooked our soup over the
campfire using a tin can. There was
fresh baked homemade bread to compli¬
ment the delicious soup. Montell Seely
and his wife provided the pioneer food.
Our meeting was held around the bon-
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PIONEER DEADLINE
January - February 1991 Issue
December I, 1990
Stories • Ads • Photos
ABOUT THE COVER:
Shown is the National Headquar¬
ters of the Sons of Utah Pioneers at the
head of Parleys Canyon, As people
traveled up and down Parleys Canyon,
they could see this beautiful building
with no “Identification”. Today, thanks
to the generosity of our President Robert
Wagstaff it can be seen from the high¬
way.
Pictured is the building as seen from
the highway and a close-up of the sign
“SONS OF UTAH PIONEERS”.
We can be proud of our National
Headquarters.