--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 26 number: 9 published: 1923-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Priesthood Quorums’ Table", *Improvement Era* 26, no. 9 (July 1923): 848.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2609unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2609unse start_page: 848 end_page: 848 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1923-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2609unse publication_year: 1923 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1923, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Priesthood Quorums’ Table PRIESTHOOD QUORUMS' TABLE New Bishops New bishops in Weber stake: Ogden First ward, Horace E. Gardner succeeded Datus H. Ensign; Riverdale, Murray A. Jacobs succeeded Adam A. Bingham; Kanesville, Ernest Green succeeded George Green; Hooper, Thomas W. Reed succeeded James R. Beus. Seminary Graduation The first graduating exercies of the Granite Stake Seminaary, in which stake, by the way, the seminary idea of the Church schools of the Latter-day Saints was begun, was held in the Granite stake tabernacle, on Sunday evening, May 27, 1923. There were thirty-five graduates who were presented with diplomas by President Joseph J. Daynes. Remarks were made by President Uriah G. Miller and by President Frank Y. Taylor of the Cotton- wood and Granite stakes respectively. The big feature of the exercises was four brief talks by seminary students, Elizabeth Mitchell, Ruth Pack, Scott Richmond Young, and Hazel Wilkinson. These talks were characteristic of the studies which have been given to the students in the seminary by Principal John M. Whittaker and Professor Ernest Bram- well. Dr. John A. Widtsoe, commissioner of education of the Church, gave a stirring address to the graduates. There were musical selections by nrofessor J. Spencer Cornwall and Misses Melba and Virginia Lindsay. Gunnison Stake Organized The Gunnison stake was organized, May 6, 1923, by Elders Joseph Fielding Smith and Stephen L. Richards, of the Council of the Twelve. The following officers were appointed: Stake presidency, Allen E. Park, president; Charles A. Rasmussen, and Leo D. Bradsley, Counselors. High Councilors, Parley Christianson, Soren Anderson, Edward V. Bunderson, Joseph A. Larson, Archie M. Mellor, Christian A. Peterson, Winfred L. Fjeldsted, Henry D. Bartholomew, William J. Metcalf, Royal Whitlock, Theron Pickett, and LeRoy H. Lund. The following are the wards with their bishops: Axtell, Charles S. Despain; Centerfield, Charles S. Hansen; Fayette, George M. Bartholomew, Jr.; Gunnison, Ernest L. Swalborg; Mayfield, Willard Franklin Willardson; and Clarion branch, Peter L. Frandsen, presiding elder. ; Ernest Halverson was appointed superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A.. and Amanda Beck, of the Y. L M. I. A. The Oquirrh Stake Organized • The Oquirrh stake was organized, June 3, at Pleasant Green, Salt Lake Co., comprising the following wards: Garfield, Magna, Pleasant Green, Hunter, and Granger, with a population of about 4,000 souls Elder George A. Little was sustained as president, with Elders John Henry Bawden and Henry Earl Day as Counselors. The High Councilors ap- pointed were, Daniel H. Jacobs, James C. Bertoch, Fredrick L. Bangerter. John P. Pendleton, Isaac W. Coon, Ronald M. Woolley, Thomas B. Barton, and William T. Cannon. Leonard H. Whipple was appointed superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A. and Viola B. Jones of the Y. L. M. I. A.