counselor. Frank Rich was called to serve as stake clerk. Because he had been unavailable prior to conference, his call was extended to him from the podium during the conference. Larry Wilson was called as executive secretary. The sustaining took place on 12 March 1972 with Elder Gordon B. Hinckley officiating and Rex Skidmore, Regional Representative, assisting. When Brother Skidmore spoke he said that this was his first opportunity to participate with a general authority in reorganizing a stake.1 Stake Building Program .p. Penhapsthe most significant accomplish- f~^% * ment of President Little's nine year tenure began even before he was called as stake president. One evening, while meeting with Larry Wilson, then Elders Quorum president in the Morgan First Ward, Larry laughingly joked saying, "Keith, when you're called as our new stake president, will you do something Uft to Right Frank Rich, Robert Walker, about a Stake building program." Both Keith Little, EugeneJones, Larry Wilson knew that some change was going to take place in the stake leadership. However, neither knew how directly they would both be involved. As it turned out, both of them would be deeply involved in a program that was later to affect not only the stake as a whole, but eventually the plan developed in the Morgan Stake would be adopted by many other stakes. First they set up a stake-wide study to determine the building needs. When the results came back, they were "shocking," said President Little. "We found that we were many, many years behind in building needs. Because of inflation and serious problems of inequity, we felt impressed to unify the Stake's resources for building and maintaining stake and ward buildings. It was just this aspect of the program that was later adopted by other stakes— that is the unification of resources from the single ward level to the stake level."2 Immediate plans were laid to categorize the stake's building needs on a priority basis. The first need was to build a new stake center that would house two wards. The estimated cost of this building was $500,000. The Church would pay two-thirds, but even at that, the stake's share would be $165,000. The second priority was a new chapel for the Porterville Ward. The stake's share of this building would be $97,000. Third was an addition for the Mountain Green Peterson facility. The stake's share was to be $37,500. Fourth, a remodeling ofthe Morgan 1st and 2nd Ward meetinghouse at acost to the stake of $22,500. Fifth was an addition to the Milton Ward meetinghouse at a cost of $13,000 to the stake. Sixth was the Croydon Ward remodeling to cost Stake members $2,000. In all, the total estimated costs for