1976—High Council
While serving on the Boston Stake High Council, I don’t remember giving any great amount of thought to what assignments the Lord might yet have in Mind for me. Our Stake Presidency and my fellow High Councilors were pleasant yokefellows, and, by and large, I found it not at all burdensome to fulfil the duties that devolved upon me, mostly on Sundays. As announced, my fellow High Councilors did move on rapidly to other leadership assignments. I served on the High Council for a bit more than a year, moving around the table from twelfth to second in seniority, sitting by then next to Senior Member Bert. Then I left too, in 1978, when President Jae Ballif of the New England Mission called me as his second counselor in the presidency of the New England Mission.
Rozsa
Allen Claire Rozsa
(younger than I remember him)

President Allen Claire Rozsa and his family still lived in the historic* Mission Home on Hawthorne Street, around the corner from the Chapel. Their three grown daughters visited in Cambridge from time to time, but their sixteen-year-old identical-triplet wrestling-champion sons introduced a wonderful stimulus into the Church participation of the local Young Women.

I got along famously with both the Bushmans and the Rozsas. One day, I had an appointment to meet with President Rozsa in his dining room. He was (very uncharacteristically) late in arriving, and I heard percussive sounds of scuffling. Somewhat alarmed, I stood, just as the Mission President entered, red and perspiring, breathing hard, and straightening his tie. With a grin, he explained: “Well, they laid for me in the hall and proved they could get me down and hold me down. And that’s all right, Brother Anderson: I’ve always believed that family relations should be a body-contact sport!”
*I was given to understand that Henry Longfellow had built the house for one of his daughters. The Church moved it around the corner to accommodate the Chapel, a couple of years before my arrival in 1958.

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