--- 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: 31 number: 10 published: 1928-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “M. I. A. Contest Winners, 1928,” *Improvement Era* 31, no. 10 (August 1928): 850–854." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera31010unse 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: improvementera31010unse start_page: 850 end_page: 854 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1928-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera31010unse publication_year: 1928 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 1928, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # M. I. A. Contest Winners, 1928 M. I. A. Contest Winners 1928 THE excellent work done by the various contestants in the finals at the June conference has already been commented on. It earned for those participating the added recognition of having their names and pictures published in the Era. If space permitted, all would appear. That being impossible, we are presenting names and pictures of the winners of first place and the names only of those taking second place in contests in which young men participated. North Davis stake group which won first place at the grand finals, M. I. A. Drama contest, 1928. First row, left to right: Velma Major, William Bone. Second row: William Dawson, Wilma Egbert, Ima Whitesides, Edna Sheffield, Diamond Adams. Third row: Ralph Rampton, director; Myron Barber, Lester Obrien, Sterling W. Sill, Daniel K. Brown, Calvin D. Corbridge, director. Cache stake won second place with the following participants: Marion Everton, George Evertor^ Miss Rose Maughan, Katherine Skidmore, Leslie Jackson, Newell Stevens, Leward McKinney, David Morgan, Sarah Brown, Gerald Hanson, Lutie Bancroft, Milton Johnson, director. M. I. A. CONTEST WINNERS 1928 851 M Men Quartette, Cottonwood stake, winners of first place at grand finals, M. I. A. contests, 1928. Standing: Leonard Nelson, Leonard Berg, and Drew Pearson, all of Murray First ward. Sitting: Helen Bennion, accompanist, Taylorsville ward, and Verl Jacobsen of Murray First ward. South Sanpete stake took second in this event with Joel Jensen, Ephraim South ward, Anthony Hansen, LaVar Isaacson and Earl Dorius, all of the Ephraim West ward. The coach, Mrs. Bly Moody Beal, and the accompanist, Mrs. Amanda Bailey Cox, were also from the last named ward. 852 IMPROVEMENT ERA Kemmie Bagley of Cottonwood stake won the M Men's public speaking, with Varien Thurman of Blackfoot stake second. Brother Bagley's picture and speech ap- peared in the July number of the Era. Parowan stake has the winning Male Chorus. Reading from left to right they are: Front row: Ray D. Garner, E. Ray Lyman, Chas. J. Engar, conductor; L. N. Marsden, Jr., and B. E. Whitney. Second row: Claude Orton, W. Warner Mitchell, Dean Mitchell, W. Clair Rowley, Rulon Topham, and Rex C. Ward. Back row: Wilford Durham, Howard Ward. Insert: Ada S. Watkins, accompanist; Victor H. Watkins, I. E. Riddle, stake superintendent. Personnel of the Oquirrh stake Male Chorus which won second place: Rider C. Waring, conductor; Elise W. Baker, accompanist. First Tenors: H. Claude Anderson, J. A. Donaldson. O. Millard Henderson, Bert Lewis. Second Tenors: Alma Baker, Wm. A. Eckersley, John Herzog, Earl Hill. First Bassos: Angus C. Ensign, Walter Inkley, James T. Miller. Second Bassos: H. Earl Day, J. Henry Johnson, A. J. Kartchner, C. W. Poulton. M. I. A. CONTEST WINNERS, 1928 853 Miss Terue Terazawa and Reginald Waincs, Sugar City, Idaho. The dancing contest was won by a seventeen-year-old Japanese girl, Miss Terue Terazawa, and a sixteen-year-old boy, Reginald Waines, both of Sugar ward, Fremont stake, Idaho. Second place in this event was won by Victor Earl Madsen and Miss Ruth Ander- son, both of Brigham City Third ward, Box Elder stake. 854 IMPROVEMENT ERA Instrumental Trio, Liberty stake. Liberty stake won first place in the instrumental trio, with Donald Cope, violinist; Myna Price Davis, clarinetist; A. A. Selander, pianist and director, all of LeGrand ward. Second place was given to Blackfoot stake. Ronald Bitten, violinist; Beth Strat- ford, pianist and Elden Miller, all of the Blackfoot Second ward. Our M. I. A. West Jordan. Utah I stood at the gates of the temple. As the M. I. A. throngs passed by, All sons and daughters of Zion, With ideals pure and high; Choice spirits from God's own presence, Learning to walk in his way. To carry to each stake in Zion The messages given each day; That all of Zion's fair children Shall know which course is the right; With true wisdom, faith and action, Choose the paths to Eternal Light. Ellen B. Richardson