The Primary used to put on elaborate annual “festivals” on a stake basis — lots of singing and dancing, costumes, and speaking parts. I haven’t figured out how frogs, toadstools, Roman guards, and the Greek characters of Apollo, Persephone, and Ceres all fit together in 1937’s “blossom festival,” but apparently they did — because in several issues of the Children’s Friend early that year, photographs of children from the Grant Stake furnished models for other stakes to design their costumes.
I find the photograph of “Roman Guard” to be the most interesting. Or, rather, the name under the photograph:
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That’s 11-year-old Neal A. Maxwell, then of the East Mill Creek Ward Primary, and later of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles.
ha!! That is all.
Aww, how cute…
I know of a college yearbook that shows a current apostle wearing a grass skirt.
Thanks, Ardis. This lesson is coming up in Gospel Doctrine.
Great lead-in!
I know his daughter-in-law–I’ll have to send her a link!
(It’s hard to imagine that just eight years later, with no “armor” but a helmet–cotton, even dyed olive drab, doesn’t provide much protection, that “little boy” was in the U.S. Army, fighting on Okinawa. No wonder mothers worry so when their boys go to war.)
I can totally see him in there!
What a find! Thanks for sharing. Elder Maxwell is, and always will be, one of my all-time favorites.
This is a great find. And what a great post, too. Thanks!