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Assistant Ward Clerk for Home Teaching
Ward Executive Secretary
…Previous Church assignment: Mission Editor
When we returned to Cambridge in 1966, Bishop Bert van Uitert put me right back into his clerking staff, as Assistant Ward Clerk for Home Teaching. Shortly thereafter, a letter came from the presiding brethren in Salt Lake, announcing the invention of a new administrative position in each ward and stake in the Church, as part of the new Correlation Program: the Executive Secretary. Bert read the letter and passed it to me, saying that the new job looked a lot like the one I had already. In due course, I was officially called and installed as Cambridge’s first Ward Executive Secretary.
1483ewChapel.jpg A student ward had also been organized in Cambridge: Jamie Lyon was called as its first bishop. When he got the Executive Secretary letter, he asked me to take the same job in his new unit, inasmuch as his congregation consisted mainly of young folks with little church-administrative experience. Within a couple of months as a double-dipper, I’d trained one of the students to take over in Jamie’s ward.
…Next Church assignment: Seminary Teacher
Many years later, we drove to Provo for Bert’s funeral. L Tom Perry of the Twelve preached the funeral sermon, saying that among Bert’s distinctions, he’d been Boston Stake President Perry’s first Executive Secretary.
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