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Gary Porter's
President's Message 2007
It is a great time to celebrate the Porter Family and its history.
This year America is celebrating the 400 year anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown
Colony. The Mayflower Compact of 1620 was signed 387 years ago, and this July America will
celebrate its 231st Birthday. Joseph Smith organized the Mormon Church in April of 1830, a
mere 177 years ago. A year later Sanford Porter was baptized in the newly organized church. His
family was among the first companies of Mormon emigrants that entered the Salt Lake Valley in
1847, 160 years ago. In 1860 Sanford and Family began moving into the Morgan Valley, settling
in the Porterville area. That was 147 years ago. My dear Mother is enjoying good health, and we
are celebrating her 93rd birthday this year.
It is easy to think of our family history as a long time ago, but our family history is fresh and
alive and available to all of us to enjoy. All of us should check out the latest updates on our
family web site regularly, and be sure to register your family.
I want to extend to all Porter family members a hearty invitation to attend this year's Porter
Reunion, being held at the Porterville Stake Center, August 11, 2007, at 12 PM. The Family
Organization will provide lunch, and we invite you to bring a salad or desert to share. This year
we will be focusing on the importance of Family History and how we as individuals can become
involved in preserving our history for our posterity.
As the president for 2007-08, I would like to thank these other deserving Porter cousins for
volunteering to serve in the following leadership positions:
- K Byron Porter, Vice President
- Yvonne Bolton, 2nd Vice President
- Deane Smith, Finance Officer
- Kevan Jensen, Secretary
- Lynn Porter, Porter Family Web site director and designer.
- Paul Porter, heading up the Porter Family Committee on Family History.
We are extending a request for
individuals who would like to serve on one of the Family Organization Committees, to contact
us, and we will welcome your involvement in the committee effort. We have the following
committees:
- Genealogy
- Family History
- Reunion
- Cemetery/Headstone
- Communications.
This is a great opportunity to serve one another and to bring the Porter Family History to all who
are interested. We have a great and blessed legacy and can learn much by knowing the trials,
tribulations and great accomplishments of our ancestors.
I am excited to see everyone at this year's Family Reunion,
August 11, 2007, at the Porterville
Stake Center.
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