SUP Convention

Thursday-Friday and Saturday I attended the 2009 Convention of the SUP held at the Marriot Hotel this year. Next year it will be in St. George. Thursday night was a banquet with entertainment which was enjoyable and I was able to meet a Bishop we had briefly in Provo while getting my M.A., Rulon Craven. He had then gone to New Zealand for a few years. All day Friday was a tour up the Ogden Divide, the narrow road up the North canyon to Liberty and Eden ond on to Huntsville. Quinn McKay was our guide, an 82yr. old young cousin of David O. McKay, he grew up next door to the McKay family home built by his grandfather. So a bit of inside stories I had never heard before and never been put in print. The hour long tour of the house was by two grandchildren, John and Laurie McKay. Visited the Trappist monastery where the average age of the monks is 81. 3 are in a rest-home and so only 13 here now-where there used to be 50 or so. After a picnic lunch on a beautiful day in the city park we proceeded up Trappers Loop and Snow Basin via the tram. Down the road to various monuments. To the Morrisite war site and Peter Skene Ogden, and closed out the day with a Dutch Oven dinner at Ft. Bueneventura Park with music by a fine western singer of his own compositions- 6 CD's on sale and has travelled the country-and Canada.
Saturday was a businees meeting and a luncheon banquet with Richard Turley of the Church History dept. who updated us on what they are doing. Had him sign one of his books and chatted a bit about the "Big Field." More old friends and many new ones.