All dance participants came on audience stood and sang "God Be kat%L the field for the grand finale while the With You Till We Meet Again." A year before the dance festival Gary and Jeanine Carter, the stake directors, met on a regional basis to learn the dances from instructors from Salt Lake City. They would then in turn teach the youth of the stake. Practice for the Morgan youth commenced in November with dance practice being held either at 6:00 a.m. or 10:00 p.m. These times were the only ones when all could meet together to learn the dances. The girls themselves along with the mothers made the costumes. The girls wore pink satin dresses ■while the boys had pink satin vests with black pants and black bow ties.65 Left to right: Stewart Smith, Leon Waldron, Denny Carter, DavidSaxton, Kent Allen, Brad Shaw, Dick Whittier, Leslie Adams, Ted Taylor, Maria Wright, Paul Brower, Debbie Saxton, Shelly Poll, Denise Mortenson, Gaylene Clark, Sonja Jensen, Cindy Johanson, and Cindy McMillan. Notification of Release After almost twenty years of dedicated service as a stake presidency, President Larson received the following letter from the First Presidency of the Church: The First Presidency and the Council ofthe Twelve have been giving careful consideration to the advisability of sharing at more or less frequent intervals the responsibility of presiding officers in the Church. Doing increases the power to do, and the more the activity, the greater the interest and spiritual growth. Ordination to the priesthood is an eternal endowment, lost only through transgression and subsequent excommunication from the Church. A setting apart, however, to some position in which a man may serve by virtue of his priesthood is more or less a temporary responsibility. The office of stake president, mission president, member ofthe high council, and similar ecclesiastical positions are fields of laborwhich offer activity for the priesthood ofthe Church. It is advisable that responsibility and consequent development in these positions be frequently shared. On the other hand, however, too frequent changes are not for the best. We are grateful that you have been able to serve a substantial term as president of the stake, which has fully demonstrated your devotion and loyalty to the Church, to your fellowmen, and to the Lord. With our hearty approbation and full appreciation of your watchful guidance of stake affairs, and your deep concern for the welfare of the people, we now extend to you, and to your worthy counselors, an honorable release from your positions in the presidency ofthe Morgan Stake, effective at the quarterly conference to be held on March 11 and 12, 1972, unless, of course, you have some good and sufficient reasons for postponing the reorganization to a later date, 202