Irene M. Bates

IRENE M. BATES and her husband Bill joined the LDS church in England in 1955. 'Tatriarchal Blessings and the Routination of Charisma" is adapted from a chapter of her 1991 Ph.D. dissertation at Univeristy of California, Los Angeles. She lives in Pacific Palisades, California, and is co-authoring a book with E. Gary Smith on the presiding patriarchs of the church.