Comments on: The Whole Year Through: The Instructor, 1949

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:21:20 +0000

Another unforeseen Keepa connection! Thanks for writing this out, Jeff — I never could have guessed.

charlene, with our chapels having entire rooms dedicated to ward libraries, and with the standard Gospel Art Kit, I’ll bet nearly all of us have forgotten (or never knew) what a struggle it was for librarians to provide classroom material to teachers. Sooo much work.

I’m not going to get the 1948 covers up, as anybody who might have been watching must have guessed. I decided to type up the rather extensive biographical notes that accompanied each 1948 cover picture. Will put that one up the next time I feel like a “whole year through” post.

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:49:19 +0000

Ardis, thanks for publishing this. I clicked on the link to the George R. Hill post and realized that I had missed the original post. After reading it, also I realized that “little Margaret” was my mother’s cousin. Her father was my grandmother’s brother, who had died young and left a family of small children. I remember visiting Margaret’s mother, my mother’s aunt and a very old woman, in Logan. I don’t remember meeting any of her children. They, including Margaret, were the same generation as my parents. I guess I may have met Margaret at her mother’s funeral, which I attended with my mother. As a child, I did not pay attention. I have learned again that we live in a small world. It also makes me want to find out more about my grandmother’s brothers and sisters and their families

By: charlene

charlene — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:35:25 +0000

I was called as a ward librarian in the 60s when I was in high school. The calling mostly consisted of sorting out the catch-all junk closet. We made those “cardboard file boxes” out of cereal boxes. I had no idea that there were people years before who had already pioneered this task.
Thanks, Ardis, for sharing your research.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:46:52 +0000

Whew! It’s much too beautiful a day to spend worrying about whether the editors of the Instructor in the late 1940s were reflective of the patriarchal establishment, blah blah blah.

I was surprised to see that I knew who most of these men were, including George Goddard, whose story has been told from time to time as the “rag missionary.” I didn’t recognize George Hill, but your post mentioning him and some of the comments on that post were memorable.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:18:24 +0000

Ha! Mea culpa. I should have posted 1948 first, and will try to have those images loaded to post this afternoon.

In 1948, 9 of the 12 covers, prepared in the same style as these 1949 covers, were the portraits of women. A 10th cover was a Mother’s Day photo of a mother and son.

This one time, the missing women are my fault and nobody’s else’s.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:00:09 +0000

Can I be the first to say – - Where are the women!?!