Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard student composers, actors, and technicians worked with the playwrights. Students assisted with research for the script, based on a Mormon legend involving the story of an angel who falls from heaven and lands in Utah, according to Orchard...
...World Trade Center, skirting the phone company in New York City. Citicorp, the largest U.S. bank, is installing its own $100 million system in Wall Street's financial district, which will take most of its communications out of the phone system. Even Salt Lake City's Mormon Church is getting into the act. Its private microwave link to Brigham Young University 45 miles distant in Provo, Utah, has replaced an AT&T system and is costing Mountain Bell $42,000 annually in lost revenues...
...night last week a Forest Service employee stationed in Coldwater Canyon, high above the town of North Ogden, Utah, heard trees snapping and boulders rolling. One hundred residents fled for shelter to a Mormon center moments before a river of mud slithered into three houses. North Ogden Mayor Don Colvin, who is also a Mormon Church officer, informed another church official of the crisis. In less than an hour 200 Mormon volunteers had arrived to reinforce the banks of Coldwater Creek. By 3 a.m., 5,000 sandbags were in place. Says Colvin: "People were out here all night, filling those...
...weeks ago, mud and rocks crashed down Rudd Creek Canyon, burying at least five houses, damaging 100 more in Farmington, 17 miles north of Salt Lake City, and sending a Mormon volunteer brigade into action. Last week 15 volunteers spent an entire day cleaning out the mud-filled basement of Paul Ward, 64. They threw watermelon-size rocks onto a conveyor belt and pushed buckets of muck through a cellar window to a team of 20 men, women and children, who passed the pails from hand to hand. Says a grateful Ward: "I wasn't expecting anybody to come...
Utah's ordeal has put the Mormon virtues of organization, self-reliance and unstinting community service to the test. So far, the mud is losing-without heavy involvement on the part of the Federal Government. Mormons disapprove of Government aid and prefer to deploy their resources to care for their own. Even though Governor Matheson has succeeded in getting ten Utah counties declared national disaster areas, the church will gently discourage its followers from applying for federal assistance. And the Mormon effort has been joined by volunteers from all religious backgrounds, creating some duplications of service. Mormons from Rexburg...