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Show , . #26-3 shrubs~ streams, lakes and sea , but best of all was seeing so many old f riends . Cleaning out old houses and barns that have been hoarding things fo r generations i s , however, not my best line! It is good to be back in the warm, sunny desert. So many different people have had to handle packages and donations this year that it would be a marvel if we had not missed thanking someone. Please forgive us if we have missed your name or used the wrong address. Our friends have been so generous. Recently, some ten large cartons of fine things came from Long Island from a donor who has been sending regularly for about 35 years! Then there was a joyous weekend with some tlo(enty f riends from Colorado, who cam~ in with loaded cars for a camp-out, cook-out weekend, climaxing with the Trinity J3 unday Mass. A~in, as we wrote you last August, we are faced by the same question from our boys and girls who want to go to other cities to school next year. They are asking , "Are the Mormons the only ones who give school kids foster homes?" A v,·$:io.-1'oo/( TN' S ;U:'t:.L ~~rt.I.f'L - ,So W,L Th~kri"' f b ~~ u :s~:z: .u.s c.vU ta-g oUVl. 'VI • , ----------00000000000- - - - - - ---- ~£D2 (n.J.pM.- ,. +0 _'l. .• a,,,,",l;,, 7etVn's bo~ ~hP ~a.J~ 1-0 ~ ~ to --nu.. pl'cru-rt. J Jon.,~ ~ {tu"'-.... r ~ ~Io.t E-r, ',"&6&£"'1 ~ ~ pV\ a~ t+:-.A £..k • AND FROM JOAN ...... Hello, there! First of all, I want to thank the many kind people who wrote such loving messages on cards and in letters to Father and me upon our marriage. It was so heart-warming and encouraging , because, as you might imagine, this was not a matter to be decided upon "lightly or ill-advisedly" by any means. For several months we waited upon the Lord to know His will for us. And we have been further encouraged by the love and support of Father's wonderful family in Florida - his sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren, So I am happily taking this opportunity of thanking them, and you, from the bottom of my heart! Secondly, it might be useful at this time to try to make clear the relationship between Hat Rock Valley Retreat Center and the Episcopal Church in j avajoland (ECN). The Center is incorporated under the laws of the State of Utah. The Board of Directors consists of our four selves, the Bishop of ECa , a l~avajo lady, 11rs I"iaxine Begay, and the Rev. Canon Harold Hultgren, an old friend of the mission who is rector of Holy Trini ty Parish in Alhambra, California. The Corporation owns the property and buildings thereon. For several years past we have leased the Church of St Mary of the Moonlight, plus an area on which a trailer was put for the use of a priest, to the Diocese of Utah. The lease has been, or shortly will be, transferred to the ECN. However, at the last meeting of HRVRC it was agreed that the property and buildings should be transferred, in toto, to the ECN, Bishop Putnam being present at the meeting and duly elected to the~oard of |