January – June 1975, the faculty and leaders involved with the student group were:
David Galbraith – Local Administrator and Branch President & Hal T. Taylor (with his wife, Anna, and five of their nine children) – Jerusalem Study Abroad program Director
Ken Patey, Avraham Gileadi, and John A. Tvedtnes; Daniel Rona acted as a tour guide
The group stayed at the City Hotel, Sheik Jarrah
Most of the provided information here is from Keith Thompson who was a student that semester. Keith.thompson.jr@live.com
If you have more information and clarification, please email byujerusalemalumni@gmail.com
In the attached photo taken in Egypt in early January 1975, at the Pyramids. In Jerusalem, the group sang Brother Tvedtnes’s Hebrew translation of I Am A Child of God, to Naomi W. Randall, author. This was the first Hebrew public performance. Keith and two other students spent Shabbat with an Orthodox Jewish family In March 1975. Upon our return, we were scolded for missing our own Sabbath services.
Students that semester:
Judy Allred
Patrick Bagley
Susan Belnap
Karen Brian
Ruth Chipman
Peggy Christensen
Cordell Clinger
Kelly Dame
Craig DeLong
Cynthia Dragoo
Charles Flake
Sara Haws
Teresa Helm
Toby Horton
Heather Hurst
Sherrie Gubler
Peggy Jones
Dan Noorlander
Lee Ann Mathews
Bonnie Oberhansley
Paula Peterson
Karen Rapich
Bruce Satterfield
Robert Simmons
Glenda Smith
Carol Spencer
Rance Spurlock
Mari Anne Stoddard
Dianne Teerlink
Brynn Summerhays
Cory Thompson
Keith Thompson
Jean Varney
Kathleen Reid
Shauna Reid