David Hall

DAVID HALL, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is currently working on a biography of Amy Brown Lyman. He thanks the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, as well as Vera White Pohlman, Leona Fetzer Wintch, Amy Lyman Engar, and Jill Mulvay Derr.

Anxiously Engaged: Amy Brown Lyman and Relief Society Charity Work, 1917-45

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 2

Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 83–153
Believing that a more
efficient approach could be used to the church’s advantage, he proposed
that the Relief Society organize a social service department where these
new techniques could be tested and implemented.