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Mammy and other distinguished
education-oriented people certified that I had come to Seminary as a sophomore and earned one year’s credit (my second) toward the three required for graduation. Stake President “Uncle Vern” Hansen’s autograph is genuine. I suppose, without rancor, that that of Church President David O McKay was applied mechanically, near Salt Lake City.
The certificate also mentions that our subject matter was the Old Testament, which already held particular significance for me. Mammy had always enjoyed the Old Testament and taught Brent and me to treasure its stories and not to recoil from its old-fashioned language. No photos of the episode seem to have survived, but our family had spent the summer of 1954, between 9th and 10th grades, in Provo, Utah, where Pappy and Mammy took part with Boyd Packer, Paul Dunn, and other friends-and-luminaries in developing the course materials for this Seminary session. We stayed with the Mayneses in Orem, and while Pappy and Mammy toiled in the old Brigham Young Academy building, I took my first college course (not for credit, of course): beginning French. One of my classmates was a recently-returned missionary named Richard Lloyd Anderson; the onomastic coincidence engendered some gentle hilarity. He has since distinguished himself as an historian and a scholar. |
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