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Show l64 she was appointed to the general board of the Church Relief Society. Because of her husband's extensive travel schedule, she asked that her travels be limited to local conventions and conferences to which she could travel and return in a single day. In fact, she rarely traveled with her husband on either Church or school business. She felt it was more important to be home to meet their children when they came from school than to be off with other business. Harden recalls once when he came home that his mother wasn't there and he thought something bad had happened to her. Even when the boys had left home, she traveled with her husband only on special occasions, like the trip to the Brussels World Fair in l959 and the around-the-world trip in l963. Mildred Eyring served on the General Board of the Relief Society until her death in 1969.17 The combination of Eyring's love and praise for his sons and the loving discipline of Mildred Eyring had a profound effect on their three sons.18 All three have had distinguished professional careers and have remained faithful, active members of the Church. The oldest son, "Ted," following a year of college, spent two and a half years on a church proselyting mission in France, then returned to the University of Utah where he earned a bachelors degree in physics in l955. Eyring insisted that all three sons do their undergraduate work in mathematics or physics, then if they chose to go into another field, they could. He felt strongly that such training was important and should be pursued when one is young for when one is older the study of such things is seldom undertaken. Because of the opportunities for financial aid and his continued interest in science, Ted Eyring continued his science studies at Utah |
