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Show l57 many years that they were able to meet with other Mormons on a regular basis and be a party to a fully organized church program. At Berkeley, Eyring was ordained a High Priest4 and served in the local stake High Priests Quorum presidency. He was involved in encouraging members of the Church to do their genealogy and temple work. The stay at Berkeley was short, but the move to Princeton brought new challenges and excitement; challenges they were ready to accept. After visiting relatives in Utah and Arizona to show off the new son "Ted,'I they headed east for New Jersey. At Princeton, they once again found that there was no organized congregation of Mormons, but they personally encouraged members in the area to meet on a regular basis at their home. Each Sunday the Eyrings with other Mormon families at Princeton and Mormon students there met to discuss Mormonism. By February l932, there were enough members at Princeton and the surrounding area for Church leaders to organize a branch of the Church at nearby New Brunswick. Eyring was appointed Branch President to pre- side over the small group of twenty-eight members. years he served faithfully in this capacity. For the next few The steady increase in membership of the branch forced the group to seek a larger meeting place, which was achieved by using a large room of the Roger Smith Hotel in New Brunswick. Here, and previously at the Eyring home, each Sunday morning between l0 a.m. and noon, services were conducted under Eyring's direction. By l94l, membership had increased to seventy and the New Brunswick Branch was the second largest in New Jersey.5 Though rela- tively small in numbers, the branch could boast of one of the highest percentages of attendance at meetings anywhere in the Church with an average of fifty members at each meeting. |
