Lawrence Donald Soens (August 26, 1926 – November 1, 2021) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. In 2008, the Diocese of Davenport in Iowa announced multiple credible accusations that Soens had sexually abused children as a priest. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Sioux City in Iowa from 1983 to 1998.
Gerald Richard Barnes (born June 22, 1945) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of San Bernardino in California from 1996 to 2020 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Bernardino from 1992 to 1996.
Reid Kyle Beveridge (born October 20, 1942 in Waverly, Iowa) is a retired brigadier general in the National Guard of the United States.
Hedwig Conrad-Martius (Berlin, 27 February 1888 – Starnberg, 15 February 1966) was a German phenomenologist who became a Christian mystic.
Reinhard Johannes Sorge (29 January 1892 – 20 July 1916) was a German dramatist and poet. He is best known for writing the Expressionist play The Beggar (Der Bettler), which won the Kleist Prize in 1912 and almost singlehandedly created surrealist theatre and modern theatrical stagecraft. After being subsequently received into the Roman Catholic Church, Sorge began an effort to bring the Catholic literary revival into the literature of the Germanosphere. Instead, Sorge was conscripted into the Imperial German Army in World War I in 1915. He was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916. Sorge's Der Bettler, however, received a posthumous premiere in a groundbreaking production by legendary Austrian Jewish stage director Max Reinhardt in 1917.
Carl Ferdinand Eyring (August 30, 1889 – January 3, 1951) was an American acoustical physicist. He was the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Brigham Young University (BYU) for 26 years and was also the vice president of the Acoustical Society of America from 1950 until his death in 1951.
Lorin Farrar Wheelwright (December 20, 1909 – November 4, 1987) was an American Latter-day Saint hymnwriter, composer, musical instructor and educator.
Lorenzo Hoopes (November 5, 1913 – September 21, 2012) spent much of his career as an executive for Safeway. When he retired in 1979 he was the senior vice president at Safeway. He took a leave of absence from Safeway in 1953, during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, to serve as executive assistant to United States Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. Hoopes returned to Safeway in 1955.
Hoopes grew up in Brigham City, Utah and graduated from Box Elder High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Weber State University and also studied at the University of Utah. He earned an MBA from Pepperdine University and did advanced management training at the Harvard Business School.
Hoopes was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Hoopes was serving as bishop of the Oakland California Ward, which included where the Oakland Temple now is, when the ground was broken for the church's first meetinghouse on that general site in about 1957. He later also served as president of the LDS Church's Oakland California Stake. He served as president of the church's England Bristol Mission from 1979 to 1982. He served as president of the Oakland Temple from 1985 to 1990.
As of January 2010, Hoopes was head of the Paramount Theatre Board in Oakland, California. The Paramount Theatre is a public institution with a board that appoints new members, with the consent of the city council and mayor, but in the past the decisions of the board have always been upheld. Hoopes was believed to be the person in Oakland who donated the largest amount of money to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign, which caused some to seek to oust Hoopes from his unpaid volunteer position with the Paramount Theatre. He sat on the board of the theatre for nearly 30 years.
Hoopes served for 17 years as a member of the Oakland School board.
Hoopes served as chairman and member of the Board of the Foundation for American Agriculture; vice chairman and member of the Board of the Farm Foundation; president and member of California's Coordinating Council for Higher Education; chairman, director, and secretary of the National Dairy Council; and chairman and member of the National Advisory Council.His wife, Stella Bobbies Sorenson Hoopes, died on January 14, 1996. David C. Hoopes is one of their children.
Lamont Felt Toronto (February 21, 1914 – January 1971) was a Utah politician. He was Secretary of State of Utah from 1953 to 1963. He also served in the Utah state House of Representatives.
Toronto was a member of the Republican Party. He served in the Utah Legislature in 1947.
Toronto was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a grandson of Joseph Toronto and the brother of Wallace F. Toronto. In 1914, Toronto married Helen Davidson (died 2009). From 1965 to 1968, Toronto served as president of the LDS Church's Canadian Mission, based in Toronto, Ontario. while presiding over the Canadian Mission Toronto also served on Canada's Centennial Planning Commission.
Eugene Edward "Gene" Campbell (April 26, 1915 – April 10, 1986) was an American professor of history at Brigham Young University.