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Youth Conference at Liège |
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Our crowd gathering at the Palais des Congrès on the banks of the Meuse, in Liège. |
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In the summer of 1963, the French Mission (as long rumored) was divided, creating the Franco-Belgian Mission with headquarters in Brussels. As a sort of final joint hurrah, the combined Missions held a Youth Conference in Liège, Belgium. And in my capacity as the old Mission’s publications person, I was responsible to make sure that this event was suitably covered in the Étoile. The Rolleiflex and I had a trip to take.
Oddly enough, I didn’t report on this big-deal event in my own journal. Nor on anything else until the summer was fairly over. A few photos did find their way into my slide collection; I reproduce a selection here. Not sure when the folks’ BYU study group decided to take part in the Youth Conference; maybe it was part of the plan all along. But it was typical of our precious President Hinckley that he gave me permission to travel to Liège with my parents, in their rented automobile. The trip up wasn’t all as a caravan, although some of it was. We were together for a picnic in the Ardennes: the picture on the next page includes the best image I have of my beloved missionary Claude-Gérard Leroy, who was clearly a hot property among the young ladies. |
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