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Sterling M. McMurrin, graduate dean at the University of Utah and leading Mormon liberal, gives Kimball personal credit for changing the church's stance. "He is a deeply spiritual person, not bureaucratic," says McMurrin. "He has suffered through this problem for 30 years." What if Kimball had not received the revelation during his tenure? Under the strict seniority system among Apostles, the next president in line is Ezra Taft Benson, 78, Ike's Agriculture Secretary. After him would come Mark E. Petersen, 77, former editor of the church-owned daily, Salt Lake's Deseret News. Both are considered much...
...likely to emphasize further the international character of Mormonism. He has already held a conference in Mexico City and made handshaking hops to England, Israel and Greece, reassuring government officials that visiting Mormons will stay out of politics. Says Dean Sterling McMurrin of the University of Utah's graduate school: "Lee has caught the vision of Mormonism as a worldwide movement. He is trying to break through the bonds of provincialism into universalism...
...gain a vast unofficial influence in educational circles because he was so often consulted on appointments of top-level school superintendents, such as New York City's Calvin Gross. In 1962 Keppel himself was tapped for the commissioner's job by President Kennedy to succeed Sterling McMurrin, who had decided to go back to teaching philosophy in Utah after a frustrated tenure of 17 months...
...confusing multiplicity of proposed academic reforms (teaching machines, language labs, "new math"); yet the Office of Education's research program is too small to be of much use. The Office has less influence in Congress, for example, than the National Education Association. Keppel's predecessor, Sterling McMurrin, pointed out after quitting this fall that an N.E.A. blizzard of telegrams to all Congressmen was what scuttled the college-aid bill he supported...
...appointment of Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Faculty of Education, as United States Commissioner of Education was announced by President Kennedy on Saturday. The post has been vacant since September, when Sterling M. McMurrin resigned and returned to his former post at the University of Utah...